iTunes not syncing random songs to iPhone

This worked for me:

Z-Salem

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Posted on Oct 13, 2023 6:12 AM

Mine does this a lot. A trick I do is change all the songs that won't sync in some subtle way. I add a comment to them all. Then sync, delete the comment, and resync again. That works for me every time.

I mean, look at these crazy suggestions, and they still don't work for me. The attraction of paying a premium for Apple products is "It Just Works," and clearly, they're no longer committed to that principle.

Thank you, that solved the issue I have been having for some time.

I often see a new CdDnot syncing after being ripped, so it was easy to identify where the issue was, and this quick fix solved it in seconds.

I just got an album that I haven’t been able to get to sync for months to sync just by hearting it within iTunes, and running sync again. Now it’s on my phone .

so changing the Meta in some way as other has suggested does work. Hearting it works.

I've had this problem for quite a while and finally Apple support came up with a solution (workaround). Open iTunes, in library, go to songs. Select a song, then select all from the edit menu. While all songs are selected right click (for a PC) and select get info. type a word or anything in comments and click ok. This will insert that word in all songs. It will take a while to process, depending on the size of yr library!! And now all songs get synced to my Iphone when I want....though that takes hours as well! It seems to be a meta data change that does it. Prior to this workaround nearly 9000 songs of my 17500 song library were not syncing to my phone. I think it was caused by moving itunes library from one NAS to another?

That's pretty much the solution I came up with earlier. You needn't do it for all songs in your library, just the ones that won't sync to your device.

Also for some reason since Nov. 2023 I haven't had to do this, sync just works fine for me. That works over two versions of iTunes (updated in January to current version) and now an old and new phone in that time.

I tried what ReallyCrazyDad suggested and it still didnt work fully. I tried syncing again and the previous songs that were synced disappeared. But we all should not have to use these tweaks and tricks just to upload the d@mn music. So frustrating this

What did the trick for me was on my iPhone to go to settings > Music, under library, turn off sync library. Maybe about after 15-20 seconds, the greyed out songs from iTunes loaded onto my iPhone. I then turned sync library back on without any issue.

Legend!!! Worked for me

I had that issue and I deleted all those songs and sent to trash. Then put them back on, and problem gone

Unfortunately I had 9000 odd random songs/albums...it was easier therefore to change all songs.

Great tip! Resolved my issue syncing songs!