I am a GIANT jerk. Updated my iPhone and lost every single song somehow (all 600).

[Ali]

When I updated to the new OS I lost everything too. You can get it back but it takes time. Do a sync but uncheck the sync music box. then disconnect the phone and I restarted the computer to be safe. Then reattach it, check the sync music box, and everything should reappear. I had to do this with each category of stuff on my phone. But I got my 2000+ songs back.

 

[moopdog]

Did you update to the new iOS 5.0 when this happened? I had a similar problem this week with my iPad and the new update. It lost all the songs that were not already on my computer's iTunes account. Very frustrating and also having problems with the 3G portion of iPad not fully loading websites. My wife is not allowed to update her iPad until they get some fixes to the problems.

Yep - this is exactly what I did.

I have not attempted contacting itunes or any of the suggested fixes yet, but that is my goal this evening. I need to get my music back, asap. My car rides have been too quiet the past few days. Thanks, all. I feel little better already just knowing I'm not alone.

 

[MouseLover]

Only one time? My amazon acct has everything I ever purchased digitally available for free redownloading.

Can you tell me how to do this?

I had mp3 downloads purchased from amazon that were saved on my computer, which crashed. I tried to access them again but was given a message that said "This song has already been downloaded."