My playlists no longer show up on iPhone 4s or Mac TV.

My playlists no longer show up on iPhone 4s or Mac TV.
I'm only syncing, physically, from my desktop. I don't use iTunes Match.
This seems to me a recent problem for me.

Hello Yeit,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like neither your phone nor Apple TV 1st gen are getting the playlists synced to them from iTunes.
If that is the case then I do not think the issues would be to do with either of the devices themselves, so we should look at the iTunes library itself.
First I would check to see if the checkboxes to sync your playlists are checked in the Music tab of your device when it is selected in iTunes.
Open iTunes.
Connect the iOS device to your computer using the included USB cable and click the device button in the upper right corner. (If you are viewing the iTunes Store, click the Library button in the upper right corner. The device button will then be visible.) Some tabs may not appear if you do not have corresponding content in your library. For example if you do not have any podcasts in your library, the corresponding Podcast tab will not appear.
You can configure the different content types in each tab. For example, Movies under the Movies tab.
To sync, click Apply, in the lower-right corner of the screen.
From: iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer
          http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
If so they are all checked, I would next restart the computer, Apple TV, and iPhone and try again.
If the issue persists next I would recreate your iTunes library.
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Cheers,
Sterling

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