Some of my music is greyed out in itunes

I've tried every single solution I've found on the discussion board but I nothing seems to be working...ever since I updated my phone and Itunes I can't seem to get the two to be compatible. When I plug my phone into my my computer, a lot of my songs are greyed out with the dotted circle beside the title, this prevents me from creating playlists, also I can't bring new music from my itunes to my iphone because those songs become greyed out as well...another issue is when I delete a song from Itunes (under my iphone settings not itunes) it doesn't delete on my phone like it used to;
Things I've tried were clearing my iphone and starting over by from scratch, still a great majority of my songs are greyed out
I've tried downloading iFunBox as well and that didn't work either....
can someone PLEASE help me with this, I feel if I brought my computer/phone into Apple they wouldn't fix it and I don't feel like wasting my time

Try deactivating itunes match then activating it again

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