Greyed out songs on iPhone 5

[volntitan]

So just signed up for match this weekend. The songs are showing up on my iPad, but only a few are showing up in the iPhone and the vast majority are greyed out. Any idea how to fix this?

 

[volntitan]

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[volntitan]

Has anyone had this issue that might be able to offer a couple of suggestions?

 

[volntitan]

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[newagemac]

Check Settings > Music and make sure "Show All" is selected. Also might want to check your parental controls if a lot of the music is explicit.

 

[InnocenceMyth]

also check settings > music and make sure "use cellular" is enabled (something like that, I don't have it in front of me). If that is off but "show all" is on and you are on a cellular network vs. wifi you will see all your music but not be able to play it.

 

[volntitan]

Thanks for the response. I checked and both those things are still on. It seems to me that on my home computer, of the 3 steps for iTunes match, it only seems to do step 1.

 

[doctorjo5]

What if we are having this problem but don't want to use iTunes match and also don't want to allow anything over cellular because we don't have much data?

I have tons of greyed out songs but they are all mp3s that I imported into itunes after either ripping a cd or buying from Amazon digitally. This problem is super annoying. I have a playlist with 750 songs on it and only about 1/3 of them are actually playable.