Greyed playlists using iTunes match on iPad while traveling

Same problem here. On a plane last week, and my favorite playlist was greyed out. 98% of the 380 songs had already been downloaded to the iPad, yet the playlist was greyed out and unavailable for viewing the contents.

Even once back and on wifi, the playlist was greyed out. I turned off iCloud in Music and back on and also reconfirmed my password in iCloud. After a bit, the playlist was available again. I manually downloaded the remaining few songs that hadn't already downloaded.

Any clues? Fortunately, my iPhone (with the same playlist) worked great on the plane, so I had what I wanted, but don't want to be "locked out" from my playlist again.

This worked for me:

I unchecked one of the playlists, hit sync, and it started copying 388 songs that were "pending" before, and greyed out.

After it finished that sync, I rechecked the playlist, sync'd again, and everything was there.

Are you using iTunes Match?

Had same problem.

Saw in a forum that someone had rotated their iPAD from portrait to landscape while on playlist screen and it changed which playlists were greyed out. I rotated from landscape to portrait and all greyed out playlists became accessible. Tested in airplane mode to ensure it worked and it did.

Was charging to a power outlet when I did all of the above. Not sure if it matters...

Oddly, the rotation to portrait mode works. I wasn't plugged in at the time either.

I'm now updating to iOS 6. I hope that "bug" is fixed.

ok... what I did was to turn off the option of " itunes match" from the ipad2 settings, and then after doing so, I could be able to download the playlists in an "old fashion" way, meaning, I have the music IN the ipad and not in the cloud, so it is available any place, any time... hope it works for you guys... regards.

This fixed the problem for me:

Settings -> Cellular Data -> Use Cellular Data for: iTunes, toggle to 'On'

The default is 'Off' and the playlists seem to require a quick sync with iCloud every now and again before they enable themselves.

Well, since we are bumping up ancient threads, there are numerous strange issues that will occur when using devices on a plane. This also happens with rentals, despite in theory people are told there should be no issues at all.

The problem is that moving time-zones and location-services seem to be the root of most of these glitches. Jet-travel forces these issues to the extreme.

If that's the case, wouldn't the playlists be able to do a "quick sync" over wifi? When not on the road, my iPad, at home, is always on WiFi. It should be able to do what it needs over WiFi.