Why are songs greyed out in my itunes

Why are songs greyed out on iTunes? The songs will play within iTunes, but will not sync with my iPod Classic 160G. How do I correct this situation?

Try posting in the iTunes Match forum, you'll probably find more knowledgeable folks there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match

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Why are songs greyed-out in my iPhone's sync queue?

I fired up iTunes for the first time on a new computer and plugged-in a 2 week-old iPhone 4s to sync about 250 or so songs that were pre-existing on the computer.
The music is not purchased through iTunes; merely ripped from CDs ages ago. It's music that existed on my prior iPhone (4) with no problems.
Now, the music won't sync to my new iPhone. It shows up in iTunes, on the device's song list - but greyed-out. It appears to be in queue to transfer, but it won't sync. I have purchased music on my phone that I downloaded via wifi that works fine...
Any ideas? This is intensely frustrating.

I forgot to mention that when I look at the playlist that has been tranferred to the iPhone all the ones that won't play and are greyed out have a sync symbol next to the check mark.

After syncing my music onto my iphone5, why are songs grayed out and not playable

after syncing my music onto my iphone5, why are songs grayed out and not playable?

If you are syncing music to the iPhone automatically, you won't be able to drag and drop tracks on to the iPhone and the music will be grayed out.
You'll have to Manually Manage the music.
Configure iPhone, iPad, or iPod for manual management
If you have iTunes 7 or later*, follow these instructions:
Connect the device to your computer.
Open iTunes.
Select iPhone, iPad, or iPod in the Devices list.
Click the Summary tab and select "Manually manage music and videos".
Click Apply.
Even when you have enabled manual management, you can still sync some content automatically. Select any content tab, such as Video, to enable automatic syncing for that type of content.

Why are songs that I purchased through itunes not able to be loaded to icloud?

I am having a ton of issues getting my library on both my home comuter and my laptop. I deleted my Icloud and then reloaded it with all the music from my home computer. My plan is to turn on Itunes match on my laptop and download all my songs. The problem I am having is that some of my songs are not eligable to upload to icloud??? I am not sure what that even means. Some of these song are some that i have purchased in just the last few months from itunes and now they are not eligable to upload to icloud. What am I supposed to do to get my music on both computers???

id4craig wrote:
I deleted my Icloud and then reloaded it with all the music from my home computer.
I do not undestand what you mean. iCloud is not the same as iTunes Match. The two services are separate and distinct and one does not require the other.
If you are trying to copy music files from one computer to another using iTunes Match is not the most effective way to do that. See this Apple KB article for more information: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527.
Once you get the music copied over you can enable iTunes Match. It will scan the library and mirror it with what is in the cloud. As to the songs that are "ineligable" tell us what the exact status is for the tracks. Switch to Song view and pull down View > View Options and select iCloud Status, then close the small window. Post the status for the songs back here.

Why are my matched songs greyed out and unavailable on my Mac?

OK, I've spent weeks matching and uploading songs to iTunes Match. All is now sorted, and the message in the Match window in iTunes says that all my songs are ready. Yet nearly every time I open iTunes all the Matched and Purchased songs that exist only in the cloud, and that I have not downloaded, are greyed out and I cannot play them.
Yet —
1. I can stream/download them them without a problem on my iPad and my iPhone, over the same internet connection and the same Wi-Fi network.
2. When I right-click on any of the greyed out songs in iTunes and select 'Show In iTunes Store' I'm taken to the song in the store, from where it plays fine.
So what is going on? Neither of the two above actions would work if I did not have an internet connection to iTunes in the cloud, so why won't the songs play in iTunes?

can somebody find an answer i deleted my songs from my ipod and they are all greyed out and i cant do anything.

Why are some of the songs greyed out and i am no longer able to listen to them?

why are some of the songs greyed out and i am no longer able to listen to them?

why are some of the songs greyed out and i am no longer able to listen to them?

Songs I recently downloaded are all Greyed out with a grey cloud next to them?

Recently got an iTunes gift card for Christmas and was at my family's house. I went on their iTunes and signed into my Apple ID Account to use my new gift card under my Account. Everything went fine until I went home and opened my iTunes account on my PC Windows Computer. The recently Downloaded songs are ALL Greyed Out with a Cloud next to them? Now I can't play any of these NEW SONGS I just purchased?!?! PLEASE HELP ME!!

I downloaded one of the file explorer programs (iFunbox in my case) for my PC and deleted everything out of the "Purchases" folder on the phone's "Raw File System". After a couple of syncs with iTunes everything was back to normal. It appears that something was screwed up on the iPhone side that iTunes couldn't sort out. I don't think anything could sync from iTunes to the phone, not just the greyed out items.
This is why resetting and restoring the iPhone also works for a lot of people. It's overkill though, deletes your app data, and just wastes your time setting everything back up after the restore. Better to use the surgical approach of a file system explorer program on your PC to fix what appears to be a mundane data corruption issue.

Songs greyed out in iTunes on iMac

I have an album that I have played previously with no problem. Now, all the songs appear greyed out on my iMac and the album will not play. I can double-click on individual songs to play them but I can't play the album, nor will iTunes play the following song in the album after a song has finished playing--it jumps to the next album, which appears normally. I thought this was an iTunes Match issue so downloaded the songs, signed out of the iTunes store (and Match) and the album still appears the same way in iTunes (minus the cloud icon, of course). The songs are still greyed out and acting the same. Why would this be?
I'm running OS X 10.10.1 and iTunes 12.0.1.26 on a 3.2 gHz i3 Intel iMac with 4 GB ram and 1T hard drive.

MOve the songs to a playlist then play the entire playlist

My songs are all greyed out

my songs are all greyed out on my laptop and I cannot get them to play

Will they play one track at a time and then stop, or not at all?
Assuming the former then it is likely that the tracks are unchecked. Go to the Songs view and Ctrl+Click on any empty checkbox to check all tracks.
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Why are songs/albums deleted off of the iTunes store? How can I get them back on the iTunes store? PLEASE help. Thank you.

Why are songs/albums deleted off of the iTunes store? How can I get them back on the iTunes store? PLEASE help. Thank you.

Perhaps the copyright holders chose to remove them. What album were you after?
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IPhone Songs Greyed Out - Won't Delete

Hey,
For some reason my iPhone has synced music that will not be removed from my iPhone. These items appear greyed out on my iPhone, but do not show up in iTunes when I plug my iPhone in (For instance, Coldplay's album "Viva La Vida," appears on my iPhone greyed out, but iTunes shows that no such songs exist on my device). Similarly, some items are also greyed out in iTunes when I connect the iPhone (coincidentally, all items I bought from my account on my iPhone). If I try to delete the greyed items from my phone in iTunes, they appear to delete, but later reappear - and never leave my phone.
Image of greyed songs on iPhone:
Image of songs greyed in iTunes:
These songs will not be removed from my iPhone. Even if I delete my entire library from my iPhone, these songs remain.
Conveinently, all of the songs that will not delete are items that my sister has bought on her account, and my iPhone constantly asking me for my sister's iTunes password any time I connect my iPhone to my library. Surely these issues are connected. I have deauthorized my sisters account from my computer, and have tryed every possible method of removing these songs. I don't want my iPhone to have anything to do with my sisters account - how can I make it forget her account? I have tried every way I can imagine, including removing my entire library of music from my phone.
I am relatively savvy with iTunes and the iPhone, and cannot seem to fix this by any method. Is it something to do with iCloud?

Found this info here, but not sure if it will help you or not. I am facing a similar situation that I have not eradicated just yet.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4054
Songs purchased from multiple Apple IDs
Songs containing DRM (Digital Rights Management) may not appear, or may appear grayed out in iCloud. This can occur if your computer is not authorized for playback of that content. Try authorizing your computer, then manually update iTunes Match.
To determine what Apple ID your computer needs to be authorized for, locate and select the song in your iTunes library.
Choose File > Get Info.
In the Summary tab, locate the Account Name field in the right column and write it down.
Click OK.
Choose Store > Authorize this Computer.
Type in the account name from the Summary field and its password. Click Authorize.
Choose Store > Update iTunes Match.
Check iCloud Status
Check to see the iCloud status of your songs. Choose View > View Options and enable "iCloud Status". iCloud status will help you to determine whether or not a song was purchased from the iTunes Store, matched, uploaded, or ineligible for upload. Items may not be eligible for upload if:
The item was purchased outside of the United States iTunes Store.
Your computer is not authorized for playback for that item.
The music video was not purchased from the iTunes Store.

Songs greyed out after hard disk failure

Hi,
I've been looking though the many, many () posts on here regarding songs greyed out and unplayable but none seem to match my exact problem.
I recent had the hard-disk fail on my macbook so, as a temporary mesasure I had to use a smaller, spare hard-disk I had lying around until I could buy a replacement.
Having de-clutered my life some time ago from keeping my music on CDs I had a lot of music on my phone which I didn't want to lose. I downloaded iExplorer and attempted to move my music across however a lot of my songs are now greyed-out on my iPhone and do not appear on iExplorer.
Did I lose everything?

Many thanks!
Your advice pushed me to reinstall.
I entered the licencing info from a popup that appeared after launching LR5 and just did what required. It worked just ok!
At first installation, I closed the popup with the idea to check my LR-Photo-archive in first step. Once I could check that all my pictures were ok, I entered manually the licence data from <help> + <LR registration>; registration steps and program behaviour were slightly different and were unsuccessful each time I tried.
I have to tell that my current LR5 licence is issued from upgrade from LR4... may be licence number required were first previous one or I entered the bad one...
Anyway, happy that recovery and reinstalling process ran properly.
Thank you again.

I am having trouble looking at video podcasts on my ipod touch. they are all greyed out. I have tried removing them and resyncing. this did not work. any ides?

I am having trouble looking at video podcasts on my ipod touch. they are all greyed out. I have tried removing them and resyncing. this did not work. any ideas?

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all media and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Cannot deathorize computer-- menus are all greyed out

I'm trying to deauthorize an existing computer before I sell it. But when I click on the menus, they are mostly greyed out, including the Store menu. so i cannot apparently login/logout much less authorize/deauthorize. but I CAN access the store in the itunes browser and see my purchases and previous downloads and such. So itunes appears to be logged in and working, but the menus are all greyed out. Any ideas? Thanks.

No problem at all! Do remember to check the smallest things first before thinking that it is a big thing.

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Why are songs on my iphone not playing and have a red square with a circle around it

I had this problem too and my roommate solved it!
Go to 'Settings'
'Music'
Scroll to the bottom and enter your password to log onto your home sharing
Then connect to iTunes and sync!

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