After ios 5 upgrade songs won't load into iphone4

The iTunes app is purple and lists items from the iTunes Store that you can purchase. The Music app, which has a similar icon but is orange, includes all of your music, playlists, and more. If you want to access your stuff, you'll need to use the Music app. The iTunes app can be used for purchasing new content.

smokebomb wrote:

It appears like iTunes is syncing all the songs onto my iPhone (i'm watching the individual songs go from grey to black under Devices > My iPhone > Music) from the iTunes side, but all the songs appear as greyed out on my iPhone. In other words, i can see them, but they won't play.

Any advice? I'm a music freak and this is killing me.

Easy. This solved my problem:

Connect you iPhone 4 to iTunes click on it.

Click the "Music" tab

Make sure "Sync music" is checked. If not check it.

Sync.

There😁

Okay, I was having the same issues with my iPod touch, and it was frustrating me to no end. (Big music fan + new albums) anyway, none of these solutions were working for me so finally I shift + selected all of the music in my library, grabbed it and moved it over to my iPod option (Alberta's iPod) in the leftside column, holding it over my iPod, a pop down menu appeared with 'music', 'movies', etc. I dropped the selected into music and only then did it finally sync properly with my iPod.

It did, however, stop syncing when it got to a song that it couldn't read, in that case, I ejected it, plugged it back in, deleted the song it didn't like, reselected all of the music that hadn't been synced yet (it was doing it alphabetically) and repeated the dropping process

hope this helps if anyone else hasn't found this solution already

ANOTHER SOLUTION - for people who dont want to Sync Music and would rather "Manually manage music and videos" and have got this option ticked under the iPod's summary:

(read the italics at the bottom of this post if you can't be bothered reading my trial and error experimentation talk)

I followed pretty much every easy solution proposed on this thread and nothing worked for me in terms of getting particular MANUALLY CHOSEN songs to sync. I have enough confidence in my software knowledge instincts to make a guess that I could figure this out without uninstalling/reinstalling, backing up/restoring anything at all. And I did 🙂

I didn't want to have to manually go through my library either and bring the songs back over, it took me nine hours to pick what songs I wanted the first time and I really didn't want to have to do that again =/

That nine hour session, I hadn't realised only some of my songs were transfering properly to my iPod and others were not. They were grey (not black) and had a round sync icon next to them. To me it looked like they were "pending" synchronisation. So from that idea I thought, well if it's on this kind of "waiting list", maybe iTunes forgot about the list, so I need to remind it?

I saw a post above about taking "drastic measure that really don't do anything" so I started off with removing a massive app (Google Earth) off my iPod then resyncing it back onto it from my library but pulling the cable out in the middle of the process then reseting my iPod (home + sleep/wake buttons together).

I then experimented with the autofill function and clicked that and saw my whole entire library on the "waiting list" in grey under my iPod's music. I was getting close! But I DON'T want my whole library, just that initial hand-picked list...

So I pulled the cable out while it was syncing, reset my iPod again for extra luck, picked ONE song that I had never picked to transfer to my iPod before (was neither fully transfered [in black] or on the iPod Music "waiting list" [in grey]) and dragged it to my iPod...

It took a minute of waiting and staring at my iTunes screen waiting for the status to change from "Getting ready to update files..." to "Transfering 1 of 1339: ...." YUSSSS I HAVE REACHED SUCCESS!

I had finally managed to "wake up" iTunes to the fact there are a thousand songs waiting to be transfered over 🙂

I did a lot of mucking around and things that probably won't be necessary to achieve the same result but what I think SHOULD work without all of that messing about:

-In iTunes: Edit > Preferences > Devices > tick "Prevent iPods, iPads from syncing automatically

-In iTunes: left sidebar go to your iPod > Summary > uncheck "Sync with this iPod over wifi"

-reset your device (home + sleep/wake buttons together) and your computer.

-Wait for everything to load up. Open iTunes, connect iPod via cable, drag a song into your iPod that is not already on it or "greyed out"

-See if iTunes recognises the list of songs in grey waiting to be transfered and does it!

If it works, feel free to change back any settings like automatic sync and wifi sync 🙂

Swwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, let me know what you do and if it works or not 🙂

I'm so happyy I got all my music 😀

I had this problem when I tried to add new music to my 4S. I had to restore my iphone 4s to factory and sync. I backed up to the cloud so make sure if there is something you dont want to lose you should backup to pc or cloud. Once I did that all the songs are now in the black.

Hope it helps

what app did you download?