Why can't I play most of my songs on my iPod 4th Gen?

I just restored my iPod Touch 4th gen and I went and put my music back on and its all there, but most of the songs are grey and I am unable to play them. Why is this? It makes me upset cus before I restored it there was maybe one or two songs with the same problem so I didnt worry too much about it but not it's more than half my library, whole albums too. Its annoying.

Make sure you have "downloaded" all the songs from your iCloud account. If you see the iCloud icon beside the grayed out songs, tap the icon, and it will download those songs from your iCloud account to your device.
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