Itunes to Iphone Playlist transfer?

How can I transfer a playlist from the Itunes on my PC onto my iphone 4? I have the latest Itunes. Thanks!

Ctrl+s doesn't do anything. I can get a sidebar by clicking on "playlists" at the top but the device doesn't show up in the sidebar anymore, only a list of playlists. If I try to drag a playlist onto the "iPhone" device icon in the top right corner of the window it doesn't let me, and nothing happens.
If I try dragging an individual album to the right in order to get it onto my iphone via a sidebar that opens up on the right hand side, as the tutorial says, that works. But it doesn't work if you try to drag individual songs or groups of songs. There is apparently no way to get a song onto your iPhone anymore, or a playlist. (After more fiddling) ... okay, you can do the drag-to-the-right-and-a-new-window-will-open-up thing with individual songs but you can't do it from the "songs" or "artists" or "genres" or "playlists" list, you can only do it from the 'album' list.
(Further fiddling, using every possible command button - none of them worked - and then every possible combination of command buttons to see if I could get the sidebar window to open up): ctrl+s does nothing; likewise option+s and command+s. However, And I am going to put this in caps for all the other frustrated people out there,
OPTION+COMMAND+S WILL OPEN THE SIDEBAR WINDOW!
And then you can put music and playlists on your iPhone the way you used to be able to before they decided to make iTunes impossible to do anything but buy stuff with.
No thanks to Apple for not bothering to put this anywhere in the documentation, or the help file.

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I had the same problem, and the same solution worked. Very annoying! "Recent Additions" playlists are the kind of thing you want live updating on. I have two other Recent Additions list: one for Pop and one for Rock/Metal. Neither of those lists had this problem.
I also discovered that if I re-check the Live Updating box and sync again - it gets messed up on the iPhone again. Also, the playlist under the iPhone (that you can see when it's plugged into the computer) always showed the correct songs, even though they were wrong on the iPhone.
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Hey everyone!!! I believe I'm on the right thread and I HOPE SO or an iPhone is about to become a trash weight.
I am trying to figure out a way whereby when I add songs to a playlist via my iPhone and/or re-arrange the Playlist order, I am able to sync my iPhone to iTunes and have iTunes reflect the changes and/or additions I have made to the Playlist. All of the music isn't necessarily purchased through the iTunes Store, however, they are all .mp3.
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Hi. I have had to restore my PC from factory settings and am trying to complete my iphone playlist. I have the latest OS for both itunes and iphone.
I have some songs in my itunes music library which I can transfer easily to/from my ipod and playlists. When I connect my iphone to the PC, I cannot do this and cannot seem to add any songs to my iphone apart from the 'purchased' ones.
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Here's how I synced iPo=hone 6 (updated to OSX 8.3) with iTunes (Version 1.1.2.27)
1.     Turned on iTunes match on the computer (iMac) where my music library was located.
2.     Turned on iTunes match on iPhone 6 (Settings>Music>iTunes Match).
3.     Hard boot iPhone.
4.     Restarted iPhone.
5.     Disconnected iPhone to computer.
6.     Closed iTunes on computer.
7.     Restarted computer.
8.     Connected iPhone to computer then restarted iPhone.
9.     Restarted iTunes.
10.   Clicked on iPhone icon in iTunes.
11.   In iPhone SUMMARY menu, selected BACKUP option button THIS COMPUTER.
12.   Selected BACK UP NOW.
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14.   Clicked APPLY.
15.   Clicked SYNC.
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Hi Moonage Daydreamer01,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues on your iPhone. If you continue to have issues with iTunes Match, you may find the information and troublehshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
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I had the exact same issue!! Seriously p*ssed me off when I checked out my ITunes purchased items (via my computer) and noticed that most of the additional tracks listed on my IPhone playlist was listed there too. However, I never authorized any purchases!! (I have actually written Apple Support asking for a full refund of all tracks listed on my purchased list)
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1 - go to your IPhone settings
2 - choose "iTunes & App Store"
3 - go to "Show All" & "Music"
4 - turn off "Music" by moving the bar to the left (it should be a white color once you turn it off)
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