Yet another user with "grayed-out" music

I've recently switched to new mac. I guess i didn't sync iphone properly because all my music is grayed-out and not on my mac. none of it's itunes purchased, it's all non-replaceable non drm recordings. where did they go? why can't i play it through itunes when i connect my iphone? is mac really that user-friendly?! seriously, any help would be much appreciated.

Hey thanks, Turingtest2.
This is probably the wrong place to address the grayed out symbols.
A screenshot isn’t even essential to describing the phenomenon: Its the gray dashed circle symbol alongside the playlist
& the tunes themselves may be grayed out. As though it needs to stream or download. The symbology is fairly new & I haven’t found an explanation or key, which should be my first plan of attack.
The music now grayed out USED to be on the iPad/iPod devices & most, if not all were purchased via iTunes. A few may have some off my own disks. Also, I used to keep some music files in AIFF on an older gen iPod & I don’t think those are well supported on iOS, if at all any more.
Perhaps that’s part of the picture.
Background: I was trying to pare down an overburdened iPad that had all sorts of odd bits of music - stuff I broke up to learn to play the passages & myriad other audio files off recorders, etc that really are just storage on my mac, but were inadvertently copied to the mobile device. Anyway, the iPad is nearly maxed & cleaning the library to just selected music.
I also see that other people are experiencing issues similar to mine & right or wrong, attributing it to a glitch in iTunes 12 & the iOS.
Its really not pertinent to this old thread, I suppose. I have a slightly more detailed post of my own on the forum as well. I stumbled on this thread while trying to research similar complaints & missed the origination date.

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