iTunes tracks: Grayed out w/ dashed circle

Shared to another computer or something? These were purchased with my master account.

They may have been pulled to the iPod first, is all I can surmise - but is not even every tune from the album is thus affected.

Half an album seems to be confused. Too many new music storefronts?

The issue is they WERE local - at one time.

A couple were recent purchases, some not so recent.

If what you suggest is the case:
I had already tried downloading any undownloaded purchases before I posted.

Why tune files that were local have now gone undownloaded is the mystery, then. Possibly that all have not downloaded to all devices?

My remaining thought is that the indication may be that one of the devices has not received the full download. This doesn’t make sense, because the tunes were on the very device that balked.

I went looking for what this indicator means & know that I may have come across it in a post, or article, but I would have expected to find a key in the user manual. Have a lot of music - and so its hard to know what has gone missing, until it does & I stumble upon it.

I marked the topic as resolved, though it really wasn’t quite so.

The dashed circles are gone, but I haven’t verified that all is 100% as it should be.

Thanks.

I do have the “256 higher bit rate” turned on & maybe that’s a part of the problem.

Its just a dozen or two tunes of around 2000 that show this indicator.

It seems a little pointless to generate cryptic indicators in the application without a key toward understanding their purpose & meaning!

Also, fwiw, the idea that tunes may be going missing, whether its true or a misperception – is not a “warm & fuzzy” for the application. I sort of suspect it may fold into some consolidation of the other music services that have fallen under Apple umbrella, but I don’t have any of those loaded, so that’s wild speculation on my part.

An unfortunate turn of events, if its about the 256 bit versions checkbox.

Naturally, I want as good a sound as I can get while I my hearing is sharp & don’t buy good headphones, etc for diminished quality sound!

I do have a [slightly?] messed up folder structure for some items that has lingered:

As some music & old Photoshop podcast tutorial videos somehow found their way intermingled in nested folders.

However, again - several of the tunes gone missing were recent iTunes acquisitions & should not be anyplace new.

They were purchased as entire album downloads - and only some of the tunes show the indicator.

Thanks.

On a 64GB iPod Touch 5, 256 ought to be sufficient, [only on the iPod & iPad].
My hearing may not be as acute as I’d like to believe it was at 25.

I was reading the setting as though the default format requires ACC in iOS devices. But I see its a downsample.

I have a very lot of music, some 2000 tunes, some are occasionally in AIFF on desktop iTunes.

That can yield 20-40MB files vs 4-10MB per tune & my iPod space is at premium with about 25+GB of music & 18GB total free space.

I’m not happy with the downsample, but the iPod max size right now is limited to 64 GB. Were they available, I would have bought a 128GB device.

Thanks. (Sorry for the duplicate above - I thought that one died on the vine, as I could not see it posted).

On a 64GB iPod Touch 5, 256 ought to be sufficient, [only on the iPod & iPad].
My hearing may not be as acute as I’d like to believe it was at 25.

My iPod space is at premium with about 18GB total free space.

Unchecking the 256 downsample box reduced my free space from 18.2 GB to 12.

Were they available, I would have bought a 128GB device.