Why will some M4A songs will not play on my iPhone 4s? They play just fine in iTunes and on my iPod Nano.
I bought my first iPhone on Saturday. After syncing all of my iTunes music to my brand new iPhone 4s, I soon realised that a great deal of m4a files would just not play. If I did attempt to play one of these tracks, it would just skip to the next one.
What really perplexes me is that all of my iTunes music plays without a problem in iTunes. On top of this, ALL of my music plays on my iPod Nano. Why is this just happening on my iPhone 4s?
Is this something to do with iOS 5? Will an update fix it?
Please can someone help!?!?
An exclamation mark means that it doesn't know where you moved the music to. To fix this, click on the exclamation point and when it asks you to browse to the location where you moved it to, use the normal commands to go up and down folders in your external drive until you find the song. Repeat as necessary.
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Hold the Sleep/Wake button until "slide to power off" appears. Slide to power off your device. When it is off, press the Sleep/Wake button to turn it back on.
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