Match playlists don't stay in order

Generally, playlists on my iDevice will play tracks in the order that I've set them in my iTunes library, i.e. if I've set the playlist in iTunes to be organised by 'date added' or 'year released' it will follow suit when played on my iPhone. But some of my iTunes Match playlists don't seem to follow this pattern. One in particular seems to in fact list the playlist in reverse order..... is there any reason for this? How can I make sure the playlists on my phone match the one on my screen??

Sorry no one has replied to you yet. There have been many reports similar to yours, buggy playlists. If you have already deleted old playlsts and re-created them with Match enabled and you are still having trouble, you may want to explore creating playlists on the iOS device itself (I believe that's possible, though admittedly I've no experience with it). It's possible a locally-created playlist will behave more in the manner you desire.

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