# iPod recategorizing all music into Unknown...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-recategorizing-all-music-into-unknown/679866
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 27, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-recategorizing-all-music-into-unknown/679866 "2014-01-27T17:56:33Z")
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#### Post date: [January 27, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-recategorizing-all-music-into-unknown/679866/1 "2014-01-27T17:56:33Z")

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A friend’s iPod keeps splitting up the music in the genres and creating a new category called Unknown that it stores all the music in. What can she do to fix this?