Creating playlists on iOS devices with iTunes match

I made a playlist on my iPad with songs that had yet to be downloaded from the cloud and then I chose the option of 'download all.' the songs all downloaded but do not appear in the playlist. I can probably go back through and add them individually but I'm wondering if there is a more efficient way to do this. Also, on my iPhone, the playlist appeared, but without any songs. And- is there a fast way to delete all music from my iPhone and iPad? I'm trying to save space so I want to delete everything and download it as needed. Thanks.

You can delete all music at once by going to Settings > General > Usage and tapping Music. Swipe across the Music entry and tap the Delet button.
What were the criteria you used to create the playlist on your iPad? That may have something to do with why songs don't show up in the playlist after you download them.

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How do I sync iTunes playlists on my iPhone with iTunes Match?

My experience with iTunes Match so far has been mixed. On one hand, the face of iTunes on one computer to the next is virtually identical, and the streming over the wi-fi from the laptop at work to my home computer is perfect. At the same time, iTunes Match on my iPhone seems terrible. Playlists don't sync and are deleted from my iPhone. Songs that are already on my phone, for some reason, still make my phone spin and drain my battery life. Even after disabling the "allow cellular data over 3G" message, or whatever it is, is turned off, still the phone keeps spinning and draining battery life. So, in one sense, iTunes Match is nice because I can access my music from multiple computers, but in another, the mobile connection - which should be awesome and seemless - is terrible. Is there a way, aside from turning iTunes Match off, syncing manually to iTunes, and loading my playlists like the old way (which isn't a perfect science now, either)...Basically, how can I sync my playlists from iTunes on my computer to iTunes on my iPhone using iTunes Match?

With iTunes Match enabled on an iOS device direct syncing with iTunes via USB or Wi Fi is disabled. To sync in the traditional way iTM must be disabled on the iOS device. At this time is it either/or.

Is there any way to have playlists of podcasts on a device with itunes Match?

I use a playlist to organize my podcasts on my iPhone. This enables me to listen to all unplayed episodes without having to keep choosing a new one. However, when I turn iTunes Match on on the phone, the playlist disappears from the phone. The podcasts from the playlist still come over. Additionally, once iTunes Match is on, I also cannot add podcasts to any plylist - new or existing. Does anyone have anyideas on how to resolve this? Or is it something Apple needs to fix in the next iteration of iOS?

You could try using the Custom Geometry extension and see how that works for you. ''I have been having problems with it on WinXP since Firefox 4.0 was released last year, maybe it will work better for you on Windows7.''
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-geometry/
In Options for that extension setup additional Custom Geometry options ''(height, width, left, & top)'' with different offsets, and when you open an additional window use the drop-marker on the CG toolbar button to select the offset you want for that new window.
That drop-marker menu hasn't been working properly on my PC, but I use still use CG when running multiple Profiles - each with a different offset, so that I have access at the edge of the current window to "grab" another Profile when I want.

Greyed Out Tracks When Synching iOS device with iTunes Library

I am no longer able to sync new tracks added to my iTunes library with any of my iOS devices. Any new purchases I have made from the iTunes store as well as any MP3 files that I have brought into my iTunes library manually are being transferred to my iPhone or iPod Touch. The tracks are listed but are greyed out and cannot be played.
Sorry if this was resolved somewhere else. I saw a really old thread on this topic in one of the discussion areas but some of the advice appeared to be outdated given newer versions of iTunes that have come out since then.
Thanks!

Sorry, iTunes v. 12.1.1.4

Can't find ios devices with itunes anymore?

Hi! i have an ipad air and an iphone 5s and run windows 8.1.
Normally both my ipad and my iphone connect to itunes through wifi so i can put music on it, delete apps or put comics on it or whatever. But suddenly yesterday it stoppet working and now my itunes can't even find ios devices when i plug it in the computer by USB? Everything is fully updated and i tried reinstalling itunes and reset my devices and use a different usb port.
MY computer can find them via USB so i can look at my pictures from "my computer".
please help anyone :-)

Hello ErdalDK,
It sounds like you are unable to see your devices either via Wi-Fi or when connected with a USB cable. I recommend the troubleshooting from the following article named:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
If that does not resolve the issue, I would recommend re installing iTunes again, but also its associated apps. The following article will walk you through that if needed:
Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1923
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

Album artwork not on ios device after iTunes Match

Still figurng out this iTunes Match. after importing a CD, updating iTunes Match from my laptop, the songs will download to my ios device but not the album art.

Its frustrating i know but just wait for it to update it will eventually. Especially if you've updated a large number of items on match in one go. i just purchased match and updated 6777 items, they are slowly updating. Sit tight!!

Authorizing more than 5 devices with iTunes Match

iTunes Match is working fine on my home Mac Mini and my iPhone/iPad.
According to the documentation on the sign-up page, iTunes Match is supposed to support 10 authorized devices. But when I try to auth my work Mac, I get an error saying I have more than 5 authorized devices (the old limit for the iTunes Store). BTW, some of these must be old computers no longer in use.
I followed the steps on this page to no avail:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4913
I am afraid to de-authorize all devices and start from scratch since things seem to be buggy now. Any other ideas?

Their documentation is wrong in some spots. The limit is 10 devices total but only five computers. You should be able to do "deauthorize all computers" under your account in the iTunes store to free up the ones on old retired computers.

With iTunes Match, does each library you enable on the same computer count as separate device?

I have four iTunes libraries on my Mac, my main iTunes library, one for Christmas, one for Christian, and one for CDs. Additionally, my husband and daughter each have their own computers with a single library on each. Since we are only allowed 10 devices with iTunes Match (per Apple ID), including computers, I need to know if each of my four libraries on my Mac will count as a separate device if I enable each of them for Match. If so, this would cause us to exceed the maximum number of devices needed for all of us.
Also, if I use Match for all four of my libraries, is there any way to maintain my separate libraries without having everything from all of them end up intermingled with each other? If not, I suppose I may as well consolidate my other three libraries with my main library.

All the libraries you add to Match are merged together, so you may as well consolidate them.
In that case I assume that the first question becomes irrelevant, but I will try to answer it anyway. Whilst you are allowed 10 devices, only 5 of them can be computers. However, it does state "devices" rather than libraries, so I think that each computer would only count as one even if you have more than one library.
I haven't got multiple libraries on the same computer though, so my assumption may be wrong. If so I'm sure someone will correct me.

HT204406 Hard Drive wiped out - Can I rebuild the library with iTunes Match?

My hard drive and external back of my entire music library (15,000+ songs) were completely deleted. I would like to recover this in some way other than loading each single CD one at a time again. I have iTunes Match so I was wondering if there is someway for me to rebuild my library via download from the cloud or something so that I can maintain a new physical copy of the files on my computer again? Or will I have to do this from my iPod?

Hello Mclary101,
Thanks for your question! Im sorry to hear about your computer but it sounds like you had iTunes Match turned on before this happened. You should be able to use this article to get your music in iTunes Match re downloaded:
iTunes: How to add a computer or iOS device to iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4913
To add a computer to iTunes Match
Open the latest version of iTunes on the computer you intend to add. You can download the latest version of iTunes here.
Sign in with the Apple ID you use with iTunes Match.
Choose Store > Turn On iTunes Match.
Click the Add This Computer button.
When prompted, enter your Apple ID password.
iTunes will automatically begin scanning your computer's library for matches.
A status indicator will allow you to track progress. You may also manually pause and resume the process at any time by clicking the Stop or Start button.
Once iTunes has completed matching and uploading your iTunes library, your music in iCloud will be integrated into your local music library. A download button will appear to the right of any content that you have in iCloud that doesn't already exist on your computer.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

With itunes match live on my iOS devices, can I now remove all local music files from my PC to free up space? There's no need to keep it if it will always be in the cloud. Right?

With itunes match live on my iOS devices, can I now remove all local music files from my PC to free up space? There's no need to keep it if it will always be in the cloud. Right?

With itunes match live on my iOS devices, can I now remove all local music files from my PC to free up space? There's no need to keep it if it will always be in the cloud. Right?

Very slow music download with iTunes match on iOS devices

For some time now I experience very slow performance downloading music with iTunes match on my iOS devices.
Downloading music takes ages now. Not so long ago download music with iTunes match was as fast as buying music from the iTunes Store.
I tried to restore my iPhone but nothing changed.
The download itself is quite fast but after that the blue progress bar is full and the statut is "en cours" (french) something like busy/ongoing in english . The other tracks have a status wating;
Any idea how to solve the issue?
Thanks

Same here. It seems to be better when the device has been set up from scratch. A delete and restore does not the trick. So I learned to live with it

How To : Sync playlists from iOS device back to itunes - Windows

How To : How To : Sync playlists from iOS device back to itunes - Windows (May work on Mac too)
NOTE - THIS WILL ONLY WORK IF YOU HAVE THE MUSIC FILES ON THE COMPUTER ALREADY
If your like me and format your computers only to discover that you've lost all those time consuming playlists that you spent hours on, well your in luck.
Without any Third-Pary programs it's possible to save those awesome playlists, and pull them back from the blink of oblivion.
Step 1 - Connect iDevice to your computer and then open iTunes.
Step 2 - Locate your iDevice on the left side bar on iTunes under the heading 'Devices', click the arrow on the left of the devices name and select a playlist.
Step 3 - Right-Click the selected playlist and choose 'Export playlist', Save it as a Text file.
Step 4 - In iTunes, up the top click 'File' then locate Library, move across to 'Import Playlist...', Select the playlist you just created and click open.
Step 5 - Your playlist will appear on the left side bar under the heading 'Playlists', Select the playlist and attempt to play one of the songs contained.
Step 6 - You would have been prompted that iTunes doesnt see the file, select 'Locate' and then go to the location of your music and locate the file.
(Sorry dont have an image for this one due to having all my music already found)
Step 7 - Doing this once will find all the music in the playlist given that it's in a similar location of the song you found.
Congrats you have successfully moved a playlist back from oblivion

There's a different method.
1. On iTunes -> Devices -> <your device> -> Summary -> Check Manually manage music and videos.
2. On iTunes -> Devices -> <your device> -> Summary -> uncheck Manually manage music and videos.
done.

If I download a song, album or playlist from iCloud to an iTunes Match enable device, can I delete the download at a later date if I need to free up memory on the device?

If I download a song, album or playlist from iCloud to an iTunes Match enable device, can I delete the download at a later date if I need to free up memory on the device?

Hi,
Yes.
JIm

ITunes Match info says"With iTunes Match, you can download some or all of your music directly from iCloud on a total of up to 10 devices and computers." but when I try to add a computer it tells me i have reached my maximum of 5 computers.

iTunes Match info says"With iTunes Match, you can download some or all of your music directly from iCloud on a total of up to 10 devices and computers." but when I try to add a computer it tells me i have reached my maximum of 5 computers.

You have old computers authorized that you are no longer using more than likely.
From http://www.apple.com/itunes/features/
Authorize and Deauthorize
Purchases you make from the iTunes Store can be played on up to five computers that you authorize using your iTunes Store account name and password. To authorize or deauthorize a single computer, choose Authorize This Computer or Deauthorize This Computer from the Store menu. If all five authorizations are being used, you can deauthorize all your computers at one time by choosing View My Account from the Store menu and selecting Deauthorize All.
You can then restart the authorization process with each current device.

I can not update or restore any ios device with my iTunes in my macbook but I can with my pc, why?

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Creating playlists on iOS devices with iTunes match

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