Songs are in my itunes won't transfer to iphone

i have transfered songs from my library to the iphone library in itunes. the songs are grey and dont appear on my phone music! any suggestions on how to rectofy?

I have the same problem. I have music files from my old computer and transferred it to the one where my phone is synced. Itunes plays it well but if I transfer the file to my phone, it's just greyed out with a broken circle beside it. It's driving me nuts because I was able to transfer before the latest iOs update came. Now everything is screwed up.

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