SOLUTION: Some Music Won't Play After Upgrading Your iPhone To iOS7

Trying all those solution will only frustate you even more because they're all temporary solution. Until the bug is really get fixed, the problem will keep coming back

I have tried everything and the bug usually comes back after a few syncs 😟

It's a shame Apple havn't chipped in atleast to let us know there is a fix being worked on...

This issue is commonly fixed by using itunes to sync the music OFF of the device under the music tab and then resyncing the music back ONTO the device.

I tried that though, william, and it didn't work. :-\ It made everything worse. It seems like the sync isn't fully functional on every sync.

I'd suggest to download and use "Itools" , its only like 3mb (no installation needed) and you can add and remove photos easily and you can also add and delete musics , although the "edit info" feature not as complete as Itunes

SOLUTION! BEFORE YOU TRY and RESTORE YOUR Ipod!
After about 2 hours of trying to find a solution I decided to try and re-sync all my music to my ipod
-Not wanting to restore my ipod, yet again, due to my distaste for reorganizing 270 apps, i thought this might be easier.
It is quite simple and it not only takes care of you Red Circle/Square issue, it also takes care of any duplicate song problem that you may have.
After you have connected your ipod to your computer.

And after your ipod has gone through it's routine sync.
Click on your Ipod on the top right side of Itunes - Two blocks left from "ITunes Store"
Then Click on "Music".
You will see a box that says "Sync Music"- UNCHECK IT.
A notice will then appear as stated below.
"Are you sure you do not want to sync music? All existing songs and playlists on this
Ipod 'Your Name' will be removed"
Click "REMOVE"
On the Lower right hand of Itunes you will see "Sync" & "Apply"
Click "APPLY"
Wait for the syncing to be completed and the only thing you should see in your music are the songs that you have purchased. NOTE: They do not exist on your ipod they will have the Icloud Download sign next to them.
Now you will go back and re-check "Sync Music" that you unchecked before.
Click "APPLY" and syncing will begin.

Obviously depending on how many songs you have the waiting time will vary. I only had 1,300 songs so I took between 20 to 35 minutes.
All your songs should be on there as well as your playists and so forth with no Red Circle/Square or possible duplicates

NOTE: For all you tech/apple brainiacs --I know I gave more detailed information than you needed but this was also for those who need a little more direction. .
Hope everything works out!

THE SOLUTION FOR ME---What I did was plug my iphone into my computer so it would show the device in Itunes then go to the music that you want to be synced onto your device, unclick all of the songs or playlists, sync the device, then after you do that reclick the playlists or songs that you want on your iphone or ipod and sync it again. This worked for me.

Hi DJPens,

I had the same problem and actually updating iTunes solved it.
You've probably tried that already, but if not, try it 😝
Good Luck

For me, what finally worked was simply connecting to iTunes... Then File / Devices / Transfer Purchases...

Seems that the transfer should have automatically happened with the sync, but for some songs I have had to do it manually like this.

Hope this works for you like it did me.

Hi there.... Been tearing my hair out for the past ten days after a flawed apple iPad update which caused havoc with my playlists and music with the dreaded red circles... Called apple who could not resolve for me, monitored apple support communities for a variety of suggestions, none worked.....until I saw your solution post.......and guess what....it worked!!!!!!!!! You are a star... Very many thanks ... Pity apple could not have suggested this after over an hour on the phone !,,

Graham.

Hello everyone

This suggestion and all of the other suggestions mentioned in this thread did not work for me. I have been wrestlling with my ipod touch for over 2 weeks and I finally figured out why it will not play songs.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5594209

Before I stumbled across that thread, I gave it the ol college try one more time. I added ALL of my songs (7000 +) back to the ipod. 1000 of those were WMA's, so i converted those in itunes naturally. For a few days everything was ok, then boom, would not play songs, red circle with red square of death appeared. BUT, eureka! The 1000 songs I converted did play! So from here on out it seems to me for those of you still having issues, you will have to re-create an MP3 file of your songs using the newest version of Itunes. I am in the process as I type of converting 6000 of my songs in itunes. I will come back to this thread with my findings.

the FIX is to

1."unselect/uncheck all your music from ALL paylists",

2. select the playlist from sidebar that you want to upload and Check all the music in that playlist.

3. Under the Music tab, click "Sync Music",

4. then click "Selected Playlist, artists, albus and genres" NOT Entire music library" then check the "Automatically fill free space with songs" Nothing below the top box should be clicked! (No "Playlists, No Artists, No Genres, No Albums" nothing)

5. Then click "Sync". bottom right had corner.and try growing some hair back that you just pulled out!

This worked for me by just messing around for a little over 4 hours trying different setting.

GOOD LUCK!

JDP

Message was edited by: JulianDP

iOS 7.1 is now out! Going to completely wipe my iPhone 4 and start again. Fingers crossed the issue has been fixed...

Anyone has upgrade to 7.1? is there any major issue with that?

Yes - I did so last night as it did not help.

I did a hard reset of an iPhone5, installed 7.1 and installed the latest version of iTunes.

None of the tracks in my library will sync. After the upgrade, during the sync, iTunes said 'copying song x of x' etc and it took an hour or two. So I was positive. But after it completed, no music shows up on my iPhone.

If I look at the total usage on the phone, it implies that the music did sync, but there is no sign of it.

Re-started the phone, still no music.

If a hard reset and the latest software versions do not work, I am a bit stuck 😟