Music not syncing after iOS 7 update

Are you restoring your iOS 6 backup either from iTunes or iCloud? As I wrote earlier in this thread, the only thing that stabilized my Touch for music was NOT to restore my iOS 6 backup. It's been good since I bit the bullet and started over from scratch, but as it turned out, it wasn't entirely from scratch. I wrote a little bit more about the process:

After upgrading to iOS 7 and several hours of use, music started to go missing. I restored iOS 7 in iTunes and resync'd 50 GB of music (size on device after being transcoded on-the-fly to 128 Kbps AAC), and even though the iTunes progress indicator ticked off all 12,000 songs, it got stuck on "Waiting for changes to be applied", and after 8+ hours, it never finished. So, I unplugged the Touch, and I found it only had about 4,000 songs on it. When I plugged it back into iTunes, iTunes reported over 30 GB of "Other", which I guess represents the orphaned corrupt songs. I went through several rounds of this, and the only thing that helped was to not restore my iCloud backup. Fortunately, I didn't lose all my settings. The Safari bookmarks and iBooks current page info were preserved thanks to iCloud (separate from "backups", which again I did not restore), and my Tapatalk ID kept my subscribed forums intact. I use Converter+ and used that program's Email Template feature to email myself all my custom templates, which contain links to install the templates, so I didn't lose them. Of course, I had to re-enter all my passwords for Tapatalk and Safari.

Also try this organizing your iTunes library. For some reason, all songs aren't being recognized even if they exist in your media folder.

File > Library > Organize Library > Check "Consolidate Files".

Give sync another whirl once it completes.

I repaired iTunes and did a hard reset on my phone and when I connected with the cable, it synced the 2 playlists that I checked. But when I changed and checked "Sync entire music library" or even checked more playlists to sync, it was back to being stuck at "Waiting for changes to be applied"

I tried everything mentionned here and none of them worked for me 😟

I consolidated my library and tried to sync a few playlists without success. The sync got cancelled after a few hundred songs.

I still believe syncing Playlists, not Artists, Genres causing the problem.

No don't think so. Of my 3000-odd songs, I added about 2000 of them to a playlist and synced that to my phone without problems. Of course I had to to do that in steps of about a 100 songs, so it took me about 2 hours, but I did manage to get them eventually.

So I tried everything above, and finally found out what was causing my issue. On your phone go to Music and select More at the bottom. Under the Shared option, make sure your entire music library is selected. My phone only had what I had purchased on my iphone selected, not my entire music library. As soon as i choose Music Library all of my songs magically appeared, without having to sync again.

Just tried to resync after unchecking a few songs on iTunes. It still won't sync but at least my songs are on my phone.

Checking the entire library under the shared option mentoned by clevergirl resolved my problem after a day of waiting screens. The music is there, under the 'other' mentioned by previous users ... it's just unrecogonized until you hit the 'switch.' Still get the 'waiting for changes to be applied' but all the music is there. Thanks for the tip!

Clevergirl's method worked for me finally! Got everything on my phone by switching sharing to my whole library. Sharing wasn't showing up for me at first either, but I was syncing my phone and then it just popped up and I was able to edit the settings. Not sure how to force it to come up though...

Thanks for the fix!!!

To get shared working you need to go into iPhone settings, Music, then log in at the bottom into your apple account... that worked for me. The verdict is still out on the entire collection showing up finally.

"Shared" feature in Music app came out if I turned on "Home Sharing" in my iTunes File menu.

After this, I did Clevergirl's method. It took a while. Maybe because I have about 25,000 songs in my iTunes.

Finally, I tried to sync two playlists containing 400 songs. The sync got cancelled after 150 more songs.

This "Home Sharing" feature is just for your iPhone to access your whole music in your iTunes, I guess.

I'm having syncing issues after "upgrading" to ios 7. My playlists are not correct. I have smart playlists that are not following rules at all. Playlists are smart on mac, but do not sync onto iphone. I've deleted list and re-created it and it still does not work. Any thoughts on how to fix?

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! This worked for me !!

I turned the Home Sharing on on my phone Settings > Music > Home Sharing and then I synced and it still stayed stuck at "Waiting for changes to be applied". And then I also turned the Home Sharing on on my iTunes : File > Home Sharing. The syncing is still stuck but all my songs finally appeared on my phone !!

Thank you that worked! Been going crazy. For anyone wondering how to get "Shared" to show up on iPhone make sure home sharing is selected on your itunes. May have to sign in and out of itunes account for it to work 100%. either way great tip! works every time don't even have to resync.

Although Clevergirl's post is great, it is a temporary fix to a problem I hope Apple is currently working to fix. I just shared my feedback about this specific issue. Maybe if more of us do, they will get the idea that this is a problem for a lot of us.

Was having the same issue on my 4s -- music would not sync at all, and iTunes would be stuck in an endless sync that's not doing anything.

The solution for me was to use the "Restore iPhone" button in iTunes to restore the phone to factory settings. Once I did that, music started syncing right away.

This is a DRASTIC STEP. It will erase all your apps, and you will have to re-download them. Thankfully, they were backed up to iCloud.

MAKE SURE YOU DO A MANUAL BACKUP BEFORE YOU RESTORE!!! You will regret it if you don't. Back up to your computer, not iCloud! Do a full, encrypted backup that way, and restore from that after the phone comes back.

Give yourself a half hour at least to do this.

Good luck!