iPhone 5S not syncing music properly, songs appear grey and "skip"

[Greene1123]

So here's the long annoying story

The other night I decided to add album artwork to a few albums that didn't have any and iTunes wouldn't recognize when I hit "get album artwork". So I added artwork manually to songs roughly A to C before realizing it was taking too long so I stopped. I plugged my iPhone in to sync.

That night I went to play some music but when I tried to play one of the tracks I edited it skipped over it. I tried playing all the others and they didn't work either. I plugged in my iPhone to sync again. No fix. I restarted my iPhone and computer. No fix. I ran disc utility (just cuz it fixes the issue sometimes) but no fix.

So I did a test (horrible decision) and decided to try syncing only "selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" and de-selected all of the artists A - C. I synced it. And now allllll of the tracks with artists names A to C won't play on my iPhone. I've tried resetting everything multiple times with no success.

Songs that wont play appear grey on my iPhone with a red square next to them. Help?

 

[dictoresno]

are any of these songs purchased? maybe try hitting transfer purchases and see if that helps.

 

[capandjudy]

IOS 7 Music Syncing Is Broken.

There are threads every where about syncing music between iTunes and phones with IOS 7 failing. There are some fixes posted that work for SOME people. I had to wipe my phone and start over from my cloud back up. This worked for me but not others.
Links >> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324398
>> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1638619/
I am hoping that IOS 7.1 fixes this whenever it comes out.

 

[Greene1123]

I FIXED IT!

on the iPhone: Settings > General > Usage - manually delete all the music on the iPhone.

Then resync all the music. BOOM