Why won't my music sync to my iPhone from iTunes?!?

I have been having such a hard problem with syncing my music from iTunes (which is up to date) to my iPhone 4S (which is also up to date). I have tried restoring my phone three times. It's recently backed up. All my music was wiped from my phone, on my phone it says it has 8.1 GB of free space. But on iTunes the bar (that informs you what takes up space on your device) tells me that there's music synced to the phone and its taking up 6.36 GB. But in Music on my phone it says there's "No Content"!!! I've tried to sync it repeatedly. I've tried unchecking the music box syncing it and then checking it again and syncing it. And every couple attempted syncs iTunes will say its syncing my music and then on the fourth or fifth song cancels the sync. There's definitely enough space on my 16GB phone, I don't know whats going on! I just want my music back!!! (Also, most of the music might not be directly bought from Apple, if you get my drift. )

I found the route of the problem! All the songs under 'On This Phone' are completely grayed out! The only question is now how do I ungray them???

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I recently had to restore my iPhone.
I backed it up, but my music won't sync.
please help, i've spent hundreds of dollars on music.
all my music is stored on itunes, but it wont sync.
thanks.

Hello annalisahansolo
If you are not able to sync, check to make sure that all the settings are correct be referencing the following two articles based on your operating system.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313
iTunes 11 for Mac: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12113
Also if you have purchased that music through iTunes, then follow the steps in this article to bypass syncing with your computer.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

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I have bragged about Apple for years. I've sunk thousands of dollars into Apple devices, as well as apps, music and movies from iTunes.
Now, all of a sudden, I'm having a slew of issues. First my movies - purchased from iTunes - wouldn't play correctly on my computer. The picture and sound fall out of sync. I spent 20 minutes on the phone with a friggin' SUPERVISOR and we still couldn't fix it! It's not space issues - I'm not even using one quarter of my hard disk space. I did everything he told me to do and they still won't play.
Guess what happened today? I'm getting the ridiculous "-50" unknown error message when trying to sync music I purchased FROM iTUNES onto my iPhone. Oh, it plays just fine on my computer. I had several of my playlists loaded onto my iPhone already. I visit the forums, and everyone says I should reinstall iTunes and restore my iPhone - so I do those things. Now all of those playlists need to be put back on to my phone and NOTHING WILL SYNC TO MY PHONE!!!
I am one VERY short step away from ditching Apple forever. I am sick to death of having to deal with constant issues. Everything worked great until a couple of months ago, now you people cannot do anything to fix the issues your incompetent techs are causing.

Hello alexandreak,
It sounds like your newly purchased music is not syncing your your iPhone. I found a couple of resources that I think might help with this.
One thing you may want to consider is downloading the purchased songs directly to your iPhone. You can find the steps to do that in the section titled "iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch" in the following article:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
If you prefer to sync the music to your iPhone using iTunes, I recommend turning off and turning on syncing music. You can do this by unchecking "Sync Music" and then clicking "Apply" and then checking "Sync Music" and then clicking "Apply" again. You can find the syncing steps in the following article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313
Additionally, it is important to note that songs with a cloud icon next to them in iTunes are streaming from iTunes and are not on your computer. For these songs to sync to your device, you will need to clck on the cloud icon to download the song to your computer first.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

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Hey there 2Chainz,
It sounds like youre being prompted that there is not enough space. I would use the following article to help resolve the issue named:
iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
Try disconnecting and reconnecting your device, then syncing again to solve this issue.
Orphaned files may remain on your iOS device if it is physically disconnected while syncing music, podcasts, videos, or photos. This can prevent iTunes from syncing the iOS device on subsequent sync sessions. When this happens, the Capacity indicator in iTunes may report a large amount of "Other" disk usage for the iOS device. To resolve this issue:
Turn off the music or photo sync option in iTunes for the device.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Turn the music and photo sync options for the device on again.
Click Apply again to try to sync the device to iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 5.
Turn off the automatic syncing functions for the iOS device. To do this:
Select the iOS device from the iTunes window and click the Summary tab.
Deselect "Automatically sync when this device is connected" and select the "Sync only checked songs and videos" checkbox.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Reduce the amount of data that is being synced to the device and resync the device. For example, if syncing your Music library exceeds the memory capacity of the device, choose "Selected playlists" to transfer rather than "All songs and playlists" under the Music tab in iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 6.
Restore using iTunes.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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Hey there 2Chainz,
It sounds like youre being prompted that there is not enough space. I would use the following article to help resolve the issue named:
iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
Try disconnecting and reconnecting your device, then syncing again to solve this issue.
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If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 6.
Restore using iTunes.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
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