Greyed out songs

Suddenly, songs on iTunes are greyed out and not playable on my iPhone. All updates are current. Any advice would be appreciated.

Posted on May 2, 2017 1:40 PM

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Aug 30, 2017 7:17 AM in response to chuck_3rd

I have set my ipod to be manually synced yet I discovered that many songs have been suddenly greyed out since I last connected my ipod to my iTunes library on my PC via a cable. I also see that in iTunes a large number of albums have the cloud symbol and I now have to download them into iTunes. This option to directly download to my iPod will not work. I am not sure how this could have happened accidentally.


I am now faced with having to download my library and and am unable to delete the unplayable items directly from my iPod or from within iTunes. I have over 4,688 songs on my iPod so you can see how this is extremely annoying!


I would like to understand how this could have happened and how to fix these errors. My iPod is now cluttered with blank album covers and titles. It's very frustrating.

Aug 30, 2017 7:36 AM in response to AAlvarado3

AAlvarado3 wrote:


This was not helpful at all. For the past week almost half of my Library has been greyed out and conveniently most of the songs I listen to the most. I'm ready to stop paying for my family plan at this point


Please post a screenshot of how the tracks are shown to you so that we might be able to tell the reason. Unchecked tracks may be displayed as greyed out in certain views. They will be skipped during normal track to track playback and are typically excluded from syncing. It is possible to accidentally check or uncheck a large number of songs while attempting to use Ctrl+Click to pick out individual tracks for some other purpose as Ctrl+Clicking on a check box sets or clears all check boxes in the current view.


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