Multiple greyed out songs on iPhone after deleting songs. iTunes match?

I have same problem with the greyed out songs with the sync icon next to them. Tried deleting them, but the don't disaapear. Any one have a solution to this?

Same situation. Have tried numerous suggestions via posts, but to no avail. At this point, I have music sync turned off. My iPhone shows no music on the phone as it should, but under my iPhone "DEVICE" in iTunes, it shows numerous greyed out songs w/ a sync symbol next to them. I believe the fact that these greyed songs are showing is what is causing problems when I do turn on sync and try to move music to my iPhone. All of this is done on an iPhone 4S.

Im having the same issue - its driving me nutzz! I keep deleting the grey songs and everytime I pug it back it... boom, they are back! EVERYTIME. Ive tried multiple fixes ---- nothing works. Please help. Thanks.

I also have this problem.

At first there were only six; every time I synced my iPhone I would recieve a message that said "six items could not be synced." However, these items were dublicates (their counterparts played just fine on my iPhone). Just to rid myself of the annoying error message, I removed all music from my iPhone and re-synced. Now there are twenty six versions that won't play and will not delete!

Here's what's interesting: some of the songs shouldn't be there at all. They are not checked in my library and I have "only sync checked songs" selected. Some of the songs appear twice on my iPhone (i.e. there are two identical greyed out versions, neither of which play), and some appear only once.

I selected "manaually manage music" in attempts to delete these greyed-out 0KB songs; however, after I delete them they reappear after diconnecting and reconnecting my phone. They simply will not go away.

If I enable music syncing, some of these songs are complimented with playable versions, others are not.

I do not have, nor have I ever had iTunes match. Some songs were purchased through iTunes, others Amazon. They all play fine on my computer.

I selected "manaually manage music" in attempts to delete these greyed-out 0KB songs; however, after I delete them they reappear after diconnecting and reconnecting my phone. They simply will not go away.

I'm experiencing this same issue -- has anyone ever found a solution?

This problem I have seen is from restoring your phone via icloud when it had itunes match enabled. I found that doing a backup to itunes and then a restore from that itunes backup cleared them out.

Restoring from a local backup (although annoying and time consuming) did the trick.

I have posted this to another thread.

I don't use match, but I found that unticking the track in iTunes library, or unticking MP3format where the track is duplicated, and then doing a sync again fixed the problem.

Good luck, it's obviously a pain.

I just spent 20 minutes on the phone with Amazon for the same issue. Turns out there is a simple solution. Delete the affected songs from iTunes and then, in iTunes, go to File - Add File to Library and re-add the songs. The files imported this way sync normally. Hopefully Amazon will fix their download software so this won't be necessary for long.

I tried so many things to get that problem to go away and this was the one that worked for me. Thanks!