Sync Playlist issues

Itunes 12 installed but cannot sync playlists from laptop to ios device.

What exactly happens when you try to sync?
Did you restore the iPod go factiory settings/new iPod when connected to this computer/iTunes library?
Have you successfully synced from this iTunes library/computer before?
If so have you done anything like update iTunes on the computer since it last successfully synced?
Do the songs play in iTunes?
Does any media now sync to the iPod?
Do you have the right boxes checked to sync?
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
Try syncing using the manual method
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod

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Sync issues with playlists. Not syncing playlists, and now my playlist have disappeared from iTunes. I am Using iTunes 11.1.3 and iOS 7.0.4

Hello surig84,
Thank you for providing the details of the issue you are experiencing when syncing your iPad. I recommend reviewing the following article specifically the section titled "Authorize using the correct account name."
iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1389
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

Itunes 10 bug with syncing playlists

Just passing on some information here in case anyone here has encountered this.
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Itunes 10.0 and 10.1
I installed itunes 10 about a month ago loaded my library and everything was fine. Since then, I've noticed songs missing from some of my playlists. At first it was just a random song here and there and just figured I must have deleted the song from the list and forgot I did that. Then I started noticing more and more songs missing from the playlists that I know should be there. I checked my itunes library to verifiy the missing songs were on the playlist, they were. When I synced my ipod, the songs were missing on my playlist on the ipod. I could still find the song on my ipod by looking under albums or artist, but they were not syncing for the playlist. Song was checked to be synced, no errors at sync. The songs all played in itunes just fine, file corruption wasn't the cause. Only thing the songs that wouldn't sync had in common was that they were all purchased from the itunes store.
I was on itunes 10.0 at the time, so I upgraded to 10.1, same issue. Tried deleting and recreating the playlist, same issue. Deleted the songs that weren't syncing and restored them from my backup, same issue. Finally I just wiped by whole itunes library and readded all my music, then recreated the playlist, same issue.
Running out of options I decided to rollback to itunes 9.2. Had to wipe my library again, and readd everything. After reloading my library into itunes 9 I recreated my playlists and synced with my ipod. All playlists synced on my ipod correctly.

For what its worth I too am experiencing the same problem after accidentally the latest version of Itunes 10.1 whilst downloading Beatles songs to my classic 30G Ipod. I found that my synced playlists are dropping songs seemingly at random. The songs, videos and podcasts all seem to have been moved over but the playlists are screwed. In some cases I've found 4 out of six songs missing from a a playlist. I've tried restoring my Ipod, consolidating songs, recreating some of the smaller playlists from scratch under the new Itunes with similar results. I tried uninstalling Itunes and reinstalling a couple of older versions of Itunes 9 in with case I find that Itunes 10 has made the song files unreadable under 9 so I've I did a clean install of 10.1 and am still experiencing songs missing from playlists. Am at my wits end on this problem and would appreciate any suggestions to fix this problem.

Can you just sync playlists across 2 macs with identical libraries

can you just sync playlists across 2 macs with identical libraries. i have done a carbon copy of my home mac itunes library to a work mac. i'll then switch itunes match on on the home mac, and i am assumign i won't need to redownload everything to my work mac. my question is though, is it possibnle to use itunes match to just sync playlists as really i dont want to have to upload my contetn to the cloud as its nearly all not goign to be on itunes match in the cloud (obscure stuff). so if i keep libraries in sync myself, can i jsut use match to sync my playlists?
cheers

No you can't. Match is an all or nothing service.
However, depending on the size of your library and your upload speeds, you may be surprised at how quickly the match/upload process takes, and by the amount of stuff that does match.
Depending on how big an issue the subscription fee is to you, it may be worth giving it a go. I use match mainly to keep my iTunes libraries in sync and it is the solution that I've been looking for for years.

Where do I find the "Sync Playlists" option for dual Nanos?

In a recent answer to a post about more than one Ipod for one computer someone said use the Sync Playlists feature to seperate each persons music. Where is this? How do I do this exactly?
I just put all the music from my library onto my wife's new Nano which I didn't want do. Now what?
Thanks..........

Hello, welcome to the Discussions.
Connect one of your iPods to your computer.
In iTunes, go to "Edit -> preferences -> iPod -> Music".
Select the "Automatically update selected playlists" option for your iPod.
Name and create a playlist for this iPod that you would like to sync music to.
Choose that playlist for that iPod in iTunes Preferences.
Now, eject this iPod, and connect the other one. Set it for "Automatically update selected playlists", like the instructions above.
Here's the original article that explains how to manage multiple iPods: How to use multiple iPods with one computer
I hope this solves the question for you!
-Kylene
If any post helps or solves your issue, please mark it that way accordingly. Thank you for helping the boards!

How to sync playlist in Zen X-Fi?

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Software version .04.08, recently installed
Running Win XP SP3
I need clarification on the proper procedure to sync playlists. I had several playlists on the player that got duplicated. For example Jazz was duplicated during sync as Jazz() and Jazz(2). Rather than edit the playlists I deleted all of them using the delete key on the player. I then tried to transfer current versions of the playlists from Creative Centrale via the Sync Manager. None of the current versions of the playlists will transfer to the player.
I've performed player cleanup per instructions at: http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=208/page/3

After much effort and frustration I've figured out to "transfer" playlists from Creative Centrale to the Zen X-Fi. The problem was that I thought playlists would sync on "automatic sync." Wrong.
Instead, one has to transfer playlists from Creative Centrale manually, apparently one at a time, using the procedure at: http://203.2.42.97:80/srvs/cgi-bin/webcgi.exe/st=273,e=000000000087002422,k=9677,sxi=0,varset=ws :http://uk.europe.creative.com,case=52954
(copy and paste this convoluted link)
I find it very unintuiti've that playlists don't transfer with automatic sync (or even manual sync), especially since the sync manager displays "playlist" as a file category in the file comparison dialogue box.
I hope this and my previous post save someone experiencing this problem hours of frustration that I've endured with this issue.

I cannot get my iPhone3 to sync playlists. If I create the play list on my iPhone, when I sync the playlist is deleted. If I create te playlist on iTunes, when I sync, it will not transfer to my iPhone. Help!

I cannot get my iPhone3 to sync playlists. If I create the play list on my iPhone, when I sync the playlist is deleted. If I create te playlist on iTunes, when I sync, it will not transfer to my iPhone. Help!

Hello jmazumba
Continue your troubleshooting with the article below to resolve the issue with connecting to iTunes. It will walk you through checking the drivers as well as third party security software for any conflicts.
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
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Sync Playlists using WM

Hello,
Recently I updated my Zen Touch Firmware for MTP. I'm now using WMP0 to sync my music. And I managed to sync my music fine, but I was wondering how to sync playlists to my device (and show them on my playlist menu of the player). I tried dragging the playlist file (m3u, asx or even wpl) to the sync area of the WMP0 and it appears in the sync list fine, but when I select the sync button, it gives me this error:
"Error: Windows Media Player cannot synchronize the file. The Player might not support the file type."
Any idea on what steps do I need to follow to sync my playlists to the Zen Touch?
Thanks

Try creating a playlist inside WMP0 and then add that entire playlist to the Sync List and see if it will work. If you have an existing playlist then add it to your library first then add it to your Sync List.
On the left side you should see the name of the songs in that playlist appear and the name of the playlist should be on the top.
Note however, WMP0 does have issues with Playlists as described <a href='http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;89548' target=_blank>here[/url]. So manually syncing your playlist will not transfer over the playlist, just the tracks. Auto-syncing is the best way to use WMP0 with any player.

ITunes 9: iPhone 3G Sync Playlists Wrong

When i sync my iPhone the top 25 is not the top 25 which i have on itunes. It is a bunch of random songs. Any ideas?

dstampf wrote:
Another data point. I don't have any smart playlists that I move to the iPhone, but I do have a playlist that on my mac is 90% podcasts. Nothing that is labeled as a podcast are synched to the iphone, but if they are labeled "spoken word" they are put on the phone.
I updated the iphone long ago and never had a problem.
I updated to itunes 9 just before this happened.
Check out this page: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151347&tstart=0
Basically the podcasts are now "separate" from music in iTunes now and needs to be set up differently.
In regards to the playlist issues I can confirm that turning off live updating solves the problem but it is infuriating to have to turn off the "smart" part of the smart playlist. It may just be anecdotal but I've noticed a strong uptick in major software bugs from Apple in the last few weeks / months. Perhaps they need to slow down and concentrate on getting things right rather than just putting out crap.

Two iPad/Match Playlist Issues

I am having a number of problems with Match, iTunes and my iPad.
For starters, I have iTunes and Match running on 3 computers (a Macbook Pro, a Macbook and a Mac Mini). I also use Match with my music on an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2.
My iPhone music is fine.
On my iPad, however, there are a couple of issues.
1) Smart playlists, such as 100 Most Listened to Songs, and 50 Most Recent Purchases have thousands of songs in them, not the 100 or 50 that they should. Those playlists are correct on all other computers and my iPhone
2) Regular playlists have only a fraction of the songs that they should, and they appear to be changing the playlists on the other machines. For example, a playlist that was created with 15 songs in it, and had 15 songs on all machines, only had 4 songs on the iPad (and this IS with All songs shown, taking into account they may or may not have been downloaded to the device). And then, after I saw there were only 4 songs in the iPad playlist, I looked again at the other devices and those playlists were changed to only have 4 songs too. The changes happened AFTER I looked at the playlists on the iPad.
All of my devices are running the latest versions on iTunes, OS 10 and iOS.
I know these are similar to some of the other Match/Playlist issues, but there are a few differences too.
Any ideas?

For #1 - on your computer, right-click (or control-click) one of the songs that this is affecting, then choose "Get Info". Look on the "Info" tab. Is the "Part of a compilation" item checked? If it is, that will change how the song is categorized so it won't appear under the artist name. I've found that sometimes this is checked even on things like "Best of..." albums where the artist is always the same.
For #2, do the same thing, but this time look for any weird characters in the info - like maybe somehow a letter got entered into the "year" field, or you might see empty squares in the name field. Fix anything that looks odd, then sync again or update iTunes match, and see if you can open that artist on the ipad again.

Is there a way to auto sync playlists while manually managing your music?

I used to use WMP11 before I bought an iPod and used iTunes, and in that I was able to auto sync playlists to my Samsung dap, as well as being able to manually drag tracks/albums to it.
Since using iTunes, I have found it is not as accessible in this regard. Of course, you can opt to manually manage your music, but if you do this, it does not auto sync any info. This means that if I drag a playlist to my iPod and alter it at a later stage by adding more tracks, it won't alter it on the iPod unless I manually replace it with the amended one. It also means that any ratings that I set on my iPod do NOT get transfered to the tracks in iTunes when connected.
What I have done is set a playlist called 'iPod Tracks' in iTunes, and have dragged any extra albums to my iPod using that, as well as the smart playlist 'Top Tracks'. But the disadvantage of this is, if I drag a few songs from an album into my 'iPod Tracks' playlist, then later decide I want the whole album and drag that over, I end up with two of the same tracks in the playlist, which makes it look very untidy (although I am aware only one of each track will be on the iPod) so it is not ideal.
Surely there must be a way to auto sync playlists so that when you amend them in iTunes it does so on the iPod too, as well as manually drag over any extra tracks/albums you want without having a messy playlist work-around like I have done.
Any help/ideas?
Thanks in advance.

There is no way to sync content back to itunes. As you are aware there are a couple of unsupported ways to recover your content, you will need to decide if your content is valuable enough to go down this route.
If so and you are not comfortable with the procedures, I suggest taking the unit to a data recovery specialist with mac experience.

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I just upgraded from an old Pentium computer to a new Dell XPS 18 running Windows 8.1. Downloaded latest version of iTunes to the new computer, then successfully transferred library content from the old computer to the new one via the external hard drive method. All material -- iTunes purchases, music ripped from CDs, a movie, even MP3 files purchased long ago from another source -- transferred successfully; everything plays on the new computer just fine.
My problem is that the "old" playlists didn't transfer over. After connecting my iPod Touch to the new computer, I verified that the iPod has the latest version of iOS, and its content (including the old/original playlists) displays in the window on the left-hand side of the iTunes screen. The really frustrating thing is that I can find no way to transfer the old playlists to my new iTunes library. I've tried dragging and dropping, selecting and pasting, and exploration of all the options menus, but no luck. Creating a new playlist in the new library and then clicking on the "Add To" button opens up a window into which to drop dragged songs/folders from the new library listing, but simultaneously closes the left-hand display window with all of my iPod's current playlists depicted.
I appear successfully to have backed up my iPod to the new computer, but all the sync menu options are grayed out. When I tried clicking on the Sync button, I got a warning that syncing to the new library would erase everything from the old library -- presumably obliterating my playlists with it. I have about a dozen different playlists, some of them with several hundred songs, drawn from a library of a few thousand individual items. Is there some means of importing/transferring the old playlists to the new computer/library, so that I don't manually have to drag and drop hundreds and hundreds of songs into a new set of playlists? Am I overlooking something really obvious or simple? Can I safely turn on Home Sharing and then import or paste the old playlists into the new computer's library. I don't think I'm too much of a Luddite, but given the size of my library I'm very leery of turning on Home Sharing (to the old Pentium computer) after I've successfully transferred over many GBs of content from the old machine to the new.
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Can't Sync Playlists from iPod Touch to New Library
I just upgraded from an old Pentium computer to a new Dell XPS 18 running Windows 8.1. Downloaded latest version of iTunes to the new computer, then successfully transferred library content from the old computer to the new one via the external hard drive method. All material -- iTunes purchases, music ripped from CDs, a movie, even MP3 files purchased long ago from another source -- transferred successfully; everything plays on the new computer just fine.
My problem is that the "old" playlists didn't transfer over. After connecting my iPod Touch to the new computer, I verified that the iPod has the latest version of iOS, and its content (including the old/original playlists) displays in the window on the left-hand side of the iTunes screen. The really frustrating thing is that I can find no way to transfer the old playlists to my new iTunes library. I've tried dragging and dropping, selecting and pasting, and exploration of all the options menus, but no luck. Creating a new playlist in the new library and then clicking on the "Add To" button opens up a window into which to drop dragged songs/folders from the new library listing, but simultaneously closes the left-hand display window with all of my iPod's current playlists depicted.
I appear successfully to have backed up my iPod to the new computer, but all the sync menu options are grayed out. When I tried clicking on the Sync button, I got a warning that syncing to the new library would erase everything from the old library -- presumably obliterating my playlists with it. I have about a dozen different playlists, some of them with several hundred songs, drawn from a library of a few thousand individual items. Is there some means of importing/transferring the old playlists to the new computer/library, so that I don't manually have to drag and drop hundreds and hundreds of songs into a new set of playlists? Am I overlooking something really obvious or simple? Can I safely turn on Home Sharing and then import or paste the old playlists into the new computer's library. I don't think I'm too much of a Luddite, but given the size of my library I'm very leery of turning on Home Sharing (to the old Pentium computer) after I've successfully transferred over many GBs of content from the old machine to the new.
Thanks very much --

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As this is asked daily I will just show you how to search.
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There does not seem to be a way to sync playlists created on the iPod with a windows PC. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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