Cannot play song from multiple accounts

Ok, so after updating my iPhone to iOS7, I cannot play all of the music I've bought because I use more than one account (3 to be precise). I wanted to know if there was any way that I could have all of my music playable on my phone. The songs show up as there but when I try to play them it just skips over them and then displays a red box with a square inside of it.

It's that way because that's the way Apple designed it.
I just merely wish to listen to them using itunes and my pc headphones while it charges the unit.
You can still connect headphones to the iPhone and listen while your PC changes the iPhone. Until Apple changes things, that's it.
You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

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+http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
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