rdkendrick7734
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Q: why does my music have a red circle with a square dot beside it?

On my iPad 3, in music, some of my songs have a red circle with a square dot, the songs are grayed out and I am unable to play them. Is there a new setting with ios 7? Does it no longer play mp3's?

iPad 2, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 6:22 PM

by rdkendrick7734,Solvedanswer
rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734
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A:

Here's what I had to do, no thanks to the others on here who go at it like Apple, delete and restore.

No, you don't have to delete and restore. Just open a folder on  your computer, call it something like iPad music, keep it open, open iTunes, select all your music, copy and paste it in the folder you just created, delete all your music from iTunes (relax, you just copied it into that folder). Select all the music in that folder, drop it back onto your playlist. Now, I renamed my playlist, because it was called untitled, originally, so if that doesn't work, rename, or delete and recreate your playlist, copy the music back over, sync, and they will play.

Worked for me, anyhow. Good luck!

 

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Posted on Dec 14, 2013 3:33 PM

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  • by Diavonex,

    Diavonex Diavonex Oct 24, 2013 6:25 PM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Oct 24, 2013 6:25 PM in response to rdkendrick7734

    Read this:

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5397140

  • by Robertzamora19,

    Robertzamora19 Robertzamora19 Oct 24, 2013 6:28 PM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Oct 24, 2013 6:28 PM in response to rdkendrick7734

    connect to itunes and let the songs sync to itunes and try listenting to the song on your device

  • by rdkendrick7734,Solvedanswer

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Dec 14, 2013 3:33 PM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Dec 14, 2013 3:33 PM in response to rdkendrick7734

    Here's what I had to do, no thanks to the others on here who go at it like Apple, delete and restore.

    No, you don't have to delete and restore. Just open a folder on  your computer, call it something like iPad music, keep it open, open iTunes, select all your music, copy and paste it in the folder you just created, delete all your music from iTunes (relax, you just copied it into that folder). Select all the music in that folder, drop it back onto your playlist. Now, I renamed my playlist, because it was called untitled, originally, so if that doesn't work, rename, or delete and recreate your playlist, copy the music back over, sync, and they will play.

    Worked for me, anyhow. Good luck!

     

    <Edited by Host>

  • by rdkendrick7734,

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Oct 24, 2013 7:11 PM in response to Robertzamora19
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    Oct 24, 2013 7:11 PM in response to Robertzamora19

    You think I didn't try that, like 15 times?

  • by Robertzamora19,

    Robertzamora19 Robertzamora19 Oct 24, 2013 7:12 PM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Oct 24, 2013 7:12 PM in response to rdkendrick7734

    Go to settings>icloud>storage and back up>back up

     

    after that preform a restore by going to

     

    general>reset>erase all content and settings

     

    this will delete everything except the enabled stuff on icloud.

     

    You can view whats enabled by going to icloud in settings.

  • by rdkendrick7734,

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Oct 24, 2013 7:15 PM in response to Diavonex
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    Oct 24, 2013 7:15 PM in response to Diavonex

    This only causes my RIPPED music not to show and my purchased music to show. This guy's solution is not a solution, but just causing purchased and ripped music to show or not show.

    See my solution up above.

  • by rdkendrick7734,Helpful

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Oct 24, 2013 7:16 PM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Oct 24, 2013 7:16 PM in response to rdkendrick7734

    Of course, I have to re-tag all my ripped music and get them to show album artwork again, but that's no biggie.

  • by rdkendrick7734,

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Oct 24, 2013 7:20 PM in response to Robertzamora19
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    Oct 24, 2013 7:20 PM in response to Robertzamora19

    I am not subscribed to anything over 5 GB in the iCloud backup.Why should I? I have 2 Terabytes of space I can back it up onto and not wait for it to download. I never count on the cloud (which is just an off-site server) to store my data. They go down all the time, plus, I have no control over them.

  • by rdkendrick7734,

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Oct 24, 2013 7:40 PM in response to Robertzamora19
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    Oct 24, 2013 7:40 PM in response to Robertzamora19

    You don't have to restore your whole iPad. Just select all your music and copy it to a folder. Then, delete all your music from your playlist.

    Select all your music from the folder, drop it back onto your playlist and let it copy back, then re-sync. Your music is now un-grayed and no GD red circles with square fuc*ing dots.

    Select all your music, right-click, get album artwork. Sync. Fixed.

    No erase your whole iPad and restore it all. That's like scraping all the paint off your car to fix one spot, then repainting the car.

  • by toadhall4,

    toadhall4 toadhall4 Oct 25, 2013 6:16 AM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Oct 25, 2013 6:16 AM in response to rdkendrick7734

    Have 4S, and after upgrading software to ios7, 90% of my music had the red circle with square.  No re-sync attempts, including full restore of phone succeeded in getting music to play on my phone.  Found a solution, while not perfect, got all my music onto the phone and playable.  Go to music at bottom of phone display screen.  Then select "More".  At bottom of this list is an option "Shared".  Select that, and you will see two new options, iPhone and Library.  Check on the second one, "Library".  When I checked Library, magically my music library poured into my phone, and everything is now playable.  Have no clue how this worked, but the music is now there.  You will have to rebuild your playlists on the phone, which is a hassle, but at least you have your music..

  • by rdkendrick7734,

    rdkendrick7734 rdkendrick7734 Oct 25, 2013 7:14 AM in response to toadhall4
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    Oct 25, 2013 7:14 AM in response to toadhall4

    I appreciate the help. I am using an iPad, and I don't see the same options. I already took care of my problem by copying all my music to a folder, deleting all my music from the playlist, re-adding all my music back into my playlist, then syncing. This worked, but I seemed to have lost some music somewhere. Darn Apple and their updates. They were no help at all. I even restored my PC and lost some files, that, with some searching, I could probably get back, but it was work that didn't need to be done, and I will never get that wasted time back. Frustration, too.

    I'm glad you got your music fixed, and thanks, again.

    Rdkendrick7734

  • by Mesinclair,

    Mesinclair Mesinclair Nov 5, 2013 10:52 AM in response to rdkendrick7734
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    Nov 5, 2013 10:52 AM in response to rdkendrick7734

    In iTunes. go to "File--Devices--Transfer purchases". Then connect your device and let it sync. Mine reloaded all of the "red" songs in about an hour. But, a lot faster than having to reload 4200 songs after a total restore

  • by jabbawockey,

    jabbawockey jabbawockey Nov 24, 2013 12:58 AM in response to Mesinclair
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    Nov 24, 2013 12:58 AM in response to Mesinclair

    Thanks Mesinclair -this worked!!! 

  • by gretchenrufus,

    gretchenrufus gretchenrufus Dec 5, 2013 12:59 PM in response to Mesinclair
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    Dec 5, 2013 12:59 PM in response to Mesinclair

    Thank you Mesinclair.  This worked for me too!!

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