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

RockDrummer230, I did exactly what you suggested and it bricked my iPhone.

This isn't working for me. Whenever I close Settings the slider for music goes back over, so automatic downloads are on. Seems to be a problem with the 'Waiting for changes to be applied' part of the sync. This is really irritating me. But, yes, like DJpens said, it's only a probelm with CDs. I'm about to bash my head against my keyboard.

I think I have eventually found a solution to this problem. I hope you can understand my instructions. Connect iPhone to computer - iTunes to sync.

1. Before you sync, click onto iphone
2. Click onto the music tab
3. Deselct entire music library
4. Click onto selected playlists, artists, albums and genres
5. I used playlists so deselect all except for one playlist
6. Click apply (iPhone will now sync) - you will only have this playlist on your iPhone, all others will have been erased
7. Now select all playlists you want on your iPhone
8. Click apply (iPhone will sync again)
9. All red boxes in circles have disappeared and I can play all my music

*Please note I have NOT tried this with artists, albums and genres.

I have iTunes 11.1.3 on an iMac OSX 10.8.5

I will be interested to know if this works for others as well as myself, good luck 😕

I was not looking forward to the restore but had resigned myself to it - I first hit "Back up now" and that solved everything. Every track is playing that wasn't playing before and my iTunes account looks fully synced. I'm not sure it will work for everyone, but it solved my red square in a red circle problem.

I just tried wlm's solution, and where it would normally sync all of my music over to the iPod, it says "Preparing to sync [name of device], Step 3 of 5" it skips through that step without completing it. This also happens during the last step, where it should transfer changes over. However, I did try mls00's solution, and that seemed to fix all of the problems with the muic from CDs--including the red square in the circle problem--however, I put some new music in iTunes while this was acting up, and for some reason that won't copy over to my iPod. If anyone can think of anything that will fix that, that'd be great. -__-

EDIT: I just went through my songs, and for some reason a couple of songs on two separate albums aren't working. This is getting old.

DOUBLE EDIT: It broke again.

Just updated the firmware on my iPhone and I couldnt get any of my personal mixes and international music to play.

Here what worked for me:

On your iPhone, goto Settings> iTunes & App Store> turn off the SHOW ALL - "Music" option.

Then follow what Mitch_Rockerposted earlier in this thread. Thanks Mitch.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5397140?start=15&tstart=0

SOLUTION! you do not need to reset restore or backup your iphone at all!

NOTE: This will take some time depending on how many songs you have.....took me about an hour to do with 2400 songs.what you have to do is remove all the songs from your phone and then re-sync them back on. this worked 100% for me.

1-simply plug phone into itunes on your computer

2-click where your iphone shows up in itunes

3-click the music tab at the top

4-UNCHECK the box beside sync music and when the prompt asks click REMOVE

*this will remove all the music off of your phone so make sure all your music is in itunes on the computer!*

5-Sync your phone

6- after the sync is finished fallow steps 1-3 again and re-click the "Sync Music" box

7- now sync your iphone again and it should all be back to normal

!,,!(-_-)!,,! Rock On

This worked! Now do I go back to iTunes & App Store >turn ON the SHOW ALL - "Music" option or leave it off? Thanks!!!!!

I havent had any issues with leaving the SHOW ALL -Music off, so I have left it as is!

I don't really understand why because I am definitely not technology savvy but trying that method actually worked, so thankyou! much appreciated.

I did the same thing WLM did and it worked. I was going to post the solution but I see WLM already posted it. Good job WLM. It seems like there are many different solutions and different ones worked for different people. But this one worked for me.

Just to repeat, this is what I did,

1) go to iTunes

2) click on iPhone

3) click on Music

4) deselect Sync Music

5) on the bottom right, click apply or sync, this basically erases all music in your iPone, it ***** but it works and better than system restoration

6) once it's completed, reselect Sync Music and go to the bottom right and click apply or sync again. This transfers all the music again to the iPhone.

I now can listen to all my music again on my iPhone. But my confidence in Apple has further gone down. Since I installed the IOS 7, it's been problem after problem.

Are you saying that Apple essentially created this mess with the fix being you paying more money to subscribe to an additional product?? Well done Apple!

Here's how I am thinking we can solve this problem....

1. Open window

2. throw ipod out of window

3. no more issue!

Whats new??? Happens every time!

this didnt work as out of 1600 song i have 900 missing still

Hey guys. I've been messing around with this as well and I think I have a solution. Make sure that those files that have the red dot aren't AAC files. The Ipod can't read MP3 files, so that's one reason why those songs are like that. Convert those files before you sync them. Also, with those songs that have the red dot you should delete those songs from your Ipod using the Ipod's delete function. Then go into Itunes and sync the music that you want on there. You can do a factory reset, but I don't think it actually helps much at all. Try this and let me know what happens okay?