IPad music smart playlist sort

I have a problem with the sort order of smart playlists being different than the computer I am synching with? Any ideas?. I hav ipad2 synced with an iMac 27" running lion. Any help very much appreciated

it's a bug, but here's the workaround:
at the bottom of the playlist, select "Limit to [however many] items selected by [choose the order you prefer].
• by "limiting" to a high number of items or GB, you won't be limiting the playlist at all.
• to sort alphabetically, choose "selected by name." (or whatever other option you want).
after doing this, you shouldn't see any change to the items displayed in the smart playlist in itunes. however, the playlist will now sync properly to your idevices. :-)

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It seems that Apple continues to ignore the problem with the music smart playlists... IT'S A SHAME!!! What's the point in getting an iPod/iPhone that doesen't work as it should???
WAKE UP APPLE!!!
Regards.

For the n thousandth time (not to you obviously) , Apple do not read posts like yours, and almost never read anything unless they are pointed to it by a high level member. Then only for deletion ....
They have jobs to do trying to get problems solved which are reported in the proper way, and random venting by people who have caps lock stuck on just gets ignored.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Hi zentralorgan,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
From your post I understand that you are trying to AirPlay from an iPad to multiple AirPlay outputs. This feature requires iTunes on a computer, and cannot be done on an iOS device. Since you have iTunes Match, your music should still be the same on your computer as your iPad.
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iTunes: About playing music with AirPlay - Apple Support
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Smart playlist sort order issue

I'm having an issue sorting a smart playlist. I've searched through other questions on here but can't find the identical issue.
I've created a smart playlist that contains the contents of two other smart playlists. I've tried to sort this list by 'name', by clicking on the arrow in the column heading, but the list still leaves the two playlists separately, ie. it sorts each original playlist separately, and then puts one after the other in the play order.
I have other smart playlists constucted in the same way, and have no issues with them, and I can't see what the difference is with this one!
I'm using 11.0.4.4, on a Windows 7 PC.

I am also having the same problem. Running the newest iTunes and iPhone software my smart playlists are not working correctly. My "Recently Added" is correct in iTunes, and if I look at the playlist on my iPhone info in iTunes it is correct there, but the actual playlist on my iPhone is populated entirely with audiobook files. I have tried deleting and recreating the playlist which gives the same results. I have also specified that items within the playlist should be music files only and still get the same results.
I have a playlist that's Top 50 Most Played that's also not behaving properly (ie correct in iTunes but not on my iPhone).
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Is there any way to layer sort in a smart playlist in Itunes?
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Its a daily radio show. The way I deal with it now is to sort by release day then drop the tracks in the correct order into a normal playlist.
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Hi guys, i have cracked it!!
Ok, manage music manually on your iphone, plug into your computer in itunes to do all this
. In each playlist, Sort by date added latest date at top of page
. On yr iphone, make a new playlist, call it ie: chill 2 or pop 2 etc
. Grab the chill playlist from iphone playlist and drag all into chill 2 folder
. Delete chill playlist from iphone
. Rename chill 2 playlist to be 'chill' same name as itunes playlist so it can sync when you sync again
I did this with all my playlists, within the iphone itself whilst connected to computer itunes, now on my iphone, i see all my playlists as date added not alphabetical!!
This has annoyed me for ages!! So glad i cracked it!! Found no answers on the internet, but so many people asking!!
Cheers and goodluck
Cass

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Confirming this incredibly annoying bug. Basic list sorting not working... real bottom shelf work apple.
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Smart playlist sort by "where"

I am a PowerBook user who has limited hard drive space. Thus, most of my music is on an external hard drive at home, and a select few albums are stored on my PowerBook for emergency music needs.
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Restoring the "Classical Music" smart playlist

At some point I must have deleted the specially formatted "Classical Music" playlist that appeared in iTunes 9, probably because I had like two pieces of classical music on my laptop and didn't need the playlist taking up real estate (I left it on another computer). Well, now I've got more on this computer and I'd like it back.
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To roll back to iTunes 10.7 first download a copy of the installer from here, uninstall iTunes and suppporting software, i.e. Apple Application Support & Apple Mobile Device Support. Reboot. Restore the pre-upgrade version of your library database as per the diagram below, then install iTunes 10.7.
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Hey,
Has anyone else noticed, Smart Playlists are now sorted in the correct order on the Apple TV? If you make a Top 40 most played in iTunes, the number 1 song now shows up at the top of the list on the Apple TV, rather than at the bottom.
A small detail, but glad to see Apple finally "sorted" it out.

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I upgraded the iTunes (v7.0.0.70) and iPod nano (v1.2) Operating System last week and found several mistakes:
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2- When I pause and sleep the podcast, when starting up again, the resume makes the podcast play at FAST Speed
3- My Calendar from Outlook does not synch into the Nano
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It is a problen with my nano, not the itunes or the PC. Only plays one podcast in my smart playlist (Say I have it programmed to play "News"), but not in the music Smart Playlist where it plays the all.
Please help. Thanks,

IPad music smart playlist sort

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