Greyed-out songs problem

Your solution totally worked for me... none of the others did. I changed 1 to AAC and the others became "un-greyed" automacially. Thanks so much for posting!

Okay, so I was getting the greyed out songs problem, and all of a sudden, my brand new ipod touch, for no obvious reason at all, has decided to delete it's own ENTIRE song library that I had spent possibly a few hours putting on it.

Great.

TBH I haven't read through these posts, and I probably will,

but stuff like this just makes me and possibly other readers just start to wonder about android devices, and having direct access to the file system on your own portable device, and open source media formats....

I mean, apart from the amazing technology that it is, and not taking it for granted....

I suspect this might be unimpressive compared to the way other devices handle this sort of thing....

I still love you apple, but golly these sorts of things can be reeeallly annoying.

To be fair,

it's possible I disconnected the ipod while it was transferring files.

Maybe that caused the deletion of all the files I had previously put on.

I'm not sure though.

Just a bit steamed about it at the moment,

and the grey-song thing is annoying.

Don't know if this is something that everyone has already tried but I was having the same problem.

I turned my phone to airplane mode and then when into iTunes and highlighted every song I have (roughly 3,000) and right clicked and "unchecked" them.

Then I synced the phone so that all of the songs were no longer there.

I went back in, highlighted them all, "selected" them again and then re-synced the phone.

Let me know if this works!

Simply put, this is what I did.. I checked to make sure all my files were able to be played by iTunes.

Then I thought, I must have unplugged my device (iPhone 4S) before it was synced completely.

I then resynced it, waited until the status bar was complete and done.

^ simple yet effective solution people oversee because they get impatient.

After searching and searching for answers I wound up on this dicussion board. I did not find a solution to the mysterious greyed out songs. So I started fumbling around itunes and I believe I have fixed my problem.

I have an iPhone 4 (latest iOS 7) and latest iTunes 11 update on my macbook pro. I went to sink my iPhone to add some older songs but they were greyed out and would not add. My solution to this wound up being easy. I highlighted all the songs in my library and right clicked. Then looked at my options and finally decided to go with "Check Selection." Somehow some way this worked. All my songs are no longer greyed out and they sync to my phone like they used to.

I have no idea how or why these little bugs happen. But they can be a major pain in the A$&. I hope this helps other with the same problem.

I still got love for you Apple.

Thanks very much Justin!

Can't wait to give this a try.

Hope it works for me too!

Cheers (:

Thanks Meehan, Apple should send u a cheque for solving their problems....!

Then again....You'd think a msg saying ' this song cannot be played because auto download has been turned off, would u like to auto download this song?' Might have been a standard error msg.... Instead of just .... Nope, sorry , u can't play this song because it's grey. Love u apple.

I had a problem with the greyed out songs on my iPhone. This is how I fixed it. The songs were MP3s. So in my iTunes library I right clicked on the song (which wasn't working on my iPhone) and converted it to AAC. It made another copy of the song in a different format. I then deleted the MP3 versions and synced the newly formatted songs onto my iPhone and they worked.

Here's how i fixed my iPhone greyed out songs,...

on my iPhone;

1: settings

2: storage (wait a minute for your used storage to populate)

3: music

4: edit

5: delete(-) all music (THIS WILL DELETE ALL YOUR MUSIC ON YOUR iPHONE!)

6: plug back into iTunes and all your music (that you choose) will be returned to your iPhone that is still in your iTunes.

I don't have an iTouch but I think it would work the same way.

Cheers!

I had solved the issue. Yes!

Here are the steps:

1. Running I-Tunes as Administrator.

2. Clearing the music list inside my computer and re-scan the media

3. Sync the iphone again.

I have tried everything in this forum and still have grayed out songs on my iPhone. I'm beyond frustrated!!! 3 weeks ago I had no issue, update to mavericks on MBP And I have issues. I can't for the life of me figure it out. I tried creating acc versions, I tried the auto sync turned on, I've tried deleting the albums from my library, syncing, then restore the album and resync.... NOTHING works. What upsets me is that it's all of a sudden... Had no problems before. Any other suggestions? Did a complete delete of your library and restore of phone do the trick b/c that's where I'm at right now.

Hi.

I keep my music synched. What I did was to stop synching all music and applied the changes, so all the music in my iphone was deleted but still in my itunes library. Then I marked sync all music again and applied changes. My iphone got all the songs back, including the gray ones. Time consuming, but worth it I think.

I'll give this a try.

Ok this solved my problem!!!! Thank you so much. Next question is..... What is the "other" category in the memory description? Because after I did this that jumped from 750mb to 9.97gb!!!! What does the "other" section consist of?