Songs Not Copying to the IPhone

I get the message, "A song was not copied to my IPhone because I am not autorized to play it on my computer." In all cases, these are songs that I've purchassed through Itunes. How do I correct this?

It sounds like your computer needs to be reauthorized. Try playing a purchased song on your computer. It may ask you to authorize, which should then clear up your issue.

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    When trying to sync with any of my apple devices the following message is displayed:
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    For a list of items that could not be copied, click the + below.
    86 total problems.
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    The songs are also on my laptop and not on an external hard drive.
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    Hey thanks for the reply.
    When the box pops up there is no option to search for the location. I just have to click ok.
    Then when I go to the songs with problems in my iTunes library and try to play them they play fine.
    It is only while syncing that iTunes for some reason is unable to locate the song.
    Any suggestions?

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    I recorded some "voice memos" on my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.3). I now just want to get them onto my computer. I have followed the instruction from other posts and selected the "Include Voice Memo" checkbox and also the "Voice Memo Genre" checkbox located on the Music tab. I then click on Sync and get the following error ... "Some of the items in the iTunes library, including ----- were not copied to the iPhone because they could not be found". So I understand that the memos were not copied to the phone ... this is good since I already have then on the phone. I want, instead for them to be copied FROM the phone to the computer. So what's the problem I thought that SYNC'ing meant copying new files from the iPhone to the computer as well as vice versa.
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    The dialog tells you the path to the song is wrong/not there. Make sure you can play it in iTunes.

  • Some items were not copied to the iphone because they cannot be played on this iPhone

    Hi Team,
    I am using IPhone 2G Model: A1203. While iam transfering Videos(mp4 format) from itunes to iphone it shows this Error "Some items were not copied to the iphone because they cannot be played on this iPhone". Itunes is 11 version  Please help me to get rid of this error.
    Thanks in Advance

    Hey Ratnakar Reddy,
    Thanks for the question. I understand that you are experiencing issues syncing your iPhone with iTunes. The following resource outlines the exact error message you are receiving:
    iTunes: Videos may be unable to sync to iPhone, iPad, or iPod
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1497
    Thanks,
    Matt M.

  • HT1351 I cannot add video to itunes and my iphone i see this warning" Example' was not copied to the iPhone because it cannot be played on this iPhone.

    I cannot add video to itunes and my iphone i see this warning" Example' was not copied to the iPhone because it cannot be played on this iPhone.

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  • Songs "not copied to the ipod because it cannot be played on this ipod"

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    Check your source hard drive for errors, right-click on the drive holding the library, click Properties, tools, check for errors, scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors...
    Or...
    Repair Security Permissions
    Right-click on your main iTunes folder and click Properties, then go to the Security tab and click Advanced. If necessary grant your account and SYSTEM full control of this folder, subfolders and files, then tick the option to replace permissions on child objects which will repair permissions throughout the library. This is the XP dialog but Windows 7 shouldn't be too different.
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  • ITunes could not copy "" to the iPhone "" because an unknown error occorred (-50).

    This is a very annoying problem. I've followed everything by the books and cannot figure it out.
    I'm getting the warning     iTunes could not copy "[Song Name]" to the iPhone "[Phone Name]" because an unknown error occorred (-50)   and don't know what to do. I've followed Apple's guildline - http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1539 - of uninstalling, reinstalling, reregistering .dll files, restoring the phone, updating the phone, making sure the "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC" option was not checked, etc. Does any body have any idea what the issue is here? I just did all of this after updating iTunes to 10.4 and my iPhone 4 to 4.3.4 and am running Windows XP. I've had the issue for about 3 weeks - it occured both after reformatting my PC's hard drive and installing iTunes 10.3 (I know others had issues with 10.3). ANY help would be amazing. Thank you!

    Hey Edward,
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    To find out if your computer has USB 2.0, enter your computers serial number on this web page: http://support.apple.com/specs/
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    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307091
    Jason
    Message was edited by: Jason L

  • If I enter a new contact in Address Book on my MacBook Pro it copies onto my iPhone via iCloud but editing an existing contact does not copy to the iPhone

    I have set up my new iPhone 4 to sync with my MacBook Pro using iCloud as default.  This works fine with Calendars on iCal in both directions.  However, I am struggling with Contacts because new entries on the iPhone appear on my Mac's Address Book fine but erratically the other way.  New entries on the Mac seem to appear OK on the iPhone but edits to existing accounts do not appear.  Also, many entries were missing when I imported the main list from Mac to iPhone but that was done by cable through iTunes before setting up iCloud.

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  • Some of the items in the iTunes library, including [x], were not copied to the iPhone [x] because they could not be found.

    The songs are playable in my iTunes library, and they even synced to my phone and are playable on my phone, but I don't understand why this message keeps popping up. There are also no exclamation marks next to any of the songs. Please help.

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  • "I cannot add video to itunes and my iphone i see this warning "Example' was not copied to the iPhone because it cannot be played on this iPhone."

    I'm having this same problem, except the option to "create iphone/ipod version" is greyed out and I can't select it. I tried to sync it after I noted that, but the same "cannot copy video" message came up.

    Hi akbar.joya,
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    iTunes: May be unable to transfer videos to iPhone, iPad, or iPod
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1497
    Regards,
    - Brenden

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    Hi Helpers,
    I know this error happens a lot and easy to solve if the files are still in the mac.
    However, I've already removed (deleted) two movies I sync-ed before. Now everytime I connect my iphone this message appears and I have no idea how to 'tell iTunes' that they are not in my mac anymore! And obviously I can not delete these two moives appearance in the 'Movies' tab in iTunes.
    Very annoyed.
    Please help me!
    Thanks!

    Problem solved.
    Thanks everyone.

  • "Some of the Audible files in the iTunes library were not copied to the iPhone because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."

    Has anybody got this message?  iTunes says this when I sync my iPhone4.  It does not say what songs were not copled or whether it is my iPhone 4 or my iMac (2011) 21" that it is referring to.  Both devices are authorized in iTunes 10.4 (80).  How do you fix it?  Running OS 10.6.8

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