My iPhone 5s won't sync all the music in my iTunes

Hi so today I was trying to get rid of the "other" on my iPhone 5s and was going through my storage and one thing led to another and I accidentally deleted all the music on my phone. I thought I could just sync it right back up. Before I hit apply changes on the summary of my phone in iTunes, the bar at the bottom shows how much storage my music will take up when I sync it. However, as soon as I hit apply changes, the bar goes back down to just the songs from my iCloud. I tried re-checking the sync music box under the music tab and re-syncing and it loaded about 216 songs onto my phone while in my music library there's well over 700 songs. The songs are all checked on iTunes so they should sync, but for some reason they aren't. I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

mine is doing the same thing other than Itunes saying it can't read the format. I can't play 90% of my music. I took it to an apple store the other day an they told me only purchased music will work. Not even a music upload from a CD. Which to me is a load of ....because my wife has all the songs on her iphone that are greyed out on mine and they work on hers

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