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Going slightly nuts here.
As the title says, iPhone 4S, running iOS 7.0.4, syncing against iTunes for Windows 11.1.3.8 which AFAIK is the latest and greatest. The iOS install is 2 days old as there was some major screwy things going on with the Music app. There still seems to be. The iOS install is also after I quit iTunes Match, so neither the iTunes nor the iPhone are set for Match.
I have a Smart Playlist (SPL) defined in iTunes, "To Rate" that is defined as "Media Kind = Music, Rating = (no stars), limit 25 selected by random" - no other criteria. In iTunes, the SPL shows 25 items.
Right now, that is the ONLY Music SPL that I have set to sync to the iPhone.
When connected for syncing, still in iTunes under the "Devices" section, the SPL on the iPhone also shows all 25 items.
* If I view the SPL on the iPhone, 7 out of 25 items show up. Earlier it was 1/25, but I deleted the old SPL in case there was something wrong there, so when I recreated it, it got a new random 25 items.
* If I view "Songs" in the Music app on the iPhone, all the songs are there.
So for some reason the SPL is not working correctly - which is annoying, as it's that SPL I play through sometimes to rate songs I haven't already rated.
A second oddity is that during my attempts to troubleshoot this, I disabled Music syncing to the iPhone completely. Every song except one was removed, so with Music sync turned off, there was still a song there. I'm relatively certain it's not Match screwing with me since it's a song I know is sourced from CD.
So folks, any ideas what the heck is going on?

More confusion here...
Homesharing started working on Thanksgiving Day. I made no changes to settings in iTunes, my iPhone or my home network. It just started working.
Then, the next day, it stopped.
Apple, are you out there?

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