Come on Apple, people keep asking this and you don't answer! What does the dotted circle beside certain music showing on iTunes mean? The music is meant to be on my iPhone, and shows as downloaded, but skips over - and in iTunes, it shows with a grey dotted circle beside it. iTunes is the only application that I've ever dealt with that uses symbols with no indication of what those symbols mean - get your act together guys!
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
I've figured it out!
It is when you've dragged the file say, from your Mac to your iPhone, but you don't have enough memory free on your iPhone for the song to copy accross.
Happened to me when I was copying a whole playlist across, and there were some new songs in it. Don't know if that effects it in anyway... (it might say there's no space if you just individually try to copy a song to music).
It also doesn't seem to work in a way in which iTunes copys the songs in the same order as they are in. For example, if there's only two which won't copy then it doesn't mean it'll be the last two songs in a playlist or album, it could be the third and seventh!
Anyway, I hope this helps and finally solves the mystery of the dotted circle!
YEEeeeaaAAaSSS. Thank u!... And i tried like everything else, sooo... Thank u!!
This completely fixed my problem! I had enough storage and couldn't figure out why albums wouldn't transfer. I didn't have the "manage manually" box checked. Thank you!!!
I select the songs I don't want then hit the delete key, then it comes up with a pop up asking if I want to delete them. I hit enter and they are gone.
What does the dotted circle mean?
