HT1386 Problems playing music on my iPhone.

I've synced my iPhone with my iTunes from my mac but on my phone some of my songs are 'grayed out' and I can't play them. I've only started adding to tunes which were downloaded onto my mac by someone else and can't see what the songs I can't play on my phone have in common. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks.

The songs downloaded onto your mac by someone else are very likely owned by that person, and you were not given the right to play them using your Apple ID.
One way around this would be for that other person to use your iTunes to "Authorize This Computer" to play that person's songs.  In iTunes on your computer, you would choose Store > Authorize This Computer from iTunes' menu and have that person enter their Apple ID and password.
That person can only authorize no more than five devices at any time.  Before trashing or disposing of that computer, the person should deauthorize it in a similar way to the authorization.

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