Multiple playlists to delete

For some reason, no doubt a peace of old spyware, my iTunes has close to 2000 untitled playlists eating up ram. There doesn't seem to be a way to delete more than one playlist at a time, though. Shift-down doesn't work, making a box doesn't work, they don't seem to be stored in a folder on the computer where I can delete them, and deleting them one at a time is frustratingly slow, with a big lag between hitting del and the playlist disappearing during which iTunes is virtually frozen.

Have you subscribed to iTunes Match? There is a bug that can sometimes create hundreds of duplicate empty playlists. I've two scripts which might help you clean up: KillEmptyPlaylists and KillTopLevelPlaylists. This post describes a technique for resetting iTunes Match to stop it happening again.
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How do i delete multiple playlists created on iphone?

I have a real mess. My wife (on her iPhone 4) chose to "add a playlist" in her music app. She did. We have iTunes Match set up on our Mac and all iPhone and iPad devices (4 iPhones and 3 iPads). Somehow the playlist cloned itself. I know have over 16,000 playlists all the same name, with nothing in them. It has basically locked up the music app on phones.
I cannot delete them on my iTunes on Mac. I have tried, delete & dragging to trash. They will not delete. I cannot choose multiples either.
Does anyone know how to help?

I have this issue too.
Why is iTunes less useful than it was?
for instance, I cant highlight and delete multiple playlists. I can't see a "list" view of albums, stuck looking at artwork.
when you have a large library, this is unhelpful.

How to delete multiple playlists from itunes

how to delete multiple playlists from itunes?

Have you subscribed to iTunes Match? There is a bug that can sometimes create hundreds of duplicate empty playlists. I've two scripts which might help you clean up: KillEmptyPlaylists and KillTopLevelPlaylists. This post describes a technique for resetting iTunes Match to stop it happening again.
tt2

I have one playlist on iphone4. how can i add new playlist without deleting old one. i do not have old playlist in itunes any more.

I have one playlist on iphone4. how can i add new playlist without deleting old one. i do not have old playlist in itunes any more.When i try to sync iphone with itunes it says that this action will remove my old playlist and all songs.

"it says that this action will remove my old playlist and all songs."
Are you connecting to a different iTunes library than you normally connect to? That will erase the songs and playlists since the iPhone can't be connected to multiple libraries even if it is in manual sync mode.
If you no longer have access to the original library that your iPhone calls 'home', then the only way to save the playlist (and the songs on your iPhone) would be to use a 3rd party application to extract your iPhone contents to this new iTunes library you're trying to connect to.

Itunes playlist is deleting songs, I want to keep!

When I try to create a new playlist, if any songs in the playlist are in any previous playlists, it deletes any duplicate songs from all previous playlists. How do I keep all my previous playlists the same if I want one song in multiple playlists?

See Why did iTunes 11.1 (126) delete all (SEVERAL HUNDRED) Podcasts.
More recently a new option has been added that automatically deletes podcasts when they have been played. it is turned on by default so you may need to revisit your settings. I'm on an iPad just now so I can't check the details.
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[Desktop] Select and organize multiple playlists

This is a direct copy of this idea which was originally posted 2 years ago. I wasn't a user then, and this idea has since been made inactive, so I'm resurrecting it. Even just a shift-select on the desktop app would help immeasurably. Here's the original idea:
"I am looking for easy ways to organize my library.
I want to do some housekeeping in my library, but I find the current system of dragging and dropping individual playlists is too time consuming when the number of playlists reach this high.
First of all, there should be a way to select multiple playlists at once and be able to handle multiple playlists the same way as I can handle single playlist (ability to drag and drop, and rightclick w/ a special dropdown menu for multiple selected items).
Ctrl-clicking, shift-clicking and shift+arrowkeys would help greatly.
[Edit] This idea is nearing its 2 year anniversary of no official recognition. Good times! :)
As a sidenote my Spotify library now consists of 1296 playlists."

Thanks @martskre ! Your idea is solid and seemingly easy enough to implement, I have no idea why it's taken 3 years. As loyal Spotify premium users build their libraries over time, we increasingly need streamlined ways to manage these libraries. Selecting multiple playlists to move/copy/delete is the most simple of these. would it be possible to get a rough roadmap or any info as to why this is being held up? Thanks so much for your help!

Multiple Playlists with Same Name

What causes multiple Playlists with the same name or with the same name with a numerical suffix to appear?

How about turning off iTunes match. Delete the PL - then reactivate iTunes Match.
MJ

ITunes on iCloud has created unwanted multiple playlists. How can I get rid of them?

iTunes on iCloud has created unwanted multiple playlists. How can I get rid of them?

Hi, if this is in regards to your library simply open up itunes and do the following steps:
Click File
Scroll down to "show duplicates"
A list will then appear of your duplicate song titles.
Be sure to CAREFULLY review each song to make sure it is a duplicate ( as I have some music that is the same song but live, acoustic etc...)
Proceed to manually delete each song from the list and leave alone any song that you wish to keep.
For playlists, you will need to hit the name tab so that your doubles line up, from there you will have to manually delete them, it helps to hold the Control button to select multiple songs as a time ( they will be highlighted) then when your done selecting the songs you wish to delete, right click your mouse and select the delete option from the window tab.
Best of luck, please rate my response for help!
Cait

HT1347 Adding songs with multiple playlist

When you have multiple playlist and have to create another one and after that adding(selecting one by one) songs from library of 200 or more songs that becomes very difficult. IS there any other way out ?

You need to reRIP the songs as one.
Insert the CD, select the consecutive songs then iTunes menu Advanced -> Join tracks.
You can delete the first songs you imported.

My Itunes is no longer allowing me to manage my music on my phone i can no longer select on my iphone to make playlists and delete music. Please help fix my problem.

My Itunes is no longer allowing me to manage my music on my phone i can no longer select on my iphone to make playlists and delete music. Please help fix my problem. Iphone4s, 32gigs, IOS 7.1.2
I don't know why it stopped working but it happened a month or two ago but the option on this phone that's usually all the way to the left when you select your device but now its not and I don't know what caused it. ive already tried troubleshooting my problem but have found no help.

Hello Salmomma,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing when trying to connect your iPhone to your Mac. I recommend following the steps in the tutorial below for an issue like this:
iPhone not appearing in iTunes
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/itunes/
Additionally, you can delete music directly from the iPhone by swiping the song:
Delete a song from iPhone: In Songs, swipe the song, then tap Delete.
iPhone User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1658/en_US/iphone_ios6_user_guide.p df
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

Multiple playlists with the same song but don't want duplicates on the iPhone

I have many playlists to organize my music and many songs end up in multiple playlists. I want to have these playlists in my phone but do not want duplicate songs taking up space on the phone. How do I do this?
To be more detailed, I am a musicain and I keep playists of the songs I need to know for different bands that I'm in and often times there are songs that multiple bands require me to know. Also, I have DJ playists that again, will utilize the same song. These are two examples of how one song can be in multiple playlists. I really need these playlists in my phone but I can't have some Beatles song four or five times in my phone. Isn't there a way to import a playlist as a pointer or locator to metadata so the playlist, once imported, just parses through the existing songs on my phone and generates the playist? This seem like it would be a fairly simple thing for Apple to do, no?
Thanks!

Hi, Damon M., and thanks for answering me!
So my Playlists and Smart Playlists are only made up of music (plus four or five music videos that don't represent a lot of space), no Audiobooks and no TV Shows.
When I click on my Music folder, it says I have 4.12GB on the bottom (including the Music videos).
Since I don't sync anything else on my 8GB iPhone but this 4.12GB of music, reorganized in Playlists, I don't see why I get a box saying I need 12GB to fit everything in.
So what I do now is manually sync my music, which on my iPhone takes up about 4GB. But I want my Playlists too...
It's as soon as I want to sync on my Playlists that everything goes wrong.
So... do you have any more suggestions/ideas?
Thanks,
Vincent

Sync music to multiple playlists in iPod Shuffle

iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen
I have created 2 playlists under music in the iPod Shuffle. I can't find a way to sync songs with a certain playlist. I can only sync it at the top level Music.
I don't want to have to copy all the songs to music and then select songs to sync with 2nd playlist. Is there any way around this?
Thanks in advance.

You can have one playlist on it, it a manner of speaking. There is no way to put multiple playlists on it and jump between them, if that is what you are trying to do.

How can I batch change the view options of multiple playlists?

I would like to select multiple playlists and batch change their view options; seems like an obvious feature that should be there, but it does not seem to be there. I know of Assimilate View Options v2.2 in Doug's AppleScripts, but this is not what I want, since AWO requires you to do the change playlist by playlist, i.e., not in batch mode (and I have hundreds of playlists ...). Any idea? Please answer privately at [email protected] since I do not read this forum regularly. Thanks in advance for your help!

did you also check out the following script ?
[_*Change Hidden iTunes Preferences v2.4*_|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=changehiddenprefs]
This application will allow you to invoke hidden iTunes preferences:
Show "Library" playlist
*Changing view setting is global*
Allow half-stars in ratings
Hide "Ping" buttons
Show/hide arrow links -- to either search the iTunes Store or search your library
Load complete iTunes Store preview before playing
Create playlists for purchased song collections
Play songs while importing or converting
Create file names with track number
Maintain grid view for Search results
Option-click zoom button for Mini Player
Show buttons horizontally

Can You Play Multiple Playlists Without User Intervention

Can you stack and play multiple playlists? ie if you had three playlists of 50 songs each, could you pick all three, play all the songs in the first playlist, when it is finished move automatically to the second playlist play its songs then automatically move to the third without user intervention? And if so, can you play each of these in shuffle mode?

There's no "impromptu" method of doing so that I know of.
As far as un-impromptu methods (it's always fun inventing words), it will depend on whether you want to listen to this mega-playlist on an iPod or just with iTunes.
If it's just with iTunes, you can go to the File menu > New Folder command and create a new folder which we can call the Mega-Playlist folder. Drag the three playlists in question into that folder. When you select that folder and press Play, iTunes should go through all the songs.
If it's on an iPod, since Folders don't transfer over from iTunes, the only solution I know of would be to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes that will -
Match any of the following rules:
Playlist is the first playlist +
Playlist is the second playlist +
Playlist is the third playlist.
Synching this mega-playlist to your iPod will allow you to select it from the Playlist menu.
Shuffle mode would shuffle songs from all three playlists together, not shuffle songs from the first playlist before moving on to shuffling songs from the second playlist before shuffling songs from the third playlist.

After update to 10.7.1 /var/db/BootCache.playlist is deleted

I have reloaded Lion server at least a dozen times and it keeps happening after I update to 10.7.1 /var/db/BootCache.playlist gets deleted. I dont know ifs its something I am doing wrong when setting up my server but this is getting crazy. I only host a website and use as email server for that website. Does anyone think it might be, I set up the Server HD as a sharepoint? This is the only thing I can think of? Has anyone else had this problem? I also change the greylisting feature using Terminal but I am changing no files near /var/db/. Any ideas cause 12 times of setting up a server is making me mad? Thanks!

solved my problem. looks like the file is there just not accessible?
got on the phone with Apple and did the following:
- booted to Restore disk (Command + R on boot) and ran Repair Disk and Repair Permissions through Disk Utility (on the server OS HDD).
- then went Apple --> Select Boot Disk --> Selected the server HDD --> Restart
after this i was able to boot up normally, but the Firmware update hadn't applied. before doing any more software updates i made a clone of my server on an external HDD using Disk Utility --> select server OS HDD --> Restore tab --> Destination: External HDD (note, you'll lose anything on the external drive)
after getting the clone i did the firmware update without a hitch.
unrelated to this, the fan on my Mac Mini was going full blast all the time. the fix was to pull out all the cords and let it rest for 30 seconds, then plug everything back in.
hope this helps someone.

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