Why is there grayed out songs on my iPhone?

I use iTunes Match and there are grayed out songs that appear on my iPhone music app. Is there a possible fix to this?

Don't think so, but I may change my mind when announced.
I purchased the iPhone 4S the first week in November last year, so I don't qualify for a fully subsidized discount until next June. I qualify for an early upgrade now, but would prefer holding out for the full subsidy unless the new iPhone makes me change my mind.
How about you?

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I don't use manually manage so I'm at a loss as to why anyone would.
However, if I was Syncing my iPod to iTunes, then the picture you have posted would be just like that while iTunes was busy putting my music back onto my iPod. That's what the little double-arrow icon means; it's a list of files that you have asked to be put on the iPod (in my case, by Syncing the ticked items in my Library and in yours - apparently, by manually dragging them from the library to the iPod).
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I have had iTunes Match for about two weeks and still have not managed to get it to work properly. I have been on these forums searching for the answer, as well as other websites, and absolutely cannot figure out what the problem is. It's very frustrating because this program was supposed to make things simpler, not more difficult. Please, if you can help, leave a suggestion for me here.
Here is the situation:
- iTunes Match has successfully put about 8000 songs in the iCloud and those work well on all devices.
- BUT it is missing about 2000 songs, which are either ineligable (which that part is okay and I understand), or are grayed out. These grayed out songs cannot be played, uploaded, downloaded, or anything. I have no idea why this is happening, but it has stopped a significant portion of my music library from being accessible. Anywhere. These grayed out songs are gray on all devices.
- iTunes Match also deleted many songs from the playlists that it was supposed to be saving. I do have a backup (I am pretty sure...) of my iTunes library before doing iTunes Match, so if I have to I can hopefully recover the lost songs that way. I think they are still in my library and have just been removed from my playlists, but I don't know if they are the grayed out songs or the okay songs.
Since having these problems, iTunes Match has been turned off on every device except the main desktop iMac that the actual song files are on. I am wondering if the problem may have occurred when I first set it up, as my family got excited and we tried to start every device on Match at the same time. If that isn't the problem then I have no idea. Either way, I don't know how to solve it.
In trying to trouble shoot, I have done just about everything that I or the Internet could think of. Please feel free to leave a suggestion. Anything may help, it's just that nothing has yet. Thanks in advance!

Hi,
No you can't decide what tracks go into cloud. If the track is eligible. it will either be matched or uploaded. However, you can work around this by changing the media type to something other than music e.g. Podcast or Audiobook. Both are ineligible for match. You can't change media type when match is on.
Another option is to open an new library and then turn on match. You will see all the music you have in the cloud. You can delete tracks from the cloud and when you go back to the original library, the tracks will still be there but the iCloud status will be shown as "Remove". This essentially will now be a local file and match will ignore for future scans.
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