Bug: iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 podcast smart playlist sort order and how to fix.

There seems to be a bug in iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 involving the sort order of a smart playlist of podcasts. I created such a playlist and sorted by release date on iTunes but I noticed it had a different sort order on the iPod Touch.
After playing around with it a bit I found that the only way to preserve the sort order that I have in iTunes on the iPod Touch is to uncheck "Live Updating" in the smart playlist.

Confirming this incredibly annoying bug. Basic list sorting not working... real bottom shelf work apple.
workaround update: limit to must be turned on, set it to an absurdly high number if you don't want to actually limit the playlist, then one of the sortby options in that submenu will work. The live update checkbox is irrelevant from experimentation.
This workaround does NOT fix the fundamental problem: sort order from itunes in smart playlists is not being synced and preserved in ios5 devices.
This is the latest in a long string of debacles which is making me seriously consider swapping to debian stable. (snow leopard to lion was a severe downgrade in performance for anyone doing heavy multitasking.. scheduling is FUBAR... when a command option escape beachballs on a brand new core 17 machine, your OS has serious problems with nice levels)

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Smart playlist sort order issue

I'm having an issue sorting a smart playlist. I've searched through other questions on here but can't find the identical issue.
I've created a smart playlist that contains the contents of two other smart playlists. I've tried to sort this list by 'name', by clicking on the arrow in the column heading, but the list still leaves the two playlists separately, ie. it sorts each original playlist separately, and then puts one after the other in the play order.
I have other smart playlists constucted in the same way, and have no issues with them, and I can't see what the difference is with this one!
I'm using 11.0.4.4, on a Windows 7 PC.

I am also having the same problem. Running the newest iTunes and iPhone software my smart playlists are not working correctly. My "Recently Added" is correct in iTunes, and if I look at the playlist on my iPhone info in iTunes it is correct there, but the actual playlist on my iPhone is populated entirely with audiobook files. I have tried deleting and recreating the playlist which gives the same results. I have also specified that items within the playlist should be music files only and still get the same results.
I have a playlist that's Top 50 Most Played that's also not behaving properly (ie correct in iTunes but not on my iPhone).
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I have 500gb of music and itunes separates album tracks into individual albums any ideas how to fix?

please help!!

williamfromwellingb wrote:
please help!!
That's normally not a helpful information.
But, as your problem is well known ...
The way iTunes groups files (songs) into a Album depends on the entry in "Album" if "Sort by Album Name" is checked.
All songs from an Album should have the same entry in the "Album" and "Album Artist" field.
To regroup the albums choose all songs from the album at once (cmd+click) right click -> get Info -> and put the appropriate info in the two fields.
If you sort your Albums by other information e.g. composer, the songs get grouped by this feature.
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ITunes 7.1 breaks smart playlists for podcasts

All previous podcast-supporting versions of iTunes built smart playlists that reflected the order of the files in the RSS feed... but not iTunes 7.1! Its smart playlist order reflects the order the files were added to the iTunes library.
You know how iTunes downloads multiple episodes in newest-to-oldest order? Well, that's how they show up in a smart playlist now.
And no, it's not a problem of sort order. I have tried every option related to sorting by name, artist, and album - nothing makes a difference.
So, in one of my podcasts (a radio feed recorded from 13:00 to 16:00 Monday-Friday), I now have:
- CH0703151335
- CH0703151306
- CH0703151435
- CH0703151406
- CH0703151506
- CH0703151535
- CH0703161306
- CH0703161406
- CH0703161335
- CH0703161535
- CH0703161506
- CH0703161435
Those are dates & times (2007-03-15, 13:06, for example), and of course the files are in correct date/time order in the feed. You might be able to guess how I figured out what it's doing. (If you didn't figure it out, here's the story: I updated the podcast while the episodes were being recorded.)
If you have seen this, did you figure out a way around it? Thanks! So far, I haven't, and it's really annoying. As I said, this is new in iTunes 7.1, and it persists in 7.1.1.

After more tinkering, I have figured out what's going on here, and I think there's a bug here.
For all of the podcasts I mentioned, the "Sort Name" is identical. In the case that the "Sort Name" is identical, I would think that the "Name" field would be used when sorting by name. Instead of sorting on name, however, iTunes is sorting on the date the file was introduced into the iTunes library. That seems to me to be a bug.
I have made a change to see if I can empty the "Sort Name" field, to see what that will do. Hopefully that will sort correctly.

ITunes Podcasts & Smart Playlists Question

Hi everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
I have a 60gb Colour iPod and have nearly filled it, so do not want to sync any of the podcasts to it. I've disabled Podcast syncing in the options tab after connecting the iPod, but Podcasts are still syncing because I have a large range of Smart Playlists which are set to show me what I added by date. This means they are treating Podcast content as being "Added On" a certain date and hence appearing in the Smart Playlist and being synced.
It is my understanding that to disable this I have to add a clause to the Smart Playlist which says "Kind, Is Not, Podcast" - is this the case? To go through every playlist I have would take ages and can anyone advise if it's possible to apply the same criteria to all playlists? I tried to select more than one by holding down Control or Shift but it didn't work.
Any thoughts would be very gratefully received!
Cheers,
Edd

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HT1349 I was updating my IOS in iTunes. It was taking over 2 hours and when I went back, there is a symbol on the iPad showing a USB port pointing to iTunes. I do not know what to do next.

I was updating my IOS in iTunes. It was taking over 2 hours and when I came back, there was a symbol on the iPad showing a USB plug pointing to an iTunes icon. When I unplug the iPad from my PC, it goes blank and won't respond.

The restore is not completed. You will have to re-try the restore process again.
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Live Updating mangles smart playlist sync - again and forever?

For the last several itunes updates, setting a smart playlist to Live Update causes the order of playlist items to become mangled on synced deviceL
Unchecking the Live Updating restores the proper order to the items on the synced device.
Its a huge pain if you desire to set up podcast play order on your iphone so you don't have to play DJ in your car.
It was a problem a long time ago, and there was a kludgy workaround. Then they fixed it. And 2 versions of iTunes later it came back, and the workaround didn't work that time. It now appears to be a permanent bug, and apparently nobody cares at Apple.
Here's a wonderful example of how longstanding this bug is:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11396625#11396625
This one is even more pathetic, going back to 2009:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10168181#10168181
There are many, many, other threads complaining about this issue so I've lost faith that Apple will care or try to fix it.
There has always been the occasional bug or error with Apple hardware/software; nobody's perfect - but they used to make an effort to fix things in a timely manner. At least they used to think the perception of attention to detail was important for marketing purposes.
Now, they are apparently content to Pareto Principle their products becuase they have the mass sales and a giant customer base that will accept 'just good enough' products.
So sad to see the decline of such a once great company.

FYI, I've found that Live Updating can SORT OF work. It seems if you only have two rules, live upating works (IE, I have one that is a Rating must be 3-5*'s and last played cannot be within the last 8 weeks). Once the song is played it disapears off the playlist. BUT, as soon as I try to add a third rule, it doesn't work anymore! This is unfortunate because two rules really limits the ability of the playlist...
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Reorganizing individual items within a podcast smart playlist

With the help of some fine folks from here, I was finally able to create a couple smart playlists on my 5th gen classic iPod, but now I have a new problem: I seem unable to organize the individual podcasts into any playing order. I'd like them to automatically play in order from the earliest downloaded to the most recently downloaded. But no matter what I do in iTunes in the smart playlist itself, once it's synced to my iPod, the playlist is in alphabetical order by artist.
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obviously Apple does not consider this a bug...
It's hard to imagine that Apple might not consider it a bug. Personally I chalk it up to the fact that (a) it's a relatively harmless (albeit annoying) bug; and (b) they've got tons of bugs to fix and this one hasn't made it to the top of the list yet. I've added this to my list of bugs to test with every new release (because Apple frustratingly refuses to issue release notes that tells us what bugs have been fixed).
Regardless, their users obviously consider the loss of smart playlist sorting a bug. Please join us in complaining to Apple about this:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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If your iPhone and iPad can't sync Smart Playlists:
I figured it out after a few hours in the One-to-One classes where they told me it couldn't be done.
1. Go to "Edit Smart Playlist".
2. Turn off "Live Updating".
3. Go to Device then Podcasts.
4. Option should show up to "Include Episodes from Playlist".
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In podcast, make sure "automatically include all unplayed" is not selected. You will need to pick select podcast only playlist to sync over.
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Installed latest itunes update and computer tried to burn a playlist to CD and realized computer no longer recognizes my CD/DVD drive. This is an APPLE Itunes issue. Help!. HPPavillion DV6 64 bit, windows 7

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Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
iTunes 10.6.3.25
QuickTime 7.7.2
FairPlay 1.14.43
Apple Application Support 2.1.9
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
VoiceOver Kit 1.4.2 (222093/222742)
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.2.0.6
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0043AC7C0368E428
Current user is not an administrator.
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iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
ATI Technologies Inc., AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
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iPodService 10.6.3.25 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.

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iTunes 10.6.3.25
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FairPlay 1.14.43
Apple Application Support 2.1.9
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.2.0.6
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
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Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
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ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon HD 6570
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iTunesHelper 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
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UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.2.0.1),
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Bug: iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 podcast smart playlist sort order and how to fix.

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