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!
Those who have "figured it out" are WRONG. I have a new iPhone 8 with plenty of available space and the "Manually Manage Videos" option is selected and I still can't sync those ringtones I like way better than the terrible choice offered by iOS for the past 200 years... I had no problem using those on my iPhone 7 but not anymore. I am SO tired of the limitations imposed to us with our own devices that we paid a LOT of money for by Apple and enjoy so much the freedom Android offers that I'm afraid this iPhone is gonna end up in my drawer and I'm gonna go get myself a Samsung 8 or a Huawei Mate 10 Pro and won't need to eat so many Tylenol...
Anyway if anyone knows the real reason of this nonsense, I'd like to know since Apple help is nonexistent...
How do you delete the songs that have not yet been downloaded? I do not want them in my Itunes anymore. They're mainly duplicates that I turned into mp3 versions.
It does not. How do you get them out of the itunes library?
I have the same problem with only one album. I managed to sync a few songs by manually adding them, but I have 3.67GB free and I still can't sync the one album that I want onto my phone.
I have tried everything from this post, and yours was the only one that worked for me!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!! 😀
FWIW; I had to restore my iPhone to be able to sync music. I had a dotted circle next to an "unknown file". Nothing else worked but a restore.
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hey,
I am having the same problem that you had!
Have you by any chance been able to rectify this situation?
Help me!!
"i have music from other people itunes on there so i cannot sync or restore it or i will lose over half of all my music"
You mean the music you did not legally obtain?
@aprezotto - Thank you very very VERY much for the suggestion, worked fine for me!!
Please mark this question as solved so that other people can know and find the answer if they have the same problem.
My bad, I replied to the wrong person.
Please mark this question as solved so that other people can know and find the answer if they have the same problem.
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What does the dotted circle mean?
