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Itunes not allowing me to put songs on my iPhone, saying they are only available on Cloud even though songs are on my hard drive and never uploaded to Cloud

This entire Match thing is a total bust, and now I can't even have my music on my iPhone like I used to. I used Match to get some better quality versions of some of my music. I deleted music off my iPhone with plans to selectively re-add music - it won't let me put ANY songs on my iPhone, saying that the song is only available on the Cloud and I have to download the song before I can sync it to my iPhone. iTunes is telling me this even on songs that I never uploaded/downloaded from the Cloud.

this is the worst. fix it, Apple.

iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Nov 16, 2011 10:55 PM

35 replies

Jun 10, 2012 5:45 PM in response to semperfiger

The key is to always have it on your main computer. Mine automatically anything I buy via an ios device or another computer on my match.

Aug 31, 2012 2:41 PM in response to semperfiger

I can't believe that anyone thinks that turning off iTunes match in order to copy your own mp3's to the iPhone (manually add your own stuff) is an acceptable solution to the problem. This is tedious and the fact that I had to come to a message board to figure this out is a serious design failure on Apple's part.

Also, I tried this and it does not work. Disabling iTunes match does not give me the ability to sync a specific playlist with the mp3 I want to have stored on my iPhone.

Apple, this is just ********. Please fix this. I should be able to use iTunes match AND manually add my own music to playlists and sync them to my iPhone.

Nov 8, 2013 5:26 PM in response to ram33

I have the same problem and I do NOT have iTunes Match!

Dec 8, 2014 9:28 PM in response to draytondavant

EXACTLY

Dec 8, 2014 9:29 PM in response to floydstyle

I disable iTunes match and it still replaces all the songs on my phone with clouds that make me download.

I also have iTunes match turned off on my iMac

Itunes not allowing me to put songs on my iPhone, saying they are only available on Cloud even though songs are on my hard drive and never uploaded to Cloud