I posted on another thread... I literally stayed up all night trying to sync my music from updated iTunes software to brand new iPod Touch with iOS 7.1
I absolutely could not get many of the songs to sync... had ripped from CD versions of double-disc sets and one of the discs would sync and the other would not (would be grayed out if I looked in "music" on my iPod.
Although I have iTunes Match, I (obviously) had not turned it on because I wanted to manually sync stuff that I had downloaded in my iTunes music library (i.e., music was there.... not just in the cloud)... because the whole purpose of my getting the iPod was because I was going to use it in an area where there was no WiFi (so iTunes Match was obviously not available)...
I had to go through my library and clean it up (it was a mess... it looks like every time I updated iTunes Match it would place duplicate and triplicate copies with that double cloud thing with the line through it... found techniques in these forums to make the deletions easier.
Reset the iPod, turned on iTunes Match, everything in the iTunes Match library (every song in my iTunes library) showed up (the "cloud" version) and I just went through and downloaded every album that I wanted on the iPod. I turned off the "Show all Music" feature so that when I am connected to WiFi I just see the stuff that I chose to download to the iPod.
IMO, all this stuff has become WAY too complicated... bugs in iTunes combined with bugs in iOS7.... too many places to set different preferences.... I have found the Apple Support articles to be generally unhelpful (although I did learn that the double clouds with a line through them meant that it was an exact duplicate song that hadn't uploaded to iCloud, and I did learn (from this forum, not from support) that the way to avoid the duplicates and triplicates was to go into the main iTunes Preferences, select the Advanced Tab and DE-select "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library).
I consider myself reasonably semi-intelligent, but things have become a mess. If you have iTunes Match, you might want to just download stuff from the cloud. No solution if you don't.
I long for the days (like a year or so ago!) when all you had to do was drag stuff from one device to another... or when manually syncing actually synced so I didn't have to spend time pushing the download cloud on umpteen albums....
And there are so many threads on this "grayed" out stuff... wish they would make it all easier.....
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