iPod Shuffle Gen 2 automatically recopies music to the iPod even if it’s already on the iPod.

[mac os x forever]

Help! This is driving me crazy.

 

When I plug in my iPod Shuffle Gen 2 and open iTunes 7.5

My shuffle automatically re-copies certain songs, re-encodes the same songs to AAC 128 and then transfers to iPod even if it’s already on iPod. It does this every time it’s connected with iTunes open (or if connected then open iTunes)

When I check my songs on the shuffle while its syncing I noticed that it seems to magically loose the last 30 some tracks and then re-copies them even thou I was listening to them on the iPod before the sync just fine (so I know they were on the iPod).

 

Back when I used my Shuffle in June with the at the time most recent version of iTunes I had no problems I always manually put my music on the shuffle I never used the auto fill feature and when I connected my iPod to my iMac it synced normally for about 15 seconds (my guess to update play counts and things of that sort) then stopped syncing and all was well then for a few months I stopped using it. Then recently I connected it to my iMac just before thanks giving (11/22/07) using iTunes 7.5 I restored my shuffle to delete my music that went fine the shuffle has firmware 1.0.3 just as it did before then I went to put my new music on my shuffle I did it manually just as I always have album by album they were encoded and transferred by iTunes 7.5.

Then later in the morning I disconnected the iPod then later reconnected the iPod and it auto synced as expected but what was different about the sync was it started to re-copy some of my songs I checked all of my songs that were on my iPod and they were still on their so I didn’t know why it was recopying the songs and now it keeps on doing it every time I connect the shuffle to my iMac.

 

How can I make it stop?

I’ve tried restoring it but I get the same problem

I’ve tried updating the firmware but there are no new updates for the shuffle.

 

I’ve try looking at google and apple support web site but can’t find any fixes.

[mac os x forever]

any help at all?