Why won't my songs transfer from itunes to my iphone?

@Msorli Thanks to all those who suggested the solution to manually manage and drag/drop onto the iPod/iPhone icon. Was frustrated for the last few hours thinking my old trusty iPod classic had finally died. I was continuously getting the 'can't read device...please restore' error. The above solution fixed it. BTW you can drag and drop all the files in one shot. Thanks!

Had the same issue, just fixed it by realizing I had "Manually Manage Music" checked on my sync page. I unchecked it and hit sync, then all my missing songs and playlists were magically added. Hope that helps!

Okay, so I had this problem too, and I spent a while trying to fix it and here's where I came up with. *Side note: there are, like, three different music tabs that mean all different things. There is Library Music (in the library column), iPhone Music (right below the settings tab when you click on your device), and Music on your device (under the on your device tab).

1) Connect your device to your computer and start iTunes.

2) Make sure that you have all the music that you want to add/take off of your device checkmarked. I personally find this easier if you change the view to be organized by songs instead of albums or artists.

3) Then click on the icon that looks like your iPhone/iPod and it will take you to the summary of your device.

4) Go to the iPhone music and make sure the 'Sync Music' checkbox is clicked.

5) Click on the circle button that says 'Entire music Library'.

6) Sync your iPhone.

I hope this works for anyone having the same stupid problem.

it's most likely because you've moved your music on your computer. I couldn't figure it out either for the longest time, but I had moved the downloaded music files from my desktop to a folder and the computer couldn't find the original files on the computer to transfer to my phone. So i had to go back to the moved files, open them in iTunes, then re-build my playlists, and then they all could transfer to my phone.

Make sure that when the device options pop up, or you select them that you check the boxes that say "Sync only check songs and videos" and "Manually manage music videos." After that try to sync it and its should work.

I was having the same issues. I selected all of the music in my iTunes and dragged it to my iPhone in iTunes. I also had to drag the playlists as well. You have to make sure you drag each playlist directly over the device section on the left. Once this was done, everything transferred to my phone. Hope this helps you guys.

I figured it out!!!

I was having the same problem. I even backed up my phone and updated it to the latest update and it still wouldn't work. Then I noticed when i clicked on the device in itunes the " manually manage music and vidoes" box was not checked. I clicked on it and I could move my music from itunes to my iphone

I had the same issue with my iPhone 4s with the latest update of iOS 8. It started to happen when I bought songs from iTunes using the WiFi at work. The connection dropped unexpectedly and I was never able to download the song on my iPhone. It was in my iTunes library on my home Mac but, whichever method I tried, I still couldn't add it to my iPhone. After trying everything Apple support recommended to do, and most solutions posted here, I deleted my playlist, Restored the iPhone (after backing up) and it solved the problem. I recreated a new playlist and was able to add all the songs that appeared greyed out with the little dashed circle next to it, in the list.

Hope it works for you too, if everything else fails. Apple leaves me angry and frustrated, sometimes, but I'm still crazy after all these years.

Cheers.

Hi guys,

This was my problem. I have mp3 stored on NAS and connected to MAC mini with OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 via router and LAN cables. When I searched for a song on NAS vie Finder and want to drag it directly to iphone 6 running iOS 8.2 which was displayed via iTunes 12.1.0.50 it displayed the file as copied, or with the grey circle near the file. I was able to see the file on iTunes, but not on the phone.

What I did to fix it was that first I dragged the file from Finder to iTunes library and then from iTunes library to phone. All my songs are there and playable.

Hope this helps someone

Your way works, but there is an easier way to delete your music. On your iphone go to settings>General>Usage>Music then click on edit and tap on the minus sign and you should be able to delete all your music in one tap.

Going into the Music app on the phone, selecting "More" then "Shared" to select my Library worked. Who knew the solution would be so simple. Thanks funniehuh! No thank to Apple, for making use figure it out on our own!

Hi,

I had this exact same problem for such a long time and it really bothered me. I never thought I would be able to fix it and I couldn't believe my eyes when I did literally. I was madly searching all through iTunes to figure out a way to fix it and this what I did:

Click >> your iPhone tab (e.g. Phoebe's iPhone) >> Music

It should come up with Sync Music and then a few boxes. Then you see the problem, for me all the boxes were unticked and faded out. So I ticked the Entire Music Library box, pressed Sync once again and done. The songs had FINALLY transferred onto my phone.

I really hope this helped if someone else hasn't already figured it out 🙂

I've had this problem several times. Now I figured out something that helped me. When right-clicking on the song I want transferred, there appears a drop-down-menu. You can there "add to playlist" - and a new drop-down-menu appears. There you can select (your iphone-name). Actually - first I could select "add to" and my iphone appeared. Suddenly only "add to playlist" appeared.

Good luck. I wish I didn't buy iphone again - itunes and music-sync is terrible and every apple-employee should be ashamed for making syncing music such a hassle.

I know this is very late but you can get a application called iExplorer on both Mac and PC and you can automatically sync all of your songs from your iDevice straight to iTunes

Hope this helps if you still need the answer..

Connect your device to the computer and open iTunes. Select your device - go to 'on my device' - go to 'music' - select the faded out songs that have not transferred and press delete. Attempt to re-transfer the songs. If they are singles then allow each song to transfer and sync before you attempt the next. If it is an album select the album and transfer the entire album in one attempt. Allow the album to copy before you proceed to the next song/album. I've had this happen on multiple occasions and I believe it to be the computers inability to transfer so many songs/albums at once. Hope this helps.