Thousands of playlists

my itunes makes thousands of blank playlists entitled "My Playlist 20090109" that get re-created as soon as i delete it. i think they're the cause of my itunes being slow, any help? thanks.

It sounds like a smart playlist with no fields in it. Did you set up a smart playlist, even as an experiment to see what they were?
Phil

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When I turn on 'itunes Match' all of a sudden I have thousands of playlists show up, they are all called 'test' and they are all empty. Help please!!!
I have tried to delete them but you cant delete more than one at once and there are litteraly thousands of them.
Also why is this happening?

Re: After turning on iCloud/iTunes match, my playlist was duplicated 2000 times

When adding albums to my library it keeps making a playlist for every album

when i add albums to my library itunes adds them as playlist aswell how can i stop this. it only just started to do this why

I'm having the exact same problem. It just started with the last update.
This is a horrible feature. When I rescan my library, it adds thousands of playlists...and I have to delete them one at a time!!!!!!
How can we turn off this feature?

For some reason, When I add my 'My Music' folder to Itunes on my new computer, as Itunes is adding music, It's creating hundreds of playlists from each of my artist/albums...I end up with a ton of playlists (200 gigs worth) How do i stop this?

Essentially, Itunes creates a playlist for each album in my 'my music' folder, resulting in thousands of playlists. Why is this happening all of the sudden? How do I stop this?
Thanks,
Brendan

hi Limnos,
I do not mean the entire ITunes folder but, rather, the contents of the ITunes folder prior to September 29th. (90% of the media is missing, along with all playlists) The media that remains says it was added on 9/29 although I know most of it was added many months or even years earlier. There are no playlists listed at all, before or after 9/29. (I know for certain that I added non-iTunes purchased songs on 10/6 although I had not created playlists for them)
I have my iTunes folder backed up on both an external drive as well as Time Machine.
I run iTunes off of an ITunes folder on my computer rather than from the external, if that's what you mean about how I have it set up.
Is it OK to drag the entire iTunes folder from the external drive onto my laptop's drive and see if that fixes it?
Thank you for your help!
Deb

Adding tracks automatically creates playlists

Help!
I have 47,000 tracks to add to iTunes and when I begin the process, it immediately creates a playlist for each album. I stop the import immediately and delete the 20 or so playlists that have been created, go back to File > Add to Library, select my folder, click Open and it does the same thing - it adds all of the tracks to my iTunes Music Library AND creates playlists for every collection of tracks it thinks is related!!!!! You can imagine how out-of-control this would be if I were to import my entire library!!
I've looked through preferences for some "create a playlist for every album I import" or something along those lines but I don't see anything. I'm running Mac OX 10.6 and iTunes 10.4.
Please let me know what I can do to prevent this from happening! I want control over my own, personal playlists, which I created, then exported to file, then emptied out my entire Music Library to start over again fresh. BUT this time, the fresh start is going to cause thousands of playlists to be created on their own.
Can anybody help me?

You got the correct answer! I meant to click "Correct" answer to give you the points but I clicked "Helpful" instead because I'm new to the interface and I'm really tired.
That's what it was. I found the m3u files and moved them to my Playlist folder, then loaded up my library and ba-da-bing! My music is back. Thank you!
How can I give you the full "Correct Answer" points? Moderator??

"now playing" smart playlist

There's a feature in Windows Media Player that I would like to mimic in itunes.
There is a "now playing" window in WMP that I can simply drag songs into. It's sort of like a temporary playlist. This way if you want to listen to say these two albums, or start listening to something and want to add what you're listening to, you don't have to make a brand new playlist, you can simply add to what is now playing.
Is there anyway to do this in itunes? Set up a smart playlist that just has what you're now playing and then when you're finished listening it automatically deletes it? Or am I stuck making and deleting thousands of playlists all the time?

Yes, but if I use the party shuffle, then the songs are still there the next time I turn on itunes and pretty soon I have every song I've listened to in my party shuffle and have to delete them in order to get the desired effect I'm looking for.......perhaps windows media player just has better options.....

HELP! I'm going crazy trying to organize my music into folders!

I am managing my own music which I need to do.
I've now got thousands of playlists, each usually an album or artist name. For example I've got over 33 Madonna albums. Just my "A's" to get through on the playlist require my thumb to go around the wheel dozens of times.
I need to have folders, I would like to name them "A" and have all my playlists that start with A under them. I'm thinking "M" followed by a subfolder "Madonna" followed by a playlist with a playlist for each Madonna album.
It is not letting me do any of this. I can make a folder but then it won't let me drag it to my ipod. I create a folder and try to drag a playlist into it and it won't let me. I can't deal with this much music anymore. There has to be a way to use folders for this.

It's not difficult to use but if you are used to doing it a differnt way, it may be confusing.
You're gonna have to try to not apply what you used to do.
In iTunes, go to menu Edit - Show browser.
This will show a list of Genres, Artists and Albums.
Click on any of these to view just that info.
Same on the iPod.
Go to Music -> Artists -> Albums
or Music -> Genre -> Artist
or Music Albums
or Music -> Playists.
Yes, you can create folders in iTunes under playlists. This will help keep your playlists a bit organized.
I have two folders, one for my playlists and one for my daughters playlists.
However, these folder do not get transfered over to the iPod. Only the playlists get transfered.
To get Artist>Album>Playlist, on the iPod, use Music -> Artist -> Album and press Play.
In iTunes select the artist and the album and press play.
You don't need a playlist for an artist or album.
To play all songs by an artist (or Genre) , simply select the artist and press Play
iTunes and the iPod are not as friendly for classical music. Many people edit the ID3 tags to exchange the Composer and Artist fields. This way everything from Strauss will be shown under Strauss instead of the 27 different orchestras who recorded Strauss.
Here's a good place to start -> iPod 101 - Master Your Music and More
It explains the basics of iTunes and the iPod.
If you have questions, feel free to ask them here.
Try and be specific about what you are trying to accomplish.

HT204318 Copied my iTunes from my Mac to my Windows 7 laptop, now there are thousands of songs missing on the Windows copy with the exclamation point. everything shows up, playlists and tracks, there are just a bunch of songs with exclamation points. how

Copied my iTunes from my Mac to my Windows 7 laptop, now there are thousands of songs missing on the Windows copy with the exclamation point. everything shows up, playlists and tracks, there are just a bunch of songs with exclamation points. how can i properly sync my iTunes from my Mac to my PC? using iTunes

nope all my songs are copied and organized into the iTunes library.

Thousands of empty playlists

I recently moved from a PC to a Mac and I had thousands of empty playlists in my iTunes library, which I know is a problem from iTunes Match. I thought I could fix the problem on a Mac using the Automator or a script, but now every time I try to do that, iTunes freezes, becomes non-responsive, and nothing happens. As it was, iTunes was taking about 10 minutes to open and become responsive, and then it would only work for a little while before becoming non-responsive again. Now, after running the Automator "Remove Empty Playlists" and a script, the playlists didn't go anywhere, and I can't get iTunes to open at all.
All day, I've been trying to fix this by turning off iTunes Match on all my iOS devices and getting the script to run, but nothing is working and somehow iTunes is running even worse. I don't know what else to try, but iTunes is completely unusable. Frankly, I don't even know if getting rid of all the playlists would fix the problem. I know I could check by just turning off iTunes Match on my Mac, but it would need to open first for me to do that.
Does anybody have any suggestions?

Hello MrStuntman,
You may need to recreate your iTunes Library. The following article details this process.
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
Note: After re-creating your library, any devices that you sync with iTunes (Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, iPad) will see your iTunes library as a new library and will completely resync. The next sync with such a device will take longer and may reset some options since your rebuilt library isn't familiar to the device.
Cheers,
Allen

Somehow I now have thousands of the same playlist which is blank and cannot seem to delete them. Help

I somehow have thousands of the same blank playlist and cannot delete them. Help? Is there a way to select them all?

This has happened to a number of users lately. Usually the only way to remove them to restore the iPod to factory settings.
B-rock

Tried to rename some tracks in a playlist and it renamed EVERYTHING IN MY MASSIVE LIBRARY!! Now all my ID3 tags are wrong! THOUSANDS OF THEM!

Had some home-made music I wanted to bring into my library which had no Meta info, so in the past I'd create a playlist so I can easily find the new additions amid my 25,000 songs, and give them proper meta info. Tried this today with latest iTunes and when I renamed one track, it applied those changes to my whole library before I realized what was happening and stopped it. Now I have 8000 tracks that all think they're on an album called "Acoustic Glory". Go ahead and try to replicate this, I dare you. It's a tried-and-true BUG! Now I'm screwed. What am I gonna manually adjust the meta on 8000 tracks? Fat chance. I tried some 3rd party apps that pull from the internet but they never work. Thanks a lot iTunes 11, for ruining my music life. Would love to get some easy fix suggestion from an apple expert.

This "original file cannot be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
tt2

IPhone has thousands of empty Playlists

First my iTunes had this problem and a simple script resolved this but now since a few weeks my iPhone and iPad have these empty platlists...
This us very annoying because when I want to listen to music most of the times it just crashes..,
I know this is from iTunes Match because when I put it off they are gone...
I hope someone can help me with this...
Thanks already

Hello MrStuntman,
You may need to recreate your iTunes Library. The following article details this process.
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
Note: After re-creating your library, any devices that you sync with iTunes (Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, iPad) will see your iTunes library as a new library and will completely resync. The next sync with such a device will take longer and may reset some options since your rebuilt library isn't familiar to the device.
Cheers,
Allen

How do I get rid of a playlist that some how duplicated itself thousands of times?

I deleted all dups on my MacbookPro however they still show up on my iphone and iPad. I turned off iTunes match and back on, for both devices, only to have them reappear. I made sure to close iTunes and reopen letting iTunes match do its thing, but I suppose now that they are in the cloud I will have to do a reset on ITM??

Check out the discussion in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16821937

How can I shuffle a playlist in iTunes for an iPod so my stereo play a large playlist in a seemingly random order

I have an iPod classic that I plug into my car stereo. My car stereo can play playlists, or if just plug it in, it will play every song in alphabetical order. Once plugged in, I cannot use the iPod to "shuffle". I require a pre-shuffled playlist. I have done this before in iTunes 11 will special instructions, but I've since misplaced those instructions. I know how to build a large playlist of all of my songs. Now, how do I shuffle that list of, say, 20,000 songs, and save to a new shuffled playlist? Don't say it can't be done, because I've done it. I know Apple removed the ability to do this quickly and easily, because obviously Apple doesn't really take their customers wants and needs into account. Otherwise, they would see the thousands of complaints after they removed that feature.
So, is there anyone here that can help me? I don't really need to hear that it's not supported or that it used to work. If you know how to shuffle a playlist and save it in that shuffled state, please post the steps for doing this in Windows iTunes 11.
Thank you in advance,
Bluemookie

Just go to Settings, Shuffle, then turn it to Songs. The songs will stay in the same order in the playlist, but they'll switch it up.

HT1751 I successfully captured a recent itunes library, but then all the songs have "!" marks next to them and won't play. I have thousands of songs in multi folders of my external hard drive, surely there is a way to auto locate all songs on my hard driv

My desktop PC recently crashed and I'm trying to recapture all of my iTunes library playlist and songs. I was able to successfully capture the library, however when I tried to play a song, all have the exclamation mark "!" on them and ask that I locate the song. I successfully located some, but there has to be an automatic way to do this, rather than finding each one. I have thousands of songs located in multiple folders of my exteernal hard drive and need a way to find all songs automatically. Can someone help? Thanks!

This "original file cannot be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
tt2

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