Custom playlists

The content in my custom playlists keeps disappearing, usually after an iTunes update. Does anyone else have this problem?

Click a playlist and select 'Export Song List...' from the File menu.
Preferred file format is .xml (although .txt also seems to work well).
On the 'other' computer select 'Import...' from the File menu and navigate to the .xml file you created.
You have to do this procedure for every single playlist.
The playlists are in the 'iTunes Library' file (more info about the library files here) and you cannot batch-export them.
You could also try to import the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file from 'host' to 'other'. This will normally reveal all playlists from the 'host'.
Hope this helps.
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