Grey dashed circle - What could it mean?
Hi everyone
Just wanted to get some suggestions or feedback on what the grey dashed circle beside my purchased music could mean.
Here's what it looks like from "On This iPod" when the iPod is connected to iTunes. All the songs play fine both on the device and on my PC.
However, I have noticed many people with syncing issues with the new iOS..could it be possibly the reason? Updated to the new iTunes yesterday 11.1.3, hoping something would give, unfortunetly not! Still the same. Suggestions please Apple please FIX this...
iPod 5th Gen.
Best,
OrlaG
Hi!
I also have three songs with this circle, BUT:
* My media library is empty
* iTunes was installed freshly (before that I had removed all Apple Folders from ProgramData, AppData/Local/Roaming)
* iPhone 4s with iOS7.0.4 did not contain any files in the music library -> also empty
What I did was, that I have "toyed" with the music library on my iPhone.
To be more precisely, I have pressed the buttons "Download Song from iCloud" next to those three songs while the iPhone was still connected to iTunes.
Then I had cancelled the download by pressing the buttons again.
After trying to sync iTunes with iPhone again, those 3 broken entries with the grey dotted circle popped up in the msuic folder of the iPhone in iTunes. Remember: the music folder of the media library in iTunes is STILL empty! So no songs there!
I have already tried nearly everything with syncing to get rid of those 3 dead entries with the circle. Nothing helped. Syncing the empty media library did not help, manually deleting the songs from the phone did not help. After synching in iTunes they pop up again in the music folder, although there is nothing to sync.
This really seems to be a bug.
Now I will try my last option: creating a backup, reset the phone and restore it again.
BTW: iCloud sync program is not installed.
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