iTunes vs. iOS 8

To be honest, I've no clues where this should be posted.

After trying for the last 5 hours trying to put my music back onto the 5c, I give up. Jist of it, I decided to try restoring the iPhone and now I cannot get one single song to sync via iTunes while plugged into the Mac. It goes through the whole syncing crap, but then nada. Nothing happens. Music still doesn't show up on the iPhone no matter what I've tried for some reasons. Anybody have any ideas how to get the phone to download my music library again?

Many more hours later, I still cannot get my music onto the phone. Even tried erasing the entire music library and iTunes ADDS 300 or so songs. Have tried turning off wifi stuff, enabling airplane mode, etc... Nothing. The one time I nearly succeeded in getting the music synced, it claimed not to have enough space free.../boggle. Before the update I had all my music AND photos on the damn thing and now I cannot replicate it.

So very seriously pissed off and about to throw the stupid phone and computer out the window.