HELP - Greyed Out (Ghost) songs in iTunes Devices iPhone Music

Same issue recently happened to me HOWEVER i might have a fix. (iphone is currently syncing but songs that were greyed out earlier are now able to play.)

Greyed out songs using iTunes 11.1.3

What i did to fix:

-Under the "summary" tab (when iphone is connected to itunes)

> under "options" check off "Mannually manage music and videos".

-Begin sync

-Under the "on this iphone tab" (where you can see all of your greyed out music)

(at the bottom of this tab you will see your iphones designated file's via colour and the "sync" button to the right of this bar.

>Above the sync button there is a "settings" and "autofill" buttons.)

>Click "settings"

>Uncheck everything

after i unchecked everything all of my songs began to sync.

IMPORTANT:

under this "on this iphone tab" some songs/albums are greyed out still, however when looking on my iphone under music the songs/albums that are greyed out on itunes are on my iphone and do play even though they are greyed out on itunes.

I do not remember EVER turning autofill on. I did however recently update itunes to 11.1.3

Very odd. It might only be a temporary fix, i have 5500+ songs on my iphone will update if i notice this fix does not work.

Ive found about 10 pages since (september alone) on the apple support forms regarding simmilar syncing issues with itunes across multiple iphone models. So if this is exactly the issue you are having you are not alone.

Try it for yourself.

Hope I've helped at least one person.

Thank you! This is the ONLY fix that has worked for my iPhone/Macbook. I cannot thank you enough!

i have the same problems and i cant delete the whole libray of songs cause the greyed out ones wont delete

I found that I only got greyed out songs when I would try to add music manually to my iPhone while it was backing up other things to my computer (e.g., apps, settings, etc.). If I wait until the backup is done then I an add songs without a problem. I had to delete all the greyed out songs from my iPhone and add them back from my iTunes library to fix the problem.

all of the new songs i just tanferred from my phone to my PC are grey with dotted cirlces next to them. How do I ge them downloaded on to my library?

Couple of things:

=*= Yes, you can resolve this by deleting the "bad" songs off of your device manually re-adding them.

=*= This is caused by the song(s) getting corrupted on the device, so for example, if you were to unplug the device while it was synching, you could end up with these "ghost" songs. Or as someone else mentioned, it happened while adding songs while iTunes was performing other activities... So be patient.

=*= This can be a real pain because even if you were to try and add the songs again on top of the ghost songs it wont work because the device already thinks they're being loaded to the device even though they're never going to get there...

=*= There are multiple options for resolving the ghosting songs problem, but really, honestly, the easiest approach is just to take manual control of the music on the device, delete them, and re-add them...

Enjoy!

-Shaun

this seemed like another culprit of the this problem- see the answer by user "JERRILL" for yet another working fix for it here>> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5369825?answerId=23617474022#23617474022

I found on the ipad in musice.... On the bottom the "more" tab under Shared I had two choices.

My ipad (which was checked) and

In my case "Joey's Library

I tried checking joey's Library and problem was solved.

I have just successfully deleted my greyed out songs.

If you turn on 'Manually manage music and videos' in the Summary page then right click the songs; you are then given the option to delete them.

This sorted them out for me.

But then if you re-sync they come back. Back to the drawaing board!

I found the solution on this thread;

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5369825?start=0&tstart=0

And now my grey songs are gone forever, hopefully!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3979901?start=90&tstart=0 I figured it out and posted solution here (Movitar)

I've tried a lot of stuff that's been suggested here and finally I gave up and purchased "PhoneClean" software from iMobile. It cleaned out the cashe, temp files etc... created about a 1 gig of additional space. Then I used the programs toolbox and scanned the media.... (music files) and it found damaged music files. Deleted the damage files and then I was able to reload the music files back to my ipad.

So why doesn't Apple do this? Why do we have to purchase some 3rd party vendor to fix their crap when it should be part of iTunes.

THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL. Thank you so much!!!!

I know its been quite a few months, however I will confirm that this fix works. Thank you very much-->in addition, the greyed out songs are no longer greyed out. Only duplicates are now greyed out, and I doubt anyone wants those. Once again, thanks a ton!