Can't sync music on iPhone 6 with iOS 8.1 and iTunes 12.0.1.26 on Windows 8.1

Hey man, I have been having this same issue for several days now. Been doing research to find out what the issue could be, so far I have come up short. Until tonight, I found your post; and then I found another website pertaining to this situation.

This seems like it could be useful, although I have not tried it yet (will here shortly)..

Apparently, from what this site says, is that iTunes has a bug with the new iOS update, and when it is syncing and runs into a duplicate song, it just stops syncing even though it tells you it is. Then it proceeds to finish, and "says" they're on the phone when in reality they are not. Like I said earlier, I am gonna look into it now. I know I have several duplicate songs, so... I hope this really does work. For now anyways.

Here is that link... I will try and make another post if this works.

http://robservatory.com/a-nasty-little-itunesios-bug-may-be-causing-media-sync-i ssues/

Good luck buddy!

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1 as well.

Here is my follow up....

I never found out if my previous post would be a solution or not, because... half way through deleting all my duplicates (got to the 'M' songs), I get a notification that a new iTunes download is available. Which, I of course downloaded right away lol. Anyways, the new download did the trick, my songs are currently syncing. THRILLED!

I finally got mine to work. I took a bit from several other posts. For starters I turned off Match. Wish the update didn't mess with my settings. Make sure you kill the Music app before turning off Match or the change may not take effect. Next, I deleted all of my music by going into Usage and cleaning it out from there. Next, I connected my iPhone 6 to iTunes 12. I stopped the sync that was occurring. I then browsed onto the device. Lo and behold, I found all the music playlists that were "supposed" to be on my phone, but weren't. So, I unchecked sync music, sync videos, etc. I then ran a sync. Once complete, I went back in there and selected sync music. At least iTunes remembered what playlists I had before. As soon as I enabled sync and ran sync again, it started coming down. I think it comes down to code in the update that doesn't clean the library file even when it enabled Match. Anyway, hope you get yours working...

I am having a similar problem. My phone hangs on the last stage of the sync and never stops, thought on my phone it appears as if the sync is over. I have tried deleting my music and reloading them but I can never get all to music off the phone. Nothing seems to help. I am using an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1 using iTunes 12.01.06 on a system running OS 10.7.5.

Apple is taking too long to fix this! 😟

Thanks man.. I called Apple about 5 or 6 times to no avail.. I did exactly what you did and it worked out perfectly..

Not sure if this helps anyone, but I just got word that Apple is actually now blocking any previously downloaded music that did not come from the Apple Store as an attempt to stop piracy on their devices. I've been trying to get my iPhone to sync my library (around 40 some odd gigabytes of music) and iTunes will not sync anything that isn't already in my cloud. I've tried manually updating and automatic and no avail.

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Found a fix guys - hope this helps.

http://www.imore.com/cant-sync-music-itunes-ios-8-try-fix

Not sure where that word came from, but it isn't so. Most of the music in my iTunes library is from CDs that I ripped to the computer and put into iTunes. All of that syncs and plays just find on my 5s, running iOS 8.1. I've never experienced an issue with syncing my music, and every time I update iOS, I set the phone up as new and sync everything back manually. I have almost 1800 songs, totaling 8GB. I don't use Match, never have.

Im having the problem, but what you heard is not true. There is no way that Apple could or would block music burned from a cd, they still sell cd's in stores for crying out loud. You heard a rumor, that's all, so don't get upset over that. Just be upset that they haven't fixed the problem.

Hi, I had all the symptoms you have gone through to the point of frustration, even resurrected the old iPod classic. I am Using iMac With Yosemite and IOS 8.13 on an iPhone 6 128gb. I stumbled across this page OS X: Resetting Sync Services - Apple Support and it sat a while on determining tracks, probably because i synced the entire 11k of songs, but it worked and is now working for me.

I thought I'd add to this discussion because I ran into the same issue after I bought the iPhone 6 Plus. While I realize there are many variables to this, I managed to solve my iTunes sync problems. Here is what I did:

I figured Apple would have at least tested iTunes sync with the latest OS releases, so I created a Mac OS Yosemite external drive and copied my iTunes & iPhoto libraries to it. Also rebuilt/repaired both libraries. I did resets of the iPhone 6 Plus, including resetting everything to factory default. I trolled the Apple Forums and reviewed every 'solution', many of them esoteric.

I finally managed to get some items syncing, and some not. Some iPhoto albums would simply not sync. Some iTunes music would sync but would be without the artwork. Other random errors. Also got the dreaded 'waiting for items to copy' message.

After much playing around with this issue, and I don't remember what search term I used to go online, I came across a generic iTunes sync troubleshooting list, which suggested to replace the USB cable as one of the list points.

Then I had a 'D'Oh!' moment. I suddenly remembered that when the iPhone 5S came out, people were reporting the exact same problems. It was because Apple made a slight change to the iPhone hardware that did a check to see whether the sync cable was a genuine Apple product.

As a previous IPhone owner, I simply kept using the after-market cable that I had been using to do my iTunes sync, which worked fine with the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5S. It never occurred to me to take the sync cable out of the box that came with the iPhone 6 Plus.

Bingo. Everything synced perfectly. This was using Mac OS 8 (Mountain Lion).

All,

I had this same issue and called Apple Support. You have to now use the Sync function, as if you are allowing the phone to automatically sync with iTunes. You then have the option to select what specifically you want synced and then click "Apply". This should work if the drag and drop method isn't working.

Thank you so much for the fix!! I didn't do it quite your way, as I didn't see a way to clean out "usage," as you indicated. I did go there, but couldn't see where to clean out the music. I didn't have to kill the music app either. For the most part, all the music that was stuck, did download when I went to "Store" and turned off the iTunes Match. That seem to do the trick. Now all I have to compare the music list on my iPhone 6 with older phone to see if all the music downloaded. Hey, thanx again! Couldn't have done it w/o your suggestion!

P.S. Isn't it a shame all the work arounds you have to go through to get music to sync? When Jobs died, quality assurance started to wither.