Some uploaded songs don't play on my iPhone

If some of you still have this problem, even with iOS 10:

After upgrading to my iPhone 7+ i've realized that some songs in my iTunes Library (Apple Music + iTunes in Cloud) do not play. I can see them my library but after few seconds it skips to the next (playable) song. There was no issue on my Mac but the same issue on my Apple TV.

After some investigation i've identified the affected songs. Only "AAC 256kbit, matched, uploaded" were affected. Important to say that i've switched from iTunes Match to iTunes in the Cloud a year ago. But i didn't have any issues to the day i've switch to my new iPhone.

That's what solved my issue:

- I've created a smart playlist to isolate the affected songs (iCloud Status is "uploaded" & Type contains "matched")

- Then i've converted them again to AAC

- Waited for iTunes to try to upload to the Cloud which results in "Duplicates"

- I've deleted the old songs from the library and pushed the new ones to upload again

Since then all my beloved old songs are playing on all my devices.

Unfortunately i've had to add them to some playlist again. In my case 13% of songs have been affected by this issue

Similar problem.

1. Song (Stephane Grappelli concert) encoded into Apple Lossless is uploaded to iTunes Match.

2. I delete the song from my Library, it becomes gray and I can re-download from iTunes Match.

3. Download from iCloud fails with an error ^0

PS: This is just one song from the whole album, all others will upload and re-download in lower 256 bitrate.

More than half of my uploaded songs won't play. I'm on my computer at work right now, and most tracks I try to stream just skip right to the next song. I've even re-uploaded the tracks and they still won't play.

These tracks are true VBR encoded by quicktime with a level of 88 or above (quicktime true vbr has a quaity scale of 0-127). In kbps, this translates to around 190kbps or above.

It's driving me crazy

This same thing is happening to me. It will either freeze for an eternity, or skip ahead several songs. This happens even after I've redownloaded them, makes no sense. This is also happening with an album I just purchased off the iTunes store. I guess there's some hope, that several of us are having this issue so maybe a fix is on the way?

Ditto. I am looking for a solution and or explaination. Helloooooooo anyone from Apple out there?

In my case, the problem Match songs play fine from iCloud on my desktop and Apple TV but they won't play on iPhone. The appear in the song list kind of whited out but won't even start playing. There is no Cloud or download icon next to them. There are probably hundreds of these among my 10K-plus matched/uploaded songs.

Following up on my own comment ... After fiddling with the problem songs, I discovered that any change in the meta data will cause an update in the song in Match / iCloud. That is quickly followed by a Match update on my iphone. We're talking maybe 10 seconds for the phone to show the update. I had 100 percent success making all my songs playable on the phone by making small meta data changes, such as a capitalization change in the album title or an extra space after the title. The problem was centered on certain albums in which several songs were uploaded instead of matched, so to save time I made the meta data change to the entire album.

Sames here, hundreds of songs won't play on the iPhone 4 even though they play fine on my MacBook Pro. If I chose a playlist with 10 songs it may play 3 of them and it just skips all the rest. This is turning out to be a waste of money.

did you try the metadata change I described above? Time consuming but should be a permanent fix.

Thanks for the tip but I have 22,000 songs and I'd have to try them each on my iphone to figure out which ones to fix or I'd have to do some sort of batch change to all of them right?

In my case the nonplayable songs were grayed out so easy to identify. If that's not the case for you I'm at a loss. I had hundreds of grayed-out songs in my 10,500-song list. Took about 90 minutes of batch-editing albums to fix them all.

Jeff, it occurred to me that you might be trying to use Match on 3G. It's not really a streaming service (yet) and didn't work well on 3G for me either. Make sure "Cellular Data" turned off under Settings / Store.

but if I can't use it with 3G then I might as well still with Audiogalaxy. It works just fine with 3G as long as my MAC is on at home.

I can't believe that Apple would charge $25 buck a year and only be good enough to work in WiFi.

I'll try a few more things and see if I can find a solution since Apple doesn't seem to want to offer one.

I'm not even trying to play songs on my iPhone. I'm trying to play them on another computer at work. More than half the Uploaded songs won't play. They just skip to the next song (which also won't play, so it skips to the next, and the next, etc).

The songs are not grayed out.

This is a real issue