Playlists will not sync on iphone 5

Playlists used to sync and now certain playlists stopped syncing when they used to sync before.  Tried to unsync all my music and then resync and that didn't work.  I turned on home sharing to match home sharing setting on my desktop PC - that didn't work.  What next?

I am sort of having this problem as well. I just purchased some songs and I tried to add them to a playlist using my laptop. When I am on iTunes, the playlist on my iPod touch indicates that they are in fact on the iPod touch. However, when I go to the iPod touch after the sync, they are not part of the playlist. Very frustrating.

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