Problems with playlists

Help, I can't seem to change the tracklisting in playlists, I highlight the song and then drag it as per the itunes tutorial but the songs don't change position in my playlists. Any ideas, Cheers

Actually I thought at first you couldn't do this in a smartplaylist, but actually you can, you just have to turn off the "Organizers" in the header. What I mean by this is where it has the number of the song, right before the name of the song (1 2 3 4 5....10) you hit the blank header for that colum Now you can drag and drop songs where you want them in the list
Hitting this "Blank header" basicly turns off the organizers that are on or turned on when you hit the other headers like "Artist" "Date Added" "Album" ect ect

Similar Messages

Problem with playlists iTunes 10.5.2

I downloaded the latest iTunes and noticed after downloading that the order of the songs on my playlists have completely changed, I know it seems like a minor problem but it's rather annoying especially when I have playlists with over 1000 songs with the order of them quite important. Even now when I add songs to these playlists they are not placed in order of the tracks I added them in, in fact the tracklist order changes every time I go to it.
I have never had this problem with previous updates and it clearly seems like some kind of glitch.

I would recommend booting into safe mode first. Directions on doing this can be found at..
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393
Once you get to the safe boot login screen(will look like a regular login screen) instead of loggin in, try pressing the arrow pointing to the left and then pressing restart. This will boot your computer back up into regular mode and then you will need to download the update one more time but this should repair what is necessary to not make it hang. Hope this helps...

Problem with playlists on my iPad

Hi everyone..
I noticed a little but very pesky problem on my iPad 2 with 4.3.2 firmware
I have 16 audio playlists in my iPod app, synced from iTunes...but...I can't select the last 5 from the list, because the list is covered by the album art of the currently playing song!!!!
when i try to scroll to the bottom of the list, it 'bounces' up to the sixth playlist from the bottom, and the last 5 remain covered, and I cant' select them and view the songs that they contain!!
please help me...
solutions? anyone who noticed the same bug??
please help me, I'm going crazy!!
if you do not understand the problem I can post the video of the bug on youtube...

Workaround: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15005124

Syncing Problem with playlists

Hello everyone,
I own an iPhone 4S and I've updated to iOS6. A couple of days now iTunes cannot syncing my playlists with the iPhone.
What can i do?

Can you further explain what you mean when you say it's not sync'ing? For example, is it the case where the playlist doesn't show up at all on the device or is it the case that the playlist is there but is empty?
If the playlist isn't showing up at all, then it may mean that you have iTunes set to only sync selected playlists and the one you want hasn't been selected yet.
If the playlist is there on the device but you get a screen that says "No Music" when you select it, then you may have run into the same bug I did on the iPhone. (By the way, which device are you using?) I ran into this awhile ago where some smart playlists would sync and others wouldn't. If it's the No Music bug, then this article solved it for me:
[Workaround for No Music bug|http://macintopics.com/2010/07/29/apple/iphone/workaround-for-the-no-music- screen-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch]
Does that match what you're seeing or is it a different problem?

Problem with playlist

on one of my playlists I am not able to move songs around, I checked all the other lists and it works but one.

Oh no!! I can't believe this!! Just today I purchased a new, previous generation 30G iPod from Apple.com. (Can't use the new generation, processor too slow, long story). Now I'm reading that the new iTunes is trouble!! I have iTunes 7.6... am I in for problems?

Problem with playlist in Jikebo

When I reboot after shutting down the Jukebox 3, it does not emember where it left off on any of my playlist, is there a fix for this. I have the latest firmware. I have to assume that other owners have had this problem, or is this just the way it is

Please update firmware version v3.0.6 and try again!!
(http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/firmware/frm/spt_frm_ia_detail.php?UID=607)
Hope to solve your issue!!!

Problem with playlist transferring

OK....really sorry for the stupid question here...I just got a 3G Nano, and sync'd for the first time yesterday. All the playlists that I had for my mini are still on the computer, but they didn't sync to the Nano. The name I gave the Nano appears as a playlist, with all my music under that. I thought these would automatically sync to the new iPod. What didn't I do?

Under the Menu When you plug in your IPOD, THere is a tab on the top known as "Music" Check all the boxes for your playlist. It should Sync.
Did this help? Or am I mis-understanding. LEt me know if there is any other problems

TS2776 Sync problems with Playlist

I purchased new songs; I see thme in my playlist on my PC. After I sync I dont see the new songs on my iphone 5S.

I have the same problems, none of the songs listed on my iPod are even the same as the top 100. I also had the problem of my iPod cutting out in the middle of songs and returning to the same menu and every new iPod I got the same thing happened, I am on my third iPod Touch now. Has that ever happened to anyone elses? Ironically enough, every single one of them has had the same playlist problems. I tried reinstalling itunes and restoring the iPod afterwards but no dice. I think I may reformat to try and see if that works, unless anyone else has any suggestions.

HT1399 problem with playlist sync of ipod nano 3rd gen will sync new pieces of music but it won't sync a new playlist I added and it has "lost" one I had before. Any ideas why?

Since I got the last update of itunes, my 3rd gen will sync new pieces of music but it won't sync a new playlist I created and it has "lost" one I had before. Any ideas why and what I can do to cure the problem?

if you have done restores then possibly it is a firmware issue... i would take it to the apple store if you can to get it looked at...

Printing problem with playlist

After burning a CD from a playlist, I want to print an insert. When I try tp print "Mosaic" or "White Mosaic" the cover art prints as a black square, but the text prints correctly. Any suggestions. I'm running latest version of iTunes on Windows XP.

Um I dont know if im doing something daft but I tried this like you said
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
printJob.setPrintable(this);
if(printJob.printDialog()){
try {
          PageFormat pageFormat = printJob.defaultPage();
          if (pageFormat.getOrientation() == PageFormat.PORTRAIT) {
          landscape = 0;} else {
               landscape = 1;}
          System.out.println("THE ORIENTATION IS "+ landscape);
          printJob.print(); }
catch (Exception PrinterExeption) { PrinterExeption.printStackTrace();}
and it doesnt seem to work as I tried it both as landscape and portrait in the print dialog but landscape is always 0.
cheers
pmiggy

I am having all kinds of problems with playlists since I downloaded 0s8

Since I downloaded 0S8 on my phone, ipap, iPod touch, and iPod and my powerbook, I can't get playlist from iTunes to transfer over. I also can't see songs I had currently put into a playlist unless I back totally out of iTunes. What's going on. I was djing a gig when the song I selected came out totally different from what was selected.

You might not have enough space left on your hardrive.

Playlist Problem With Turkish Character Set (Windows-1254 or ISO 8859-9)

I'm using my x-fi 2 just for 2 week and sicked and tired it's problem. Now i have a problem with playlist. If my mp3 or m4a files or folder names have turkish character playlist's seems empty but i can find the files under albums and artist name sectors.
My question is the any way to solve this problem. Folder names is not problem but file names i can not change all of them. Please help.

meraba ankara yasiyorum.Sizinle mail araciliyla görüsmemiz mumkun mu?
e_mail: [email protected]
Bilgisayırıma 10g express edition yükledim .Bi de ODT for 10gXE (ADD-in) yükledim.Ama
connect e basınca veritabanına .net den baglanamıyorum username yada password yanlis diyor.string name express edition icin nedir..net 2003 bilgisayarima yüklü.
.net ve oracle kullanarak bir proje yapmak istiyorum.Yardimci olabilirmisiniz
saygilar..

Problems with Syncing iPhone 3G (4.2.1. iOS). What is appearing in the status bar is "Syncing "untiled playlist.." and its stuck at backing up. I noticed that my name has been replaced to "untitled playlist". Whats wrong

Problems with Syncing iPhone 3G (4.2.1. iOS). What is appearing in the status bar is "Syncing "untiled playlist.." and its stuck at backing up. I noticed that my name has been replaced to "untitled playlist". Whats wrong

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Maybe a long shot, but WD is not known for the quality of some of their enclosures, although I do like the drives themselves. It may be worth mounting this drive in a different enclosure, something like one of OWC's FireWire enclosures with the highly reliable Oxford chip sets. I wouldn't be inclined to trust a WD enclosure, especially if it already seemed to be acting in a flakey manner.
Here's an example of what I mean:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEP924FW8E2O/
I have 3 of these and I really like them.
From what I understand, if the drive spins up, it is often possible to recover data from it. To be absolutely certain to destroy the data, you just about have to take a hammer to the disk. Hopefully, there will be a way to get your data back.
Good luck!

Playlist problems with music on a Mac.

I somewhat recently switched to using multiple Mac's as my main desktop machines, all running Lion. I'm trying to do everything "the Mac way", preferring Apple-provided apps where possible. While im 95% happy, the funny thing is that the part that works worst is playing music. So please school me in the Mac way of making music come out of the headphone jack.
Background: For over a decade, I've been ripping all my CDs, and storing them on a server. That's done by converting the tracks into mp3 format, and storing them in a directory tree, one directory per CD. The names of the tracks are very simple - they are 1.mp3, 2.mp3 and so on. Each track hasID3 tags with album, track title (usually the movement name, like Allegro or Andante), and the artist. Each directory contains a playlist in M3U format, cunningly always called all.m3u (as it contains all tracks in this directory). Many directories also contain other playlists. For example, if the CD had both Bruch and Mendelssohn's violin concerti, it would probably have two extra playlists, called bruch.m3u and mendelssohn.m3u. Or if it contained Beethoven's 1st and 2nd symphonies, it would have 1.m3u and 2.m3u. Navigation and search is done by a series of html pages that are stored in the same directory tree, making locating music (whole CDs = directories, whole works = playlists, and individual tracks = mp3 files) quite simple.
This whole directory tree is avaiable through a HTTP server, mounted as a remote file system (for example by AFP or NFS), copies exist on some of the laptops I carry with me, and much of it is also copied onto USB sticks.
With both Windows and Linux desktop machines, this was very easy to use: point a web browser at the directory tree, available through a http server within my house. Click on an individual track (an individual mp3 file), and it immediately starts playing (since all sensible players buffer). Point at a playlist, and it immediately starts playing. The same player can handle mp3 and m3u files, making the user interface simple and consistent. There are no cache consistency problems: If I quit the player, edit the playlist on the server, and then click on the playlist again, the music player will pick up the new version.
In contrast, on the Mac nearly nothing works, and the little that works works badly.
If you click on an individual track (a single mp3 file), it actually starts playing in the Safari tab. But that player (I suspect it's a stripped-down version of Quicktime embedded in Safari) is extremely stripped down: it doesn't even attempt to display ID3 tags and claims that everything is "live broadcast". It doesn't react to F8, so you can't quickly pause the music if the phone rings or someone comes into my office (you have to mouse over to the Safari window and click, way too slow). And there is no way to rewind while playing. But at least something comes out of the headphones, and it is the track I expected to hear.
Now, with playlists, this completely breaks. If you click on the link to the m3u file in the web browser, Safari downloads the playlist, then starts iTunes. Unfortunately, it completely forgets to tell iTunes the context, so iTunes is incapable of doing anything with that playlist: the playlist "waldstein.m3u" contains entries 1.mp3, 2.mp3 and 3.mp3 for the three movements of the Waldstein sonata, but iTunes doesn't get told that the playlist was found in the directory http://homeserver.example.com/music/piano/dg_419053, and that the relative file names are in that directory. So there is no way to play a playlist from a web browser if it is being served by http.
Strangely, if I point Safari at a html page that is on the file system (perhaps on a USB stick or a shared server), the link between Safari or Finder and iTunes works: You click on a playlist file (either on a web page or in the finder), it opens iTunes, and it starts playing the tracks. We'll get to the broken caching below though.
OK, plan B. Take the whole directory (many dozens of GB, hundreds of CDs), and ask iTunes to import it all. No problem. iTunes is even smart enough to know that 1.m3u is a playlist (for Borodin's first symphony), containing four movements 1.mp3 through 4.mp3. Unfortunately, iTunes is also completely stupid, and thinks that all files names 1.m3u are the same playlist. So now I end up with a large playlist called 1.m3u, which contains about a dozen symphonies, sonatas, and piano concertos mangled together. The really amazing thing is the playlist called all.m3u, which contains every bit of music I own. The reason I say "stupid": assuming that two m3u files that are found in different locations but have the same name must be the same playlist and must be merged is really jumping to conclusions. But at least I can sort it by album title (usually the name of the work), and track title. But that doesn't do anything useful. I have probably 10 recordings of Rach3, and being presented with 30 tracks, 10 of which are the first movement, then 10 second movements ... sorting them alphabetically is not useful.
Sorting in general doesn't work: If I by mistake ever sort within iTunes, then it loses the original order of the tracks within the playlist. And I don't want to hear a symphony in the order "Allegro, Andante, Moderato", just because that's the alphabetic order of the track titles: it works out to 3rd - 2nd - 1st movement. And I have not yet found a way to tell iTunes to revert all playlists to the order the tracks showed up in the playlist.
If you tell iTunes to start playing in the middle of a large playlist (for example just the last movement of Rach3 with Argerich), it will happily continue playing within the same playlist. Even across track / album boundaries! Today I was playing Bach's St' John passion out of the giant "all.m3u" playlist, and at the end, it simply drifted into Borodin's 1st symphony. Quite the shock, musically speaking.
The final straw is this: Once you import, iTunes wants to take charge, and it caches all the metadata (namely the playlists and track filenames). In caching this, iTunes cmpletely forgets about any form of cache coherency protocol: just because you saw a playlist once doesn't mean that it will always be in that place, and will always have the same content. Say I have imported at home, and iTunes remembers that the 1st movement of the Waldstein is in /Volumes/HomeServer/music/piano/dg_419053/1.mp3 (and at home that file is accessible via AFP or NFS). Now I take my MacBook to the office, open iTunes, and click, and nothing hapens: my home server is not mounted in the office. No problem: I reach into my briefcase, which contains a 32GB USB stick. If I now open that playlist, iTunes starts playing it ... but now I have twice as many tracks. Do this for a while, and you end up with N copies (for large values of N) of each playlist, and at any given moment all but N-1 of those are broken.
Even worse: Say I discover that I made a mistake, and forgot to add the last movement to a playlist. No problem, go to the server that contains the master copy, edit the .m3u file with emacs, done. Through a variety of rsync... scripts, the various copies on other computers or USB sticks will be updated soon. But iTunes remembers the version it imported weeks ago. Do I have to clear my iTunes cache every time I edit anything anywhere? Why does iTunes even have a metadata cache, if it is usually wrong?
So, let me summarize my problem. I'm looking for a way to click on a mp3 or m3u file that's stored via some sensible protocol (be it HTTP, local files, remote files on a shared server, or file system on portable media), and just play it. Without storing a play list, without rearranging the play list, without caching, but with a display of the ID3 tag and a working pause key.
Here are my biggest complaints about the software that ships with a Mac:
The mp3 player embedded in Safari is missing about 90% of the function.
Linkage of playlists from Safari running on HTTP to iTunes is broken (but it works from Finder, or from Safari running on files).
iTunes insists on importing or caching playlists. I don't need that, I have better storage mechanisms. I want iTunes to play one track or one playlist, and then be done and forget everything it ever knew. Is there a way to tell iTunes no never remember anything, just play the one thing I ordered it to?
If we absolutely must import and cache all playlist in iTunes, at least teach it to recognize that m3u files with the same name found in different places are not the same, and shall not be merged.
Once you sort a playlist in iTunes, I don't see how you can tell it to get back to the original sort order.
Any ideas? Other than going back to Windows and Linux desktops, which I don't find acceptable?

I would also recommend that in order to ensure the person is getting the document in a format they can understand that he prints to PDF the documents. Macs do that very easily.
OpenOffice is free and crossplatform. If they need to edit his documents, they should all agree to use OpenOffice.

Problems with importing playlists to ipod

Bought ipod nano 2 gig. and got problem with iTunes:S
when i want to import playlist to my ipod nano its says:
"iPod cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to."
does any one has the same problem and how did u solved it?
P.S. its doesnt metter what im doing to import manualy or automaticly gives the same message..

Hello,
Are you updated in all your iPod/iTunes software? If not:
iTunes
iPod Updater
iPod Software
Check out this link:
"Disk could not be read from or written to" when syncing iPod
~~Kylene

Problems with playlists

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for