How to recover a playlist on iTunes 12?

I accidentally deleted a playlist of mine when I wasn't paying attention and going for a song to delete.
I have checked other Questions and they all relate to iTunes 11 not 12, I have tried importing the iTunes Music Library.XML file again, which brought up a lot of old playlist I hadn't seen in ages but not the deleted one.
I still have the playlist on my phone and can stopped it from syncing so it won't get wiped and have done a "Back up".
On the iTunes 11 questions I saw that you can right click on the playlist whilst in the device or file menu and export it, in 12 I can't see that option in either.
Anyone know how to export a playlist from your iPhone on iTunes 12, or how to get the "Back Up" to import playlist from that?
It took me days to create :/
Thanks

Steve Taylor1 wrote:
Assuming you do not have the Sidebar visible then
View > Show Sidebar
Right click on the playlist name to the left and the option of Burn to disc is there
That's the way I'd do it. However, it's still easy enough without the Sidebar visible by default. Click on the Playlists button on top, which will bring up a Playlists Sidebar. (That seems to be the Apple Way: limit the choices depending on what "View" you're in. My feeling is that in many cases, less is less. It's confusing and user-unfriendly.)
Besides the right-click method, which is the easiest, one can also select a Playlist and click on File > Burn Playlist to Disc from the top menu, or click on the gear icon at the bottom of the Sidebar, then choose the burn option.
In its infinite wisdom, Apple has decided that so few people burn CDs nowadays that the function doesn't deserve its own icon to make the process obvious. If I were the UI designer, I would have made a clickable CD icon appear at the top when a blank CD is inserted.

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