ITunes playlists unavailable for iPhone

Why are some of the playlists I create in iTunes not available on the list of playlists that show up with I attach my iPhone? The files (which are all audiobooks purchased from Audible) are there and playable in iTunes but I can't get them onto my phone.

Under the Books tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, select Sync Audiobooks.
There is a selection to include Audiobooks from Playlists.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1368
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Hello Janeburows,
You might have setup your iTunes in such a way that you store your Media files on your External Hard Drive and if that is the situation then whenever you delete anything permanently from your iTunes on your Computer when the External Drive is connected then the Content will get deleted from your External Hard Drive. To verify the Location for the Media files which you have on iTunes do the following.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391

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To fix this you should first quit all applications running in the background.
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To shut down extra background apps, the first step is to access the multi-task bar on the phone. This is done by pressing the Home button two times quickly. A popup menu appears that shows all the background apps the iPhone has in memory. Items are displayed 4 at a time. If users scroll to the right, they will eventually see all apps that are currently open.
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When users are done, they can simply press the Home button to return to the main screen.
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rhonda28 wrote:
I have not upgraded to ioS 7.1 for two reasons--I don't like the layout,
That's irrelevant.
rhonda28 wrote:
I only have 1.2 GB of the required 4.1 GB free.
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Maddening!!!!! What used to work now doesn't!
Where did simple drag and drop go? Apple invented it!
I have an iPhone 5s and want to transfer Playlists from my desktop iMac to the iPhone. I have had these products since their first releases years ago. I am a computer power user. What used to be a simpe "drag and drop" of your Playlist (yes, in Column View which I have turned on now) to your iPhone was easy and you were set. It is now impossible to do. Or easily!
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WHY IS THIS SAME **** HARD WHEN IT USED TO BE DRAG AND DROP?
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Hi Chris, thanks for the input! Just wanted to share that, if you have iTunes Match on, you will not be able to sync or drag and drop any new playlists. The trick is now,
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3. drag your new playlist onto your music category on your iphone.
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From my post on what seems like the same issue (found here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/21087892#21087892)
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1) while connected to wifi, toggle off then back on the Show All Music and iTunes Match options shown in my original post. Important: I did this step before, but wasn't connected to wifi, and my music disappeared. Subsequently, I connected to wifi and turned off and then back on those options and everything came back though it was grayed out and my only option was to download music.
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Hi Hans,
“Other” space has several sources. Some ways of removing unneeded files from it can be found in this article -
iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503
Specifically -
Orphaned files may remain on your iOS device if it is physically disconnected while syncing music, podcasts, videos, or photos. This can prevent iTunes from syncing the iOS device on subsequent sync sessions. When this happens, the Capacity indicator in iTunes may report a large amount of "Other" disk usage for the iOS device. To resolve this issue:
Turn off the music or photo sync option in iTunes for the device.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Turn the music and photo sync options for the device on again.
Click Apply again to try to sync the device to iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 5.
Turn off the automatic syncing functions for the iOS device. To do this:
Select the iOS device from the iTunes window and click the Summary tab.
Deselect "Automatically sync when this device is connected" and select the "Sync only checked songs and videos" checkbox.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Reduce the amount of data that is being synced to the device and resync the device. For example, if syncing your Music library exceeds the memory capacity of the device, choose "Selected playlists" to transfer rather than "All songs and playlists" under the Music tab in iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 6.
Restore using iTunes.
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Brett L

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It IS a NANO issue, and I think I have found a temporary solution. It works for me, anyway:
1. You have your smart playlist that works in iTunes but gets messed up on the Nano... in this case let's call it "Recently Added."
2. UN-check this from the Nano sync list. Do not delete the playlist, keep it in iTunes, but do NOT have it updated in the Nano.
3. Make a new smart playlist. The one and only rule should be: Playlist - IS - Recently Added.
4. Name this playlist something slightly different, such as "Recently Added for Nano."
5. Have iTunes update the new smart playlist into the Nano.
This works for me as long as I don't have the original sync'd.

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