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I have tried all of the suggestions in the support community for syncing a playlist in the order I want. I have sorted it by the left most col and date added and when it syncs, it is always in Artist order. It is a smart playlist that takes the first song of each album I add to the Nano playlist and allows me to determine the order they appear so I can remember the newest items I added. I have done this on other iPods, but can't get it to work on the 7g Nano.
Anybody have any ideas? I am still using iTunes 10. Don't have the nerve to upgrade to 11.
Thanks. Brad.

This is a bug, right? Any chance Apple will fix this in a future firmware update?
This inability to match my playlist in iTunes exactly kinda makes my smart playlists worthless. Guess I'm returning this 7G nano and going back to my 3G nano for now...

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