IOS 8 won't sync music with itunes

Hi! I got this answer from Maxmerz. Take me at my word: I am not bright about this stuff at all. I'm probably one of the slowest about my Mac on these boards. But I did exactly what Max did (and he got it from a tweet.) I connected my phone to my laptop, clicked the IPHONE icon that appears on iTunes, clicked on MUSIC (between TONES and MOVIES) in the top row. Then, I unchecked Sync music. I hit apply. I rechecked Sync Music. I hit apply. Everything is on my phone properly now. Maxmerz did a bunch of other stuff that I didn't seem to have to do at all (converting nitrates, etc. Again, I didn't have to do that). I thank him for passing along this solution that worked for me. I hope it works for you!

iPhone 4S (32gb) with iOS8.0 (haven't updated to 8.0.2, yet)

Have three playlists and some artists checked to be synced to my iPhone. Prior to iOS8, this worked very well, but I didn't have the space to install the update, so I removed all of the music from the iPhone (using the option during the upgrade to do so - clear all music).

The upgrade seemed to go off without a hitch. Afterwards, I went to listen to some music, and noticed that it was skipping quite a few songs. It took me awhile, but I realised that even though the Music app showed a lot of music (currently 140 tracks), the only ones which would play were the ones I'd purchased from iTunes. I tried many of the methods in this thread to resolve the issue, removing music, adding music, I've synced & restarted my iPhone about a dozen times, and nothing seems to work. I thought I'd figured it out by unchecking Music, syncing, deleting everything, syncing again, restarting my iPhone, and then syncing again, then checking Music and syncing. After all that, it copied a bunch of music to the device, and for a day (maybe), I could listen to my music.

However, as of this morning, of the 140 tracks I have selected to sync, less than 30 are actually available, and as far as I can tell, they are all tracks I purchased from iTunes.

So, now I'm at a loss. Is there some setting that's invisibly enabled to only allow purchased music on the iPhone? I've left feedback at the URL provided.

Your advice worked really well; actually, I only did the first two steps: I unsynced my iPhone, and then manually removed all my music that was left. After doing so, I saw that all my iTunes music was listed in my phone, but with no album artwork. I realized that my phone was syncing to my computer so I also turned off Blutooth, just to be sure it wasn't a problem there, and then I simply resynced. All my music files were successfully added.

I'm still not sure what the exact problem is, but it seems to be related to your phone's music library and your iTunes folder trying to communicate to each other, since my phone was giving me the option to listen to the songs I selected even though they weren't in my phone at the time (trying this did not work).

I have ios 8.02 on ipad air and iphone 6 plus. Similar problem with music, musci vids, and videos.

Seem to have solved by going to the musci and video app and going to the shared menu and checking that the main library (on the iMac) is ticked. My devices just had the iPad menu checked. Everything now seems accessible

I believe that's just accessing which available library you want to play from...but once you leave the house, there will be no shared devices available - you need to make sure they are downloaded and play properly from the iPad or iPhone, not streaming from a shared library (well, unless thats all you do, but its not relevant to the actual download issue for untethered playback

Just to drop my experience here, too, I have had an iPhone 6 128 gb for almost a week. Using iOS 8.0.2 currently. iOS 8.0 worked fine with my iPhone 5, but the iPhone 6 has had this same issue described in this thread over and over again: trying to sync with my iTunes library usually leads to the system hanging at the "waiting to sync" period. The only one of the solutions mentioned in the thread above that has had any effect is to restore the phone completely, then add music playlist by playlist. Once the phone hits a certain threshold (seems to be around 70gb, but it's hard to tell), it will hang at the "waiting to sync" period. The new twist is that it deletes all of the music I've already added at this point. I think this started with the 8.0.2 release. This also happens if I try to remove music from the phone, which leads to a phone that appears to be full of music when connected to iTunes, but which appears to have empty playlists when I call up the music app on the phone. Then I have to restore again to put music back onto the phone. That's at least once per day since I got the **** thing, which has been uniquely frustrating in all of my Apple experiences.

well.... I'm on iPhone 5 and upgraded to ios8 and I've tried everything to get my playlists to load. Had a gig yesterday and needed music playing on our break so as I stated in an earlier post, I frantically downloaded EZMP3 app and loaded my playlists in there because iTunes only showed about 3 songs out of 25 in that playlist. Looks like to me that iTunes Match obviously has taken over iTunes ability for me to load my downloads. I restored my phone again this morning with the tweaks that many of you have mentioned but the songs still won't load from my computer to the phone. zip! nada! I've heard that iTunes is struggling with sales and so I think they want us all to pay $28 bucks a year or whatever the cost is for IMatch to be able to load our songs into our devices. I'm boycotting that! I'm a big apple fan but this blew my mind. I'm going to continue using EZmp3 APP until apple let's me download songs that I didn't buy from them. ...I'm really bummed.😟

I tried everything, nothing works.....also because when I try to clean the memory storage under settings, to clean all music, the setting app crashes!!!

i have no words: and not even a word from Apple on this topic: probably they are spending their time in organising tomorrow event in a fancy boutique in Paris on Iwatch or looking at when Chinese will give them green light to sell iPhone 6 there..... BACK TO BASICS APPLE!!!! Customers first and not Wall Street. As I already said, apple's biggest asset has always been clients' loyalty which was primarily based on Apple's reliability.... Once there's no reliability left why should I pay as much as twice a Samsung device???? After 3 iPads, 3 iPhone, 5 iPods and 2 iMacs I regret to say that I'll probably go for a Galaxy..... Such a shame, Apple!

Stop trolling.

If you are real user, try what I said earlier - after several syncs, everything is working and all my music (mostly ripped CD's) are playing fine.

...by the way, don't throw your money in f**** iTunes match: I've got it but still.....

AAs I wrote, I can't do the way you did it, simply because if I try to clean my iPhone music library going under settings/usage, as I touch on Music it crashes, so no way to do it....

I Don't even know why I should spend other nights to solve what is clearly a huge bug in os8..... what are we paying a phone 1000€ for????

Greg you must be special because everyone else is having issues.

I have (see my previous comment). It doesn't work for me. The only songs on my iPhone right now are the ones I purchased (plus that free album we all got recently). I don't subscribe to iTunes Match (have never done so), either.

Right! But from what I've read they want us to buy into this feature or else we can't load songs that we DIDN'T buy from iTunes. When you buy into iMatch we can see our music from any device blah blah blah any where.. The songs I have in iTunes now that I DID NOT buy from iTunes will not load into my iPhone any more. My powermac is too old and can't use iCloud so they're just screwing up everything here for us to use their products... I'd have to buy a newer computer that handles iCloud and buy a subscription to iMatch in order to load music I bought elsewhere and not from iTunes. As of now it only shows the songs I bought from iTunes.

Am I wrong? From what I've read... I think I'm on the right track.....?

Apple? Are you reading this? Do you give a rip? Are you going to leave us hanging here?

A match made in iCloud.

With iCloud, the music you buy from the iTunes Store automatically appears on all your devices.¹ And for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution, letting you store your entire collection in iCloud — even music you’ve imported from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. iTunes Match also lets you listen to music ad-free on iTunes Radio. And it’s built right into iTunes on your computer and the Music app on your iOS devices.² All you have to do is subscribe. It’s the best way to enjoy all your music anywhere, anytime — on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV.

How iTunes Match works.

iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 43 million songs in the iTunes Store, chances are your music is already in iCloud.³ And for the few songs that aren’t, iTunes uploads what it can’t match (which is much faster than uploading your entire music library). Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.

Once your music is in iCloud, you can play it from any of your devices. Just browse the complete list of all your music stored in the cloud and tap to play to it. You can store up to 25,000 songs in iCloud (more if songs are purchased from the iTunes Store), but only what you play or download is stored on your device. Tap the iCloud download button to download music from an artist, album, or playlist. So you have immediate access to a huge music library without having to worry about the storage space on your device.

iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match

Not only that, but just about every single fix posted has had the poster coming back and saying never mind, it didn't work.

I really believe there is no fix until Apple fixes iTunes.

Assuming this is the best place to do it, EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO HERE: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

...and TELL Apple about this problem. They aren't going to read the forums; these are for users. If they don't know about it, they can't fix it.

Complete the form and tell them exactly what you are telling us here. Just copy and paste it - it will only take a minute and will be the only thing you can do that will actually contribute toward a real fix.