Songs aren't exporting onto iPhone

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Songs aren't exporting onto iPhone

I import music onto iTunes through physical albums, and they sync fairly well, and I put those songs onto my iPhone the same way. Some songs however just don't export onto my phone, even though there is space. Other songs on the same album are syncing fine, but it's just those particular, and I have no idea why.

It can't be a problem with the albums themselves, as all the other songs are syncing perfectly fine.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, but that hasn't worked.

Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

iPhone 5c, Windows 8

Posted on Feb 5, 2016 9:19 PM

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turingtest2

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Feb 6, 2016 5:15 PM in response to thisemotrash

The following steps should resolve issues around syncing, assuming all of the content you want is in your library.

(If it isn't see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device)

Backup device.
Restore as a new device.
Restore the backup you made earlier.

N.B. A feature introduced with iOS 9 referred to as app thinning or app slicing allows each device to download only the code and resources needed by that device, resulting in smaller downloads and better use of storage on the device. As a consequence the device no longer holds the universal version of the app that could be installed on any device so transferring apps is no longer supported. Hopefully Apple will make some changes to the way this works, but in the meantime you can download past purchases from iTunes and/or enable automatic downloads of app purchases to make sure that iTunes always has the apps that you want on your device. As long as you make sure all apps are present and updated in iTunes before attempting a restore there should be no loss of data. I can't confirm, but it seems a recent update means that all data is restored and apps that are not in the library are queued for download from the iTunes Store over Wi-Fi, in a similar fashion to the way restore from iCloud works.

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