Syncing smart playlists with location set to "on this computer"

I have a ton of playlists with multiple creitera that after the upgrade to iOS7 just stopped working entirely. It turns out that when I added "location - on this computer" as a filter to avoid seeing everything in my icloud, that no longer applied to media synced to iOS devices.
I guess that makes sense, except the precedent was set when it worked in iOS6, and more importantly there isn't a filter setting for "on this computer and/or synced devices". There's just "on this computer" and "in the cloud".
I can't be the only one annoyed with this. Can anyone think of a filter that would work for me?

Bump? This is still driving me nuts.

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    katinak67 wrote:
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