Not syncing all songs on playlists. Hmm. What's wrong.

I'm feeling so dumb right now...

Same problem of course, but I can't sync 12,000 songs on my phone, shouldn't the music purchased on the iTune store be on the Cloud? Shouldn't I be able to access it? Why I just purchased three albums from my computer, and only one shows in my iPhone?

What a bunch of crap iTune....

I've had the same problem.

I worked out it was the encoding of the files themselves. All of the files were not encoded with iTunes.

Check "Get Info>File" on the song drop down menu (Right click on song, File Tab far right option on pop up box). If it doesn't say "encoded with iTunes" followed by a version number then you will need to reformat the song.

Cancel pop up box. Now select the song and use the File drop down menu at the top of the screen and Convert the song file to ACC or whatever format you prefer. This will encode the song file so that you can synch it with an Apple product.

Get rid of the old file and replace it with the new one in your playlists.

Cheers 🙂

~L

I have been having this problem too for a long time and could not for the life of me figure out how to fix this. While reading through some help forums, I noticed someone had mentioned about songs possibly coming from different folders. Now I never assumed this to be a possibility since I had a specific directory I created where all my music was (supposedly) coming from. So let me give you a quick example of my problem, I had a recent playlist that has 43 songs in it, And when I sync it to my iPhone, only 1 songs shows up. I located the one song that did sync and checked under settings to see where the file location was; and sure enough, at some point and time, it changed to an iTunes folder (/iTunes/music). So to fix this, in the iTunes navigation bar, I went to edit > preferences > advanced > iTunes media folder location .... and changed it back to my source directory. Next time I synced my music all the missing music was finally synced. I hope this helps someone out there, as this has been driving me crazy for months!

Has there been any developments to this? O'm having the same issue 😟

Hi guys I am having the same issue. I have several playlists with 100 songs in and they all seem to missing the odd song or two. Interestingly this happened overnight on my iPhone 4S without me syncing or anyting at all.Some of these songs appear in other playlists where they DO still appear on the phone, but in other playlists they don't.

I had same issue had a playlist would only put some of the 114 songs, i did a clean restore of my phone in itunes, and the key part is setting up the phone as new not from backup and then it worked fine, it synced all the songs from my playlist to my iphone 4s no problem.

I am having this same issue...I have a playlist that is an entire cd.

When I originally synced just the playlist, only about 5 of the songs were actually copied to my iPhone 4.

So I tried syncing the entire Album as well as the playlist, this copied over 4 more of the songs, but I am still missing 3.

Very disappointed, I'm a huge apple fan, but this is pathetic. This happened after switching to the new version of iTunes and iOS 5....

I shouldn't have to restore my phone and set everything up again to get these 3 songs to copy.

I am having this issue also. Not a problem when I had the iPhone 4, but now that I have the 4s, I have missing songs from playlists. The songs are there on my phone - I can play them, but they won't show up on my playlist. I can manually add them to the playlist, but they won't "stick". I can play the songs fine on my PC in iTunes fine also. Seems like it only applies to songs that were actually purchased from iTunes (iCloud available).

I tried removing all music from the phone (de-syncing with iTunes) and then doing a fresh sync - no dice.

I don't want to go through a full new set up of my phone (again) - just for this issue, with no guarantee of success. How do we escalate this to Apple? Do they review these posts?

I had the same problem, read a bit about it and tried this:

1. Copy "the problematic" album folder somewhere else (mine was Dash Berlin bougth in iTunes Store).

2. Remove "the problematic" library files from iTunes - links and the proper folder. Everything.

3. Restart your computer (try normal 32-bit restart or 64-bit restart by holding two keys: 4$ and 6^ keys. Press them n hold from the very beginning of rebooting the system till log-on screen appears).

4. Add library ("the problematic" album folder) to iTunes again - from "somewhere else" you'd copied it.

5. Sync (or drag n drop to DEVICES) "the problematic" MUSIC ALBUM folder with your mobile device (iPod / iPhone).

McFT

I forgot to say it loud: my problem was with my iTunes <---> iPhone on my MAC, but try my solution anyway on any Windows System based comps.

Same problem, but I'm only getting 560 of 896 songs to sync on my primary playlist. What is up with this? I've noticed that when I uncheck a playlist to sync, the amount of storage increases, and then when I uncheck it, the storage decreases again. Weird. No matter what I do, I can't get about half of my music onto the device and I have plenty of room.

I have my iTunes on a MacBook with OS X 10.6.8, iPhone 4S with latest iOS (5.0), and latest iTunes (10.5). I also had this happen on my daughter's iPhone 4, also with iOS 5.0. I am NOT resetting my device and losing my data in a fresh restore just to fix this problem. This is broken. Help!

OK, I've noticed after rebooting the device that the problem songs have ! next to them on the device (not in the original playlist, where they play fine) and they all appear to be songs I purchased from Apple. Perhaps this is a glitch with their music service on iCloud? I have not subscribed to that service, nor do I intend to (I don't want to stream my music; I want the music on the device).

I am using iCloud for backup and I was syncing via wi-fi. I've since tried syncing with the cable and it makes no difference; no music for me. I did have the songs on the device the other day and they disappeared, so I'm assuming it "synced" overnight and wiped the songs off of my device. Neat.