Glad some have found some workarounds. However, I'm still stuck. I can do the initial sync fine with any number of these workarounds. Then upon subsequent syncing, I get the "Syncing Album Artwork" status during the sync, for roughly 1/3 of the songs on the iPhone. Each song that gets its "album artwork" synced becomes unplayable. After this sync, my free space strangely increases by about 1gb on iTunes, but if I look at the phone with iTools, the usage is what I expect. After the second sync, I am unable to sync a third time, getting stuck on "Waiting for changes to be applied". My only recourse is to wipe the phone.
Completely frustrated, I signed up for iTunes match today. After spending $400 on a phone that is basically as useful as a brick, what's another $25? First, this service is complete trash, for those of you using it. The streaming services I get from Spotify are far superior in terms of sound quality. Why should I pay to upload my songs, only for Apple to stream them back to me at a lower quality? Second, I had to create a completely new library within iTunes to get under 25,000 songs (why they can't let me pick and choose which playlists can go to match is beyond me, it would take minimal development effort, but I digress because this isn't the forum and we all know at this point that Apple is lazy and uninspired when QA'ing their "features"). But at any rate, I was hoping just having match turned on within iTunes, but turned off at the phone would take care of the problem. I was wrong.
I have given up. Loyal Apple customer for 25 years, and I am done. When my husband's contract expires in the spring, we'll be switching to Android.
Congrats, Apple. It takes a special breed of incompetence to **** off your customers like this.