ITunes Match Smart playlists refering to other playlists sync

Is it possible to sync smart playlists refering to other playlists in ITunes match?
This was not possible 1 year ago.

beans; everyone has this seeminlgy, and no one has a fix (smart lists accessing smart lists doesnt sync over Match, iTunes tells me. So best bet appears to be disabling match, canceling the Match renewal, and wait for io7...

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iTunes match: my iPhone 4s shows my playlists, but there are no songs! What's up?

Normal Playlists should be working
Smart playlist should be working, but i got also some faulty PL on the played recents etc..
Smart playlists depending on other smart playlists don't work all the time.
ok I had my troubles aswell with this - during the holidays I reserved some time to rebuild my iphone from scratch. Just to clean it up after 1,5 years working and playing around with it. And suprrise surpise, playlists, songs, etc... all info on the iphone showed correctly and worked well!
So after rebuilding from scratch (took my a couple of hours) i can now start playing around with itunes match.
I know, its a lot of work, but i think my iphone structure was a bit messed up with all this playing around.
Perhaps this helps...

HT1391 I had all of my music on an external hard drive that failed. I have iTunes Match so all of my music was synced with the "cloud". How do I now download and save all of my music back down on a new external hard drive?

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Hey Rbe58!
I believe this question can be answered by the information in the following article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Access all your music anytime, anywhere with iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph12492
Play or download songs from iCloud
You can play songs directly from iCloud, or you can download songs so you can play them when you’re not connected to the Internet.
If a song is available in iCloud, it has a Download button next to it.
To play the song, double-click it.
To download the song, click the Download button.
After you download a song to a computer, it remains in the computer’s iTunes library, even if you turn off iTunes Match.
To only display downloaded songs in your iTunes library, choose View > Hide Music in the Cloud. This also hides any previous iTunes Store purchases you haven’t downloaded.
For information about downloading and playing songs on an iOS device, see the documentation for the device.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

HT204074 i have been unable to sync music from my itunes acct to my Nano. My computer is authorized on a computer i no longer have access to. If i buy Itunes Match, will it then be possible to sync to my nanao?

I have been unable to sync music from itunes to my Nano .The authorized computer i was using is no longer accessible. If i purchase itunes Match, will it then be possible to sync my nano

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- I would start with
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP
or
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However, after your remove the Apple software components also remove the iCloud Control Panel via Windows Programs and Features app in the Window Control Panel. Then reinstall all the Apple software components
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paying special attention to item #5
- New cable and different USB port
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ITunes Match: Smart Playlists now including videos that shouldn't be there

Hi All,
Hopefully someone can assist me with this, as it properly doing my head in.
I am a big user of Smart Playlists in iTunes, which is brilliant with iTunes Match. However, I have a couple of smart playlists that I use all the time that I am having problems with. These two playlists are very similar so I will just use one as an example.
The criteria of this smart list is 1. Media Kind = Music, 2. Rating = less than one star, 3. Plays = less than 10. You may have figured out this is a playlist I use to listen to new music before I rate it.
So, here's the problem. On iTunes, this playlist is correct in that it only shows music, however, on my iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, the playlists include some of my music videos which all have a start rating of 1 or higher. Of course, these music videos dont meet two of the smart playlists criteria; media kind and rating. Given that the playlist is correct within iTunes, I can only assume that this is an issue somewhere in iCloud as opposed to my local settings, but I don't know for sure.
Apart from just being a general annoyance, when trying to play these playlists, as soon as a video turns up in a music shuffle, it then takes ages to buffer and often just causes the device to hang, requiring a reboot or similar.
Any suggestions guys and gals? Any help offered will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Stu

UPDATE: so i was looking through some more, and here's another issue: I bought James Blunts album many many years ago. If I look at the "matched" playlist it shows "Goodbye My Lover" which is track 4/11, the remaining 10 tracks are in the "purchased" playlist. Checking the info on "Goodbye My Lover" show that it is "Purchased AAC audio file"
I've also bought the AC/DC box set from iTunes, and some of those tracks are showing in the "uploaded" playlist!
In "View Options" i enabled iCloud status and it's just all over the place! Music i've purchased (and subsequently added to iTunes from apple support allowing me to redownload purchases) are shown as "Uploaded" or "Matched", some songs from albums (imported) are matched and others uploaded. Parts of box sets are "uploaded", others are "matched" and others "purchased"...
what the?! I'm just confused! I'd like to use the option to upgrade my songs to the best quality (for my CD imports) and thought these playlists would help (actually a single button - "Upgrade" would be nice!) but they don't appear to be too accurate

ITunes Match/Smart Playlists/Holiday Music

Prior to iTunes Match, I use to use a "Smart Playlist" for my Holiday songs. I would check them all and sync my iPhone to add them and, afte the Holildays, I would uncheck all the songs and re-sync my iPhone. So, I only need to hear the songs during the time I want them. I signed up for iTunes March and can't figure out a way to load the songs for the Holidays or -- more importantly -- unload the songs now that the Holidays are over. (I am officially sick of hearing the songs.) The song list is about 250 songs. Is there way to replicate this "seasonality" that I use to be able to accomplish with my Smart Playlist in iTunes Match?

UPDATE: so i was looking through some more, and here's another issue: I bought James Blunts album many many years ago. If I look at the "matched" playlist it shows "Goodbye My Lover" which is track 4/11, the remaining 10 tracks are in the "purchased" playlist. Checking the info on "Goodbye My Lover" show that it is "Purchased AAC audio file"
I've also bought the AC/DC box set from iTunes, and some of those tracks are showing in the "uploaded" playlist!
In "View Options" i enabled iCloud status and it's just all over the place! Music i've purchased (and subsequently added to iTunes from apple support allowing me to redownload purchases) are shown as "Uploaded" or "Matched", some songs from albums (imported) are matched and others uploaded. Parts of box sets are "uploaded", others are "matched" and others "purchased"...
what the?! I'm just confused! I'd like to use the option to upgrade my songs to the best quality (for my CD imports) and thought these playlists would help (actually a single button - "Upgrade" would be nice!) but they don't appear to be too accurate

ITunes Match smart playlist item count

after creating a smart playlist in iTunes that is supposed to limit to 50 items,
I can see the playlist on my iphone. But the item limit does not exist. The playlist is thousands of songs long instead of 50.
This REALLY needs to be fixed.
I truly hope more effort is put into properly supporting smart playlists in iTunes Match
I've attached an image that shows my smart playlist rules

This is a well known shortcoming of iTunes Match, it does not handle Smart Playlists on IOS devices well.
Current workaround involves use of standard playlists and 'download all' options - it is not neat and this capability is one of several needed in later versions of the service and IOS capability.

Smart playlists that reference other playlists are not supported by iCloud, and will not be updated? Unacceptable

Just as it says^
There are tons of types of rap. rap1 rap2 rap3 rap4 rap5. It is unacceptable to disallow me from making a superset playlist "Rap all" that includes rap1 rap2 rap3 rap4 rap5.
I have to say, apple's reputation (built on reliability and comprehensive understanding of products/options/uses) is beginning to dishearten it's users and muddy the brand that has been built with hard work and dedication.
This simple programming lapse needs to be fixed immediately.
Thanks.

I'm in the same boat. I typically sync one playlist to my iPhone, plus a smart playlist that contains 4 GB of random music that's not already in any pre-synced playlists.
Needless to say this doesn't work anymore. Why? Because of the aforementioned "Smart Playlists referencing other playlists" problem, PLUS the fact that Smart Playlists in iTunes Match don't observe any sort of size limitation at all when viewed on an iOS device.
That means that the same smart playlist on my PC has 500 songs @ 4GB, while on my iPhone or iPad the list contains 5,000 songs!
This is seriously a "what the **** have you guys been testing for the past 10 months?!" kind of rollout.

After re-signing in to iTunes Match hundreds of on-the-go playlists appeared.

For some reason when I turned on my Windows Vista machine last week iTunes asked me to sign-out of the iTunes store and re-sign in. Once I did this iTunes Match was not enabled so I re-authorized the computer and iTunes Match began analyzing my library as it usually does. I left it then came back to hundreds empty on-the-go playlists in my playlists window. Is this a bug or did one of my iDevices mistakenly make all these playlists (I have a iPad 2 and iPhone 4 that all sync with Match) Is there any way to delete all these empty on-the-go playlists en masse?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
John

Hey John-
I'm having the same problem with my iPad 2/Mac Mini setup. The only way I know of to delete all of them en masse is by using something called Automator on the Mac. The only way that I can think of on Windows would involve deleting the library files (not the media files), and rebuilding. This would mean that you'd have to re-sync your iPad and iPhone, though.
You're definitely not alone with this issue, though. Some bugs definitely need to be worked out with iTunes Match.
Colin

I have iTunes Match and can no longer find playlists. How do I access them?

How do I access my playlists with iTunes Match? Once I create them and exit the site, they disappear. Please Help!

You create playlists on your device or on your computer.
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I can't download songs in IOS6 from iTunes Match on my iPod and other complaints...

1) Since I upgraded, it takes like 15 minutes to view music from iTunes match onto my iPod, then has no "download" button like before. Instead, when I try to play a song it just DOESN'T PLAY. What a tease! Why is this like this?
While I'm on the subject,
2) Why does iTunes match replace explicit versions of albums I have with the clean versions? That *****! Is there a way around that, like, can I select a preference so all Beastie Boys songs are explicit? I'm 30 years old - I think I can handle the occasional cuss.
And finally,
3) How to you unsubscribe from this service? Too many complaints and not worth even $2/month.
I love Apple, but I have an iPod primarily to play music. If it is unable to perform that function, why make it? I've been a loyal customer for over 10 years and have purchased three laptops, an iPad, three iPhones, and had an iPod since they were introduced to the market. I also convinced my parents and say nothing bad about your company. Until now. Fix this, Apple, or this poor man will no longer justify spending money on your products.

Update:
How do you delete iTunes match? I clicked on "do not renew" or whatever from my account, but it doesn't expire 'till March 2013. I can't wait that long to listen to music. I turned "match" off on all my devices on my account and closed out all itunes and settings applications just like customer support told me to do after I waited an hour to talk to no one who could help.
My BRAND NEW iPod touch 5th generation is still having the same problem. I can only see what music I formerly had in my iTunes match account, but can't listen to any of it, including the 47 songs my library is supposed to have.
Come on, Apple. I really just want to listen to my music, unedited, on a device I hooked up to a computer with a USB cable.
Please help.

ITunes Match and iOS 7.0.3 Upgrade - Syncing Issue

I subscribe to iTunes Match for my iPhone 4S. However, I still sync photos, videos, etc from my computer. During both the update to 7.0.3 and 7.0.2, my phone has taken an interminable amount of time to sync after upgrading the iOS. During the last upgrade, i left the phone to sync overnight and found that it had deleted all of the music that I had downloaded to my device - or at least sort of. It was showing these songs as not on the device, however they seemed to still be taking up drive space. Many albums I had downloaded were now showing each track duplicated - one iTunes match version with the cloud next to it, and one downloaded to the device. After trying to remedy the issue many different ways, I found that thing that worked was to erase and restore the phone from back-up, thereby deleting all the music on my device and requiring me to again download songs from the cloud. I just finally got my music collection in good working order again with most of the music I listen to most recently on my device - and now with this latest upgrade it appears I will have to start all over again.
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ITunes Match Smart Playlists Don't Appear to Work

Hi all!
I was playing around with the smart playlists in iTunes last night, to try and keep an eye on how the sync to the cloud was progressing.
I created smart playlists with iCloud status is: duplicate, error, ineligible, local only, matched, purchased and uploaded.
Now, when I look at my full list of songs, I see the "ineligible" icon next to several items (mostly digital booklets) yet the ineligible playlist shows 0 entries. Similarly, directly after importing a CD, the tracks on the CD show "waiting", I would expect my "local only" playlist to show these items, but again, that playlist shows 0 entries. The only playlist that appears to work is the "duplicate" playlist
anyone else had this before? am i doing something wrong (likely!)
cheers!

UPDATE: so i was looking through some more, and here's another issue: I bought James Blunts album many many years ago. If I look at the "matched" playlist it shows "Goodbye My Lover" which is track 4/11, the remaining 10 tracks are in the "purchased" playlist. Checking the info on "Goodbye My Lover" show that it is "Purchased AAC audio file"
I've also bought the AC/DC box set from iTunes, and some of those tracks are showing in the "uploaded" playlist!
In "View Options" i enabled iCloud status and it's just all over the place! Music i've purchased (and subsequently added to iTunes from apple support allowing me to redownload purchases) are shown as "Uploaded" or "Matched", some songs from albums (imported) are matched and others uploaded. Parts of box sets are "uploaded", others are "matched" and others "purchased"...
what the?! I'm just confused! I'd like to use the option to upgrade my songs to the best quality (for my CD imports) and thought these playlists would help (actually a single button - "Upgrade" would be nice!) but they don't appear to be too accurate

ITunes Match Smart Playlist sorting on iOS7 by date added?

Playlist works find on iTunes.
Messed up on both iPad + iPhone
Criteria basically sorts by genre, and only for songs added within X months.
I have tried to add the criteria "Kind = music", and also limiting to 9999 songs, sorted by date.
The first few songs are correct and in the right order, but after that there are just random songs.
Any ideas?

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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