ITunes not searching comments in playlists
If I try to "Search All" for information in the Comments field, iTunes won't find it in a Smart or Normal Playlist, only when selecting the whole Library.
The Comments column is visible.
This is iTunes 10.6.1 (7) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549).
Is this a bug or is there something wrong with this specific iTunes library?
Edward, If it works correctly on a new library, it is more likely a result of something getting stuck or corrupted rather than a bug.
Before you do the nuclear option of moving all your stuff to a new library, try to give iTunes a "kick" in a few different ways. Hide comments, change the search oval from All to Artist, run a few searches and then restart the machine and change it all back. Silly as it sounds, things like that have been know to work for various problems.
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But I am gonna chew on what you said today- maybe there is a clue in there or maybe if I experiment with the 'music' rule. Either way- this is not an improvement- it's about 200 steps back. I still maintain that the problem I am seeing is not intentional coding. Something broke in the codebase & now iTunes 9 has playlist / syncing bugs which need fixing.
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It sounds like there may be some disconnect between the phone and the computer. Could be a number of things going on, but one way I've been able to fix this issue on several occasions is by completely removing all of the music from the iPhone (Settings > General > Usage > Storage > Manage Storage > Music > swipe 'All Songs' to the left and tap 'Delete') and then re-syncing it from iTunes all at once. Be sure to disconnect your phone from the computer and close iTunes first. Keep in mind that any songs that are on the phone but are NOT in the iTunes library will not be synced over after you delete them from the phone. If the songs on the phone were purchased from the iTunes Store you can transfer them to the computer's iTunes library by connecting the phone to iTunes then selecting File > Devices > Transfer Purchases from [user's] iPhone.
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All music is syncing across from my purchased items to my phone... However, some are missing from the 'purchased' playlist and I can only come across them when scrolling through the 'Artist' or 'Song' menu. I then have to manually add them back to my purchased playlist.
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I want all my 'purchased' songs in that playlist and then have all of my other music from CDs in their individual ones (which works fine).
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So basically, the songs ARE on the phone but not showing in the playlist, just to make that clear.
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