Greyed-out songs problem

Hey, I had this same problem and I think I found the solution. If you're using a mac, go to Preferences on your Itunes, choose devices and check where it says "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically." For some reason, I think that having it automatically sync messes around with adding your music. Hopefully this helps you!

- Dylan

Hey bruddah Jacob-

I had the same problem with getting missing songs to my ipod touch 4s, and then they were greyed out. With all due respect to the other guys here who sent out fixes, your reply gave the clearest answer. I had about 30 songs greyed out, and luckily I only had to do the fix to one song. The rest came alive by themselves! Thanks so much.

Does anyone else get the idea that iTunes is like a boat? There's ALWAYS something going wrong.......

K.

Hey,

If you are using Windows try copying your files directly from Windows Explorer to your device in iTunes. Worked for me!

Good luck!

The Drou

DYSCO, your tip worked for me

If you're using a mac, go to Preferences on your Itunes, choose devices and check where it says "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically." For some reason, I think that having it automatically sync messes around with adding your music. Hopefully this helps you!

Open iTunes on your phone and click on purchases, find the songs you want and download them.

@DySco's comment was accurate in my case - I've bought a 3Gs as a backup phone, and was having this infernal Greyed-Out issue while trying to manually put songs onto it

I hadn't linked the issue to the annoying auto-sync the phone was attempting every time I plugged it in - a process I always stopped before it was finished.

By forcing iTunes to not sync automatically I was immediately able to transfer the music I wanted to. I assume this will be the case for @ImFrmHawaii as well?

Thanks DySco - it was driving me nuts!

APPLE - listen up to this issue please!

Hey everyone...I had the same problem and just fixed it now. I have an iphone 4. Here's what I did:

1. Plug device into itunes.

2. When itunes comes up, go to your music library (bc thats where the grey out songs will play). Find whichever songs are greyed out.

3. Right click on a song and then click on "Create AAC version". This makes a modified version of the song.

4. When the duplicate AAC is made, delete the original song (the one that wont play on your device).

5. Repeat with all your greyed out songs, but make sure you are doing this in your music library. You will notice your duplicates added to your "recently added" playlist also.

6. When you are done duplicating the songs, go to your device via itunes and sync your music with your itunes library music.

7. Once sync is done, your greyed out songs should be no more and play on your device.

This worked for me!!! Good luck guys!

I started having this problem 3 months after I received an Ipod Touch 64 for Christmas 2011, and found with the newer Itunes releases it's become more of a problem.

I would manually drag and drop my tracks from the "Music" tab to the Ipod "Music"section (I don't like to sync as I don't have space to keep all my audiobooks on my laptop), and some of the tracks would be greyed out with the circle symbol next to it. I'd wait for it to complete, nothing happened. I'd go to the "devices" section on left and hit the "Sync" button hoping to force it to do something, but nothing would happen. I would then hit "Cancel Sync" and keep trying.

They only solutions I have come up with, and it's hit and miss as to which will work when, is to either eject the Ipod Touch and reconnect, or rerip the track and try again.

I've also noticed, and this may be part of the problem, that often when I connect the Ipod to Itunes it shows me a older usage summary - it says I have 47G in music but really I only have 45G used as I deleted 2G a little while back. I have to eject and reattach the Ipod Touch to get the current reading.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on a Dell laptop, I don't know if that has any effect. But honestly, in an odd way it's nice to know it's happening to other people. I hate reading "I have never seen that before, no one I know has that problem, it's just *you*."

worked for me thanks

Glad it helped!

I found a fix based on sstephany1's solution:

1. I selected my device (which is an iPod Classic) on the LIBRARY/STORE/DEVICES bar and went down to OPTIONS.
2. I selected the checkbox MANUALLY MANAGE MUSIC AND VIDEOS.
3. I accepted the warnings about having to wait to disconnect. This cleared up ALL the greyed out songs on my device. However, the album I just bought on Amazon still would not copy to my device.
4. Using sstephany1's idea, I right-clicked on each song and chose CREATE AAC VERSION.
5. Once that version was created, I was able to copy that new version of the song into my device. I then deleted the old version of the song.

I hope this helps someone.

Well I have found that I only have this problum if I have my device set to wirelessly sync for some reason the sync fails and I have lost music off my iPad. iPod or iPhone once I remove the wireless setting and only sync when conected I have no problems so it is something Apple needs to fix …..

My question to apple would be why are we doing a complete sync wirelessly instead of just syncing changes ???? That is the only reason I see this happening.

Thank you DySco! Your tip worked for me... easily.

I was not about to attempt some of the other complicated solutions. Easiest one FIRST! I am on a mac, and that worked in a snap! I increased the number of songs in my 64GB iPhone recently, and at least half of them were greyed out. I was not about to try dragging them one at a time, etc... That would take DAYS.

I first noticed a few songs greyed out a while ago... but after the recent increase in synced songs (I don't sync EVERYTHING that would be too much! I only sync certain playlists) - it was ridiculous! I had to FIX IT NOW.

I did as DySco advised and went to the preferences and changed the automatically sync option. When I went back to my device, I noticed that "Manually Manage Songs" was turned off. I usually have it on. I don't know if changing the preference changed that, or if maybe an "update" did that - but I don't really care, as long as my problem is GONE.

Thank You Thank You, for an easy fix!

Not to be more confusing or anything, but i also have the same problem- I have a Dell computer, and my settings for my iPod are already set to manual, yet any new songs I add into my iPod(which is the newest update, iPod 4 and 5.1.1,) are still grey no matter what I do. Normally, I just delete it, re-add it, and then it works, or I unplug my iPod, and it'll work but its not.... D: