Looking for Smart Playlist Documentation for iTunes Match (iCloud), and iOS

With iTunes Match I don't understand exactly how Smart Playlist's are suppose to work with iTunes Match (iCloud) and my iOS devices. I am looking for some official (possibly draft) documentation.

Is this a general rant or do you have a specific question ?

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I'm using iTunes 6.0.5 on MacOS 10.2.8 (hence I can't upgrade iTunes to a later version 'cos my OS is too old).
When I try to use Smart Playlists, the program closes down whenever I create a Playlist featuring a date-type condition (like "Last Played") and change from "is" to something else (like "is not in the last" ... ). This seems to be a bug common whenever iTunes 6.0.5 is used on MacOS 10.2.8.
Is there any work-around for this problem? (The computing administrator here is unlikely to allow me to upgrade the OS just so that I can play music more conveniently!) If it were possible to make copies of Smart Playlists, then I might be able to adjust the standard "Recently Played".
Thanks (hopefully!) in advance,
Martyn

ih1, that one is often caused by a damaged itunes preference file. try the technique described in this user tip:
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Storage management on iPhone with iTunes Match, iCloud and Photo Stream

I had a 32GB iPhone 4, but my company got me a 16GB iPhone 5 (not complaining). However, now an occasional problem on my 4 is a showstopper on my 5: My various cloud services don't manage available space very well.
Several times over the past few weeks I have been unable to take more photographs because there was no space available. I've also been unable to update apps for the same reason.
I had imagined that iOS would cast out the least-played songs and maybe played with which photos are stored automatically when space was at a premium, but that does not appear to be the case.
I am thinking of getting a new iPad now that LTE is in my area (my current iPad is wifi only), and imagined that iCloud and its various services would enable me to manage with 16GB nicely. That does not appear to be the case.
Is this a common experience, or am I doing something wrong?

I noticed the exact same thing happening to me last night. However appears to have removed all the music in every playlist local to my phone and I've had to go redownload them from iCloud. Has anyone figured out why this happens?? I havent touched or synced with my computer in a while so I can't figure out the cause.

Smart Playlists Working on iTunes 9, Not on iTouch

Updated to iTunes 9
Everything is fine
Except my smart playlists (Recently added, top 25 most played) are not working properly. They display as they should in iTunes 9 but when you sync it to the iPod Touch, it displays 25 random songs.
I've deleted the smart playlists, synced, remade them, synced, didn't work.
Deleted, remade them, different names, synced, didn't work.

To an extent thank goodness, I thought I was going mad.
I too have this issue with iPhone & Itunes 9.
All my smart playlists on my iphone are in random order, but the one which is bothering me the most is my 25 most played, which contains stuff I don't think I have ever played.
Looking at smart playlist on my itunes or on expanded tree for iphone when connected to itunes has the correct listing but random on my iphone.
Let hope they fix this soon.
John

I am having 2 big problems with itunes match / icloud - i welcome any advice!

So I finally have all my music itunes match / icloud and for the most part I am satisfied but I have 2 huge glaring problems I can't seem to fix. I emailed Apple and awaiting a reply but not holding out much hope there...
1. Compliation don't work right via itunes match / icloud - I have a few large compilations albums & they display correct on my local itunes library. I have the tags set right, I have normalized the album artists, made sure my genre's are clean, etc. but when I let this match / upload to itunes match / icloud - my compilations are repeated via icloud many times. I have a large compilations called "singles" & it displays perfect on my local itunes. But via icloud it's listed 5 times. I have tripled checked my tags and reset them again and again. No matter what I do, I can't get my compliation abums to show up just a single time in my icloud list.
Th problem is now that I am allowing my iphone and ipad's music to be managed by itunes match / icloud, these compliations are showing up on those devices 3-5 times for each. So my album list is one huge jumble of repeated Albums.
Any advice??
2. Album artwork missing - On my local itunes, I have good album artwork for all albums, but when I let these match and upload via itunes match / icloud, several albums lose their artwork when displaying or downloading to my IOS devices. So I end up with a lot of blank songs / albums. Also very annoying.
So, on the whole I like the itunes match / icloud service, but I really wish I could figure out how to solve these two problems. Any advice?

Stephen Banks wrote:
1. Compliation don't work right via itunes match / icloud...
If you have not already done so, I suggest set an Album Artist of "Various Artists" and make sure the "part of a compilation" option is selected in the metadata for the album. See if that helps the display.
Stephen Banks wrote:
2. Album artwork missing - On my local itunes, I have good album artwork for all albums, but when I let these match and upload via itunes match / icloud, several albums lose their artwork when displaying or downloading to my IOS devices. So I end up with a lot of blank songs / albums. Also very annoying.
Do a search on the forum. There are already several threads discussing this issue.

Hello Experts! I am trying to match up artwork that I created for my playlists in my iTunes library which looks fine in my iTunes but then only some of my artwork shows on my iPad after using iTunes Match, I either have blank artwork or the original.

Hello Experts! I am trying to match up artwork that I created for my playlists in my iTunes library which looks totally fine in my iTunes library but then only only some of my artwork shows on my iPad after using iTunes Match, I either have blank artwork or the original artwork. Any ideas how I can make sure it’s all my artwork? Thank you if you do!

I have the same problem too and tried alot of things like time zone , restarting or changing DNS of wifi connection to 8.8.8.8 still nothing happens .. !!
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HT204406 Started iTunes Match and the songs are individually available but none of my playlists are on my apple tv yet looking at the playlists from my iTunes on my mac there looks to me no issues

Started iTunes Match and the songs are individually available on my apple TV, and there is a tab for playlists. Yet the only playlists available are the Preset itunes generated 4: 90's music, Classical Music videos, and Recently Added. Yet even the recently Added playlist does not contain my most recelty added music purchased form iTunes and shows that is in the Cloud. None of my other playlists are on my apple tv yet looking at the playlists from my iTunes on my mac, there looks to be no issues relating to them and the cloud. Even tried making a new playlist. It made no difference. It would be nice to figure out how to have my music available on my TV without having to open up my computer everytime. Yes I know I can use my cell phone but, I'd like to put my photos to music and to set that up I need the Itunes Match playlists to WORK

Hi I had exactly the same problem, I don't know if you setup your Apple TV before you subscribed to iTunes I match? If you did then I did the same and although all my songs showed up on my Apple TV none of my playlist did.
This is how I fixed it I went into settings on the Apple TV menu and reset the device back to factory default, I then setup the unit again adding in my iTunes username and password etc, ticked the bix that says turn on I match and then went into music
It took a few moments but it said updating once this finished I checked playlists and all my playlists as per my desktop PC were showing up!
I hope this Helios resolve your problem too :)

Suggestions for Smart Playlists

Recently, I purchased an iPod Classic. As a Mac user for 2 years, I have experienced the advantages of using a Mac-based computers and its OS itself. Therefore, I trust Apple brand in whichever products they are selling and recommends to my customers, friends and relatives. However, when I was trying out the features of iTunes, like the Smart Playlist, I realised certain flaws to it.
When I was setting the rules for which type of songs to be placed into the playlist, for example, I only want Trance music only, but not the podcasts. However, no matter how I set the rules, it shows the other genres of music like Dance in the playlist, furthermore, the podcasts still shows up.
I would like to suggest to place an additional function to the Smart Playlist by adding a "DO NOT" function. For example, DO NOT place any songs like podcasts or Dance music. This way, it makes it easier for heavy users like me to place songs without thinking much of how to set the appropriate rules to it. Thank you.

Suggestions for Smart Playlists
tell Apple via _*iTunes feedback*_.
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ITunes Match Unable To Get Past "Waiting for Apple to deliver your iTunes Match results..."

Been trying for days but it just gets to "Waiting for Apple to deliver your iTunes Match results..." and then stops and allows me to press the Start button again to start the match process. Sometimes I get error -3231.
I've called Apple and they want $19 to solve the issue even though I paid the $25 for Match.
I've turned iTunes Match off. Turned Genius off. Logged out of my iTunes account. Quit iTunes. Restarted. Logged back into iTunes account. Turn Genius on. Turn iTunes Match back on and let it go through the process again with no success.
My library has a couple hundred songs less than the 25,000 max but it is pretty large. Had the same issue when I tried with a smaller library some time ago. I've created a new library and have the same issue.

Hi,
You should consider rebooting your internet router
Then try holding option key whilst turning off match. Close iTunes and then reopen. Turn on iTunes Match and select add this computer.
Jim

Waiting for apple to deliver your itunes match results - time out -uk

Hi,
Help me please
I seem to be stuck in a loop that after the gathering of information has finished, the info is sent to apple and then I get 'waiting for apple to deliver your itunes match results' after about 30 or so seconds I then get an error message
'we could not complete your request, the network timed out, blah blah blah make sure network connection is active' no error code.
I am a windows 7 user, I have comodo fire wall, nod32 and sky broadband.
I have forwarded the ports 80 and 443, i have turned off comodo and disabled nod32, uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled itunes and I am still no further forward.
My internet connection is fine, i can access and download from the itunes store so there should be no issues, genius is on and working and getting results from apple so what is wrong with match?
Thanks
Marc

Marcus_30,
thanks, unfortunately tried almost all of that already...
You must be able to disable the firewall, even just temporarily.
Did that already, no change
Plug directly into the router and have nothing else running.
no change either if connected via Wifi or cable
I take it that you can connect to the store ok?
yes, iTunes store is working fine - even can download at the same time I am getting the network timeout error
Have you been through the re-installing iTunes motions?
this will be my next step - had hoped to avoid that...

Waiting for apple to deliver your itunes match results

Out of the blue, iMatch is hung-up on step 1 and displays this in the progress bar
"waiting for apple to deliver your itunes match results". Nothing ever happens after that. Songs that I have been adding since the beginning are in the cloud and play on all my devices -even thought in itunes it indicated that they are not in the cloud. Anything new I have added to my library appears on my other devices as grayed-out and do not play. They do play on my PC.
I have a Dell PC with Vista running the latest version of iTunes.
I have signed in/out
Turned iMatch (and genious) off/on
Deauthorized and re-authorized the PC
restarted iTunes
restarted the PC.
I have no other issues with this machine.
Support has not been able to help other than claiming it is Apple's fault.
Thanks, VJ

I had to restart iTunes.

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Smart Playlists Sync from Itunes

Hey all,
Whenever I connect my iphone 4 to my macbook all of the smart playlists automatically sync to my iphone, even though i have "manage music manually" selected under my iphone settings. Anyone know how i stop these playlsits from syncing to my iphone everytime i connect the phone to my macbook. Thanks

With iTunes Match enabled on an iOS device direct syncing of music via USB or Wi Fi is disabled. All music management takes place directly on the iDevice. All supported playlists are uploaded to the cloud and are available on your iDevice in the "Playlists" section."
Some criteria for Smart Playlists that are not supported are any Playlists that reference other playlists, comments, Checked. You may need to experiement a little with the smart playlists to get them just the way you want them in iOS.

My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?

My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?
It would be so much easier having seperate accounts but we have hundreds of her purchased songs on my account and she would need to be able to access these from her account. Possible?
Also, if we bought a song in future we would want to be able to both have access to it.
Alternatively, what is the easy way to sync two distinctly different contact lists to one iTunes account?
Thank you in advance.

FYI: iTunes account (used to make purchases) is not the same as iTunes library (iTunes on your computer with music, movies, etc.).
ecbclb wrote:
Will we have to create a seperate account for her, or can we all have the same one?
You can but you will not be able to limit what she syncs.
I would like to avoid 'checking' and 'unchecking' individual songs every time one of us tries to synch our ipods to the library.
I don't recommend using (only) the checkmarks to select what to sync.
Each of you can create your own playlists then sync only those playlists.
Then add/delete from your own playlists to change iPod content.
The only time I uncheck items is if I rarely/never want to sync them to anything, such as Christmas music or old audiobooks.
I suggest you each have your own computer login account. Then everyone has their own contacts, calendars, and everything else.
You and your husband can share an iTunes library and let your daughter have her own.

Do i need a separate appleID and password for itunes store, icloud and app store apart from my admin login and password?

after having my mbp upgraded with new m.lion by apple tech service i noticed that applications like iphoto, garageband and imovie are gone
researched online and was told that i had to acess the `purchase` via AppStore where it asks me to log in with Apple ID and password
i used the usual admin login and password and didnt work, also on itunes and icloud the similar case
do i need to register with a separate appleID and password for itunes store, icloud and app store apart from my admin login and password?

Just use the same Apple ID and password that you used to access this forum - that's your Apple ID.
The user name and password on your computer has nothing to do with your Apple ID.
Good luck,
Clinton

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