Ghost, also known as Ghost B.C., is a Swedish rock band. They have released 5 albums and 4 extended plays (EPs), gathering 72 songs, mostly written by frontman Tobias Forge under the credit of "A Ghoul Writer".
I am so frustrated I am sure someone knows the answer to this question but I have yet to find it. I just upgraded to IOS 7 on my iPhone and I upgraded my iTines to thelatest and greatest version. Now when I connect my phone to iTunes and look at the phone under device I see that there are a number of songs listed...all are greyed out and can not be selected. NONE of these songs are on my iPhone. I AM using iTunes Match and have been since Jan 2013. I had a similar issue with the last upgrades and for the life of me can not remember how I fixed it. I have a feeling that I had to completely eliminate everything from my library which is something that I do not want to do.
Does anyone know of a fix for this problem? I have tried everything that I can think of...from shutting off iTunes Match on my phone from reloading iTunes Match within iTunes. This is what my screen looks like...
Most but not all of these songs are in my Itunes Music. Originally the all were there but in my attempt to solve the problem I deleted some from my Itunes (on purpose) to see if any individual some was the problem.
No suggestion is silly - I have tried many things - too many to list and I am truly getting desparate. I truly believe that this is an Match issue but I can't find any resolution for the problem. When I take all music off of my phone as it is right now the problem still exists. If I add music the music that is added will be seen in black lettering beside the grey lettering listing...that is in iTunes. I am sorry if I am not making any sense it is easier to show someone than to explain it.
Try the following all-purpose steps for dealing with erratic device or sync behaviour. They assume that all of the content you want on the device is in your library ready for restoring. If it isn't see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device first. I would also recommend you copy everything out of the camera roll if you haven't already.
Use an encrypted backup if you want to preserve passwords, Wi-Fi settings, web history and health data where appropriate. I also suggest syncing with a selection of playlists (unless you're using iCloud Music Library) rather than manually adding content as, if nothing else, the process above is easier to do if you ever have to go through it again. The downside with backup encryption is that if you forget the password when you need it again, which could be years later, you may need to invoke a workaround to turn off encryption as shown in Re: disable encrypted backups, which can only help if your device is in a state that can backup to iCloud.
I had "manually manage music and videos" checked on my iphone summary page, to handle a file transfer issue I was having with file sharing. When I unchecked that and it went back to syncing from iTunes, the problem rectified itself.
I see there are no responses...I have the same issue and my only difference is that I am using a MBP not a Windows PC. I will continue to troubleshoot and let you know if I find something that works. My songs are in my library and I just want the "ghost" songs out of my device listing. Are you looking to do the same?
So far the only way I have found to get rid of them is to manually mange music, delete entire library on your iPhone and then add the songs back you want to have on your iPhone. I only want/need a portion since I use subscription music services. Good luck! Let me know if this helped you.
I would prefer not to have to completely delete the library and start from scratch. Many of the albums in the library are loaded from my CD's and I had to manually enter in much of the information for the songs and would rather not go through all of the that again. I am still trying different things I will let you know if any of them work.
I travel a lot so streaming from the cloud is not always an option, especially on a plane, so I need to have my music and videos saved on the device. I had this same problem with ghost songs not going away on my iPhone, and videos that were dragged over on my iPad but still grayed out. I'd Sync in iTunes time and time again and items would still stay gray...
Hope this helps. The ghost songs dissapear after several intents. I've used DiskAid and went to the file directory in the iphone (5). Deleted everything in music and purchased directory and the ghosts are gone.
I got mine to work after navigating through all the panes, I noticed that I had "Convert Higher Bit Rate Songs to ____ AAC" checked (Underscore being your selected bitrate). So my computer was having issues converting my high bitrate songs down to AAC 128. As soon as I unchecked that and resynced my iphone 5 all the songs began to transfer back over to my phone. Hope this helps some of you!
Just chiming in to say that I had this same problem, I would drag music into my IPhone after updating and it wouldn't show up and then when I checked the "On my IPhone" tab I found a majority of them there greyed out. I did what Christy suggested and selected all of the songs and deleted them from this box. They stayed in my actual Itunes but were 'deleted' from the phone I suppose. When I tried to drag songs in again Itunes said they copied and sure enough they showed up on my phone. Thanks for the help Christy =] I hope this worked for the OP too
I too have suddenly have sync problems with music between my Mac iTunes 11.1.3(8) on my iPad mini under iOS 7. Many of my tunes show up as "ghost songs" on my iPad. I initially had a problem with Movies and TV Shows not syncing up (they showed up with zero byte length) so I restored from backup -- which fixed my video problem but then created the Music nightmare.
On your WiFi connected device (iPad or iPhone) launch your iTunes app (not the Music player app). I did not have my device tethether to my Mac, my device was logged into my iTunes account and it had an active WiFi connection.
After you sync with your Mac you'll see that for many of your "ghost songs" you have a duplicate real song -- so I do not think this is elegantly fixed. Fortunately my Playlists all still work in spite of the ghosts.
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This is the thing, I have a public playlist. In my computer it says that I have 77 songs (the correct number), but in my phone a Ipad it says that I have 78 songs. Even after i removed all songs from the playlist it kept saying I have 1 song but when I enter it says that I got no songs.
We're trying to figure out what might be causing this issue since this is something that we couldn't replicate on our end. Can you let us know if that happens in all of your playlists or just a particular one?
They are well known for their occult-themed lyrics in their songs, as well as the way they portray themselves in a distantly tongue-in-cheek manner as a dark, sinister religious sect, commanded by the Emeritus bloodline.
Ghost's demo was an impressive opening statement. But the internet is pretty vast, after all, and those songs easily could have been snuffed out in the void. Instead, they unexpectedly caught fire. "My career trajectory changed more in those 24 to 48 hours than I had ever experienced in my life," Forge told Revolver in 2018 of the exciting days after the demo's release. The buzz kept growing as more people shared the tracks, which eventually made their way to Cathedral frontman and Rise Above Records owner Lee Dorrian, who offered to release Ghost's first full-length record.
Ghost's unholy rise is truly astonishing. Thankfully, Forge still has plenty more magic up his papal sleeves, and we can't wait to see what new dark arts he conjures next. In celebration of their amazing journey thus far, Revolver undertook the delightfully hellish task of ranking the 25 greatest Ghost songs. So grab your cloaks, gather 'round the altar and let the ritual begin.
Prequelle, 2018
Songwriter and mastermind Tobias Forge had been publicly unmasked prior to the release of Ghost's fourth album, Prequelle, but that didn't stop him (or fans) from continuing the fantasy. In fact, he doubled down and pushed the mythology even further with a ripe Black Plague lyrical theme and the new flamboyant, mustachioed, tux-wearing frontman Cardinal Copia, who even Forge himself considered to be "an imposter [that] hasn't proven himself yet." Copia puts in work to earn his "skull paint" throughout Prequelle, including delivering the killer Seventies-style chorus hook on "Witch Image": "While you sleep in earthly delight/Someone's flesh is rotting tonight." All hail the creepy Cardinal's reign.
Meliora
This Zeppelin-esque psych-rock track is built around earth-shaking bass and the kind of gnarly guitar riffs that Satan himself would stomp his hooves to. The whole arrangement is brilliant: crushing ever forward until the revelatory clouds-parting moment when Papa delivers his chilling devotion (more Anton LaVey than John the Apostle): "You are cast out from the heavens to the ground/Blackened feathers falling down/You will wear your independence like a crown."
Infestissumam
Translating from Latin into "Though Hardships to Hell," "Per Aspera ad Inferi" lives up to its name. After the mood-setting chants and instrumental pageantry of the title-track intro, Infestissumam's first actual song is a powerful four-minute descent into the abyss that's led by chugging guitars, martial drums and Papa II's enchanting vocals (and signature oh-so-unsettling sigh: ahhhh). If you find yourself heading south, you'd be hard-pressed to pick a better soundtrack than this burner, which legitimately sounds like a victory march into the pit of fire.