Red Circle with a Red Square in it?

Hello Community
After ios 7 update everything has basically gone horribly wrong.
Is anyone else getting these red circles with the red triangle in their songs list when selected to play? Some songs play while others just dont play then it skips to the next song that will. When i press the red circle, nothing happens except the colour goes to opaque.
My itunes was working perfectly well before update.
So So So not a fan on this update. What the **** are apple doing! Update on Iphone 4 has a terrible lag to everything so thanks for that apple. & i really shouldnt have to fork out money for a new phone just so i can have the privalege of have the update working...in todays society we should be keeping our technology as long as we can and not adding to the landfill with perfectly working phones but just crappy updates that force you to buy a new phone that can handle the update, which you really dont have a choice but to update...STOP trying to fix things that arent broke APPLE.
& another thing, we should have the choice (you remember freedom of choice, dont you Apple) whether or not to use icloud, maybe i like my privacy, as i am sure most people do. Now you have everything geared towards icloud! what happens when you guys get hacked & then those hackers have access to everyones stuff. (sorry for being a drama queen, but anything is possible!).
I spoke to apple customer service, very helpful young lady, got me to uncheck all music sync then sync again, thought it worked but apparently not. I will try it again and post if it works.
The young lady said a lot of issues like this one have been occuring due to update, but she was not familiar with this particular issue but had noticed a lot of people have been posting on support about it.
Please figure this out Apple and go back to making your technology user friendly.Please.

hi karen piano girl
1st of all how crap is it spending sooo much time fixing things that were not broke in the 1st place...
My problems only occurred after i installed iOS 7.0.3 update.
& the really weird thing about all this is that the update didnt affect the music on my iphone 4, just made it slow.
Just a quick question, are all your songs playing perfectly in itunes on your computer? I have a mac running OS X 10.9. Mine were, so this is what worked for me. I know you said you have tried re syncing but I'm going to go through it anyway, because it seemed to work for me. All my songs now play on ipad without red circle & squares and skipping songs that looked greyed out & dont play.
I definately think this is an icloud issue. The songs that didnt play after the iOS 7.0.3 update were specifically CD's that I had imported to itunes and other songs I had downloaded from other sources, not itunes...songs from itunes however were not affected by this update.
If this doesnt help you, i really suggest you call apple, thats what i did, just go to the Contact Us section (could be down the bottom of the page, i filled out a contact form, gave them my number, and pretty much in minutes I got a call from apple, granted she didnt know what the problem meant, but she was helplfull all the same. So if this doesnt work, call them.
Ok, heres what i did.
When you hook your ipad up to the computer via usb, select your ipad from devices in left panel in itunes, select music from top tab (summary,apps,music,movies,tv shows,books,photos), uncheck the tick in Sync Music box. (i know its basic stuff, but sometimes I stuff basic stuff up).
It asks you are you sure you want to do this because it will wipe all songs off your ipad.
Click remove, then click Sync or Apply down in the right hand corner (i cant remember which it is, Sync i think) Anyway, you have to sync to get all your songs off your ipad to start again.
This then goes through the proccess of wiping ALL your music from your ipad. When its finished, eject from computer, & check your ipad that it has wiped your music off, if there are some songs on there (which happed to mine, i really dont know what that was about) thats fine.
re connect ipad to computer, then go back to top tab and check Sync Music box (Entire Music Library selected too.) Then click Sync or Apply down in right hand corner and that should get your music back on to your ipad. Depending on how much music you have it could take a bit of time. I have close to 7000 songs so it took some time.
I know this all sounds very basic and step by step & I promise you I am not trying to be condescending or anything. I have used macs, ipads, iphones for many years and all these updates & icloud dramas are really doing my head in.
I hope this helps & if it doesnt call Apple.

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