Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Hi,
My iPod touch appears to have only partially synced my library. All songs seem present, but some of them are grey instead of black and these will not play. All of my podcasts are greyed-out too and none of these will play. Everything plays perfectly in itunes on my mac. This problem only manifested in the last week or so.
Sam
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
This is what it looks like
Hello! My iPod just started doing the same thing... I plugged it into my computer and switched my settings on the device summary page in iTunes to "Manually manage music and videos" and "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC." For whatever reason, it immediately started loading the songs like magic. Don't know why this worked at all, but that's how it went down. Hope this helps you!
-Ridley
This worked, thank you 🙂
Hi.
I'm curious if I need to select the "convert to 128 kbps AAC" option in order for this solution to work?
I have an ipod touch 4th gen running iOS 5.1.1
I don't really want to convert my higher bitrate tracks down and into AAC if I don't have to.
Shouldn't the iPod just accept me dragging MP3s and .WAVs onto it?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Hi!
The way I solved this was by a random series of angry button clicking and for some reason (I suspect a software/hardware glitch) doing these things solved the problem.
I have the 3rd gen iPod touch so it may not be the same for the 4th gen, but I would try setting it to manually manage only and seeing if that does it. If not, I don't think I can help unless you try turning on the automatic convert to AAC.
I totally understand your not wanting to do that, but this seems to be what worked for me and allaboutevie.
Hope this helps
-rid
Thanks ridthesquid! I suspect you are probably right about converting, but I don't want it to be true.
My Q to apple would be "why should I have to listen to my tracks at a lower bitrate and in convert them to another format, especially one I don't like as much as .WAV?" This is not a problem that Android users have!
I might start a new thread about this and ask around.
Thanks again.
iPod music visible (in grey), but won't play
