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In my iTunes library there are many tracks that have the cloud with embedded arrow (indicating that I need to download them from the cloud), but which are grayed-out, so that I can't download them, play them, or do anything. Can you tell me what is wrong?

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ha ha ha thank you for saving me the masochistic pleasure of posting a question about itunes on the internet. The only helpful thing I can say about this was that for me if a song was grayed out, there was usually another copy of it (if you search by name) that was not grayed out and also in the cloud, that could be downloaded. At least, until I deleted it while I was trying to fix the problem. – Colin Dec 22 '12 at 14:05

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You have probably already looked into this, but it sounds like "iCloud Status" is enabled in iTunes, but "iCloud Download" might not be. Go to

View > View Options

and make sure that "iCloud Download" is checked off.

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