IOS 8 won't sync music with itunes

You might be right about the introduction of new bugs. But the old bugs are all still there too.

In my case songs only sync if I disable AAC conversion. The exact same playlists sync perfectly, no errors at all, when this option is disabled. One would think if the files had problems they would not sync at all, but this is not true.

For me the experience boils down to dreadful quality control and customer care. It's trivial to reproduce most of these bugs and I have personally submitted feedback to apple.com/feedback, but nobody in the iTunes or iOS development team seems to care. There's no acknowledgment, no troubleshooting options, we stricken customers are being ignored.

My requests for the development team are:

• fix iTunes AAC transcoding

• fix syncing so it either completes, or specifies the exact problem without hanging indefinitely

• make errors easier to fix. Give me a simple way to remove the source of problems. The current method of vaguely suggesting some kind of problem exists, often hours into a sync, is poor.

Up your game Apple. This just isn't good enough.

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Like ios 8.2 will finally address our issues.

Copy and pasted from the changelog.

• Fixes an issue where duplicate iTunes purchased content could prevent iCloud restore from completing
• Resolves an issue where some music or playlists didn’t sync from iTunes to the Music app

Coming next week.

I have the same problem for few months, I finally find a simple way to solve this problem.

1. pls just uncheck the sync photo option in iTune, then you will get all songs sync back to your iPhone

2. however, if you wish to sync photo again, this problem will be happened again

3. so every time after you sync photo, you must uncheck this function in order for iTune to sync songs

Hope Apple will fix this bug in the next release of iTune asap and everyone could solve this problem too..

Well,

iOS 8.2 is out and I'm hearing success stories. It appears that 8.2 has fixed the issues covered in this thread.

Right now, the music on my phone is perfect, after many hours trying to get it to that point. I don't want to risk adding anything new until I'm sure this is true.

Can anyone else confirm that 8.2 has remedied these issues?

Thanks!!!

The good news? It didn't delete any music off of my 128gb iPhone 6.

The bad news? The only thing it DID do was delete a lot of my artwork.

None of my new playlists synced (including a test playlist I set up just prior to sync). None of my changes to music synced. Literally nothing happened (other than my artwork that mysteriously disappeared)

I would stay pat if you are currently satisfied with your library. Maybe 8.3 will be our savior. (Ha!)

LOL, well, against my better judgement after reading your response, I tried anyway.

Absolutely nothing happens. ...and when I say nothing, I mean that iTunes no longer even recognizes that my phone is plugged in.

I tried everything.

(I do have the latest version of everything)

This whole thin is a mess. At least my phone is still as I like it.

But I just give up. Totally.

I thought I had resolved this problem by deleting the suspect tracks that iTunes listed during sync, but my issues returned.

However, I went from not syncing, to working perfectly -- SO FAR -- when I upgraded to IOS 8.2.

8.1.1 just did the sit and spin routine for at least an hour. 8.2 still took a long time, at least for the initial sync, but ultimately transferred music.

The most important detail is that iTunes and my iPhone 6 now agree on how much space is used by music, and how much is available. Previously, iTunes thought I had about 6 GB more than my iPhone did.

I've had successes in the past, only to ultimately revert to constant failures over time, so I'm not declaring the war over, but at least for now, it's working after upgrading to 8.2.

Adding my own experience, hoping that Apple is reading this:

since updating my iPad to iOS8, music sync has been broken. I am a DJ so syncing a large music collection to the device is vital to me.

Now my old iPhone 5 is showing signs of decay, and I am considering NOT to buy an iPhone 6 as a replacement: I used to be an Apple fan, but the loss of such a basic and essential function as music sync makes me seriously think about switching to another OS.

The time it takes Apple to solve this problem is unacceptable.

-SK

Well, the only thing that definitively worked was turning off iTunes Match and reverting everything back to "manually" managing my music.

That's it.

As soon as I went through these instructions from this thread (Turn off iTunes Match Permanently, and....) it *immediately* started syncing as soon as I plugged it into my Mac and before I logged back into iTunes.

Step 1: Turn off iTunes Match on your computer
(iTunes: store > Turn off iTunes Match).

Step 2: Turn off iTunes Match on all your devices
(iPad: settings > music > iTunes Match [off]).

(iPhone: settings > music > iTunes Match [off])

Step 3: Sign off of your iTunes account (And shut it down, then restart)
(iTunes: store > sign out)

Step 4: Disconnect your iPhone and/or iPad if they are connected to your computer. Then reconnect.

(Now you see the Sync Music dialog back and you should no longer see the iCloud message).

I would honestly say that this is a bug in the iTunes Match feature where iCloud syncing takes over from local iTunes sync with no apparent option to turn it off again. Apple should add an option to allow local sync to take priority over iCloud to prevent this.

> Go to your iTunes Music folder and get rid of all the files and folders that don't belong there

Uh, and what the eff would those be? I'm not using Itunes Music to store my Word documents.

thanks man!!!!

This worked for me. music on Windows was found at Libraries/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music. When iTunes was told where to find the music all worked.

Thank you! I cant believe it was that east to fix -_-

Go to setting>>Music>>Turn off icloud music library. This helped me sync music from itunes to the iphone.

A way I fixed it is by turning off iCloud Music Library In my phone music settings. After that I could Download all of my music, by doing this you save a lot of data in your cellular service