Songs greyed in iTunes and not playable on iPhone

Hi, it seems I'm faced against an issue I'm not able to understand and fix.
Yesterday I tried to play some songs in my iPhone Music library. Songs were there, album coversheet is fine, everything seems ok. But even if I click on start playing icon nothing happens. This behavior is shared amongst several songs... Strange, very strange.
This morning I noticed that those songs are greyed out in the iTunes view of my iPhone while those I could play are just in bold. More, the first have a sync small icon. Have a look at the screenshot:
In red the greyed out song I cannot listen (other are shown in the screenshot), in green the ones I can.
In the computer iTunes library all the songs are playable:
In the screenshot the same portion of playlist in the library from the computer. All the songs are playable correctly.
I tried to sync again computer => iPhone without success: iTunes doesn't recognize the greyed out songs to be sync and I cannot listen to them.
Has anyone some explanation for this stuff and possibly some resolution?
Thanks and my regards.

Ok, autosolved
I first uncheck the full sync from iTunes to iPhone and this resulted into a full clean up in the iPhone library.
Then I check again the sync and started the sync process. All the songs are then been updated in the iPhone, too and no one is greyed out.
Funny...

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