Music not syncing after iOS 7 update

I also converted all my music to AAC. I am still missing songs. Also, when I play them, some of them fast forward and go missing from the playlist, like they are corrupted. But, they play fine in iTunes and they were converted by iTunes. So I am at a loss.

When I finished the sync it showed 6290 songs. Today, it shows 5600.

Jim

I simply ticked "Manually manage music and videos" on the Summary page of iTunes when connected to my iPhone5, and after clicking "sync", everything (finally) seemed in order. This is with up to date iOS (7.0.3) and iTunes (11.1.2), and using a physical cable between my mac and phone (not sure if same would have worked over wi-fi).

Mark

Thanks, I did what you suggested and music on computer (itunes) and iphone 5 now match.

I still have manage my music checked, and "manually" sync the iphone and itunes. I'll check sync music and see what happens.

I noticed that some update (itunes I'm thinking) checked many things I didn't have checked in itunes, under the iphone device, in both the "summary" page and "music" page, such as how I sync and manage music, albums, songs.

I literally followed all of Endoviper's steps, except for very last one (checking sync) and now things are working agian.

me = iphone 5, latest ios and itunes

My iPhone 4S was also not syncing movies, which was the first thing I noticed. Then I noticed the missing music and the iTunes getting stuck at "waiting to adapt changes" without nothing syncing.

I tired resetting my iPhone and restoring to the back up but then iTunes said it was over capacity with "other" data but the phone actually was half empty.

I fixed my phone today by resetting to factory setting and installing as a new phone. I then added things back selectively. For the music, I deleted a bunch of music I don't listen to and then checked add only checked music and then entire library. It worked. Music is all back. Movies back. I spent the morning putting all my apps back. I had some issues with reinstalling gmail but that's a separate issue. I figured that out too - the two step verification was messing things up so I turned it off.

I think I spent about 4 hours on this. Thanks apple.

Have to say this issue is really annoying not to mention the noticeable design flaw now with music on iphone with the last IOS.7.0.3. I.e before when you created a playlist on your iphone you could add songs to that playlist from other playlists on ur phone. You could also/ had option to add multiple songs at one time. Now you have completely lost that ability and you can only add songs from songs list or albums and even then you have to add each song one by one. How on earth can this be an improvement. Off course understand you always gonna encounter some bugs/issues, but I'm personally getting more and more discouraged with still using Apple now with this continuing spate of issues and general design blunders.

So after trying to resolve this issue for a better part of the day...Tried the following:

1. Restoring iPhone from backup

Result: Did not work

2. Deleting all playlists from iPhone and re-syncing

Result: Did not work

3. Re-Authorizating my Mac

Result: Did not work

4. Made sure all my settings were correct to manage my own playlists

5. Delete all but 1 of my iPhone back up via iTunes, and renamed that one file and placed it in a secondary location, sync'd and created a new backup

Result: Did not work.

6. Created new playlists via Duplicate option in iTunes

Result: Did not work

7. Reinstalled iTunes

Result: Did not work

8. Recovered backup of iPhone from a week ago via Time Machine

Result: Did not work

9. Deleted all voice memos

Result: did not work

I did read on a post and saw some success with this:

10. Unchecked Sync & deleted all my music off, unplug, and re-sync and check back Sync for music.

Result #1: This eventually brought back my playlists onto my device, however, (This is the most important) playlists were not updating from the changes I would make to them, or when I try to import a new playlist to my device.

Result #2: I would go into iTunes and when i select my device and select "On my Phone" I could see the playlists that sync'd correctly and the ones that didn't (The ones that didn't sync were grayed out)

Result #3: Syncing 2K+ songs this way is way too difficult, if I wanted to make changes to my playlists over and over again.

Result #4: WAS NOT going to accept this as the fix, as it was the only work around.

Attempt #11 finally resolve the issue for me.

I decided to recreate my iTunes Libary & Playlist.

Follow the instructions in the Knowledge article below and after you plug your device back into your Mac, you will need to allow iTunes to select your mac to conduct your back ups. After this, you'll be able to make modifications to your playlist and it'll sync like before within iTunes

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451

Cheers,

I just want to confirm that what SkylarDaniels suggested worked for me. I am running OS 7.0.3 and after I installed this update, any new music downloaded into iTunes would not sync to my phone. So. I would suggest updating to 7.0.3 first. Then follow SkylarDaniels recommended procedure. It will take a few minutes, so be patient. when I re-synced my iPhone to iTunes, all of the musice in iTunes that previously would not sync, was on my phone. Give this another shot, folks, but update to 7.0.3 first.

It doesn't look like having the files in the AAC format should matter. At the same time that most of my music files were not syncing with my iPhone, there were a few that were MP3s that I had purchased from Amazon that still played fine on the phone.

Still not working for me. Apple needs to fix it ASAP because if I had any other product, I would be able to simply drag n' drop my songs like a USB drive onto my iPhone. But since Apple loves to jail us, we have to use iTunes. and what happens when iTunes doesn't worth **** ? We're screwed and have to wait and work your ***** off like chickens to find a solution by ourselves because Apple cannot give us any.

Thank you so much.

although i had my phone sorted, this seemed logical but it totally screwed up my phone again.

i had 109 playlists. using this method only 36 playlists copied over.

now going back to restore from last backup.

This worked for me!!! Turns out my apple I.D. in my home sharing was from quite some time ago. It's never affected my music until ios7 and the iTunes update but after fixing that and unchecking sync all music/rechecking it, my music is currently syncing!!!

Thanks so much guys woo!!

Tenth post on this thread.

iPhone 5s still working perfectly with no issues since day one.

4s however still won't sync. I've tried every suggestion at least 3 time.

What a joke.

Device: iPhone 4S

iTunes. Up to date.

This is so ridiculous.

Ok here's the symptom and how I corrected it. There seemed to be a link to the missing files (target circle complete yet no playable music). I ended up resetting the phone and not restoring from backup. Works like a champ now. I highly suspect that in trying to "manage" my storage it left ghost files that should have been links to download from the cloud but could no longer thought it needed to download it as "something" was already there with the right headers.

this has occurred to me REPEATEDLY after installing ios7. coupled with several days of text issues (both sending and receiving) and i'm totally fed up with apple. i've used and bought macs since 1986. i am now looking at options... reluctantly, but i feel like they're driving me away.

Restart your computer

While your computer is restarting, clear all of the applications from the background on your iPhone. You can do this by pushing the home button twice and swiping the programs off the screen by pushing them upwards.

After you are done doing that, restart your phone.

Wait about 10 seconds or so and turn your phone back on. By the time you get your phone back on your computer should be completly restarted and ready to go.

When your phone is back on, plug it into your computer. This should automatically bring up your Itunes, you may get another pop up that says autoplay, you can close that out. That's it. I hope it helps and good luck