ITunes match creating 100s of playlists with no content

Since upgrading (?) to itunes match I know have hundreds of playlists that iIdid not create.They hav eno content in theM.
Tre all titled "Gen" and they thave slowed my itunes down to a crawl and are immposable to delete.
any ideas?

Yes, I suggest you do a search of the forum, or just look to the right column on this page for "more like this". You should be able to come up with postings by other people who have had the same problem, as well as some possible solutions.

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ITunes Match creates hundrets of Playlists

Hello!
since I use iTunes Match I have a big Problem: iTunes created more then 500 Playlists. My MacBook Air and my iPhone 4 are always stucking when I start them because they are trying to load all these lists. After more then 10 Minutes my MacBook Air shows me all the Playlists. In every Playlist are all of my Tracks (around 1000), so my Mac is very much to load. 1000 Tracks*500 Playlist is a lot stuff! Is it able to delete all of them with a trick or do I really have to delete them all seperate?
Thanks for your answers! Regards, Heiner

Now I downloaded a tool to delete them all with one klick. It always stucks because it counts more then 69.000 Playlists.
iTunes Match really needs to get optimised!

ITunes Match song counts in Playlists

I have created Genius playlists on my Mac with 100 tracks. I also have iTunes Match enabled on my iPhone 5, with the setting to show all tracks. I then downloaded the saved Genius playlist. On the iPhone, when I scroll to the very bottom of the playlist it reads "62 songs" instead of the 100 that I expected. I switched my view under Sharing to see my computer library and was able to view all 100 tracks from the playlist.
What would cause iTunes Match to only show 62 tracks on my iPhone but 100 tracks actually being in the playlist? This has happened to me on all smart or genius playlists. The old school playlist (not Smart or Genius) have the track counts in sync.

iTunes Match has consistently had issues with Smart Playlists since launch. Copying the Songs you like to a standard playlist is an easy fix.
iTunes Match is good at many things but certainly not all - this is a known shortfall.

Itunes Auto-Creates Duplicates of Playlists

Hello, I'm having a problem with my iTunes / iPod. Every time I connect my iPod, iTunes automatically creates new Smart Playlists named "Audiobooks", "Movies", "Music", and "TV Shows" on my iPod. This is getting really annoying since I have to manually delete them each time. But the worst part is that last time I plugged it in, I didn't delete the playlists since I was in a rush. Now, when I just plugged my iPod in, it created an ADDITIONAL set of smart playlists, meaning that now there's "Audiobooks", "Audiobooks", "Movies", "Movies", "Music", "Music", "TV Shows", and "TV Shows". How do I stop iTunes from doing this?

Now I downloaded a tool to delete them all with one klick. It always stucks because it counts more then 69.000 Playlists.
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Itunes match has removed my playlists from itunes and my iphone. Not only that, many of the songs 'matched' on itunes do not show up on my iphone. Seriously annoyed, wish I'd never paid for it

Please read the title; itunes match has removed my playlists on itunes and iphone and the songs that are supposedly 'matched' on itunes are not showing up on my iphone.
Any Really annoyed about this

iTunes Match does not have the ability to remove local files.
The service operates by comparing the selected iTunes Library with the iTunes Store content and 'matching' or 'uploading' - it is very straightforward a 'match' provides equivalent access to iTunes Store content as a recognised 'purchase'; upload simply copies a 256k AAC variant into the cloud. There are no elements of this activity that can erase the local library content.
Would suggest you explore possible alternative causes of file loss. Given the pattern described of selective deletion, leaving many Songs intact - would suggest making at least 2 secure offline Song file backups and starting the library again from a fresh install of iTunes once a thorough sweep of the system has been completed for virus. It is also worth assessing the physical security of the system - who has access & with what privileges.
To access Songs from the cloud, you would have to manually delete the Song from the library or open an empty library - so even when accessing content, iTunes Match provides no local deletion capability.

Can I purchase and turn on iTunes match from my iPhone 5 with out a computer? And if so how?

Can I purchase and turn on iTunes Match from my iPhone 5 with out a computer? And if so how?

You can't do it from your phone. If they are iTunes purchased songs then you should be able to copy them to your laptop via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases. For music from other sources, anf i you haven't got them on your backup of your library, then you will need a third-party program on your computer to copy them back - there are some listed half-way down this page which might work : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
You might also find this page for syncing to a new computer useful : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

ITunes Match: There was a problem with your payment type.

This Morning i received the following email from apple regarding my itunes match account.
I have no idea why this has happened, i am now worried of loosing all my music.
I have itunes match set for AUTORENEWAL, and there ist enough credit on my itunes store account.
Does anyone have an answer to this?
Would be greatful for help.
Thanks in advance
iTunes Match: There was a problem with your payment type.
There was a problem with your payment type that prevented the automatic renewal of your subscription to iTunes Match. To renew your subscription and to regain the ability to store your entire music collection on iCloud and enjoy it on your iOS devices, iTunes, and Apple TV, you will need to update your payment information. iTunes Match stores not only your songs purchased on the iTunes Store, but all of the other great music you have acquired over the years, including music from CDs.
To update your payment information or manage your subscription, sign in to iTunes on your computer and go to your Account Information page. Your matched and uploaded tracks will be removed from iCloud in 90 days, so renew your subscription now and keep all of your music in the cloud so you can listen to it anytime, anywhere.
Regards,
The iTunes Store team

I tried calling but they are closed in bservance of holiday. I want to resolve this issue now please via Internet so that I can resume my game. Thx very much for your help. Can u guide me thought this or email me the instructions as to how to resolve this step by step. It appears to me that there must have been a past billing issue.

To create 3 diff files with same content but with diff names in same target

Hi SapAll.
i have got a a requirement where pi need to create 3 different files with same content but with different names under same target from a single Idoc.
its an IDOC to 3 File Inteface.
can any body help me in providing the differnt solutions for this without use of any script executions.
will be waiitng for response.
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> i want to use only one communication channel to produce 3 different file names with same content ,so here i should use only one message mapping in 3 operation mappings .
This is not possible to produce 3 different file names with single CC. You have to use 3 different CCs. unless you have going to use some other trick e.g some script to rename the file etc..
As I suggested in my previous reply use Multi-Mapping Or create 3 different Interface Mappings (by using the same MM).
Note: You have to create 3 different Inbound Message Interfaces (you can use the same Inbound Message Type) otherwise while creating the 3 Interface Determination it won't allow because of same Outbound & Inbound Message Interface. It will simply say Interface alreday exists..
So, just use the Multi-Mapping which is best solution in my opinion, because the benefit of using multi-mapping are:
1. You have to create only single Message Mapping
2. Single Interface Mapping
3. Single Receiver Determination
4. Single Interface Determination
5. 3 Receiver CCs (3 you have to use in any case)
6. Performance wise it is good (read the blog's last 2 para)
7. And last but not the least easy to maintain the scenario.

My iTunes is creating duplicates of playlists and hanging up. running latest version of lion, and iTunes using match and iCloud. please help. I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes. deleted all library files and is doing same thing.

I am runing lion and latest version of itunes. I have match on, home sharing on and using icloud. my itunes started hanging up and required me to force quit. then upon restart of itunes and restart of computer itunes would take upwards of 15 minutes to open and was using >90% of CPU and would be lagging in response if responding at all one of the playlists I had created on my ipad had over a hundred copies of the same playlist. after repeated restarts I uninstaled itunes and reinstalled. this didnt rectify the problem. I assumed library file had somehow become corrupt so I deleted library files, reimported all my music and synced with genius and match. and let the computer go over night. when I woke in morning all my music was back but I had all the extra playlists again and itunes is hogging all the cpu and was minimally responsive and hanging up after each click.
I thought this might be a virus or something but installed ESET cypersecurity did a complet scan with no threats found. I am at a total loss and do not know where to go from here. I hope one of you can assist. Thanks!

I had this exact issue. Spent over an hour on the phone with apple support, they couldn't resolve. Here is what I ended up doing, that worked.
1. Turned iTunes match off on all my iOS devices
2. Deleted the offending playlists from the iOS device they originated on
3. Started iTunes, let it run (literally) for an hour before it became responsive. First thing I did, before clicking anywere else was disable iTunes match. If I clicked anywhere, it would clock for another hour.
4. Let iTunes run overnight, by morning it had cleaned out the repeating play lists. This got my Mac/iTunes back to an operable state.
5. Restore iPhones from backup in iTunes.
What was causing my issue was a single playlist that was created on an iPhone, then suddenly showed up with several thousand duplicates on my other iPhone. The culprit playlist did not, for some reason, duplicate itself on my two iPads. Apple support seemed to think it was because the problem iPhone tried to sync the playlist to iCloud over and over again unsuccessfully, then it finally went through and populated the thousands of blank/failed playlists which then tried to propigate to iTunes and my other iOS devices. Seems like a reasonable theory.
I have not yet re-enabled iTunes match. So, no idea what will happen if I decide to go back down that rabbit hole.

ITunes Match deleted ALL my playlists

About 6 weeks ago or so, I noted that one of my favourite playlists on iTunes Match had disappeared. I had absolutely no idea how this could happen as this is a Cloud based service with an integrated back-up. Now - today - I find that ALL my playlists are gone too. Any ideas who/what is responsible ??

I had this exact issue. Spent over an hour on the phone with apple support, they couldn't resolve. Here is what I ended up doing, that worked.
1. Turned iTunes match off on all my iOS devices
2. Deleted the offending playlists from the iOS device they originated on
3. Started iTunes, let it run (literally) for an hour before it became responsive. First thing I did, before clicking anywere else was disable iTunes match. If I clicked anywhere, it would clock for another hour.
4. Let iTunes run overnight, by morning it had cleaned out the repeating play lists. This got my Mac/iTunes back to an operable state.
5. Restore iPhones from backup in iTunes.
What was causing my issue was a single playlist that was created on an iPhone, then suddenly showed up with several thousand duplicates on my other iPhone. The culprit playlist did not, for some reason, duplicate itself on my two iPads. Apple support seemed to think it was because the problem iPhone tried to sync the playlist to iCloud over and over again unsuccessfully, then it finally went through and populated the thousands of blank/failed playlists which then tried to propigate to iTunes and my other iOS devices. Seems like a reasonable theory.
I have not yet re-enabled iTunes match. So, no idea what will happen if I decide to go back down that rabbit hole.

Itunes match has duplicated my playlists

My Itunes match failes when trying to match songs with 8 songs left to go on my new Mac Mini but it will retry and retry and causes duplicate playlists in itunes and Icloud.
1. How do I fix itunes Match?
2. How do I delete Multiple Playlist quickly rather than one at a time?
Thanks for the help

This has been on the discussion threads for a while now. Its done the same thing to me and I now have 76,127 copies and iTunes is totally unusable and takes 20minutes to just turn on. The only thing we can figure out is that it has something to do with the iPod/iPhone trying to sync when there is no network connection. Once it finally does get a network signal, it pushes all those thousands of times it tried to sync to the server at once which can cause thousands of duplicates. Once they are on the server your stuck because now they are saved on the server and you can't erase them. Many of us have been in touch with iTunes Match support but they wont answer us. The best thing to do right now is leave iTunes Match turned off. Once its off, the playlists should stay gone. You can even use this apple script to erase them for you.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/2011/12/thousands-of-empty-playlists/

ITunes match not syncing normal playlists correctly

I have iTunes match enabled on my computer and on my iOS device. I made a playlist that consists of 195 songs on my computer. I opened Music on my phone, and I see the playlist there with all 195 songs no problem. I open iTunes on my computer and delete a few songs down to 128. My iOS device still shows 195 songs.. I restart iTunes and my iOS device and iTunes still shows 128 songs, and my iOS device shows 195. I hit update iTunes Match on iTunes on my computer and all those songs I deleted are back and it is showing 195 songs on the computer now too. How do I update my playlist using iTunes Match? Is the service this buggy/unreliable?
I also noticed I have reset my play count on iTunes on the computer and it is all back too. It is like any changes on iTunes on the computer are not updating to iTunes Match.

I am also having problems with smart playlists on OS7 iphone 4s with mountain Lion on my mac
I have two smart playlists, one for music not played in 6 months, the other for zero plays, the other criteria for the lists are media type 'music' and track time ' less than 15 minutes.
These two playlists have 619 items and 108 items respectively in my mac but on the phone it shows 2962 items (for both lists) and a cloud symbol next to the track - although scrolling down, there are some tracks that do not have the cloud symbol - these look like the original 619 and 108 in the lists
Other smart playlists are fine and appear to be not affected

ITunes Match, iPad, and smart playlist issues.

I have one particular smart playlist, that iTunes Match correctly syncs to my Macs and my iPhone, but no matter what I try, it shows as "no songs" on my iPad. Both iDevices are running iOS 7.0.3.

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.
Listen through multiple speakers
With AirPlay and iTunes 10 or later, you can listen to music through your computer speakers and multiple AirPlay outputs.
The maximum number of outputs is three to six. The number that works for you depends on your environment (such as building composition and local radio interference), distance to the outputs, and available network capacity relative to your other usage.
iTunes: About playing music with AirPlay - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

Itunes match bugs and lost playlists

There`s too many glitches, bugs, freezes etc, It`s too easy to lose playlists (I lost several years worth). Keep your library backed up locally, this is no substitute for time machine! Overall, it`s a nice idea, but it needs a safety mechanism to keep the playlists backed up, it seems a hard drive glitch on one machine can result in deletions being replicated across the cloud quietly in the background.
Also, there`s no point in the iphone feature, because with a large library the iphone can`t cope and just crashes espcially on 3G.
Things were better in the days of an ipod classic, syncing through USB to an itunes library stored locally, at least it worked! I think I`ll go back to that until things improve.

iTunes Match does over-promise, it certainly has a number of shortfalls (all of which now well documented in thisctforum) but what it enables is very impressive.
For synchronisation acrorss multiple libraries it is very good, provided you steer clear of Smart Playlists the iDevice capability is very good - though keeping one or more iDevices on a manual synchronise to library certainly provides a worthwhile route depending upon how you choose to work with your music.
Overall the service is impressive and certainly worth staying with, though it is not for all, your suggested route of waiting for the service to mature is perfectly reasonable.

How do I stop iTunes Match from replacing new artwork with old artwork?

So, for a while I customized the art on some tracks in my music library, and unfortunately those tracks had the customized art when I uploaded them to iTunes Match. Now, whenever I try to change the artwork back to the original art, it reverts to the synced art whenever Match updates. I've tried deleting the tracks from Match and off the computer and then replacing them with files from my back-up drive, but as soon as Match sees them it gives them the old art again. It's pretty damned irritating. Any idea how to get it to stop?

Provided you are the sole user of the library, with no other occurence of iTunes Match service operating, it is possible to win!
The steps are annoying and very manual, as follows:
1. Create a Secure Backup of the source Library;
2. Ensure no other instances of iTunes Match are operating on related libraries or devices;
3. Turn off iTunes Match for your source Library;
4. Make the changes using 'Get Info' on the Song files concerned
    (a) Select the incorrect Album Art & delete;
    (b) Confirm cover flow for the selected Songs is showing absent Art - blank with a note symbol;
    (c) Reselect the Song files with 'Get Info';
    (d) Paste in New Album Art';
    (e) Confirm cover flow of the selected Songs is showing the new Art;
    (f) Repeat (a) to (e) for each set of Songs as needed.
5. Confirm when all complete, via cover flow, that the correct Art is in place for all Songs.
6. Take a second secure backup of the library to ensure that you will never need to add Art a second time.
7. Turn on iTunes Match; Update iTunes Match; Allow library to remain connected for some time (an hour+).
8. Repeat step 5.
9. Gradually turn on related libraries / devices one by one.
10. You will see the new Album Art will have replaced the old Album Art.
Note: iTunes Match does the promulgation of Art as a background task, so it make take some time for the correct Art to appear on all Libraries and Devices - at no stage should Songs in your source library revert to incorrect Art - if this happens check all associated Song files to make sure that they all have the correct Art, restoring via file import from the secure backups as needed.
You will need to check after a few days on a Song by Song cover flow view to ensure that every incorrect Art occurence has been eradicated - repeating the steps above for any remaining trouble makers.
Having completed this first hand can confirm that the excellent result is worth the effort!

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