Help on Playlists

Hi,
I am trying to create playlist on itunes software using songs from my ipod? I can't seem to get the songs from my ipod to a playlist on my computer. Can anyone help?
Thanks much,
Brian

Hello Bill,
The ! next to the songs in iTunes means that the songs have either been moved or deleted from the iTunes music folder. If you click on one of those songs as if to play it, you will get a message stating that the file cannot be found and asking if you would like iTunes to locate the song. If you click "yes" and the songs are still on your computer someplace, then they should be found. Until they are back in the iTunes music folder, you will not be able to transfer them to the iPod.
See also: iTunes: Understanding the Symbols Next to Songs.

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Our computer crashed and once we were able to get it up and running again I was able to restore the music library; however I had a lot of playlists and I'm not sure how to restore them. I have most of the playlists on my iPod but have not sync'd it to my computer. Please help!

Do you have a backup copy of the itunes database ITL file before the crash?
Just put that on your PC , start iTUnes and immediately press & hold the shift key. Choose that restored ITL file when prompted.
There are some 3rd-party ipod managers that can retrieve playlists from iPods, if you don't have a copy of the ITL file..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_iPodmanagers

NEED PODCAST HELP AND PLAYLIST HELP!@#$

A)I just upgraded my 20 gig plain to 5g 30 gig. I downloaded video podcasts like nba playoffs and abc news(free you know). It comes up on my itunes library and I then dragged it onto the Ipod. It appears. Fine and good. Disconnect the ipod and its nowhere on the entire ipod. I read alot of forums before writing this and I tried alot but not working. Its set to tv out off and My video tab on ipod otions is grey because i use two comps and had to set songs to manual download.
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Welcome To Apple Discussions!
Make sure on your iTunes settings that you have your iPod on "Update Videos Automatically"(or something like that). IF it still doesnt work then I suggest that you simply reset the iPod or restore it.
Reseting iPod:
1. Press and hold the menu button + the center button
2. Wait untill the Apple logo appears.
Restoring the iPod:
Restoring iPod

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Welcome to  discussions!!!
Backup just backs up the music. It doesn't back up any of your settings.
Are you using an external HD?
If so;
Hold down the shift key the next time you launch iTunes. Select create library on the pop up window, and save it on your HD.
The next step can be done in a couple of ways.
1. Go to your music folder>iTunes>iTunes Music>right click>send to>navigate to the newly created library and select choose (or whatever windows says)
2. Open your internal iTunes library (hold down shift key>choose library>navigate to your internal music folder>iTunes>choose) Go to iTunes preferences>advanced>general. Change your iTunes music folder location to the location of the new library on your HD: Ext. HD>iTunes> Now go to advanced and consolidate library. You'll get a message that says "consolidating your iTunes library will copy all of your music to the iTunes Music Folder." Select Consolidate
or....
3. Open your newly created library, file>add to library>navigate to the iTunes Music folder on your internal HD and select choose.
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Need help getting playlist into flash drive

Hi friends ... so sorry to bother ... but I need some help ... my iPod Shuffle isn't compatible with my new cars audio system .... so I just bought my first usb flash drive (sandisk 8gig) ...I inserted the flash drive and it mounted right away on the desktop ... I just dragged all of the albums I wanted from my iTunes library to the flash drive icon .... I double clicked the flash icon and all the songs and every artist that I dragged into it showed up .... I inserted the flash into my car's usb port- and it played wonderfullyu... until I clicked on the menu and saw that instead of the 900 or so songs I dragged into the flash drive- only about 18 showed up in the audio systems menu ... only about 5 artists instead of the 30 or 40 that I loaded .... the flash drive is 8gig capacity and my entire library is only about 5 gigs .... I emptied all of the mpg's from my flash drive- threw out the trash ... and re-loaded everything again .... once again, when the transfer was finished , everything I dragged into the flash icon was there- every tune played as it shoud when clicked within the desk-mounted flash drive .... but when I inserted again into my cars usb port- once again only a fraction of what was on the flash drive showed up on my screen ...
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong ...The flash drive never appeared in my iTunes window anywhere and under "devices" there was no option highlighted- maybe this is a clue to what I haven't done right? this was the first time I ever used a usb flash drive..I didn't format or anything else -when the flash icon showed up on my desktop - I just intuitively dragged my playlist into the icon - everything appeared to be in there ... but didn't end up in my car's audio system .... please advise .... please advise as simply as possible .... much thanks in advance ....
David

David,
Ther flash drive will not be a recognized Device to iTunes. It will simply be another drive. You can add files to it by drag-n-drop, as you correctly did.
Most likely, you have many files in AAC audio format, and your car player is one of the many that can play MP3, but not AAC.
If you need to convert any formats, consult this document:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Save a copy of a song in a new file format
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12167

Please help, bootcache.playlist error, impossible to boot

Hi all,
My iMac (Intel, Mavericks) freezes during startup,(gray screen with the apple, and the spinning circle).
So, in order to find the origin of this blockage, I booted in "verbose" mode (cmd+v), and I found the following error:
BootCacheControl: could not unlink playlist /var/db/BootCache.playlist: Read-only file system
launch_msg("SetUserEnvironment"): Socket is not connected
launch_msg("SetUserEnvironment"): Socket is not connected
launch_msg(): Socket is not connected
I need expert help because I do not know what to do ...
Is it possible to reset this file ?
I hope someone can help me, thank you..!

Take each of these steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved.
Step 1
The first step in dealing with a boot failure is to secure your data. If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since your last backup, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
a. Boot into the Recovery partition, or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) When the OS X Utilities screen appears, launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
b. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
c. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.
Step 2
Sometimes a boot failure can be resolved by resetting the NVRAM.
Step 3
If you use a wireless keyboard, trackpad, or mouse, replace or recharge the batteries. The battery level shown in the Bluetooth menu item may not be accurate.
Step 4
If there's a built-in optical drive, a disc may be stuck in it. Follow these instructions to eject it.
Step 5
Press and hold the power button until the power shuts off. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed to boot, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Use a different keyboard and/or mouse, if those devices are wired. If you can boot now, one of the devices you disconnected, or a combination of them, is causing the problem. Finding out which one is a process of elimination.
If you've booted from an external storage device, make sure that your internal boot volume is selected in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
Step 6
Boot in safe mode. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
When you boot in safe mode, it's normal to see a dark gray progress bar on a light gray background. If the progress bar gets stuck for more than a few minutes, or if the system shuts down automatically while the progress bar is displayed, your boot volume is corrupt and the drive is probably malfunctioning. In that case, go to Step 6.
If you can boot and log in now, empty the Trash, and then open the Finder Info window on your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) Check that you have at least 9 GB of available space, as shown in the window. If you don't, copy as many files as necessary to another volume (not another folder on the same volume) and delete the originals. Deletion isn't complete until you empty the Trash again. Do this until the available space is more than 9 GB. Then reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode.)
If the boot process hangs again, the problem is likely caused by a third-party system modification that you installed. Post for further instructions.
Step 7
Launch Disk Utility in Recovery mode (see Step 1.) Select your startup volume, then run Repair Disk. If any problems are found, repeat until clear. If Disk Utility reports that the volume can't be repaired, the drive has malfunctioned and should be replaced. You might choose to tolerate one such malfunction in the life of the drive. In that case, erase the volume and restore from a backup. If the same thing ever happens again, replace the drive immediately.
This is one of the rare situations in which you should also run Repair Permissions, ignoring the false warnings it may produce. Look for the line "Permissions repair complete" at the end of the output. Then reboot as usual.
Step 8
Reinstall the OS. If your Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade.
Step 9
Repeat Step 6, but this time erase the boot volume in Disk Utility before installing. The system should automatically reboot into the Setup Assistant. Follow the prompts to transfer your data from a Time Machine or other backup.
Step 10
This step applies only to older Macs (not current models) that have a logic-board ("PRAM") battery. Both desktop and portable Macs used to have such a battery. The logic-board battery, if there is one, is separate from the main battery of a portable. A dead logic-board battery can cause a boot failure. Typically the failure will be preceded by loss of the settings for the startup disk and system clock. See the user manual for replacement instructions. You may have to take the machine to a service provider to have the battery replaced.
Step 11
If you get this far, you're probably dealing with a hardware fault. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider.

Pls help with playlist

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You don't mention how you are converting the videos, might be helpful. Have not done it myself but I do know iPod requires very specific settings.
From iPod specifications
Video
* H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
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Help restoring playlist on iTunes

Hope someone here can help.
I was weeding through a playlist on iTunes, deleting some podcasts in anticipation of updating it on my iPhone, when the entire playlist disappeared.
I still have the playlist on my iPhone, but I am hesitant to try to synch my iPhone till I'm sure that the playlist won't be deleted.
What do I need to do to restore the playlist?
I'm running iTunes 8.2.1 with, I think, OS 3.0.1 on my iPhone.
Thanks --
Susan

Nobody replied here, but I found the answer from slapphappe, so I wanted to post it here in case anyone else has had this question:
http://slapphappe.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/how-to-recover-an-itunes-playlist/
The gist of it is to create a new on-the-go playlist on your iPhone, then select the entire playlist that was deleted on Itunes (but still resides on your iPhone) so that you re-create that playlist.
Hope this helps someone else. I'm very grateful to slapphappe for posting that and to have recovered my playlist!

Help deleted playlist!!!!

I deleted my recently added playlist by mistake. I only wanted to delete the items in it, as they all had the same track #. I looked in my recycle bin but could not find it. I attempted to add it as a smart playlist and keep getting a popup basically saying can't do.
I looked in this forum but could not find anything similiar.
Can anybody help me out?

You cannot add/delete songs from a smart playlist. iTunes does it based on the criteria you select.
Create a new Smart playlist.
Match Rule;
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Help with playlist genre separation, please?

I loaded songs, books, comedy, some meditations on my touch (3rd gen, 32 GB), the problem is that they are all in the mix when I press music- songs, comedy, audiobooks (that are not audible). So I get a song, then an excerpt from a book or a comedy CD, and I cannot figure out how to fix this. This is my first iPod, so I am new to all this but it's making me nuts and I would appreciate any help. Thank you for your time, Cindy

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HELP! - Playlist Gone and cannot sync :(

Last night I went to update my iPod and suddenly it started removing the songs from the Playlist I had to put on called "Selection for iPod" and then it said:
"Songs on the iPod "Name" cannot be synced because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist."
How do I remake/get these back?
Thank you

Open iTunes and create a playlist to update your iPod from, call it -My iPod for example (the dash will position it at the top of the playlists in Sources). You can make it a smart playlist that picks the songs for you or just a normal one and drag whatever content you want to have into the playlist. If you are making a smart playlist limit it to just less than the size of your iPod (for example 3700MB for a 4G iPod Nano. Now connect your iPod and when it appears in the Source list click on the iPod icon to bring up the preference tabs in the main pane. Go to the Music tab and choose Sync Music and the Selected playlists radio button. Choose the playlist you just made from the selection and click Apply. You can also sync from any existing playlists by choosing the same setting, you just need to make sure that the size of the playlists don't exceed the capacity of your iPod:
iTunes: Creating playlists of your favorite songs
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Syncing Music to iPod
To make a random playlist go to File>New Smart Playlist.
Uncheck "Match the following rule"
Check "Limit to" put "3700" in the number box, choose "MB" from the first list box, choose "Random" from the next list box. Check "Live Updating"
When you want to change the selection in the smart playlist just delete everything in it and it will add a new selection. When you want to change the normal playlist just delete out what you don't want and drag in a new selection.

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I cannot make playlists for some reason. When I drag a song from my library to one of my playlists there is a circle sign with a diagonal slash through it and it won't copy into the folder. Right clicking on a song does not give me to option to add it to a playlist either. Any suggestions to fix this?

Did you create the playlist with File > New Playlist? That would make it a regular Playlist.
If by any chance you are talking about a Smart Playlist, rather than a regular Playlist, you cannot add stuff to it, since Smart Playlists fill up automatically according to their criteria.

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I have almost 3,000 .mp3's, but when I use Sync manager, it only finds about 500 of them for my Zen Vision:M. All my songs are in my iTunes folder, but that shouldn't matter. Any ideas?
Actually, I found a way to make playlists on my Zen by dragging files from my iTunes playlist into the playlist creator in Media Explorer. Problem is, if I want to make multiple playlists in this manner with some overlap of songs, Media Explorer loads the overlapped songs twice on my Zen, which is no good. Is there any way to avoid this?
Sigh, I should have bought an iPod... or at least a Mac, so I could sync my Zen with iTunes. I wish someone would write a program for Zen/Windows/iTunes sync.
This is what I get for going against the grain - inconvenience. :/

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
What is the specific message displayed as it fails, and what does your HotSync log say about the failed event? Also, who is your wireless carrier and did they provide this particular device to you?

Need help with playlists and iTunes Match

I recently subscribed to Match, and once the music was all synced, my playlists were gone from my iPad2 (version 6.0.1). If I create a new playlist on the iPad, it will sync to my Mac, and all will be available on the Mac, but none sync back to my iPad. Do I have to recreate all new playlists for the iPad? Thank you. Greg

To add to the above, only the new playlist folder on iPad2 will sync to iMac...it will be empty though, no songs.

Help sharing playlists

I make a lot of playlist compilations that I like to share with others. This is my music, not music purchased from the iTunes store. I set up the colums to show song title, artist and album (the album is what I name my compilation). When I send my compilations to others (I use wetransfer.com) they run into trouble when importing to their iTunes. Specifically, within the playlist some of the artists appear but some don't. Same thing with the album. Sometimes it apears and sometimes it doesn't. When I set up my playist I go to get info and check that the songs are part of a compilation. They appear just fine on my computer and on my ipod, but not when I send them and people try to import into iTunes. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

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