Interleave smart and "dumb" playlists in iTunes window
Under the "PLAYLISTS" heading in my iTunes window, all the smart playlists are listed first, with the regular, "dumb" playlists at the bottom. That's different from the default listing on my iPod, where all playlists are sorted by name regardless of ... well, smartness or dumbness, for lack of better terms. So I've given a few important playlists (some smart, some dumb) special names, so they jump to the top of the list on my iPod, and it works great.
How can I mimic the sort order I see on my iPod in iTunes? It would be more convenient to manage those playlists if they were sorted by name, and with the icons designating which playlists are smart I don't imagine it would be too confusing.
Ok. This is driving me mad.
I turned iTunes Match on in November 13 and everything ran (sort of fine). I can get over the fact that if I play anything on my iPad or iPhone 5 then the play count never updates.
My main problem is to do with smart playlists and normal playlists.
The recently added smart playlist has frozen. So on my MacBook it works fine and refreshes as it should but on my iPad it refuses to update. So I'm stuck with a playlist from several moths ago.
The other main smart playlist (recently played) refreshes find on the iPad.
Secondly some of my manual playlists will not sync to iPad.
I've tried disabling and enabling iTunes Match on my iPad but with no luck.
Any hints or help?
Thanks.
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