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

I have been reading and occasionally responding to this thread since it first began and none of the solutions has worked either at all or only partly. For me it is intermittent. Sometimes everything is normal and other times I get a few, or many of the dreaded red circle/square **** bombs. No discernible patterns. But one thing stands out: either Apple doesn't read this to see what problems exist, which is unforgiveable and hard to fathom, or they do read it and don't give a ****, which is equally hard to fathom. OK, maybe they do read it and are hard at work trying to find a fix? Even if I gave them that benefit of the doubt (and I don't), I have yet to hear from anyone form Apple that they are aware of this problem and are trying to address it. In fact, all I've ever seen is other people expressing the same frustration, anger, disbelief, disappointment with Apple. Users threatening to join the Android universe, etc. So after at least 2 months of this ongoing issue, still no Apple input. What is up with that Apple? Surely someone reading this works for them or knows someone who works for them who can pass this to someone who can at the VERY LEAST acknowledge the problem??!! Please

Totally agree Rattlehead, was fine before ios7. I'm at the point where I don't want to add any more music to my iPhone incase it removes the existing songs!

Really hoping someone will reply saying it's fixed in the 7.1 update. Anyone??

and another funny thing

Isn't it odd how many solutions have been offered and some seem to work perfectly for some folks and not at all for others? Also, I went back to read some of the early posts and see that I initially sent up a red flag (or should that be red circle?) way back on October 1st, 2013. Apple, we're waiting!!

BTW

I am still experiencing wierd problems like a CD that will download 2 of the 10 songs on it but for some reason the other 8 won't sync. From the same CD! that I bought last week from iTunes?! And when I try to sync with my laptop rather than my mac mini, it works or fails in yet other strange ways. And all this is different whether I use my iPhone or iPad. And no problems at all with my nano. I've gone beyond frustration into Zen resignation and am entering bemusement (that is when I'm not reverting back to anger and stupefaction)

I also will not add any new music to my Iphone until they fix this ridiculous problem.

hello,

afterweeks of trying to figure this out i have the same problem and this worked for me, just use mp3 convertion...see below

Saving a copy of a song in a new file format

To convert a song's file format

1. Open iTunes Preferences.
   Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
   Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.
2. Click the General button, then click the Importing Settings… button in the lower section of the window.
3. From the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format that you want to convert the song to, then click OK to save the settings.
4. Select one or more songs in your library, then from the File > Create New Version menu, choose one of the following (the menu item changes to show what's selected in your Importing preferences):
   • Create MP3 version
   • Create AAC version
   • Create AIFF version
   • Create WAV version
   • Create Apple Lossless version

If you haven't imported some songs into iTunes yet, you can import and convert them at the same time. This will create a converted copy of the file in your iTunes Library based on your iTunes preferences. To convert all the songs in a folder or on a disk, hold down the Option key (Mac) or Shift key (Windows) and choose File > Create New Version > Convert [import

preference setting].

Looks like iOS 7.1 is being released on the15th March, wonder if the issue has been fixed...

for the iPad

Step 3: Turn off Music where it says SHOW ALL

IOS 7.0.6 was released yesterday, anyone has updated? does it fix this and many other issues?

Hi Rattlehead, I have updated to iOS 7.0.6 but havn't tried anymore music syncing yet. Not holding up much hope since it looks like it only fixes a ssl bug. Hopefully 7.1 will resolve the issue and someone will reply saying so!...

from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iOS_7.x):

Bug fixes

Fix CVE-2014-1266, a bug in Secure Transport that can cause it to fail to verify the authenticity of a SSL/TLS connection.

It also updates safari on the iPad and puts your favourite under the search bar.

I think I'm skipping this one then.

My IPOD which still using IOS 5 never have problem with Itunes sync so the problem is clearly on IOS7 not the Itunes. I'm now using Itunes alternative to adding pictures and songs and I enjoy the app more than Itunes and the "never ending" sync system.

Good eFFing plan

Have done it; so far, so go! As far as I understand it, it just plugs a couple of holes to stop hackers from getting in and using email accounts to do what ever hackers do (cause troubles) does nothing to fix music issue.

This is so very frustrating.

I have tried all of the supposed solutions, but none of them work. In fact, my issue is even worse. While most of my songs played before, now anything that wasn't purchased very recently won't play. I tried removing everything from my iPhone, but they magically keep reappearing, even in their broken state.

Does a factory restore actually fix this problem? I don't want to go through the pain of a factory restore for nothing.

I think I got this all fixed now.

Since I've tried everything, no clue what actually contributed to the fix or was useless but --

1. Shuffle (by shaking phone) is turned off.

2. Deleted entire music library on the iPhone itself (under Usage in Settings).

3. Removed all "Manually added" songs. No clue how they were manually added since I've never done that and it was a random list of odd things. But anyway. Remove them.

4. In iTunes, Untick Sync Music. It won't work, so then go through and untick every single thing that's ticked - artists, albums, playlists, etc. Everything. untick it. Sync again. Sync some more. Untick the stuff that gets re-ticked. Sync again. At some point, stuff will remain unticked.

5. Untick Sync Music again. At some point, it will magically work even though you've done nothing different. Have a margarita cos you'll need it at this point. Your iPhone (iPod) will be blank except for all the music that you could download from the cloud.

6. Sync again just to be sure. Have another drink.

7. Add one artist that you KNEW FOR A FACT did not work before. Sync. Drink.

8. Is that artist fixed? Should be. If not, repeat all steps above.

9. Margarita time!

10. It will work eventually. I think it's a syncing issue as well as an iOS 7 issue.

Anyway, that worked for me... I think. We're still syncing the entire library at this point, but slowly all the circle-boxes are going away.

ETA: Yep, this worked. Everything is back!