Was the Smart Playlist podcast order bug on iPod nano fixed in iTunes 11

iTunes 9 broke the order in which Smart Playlists play podcasts in on the Nano. See "Smart Playlist order not respected on ipod nano after upgrade to iTunes 9" (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2154509). Has this been fixed in iTunes 11?

Hi MNM1974,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you want to know how to manually manage the music and playlists on your iPod nano. The article below provides more information about automatic and manual syncing of content to your device, and it will walk you through the process.
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
I hope this helps.
-Jason

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recently i got an iPod Nano 6th G after years of using my iPod Classic 5.5G, and so far it has been a bliss actually if it wasnt for one small thing
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so if anyone could guid me to correct it or even the cause of it i'ld be very thankful

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Hey
Does it charge when connected, if not you may have broken it..
You can always try an apple Genius at an Apple Store,
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Since upgrading to iTunes 9, one of my smart playlists is no longer syncing to my iPod, however, it syncs fine with my iPhone.
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Quick fix: Make a regular playlist. Drag the contents of the smart playlist into it. Sync the new playlist.
WIthout seeing the rules for your smart list it is hard to guess what the problem is, but you may get better results if you break it down into more sublists gathered together in a playlist folder.
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How to manage music/playlists in order manually on iPod nano

i use to be able to have a playlist that I had put together in my own order. It was on my iPod 3rd generation.
Now i just got myself a new iPod nano and now both my iTunes playlist that I wanted to move to my nano and the list that I have there both in order of artist, which ***** when I use it for training and running.
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Hi MNM1974,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you want to know how to manually manage the music and playlists on your iPod nano. The article below provides more information about automatic and manual syncing of content to your device, and it will walk you through the process.
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
I hope this helps.
-Jason

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I've been a long-time iPod podcast listener, despite the obvious intent to push this product into oblivion. I am no longer seeing smart podcast playlists on my iPod. This is a HUGE bummer to me, as I listen to podcasts while I run. And I hate running with my iPhone.
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There seems to be a bug in iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 involving the sort order of a smart playlist of podcasts. I created such a playlist and sorted by release date on iTunes but I noticed it had a different sort order on the iPod Touch.
After playing around with it a bit I found that the only way to preserve the sort order that I have in iTunes on the iPod Touch is to uncheck "Live Updating" in the smart playlist.

Confirming this incredibly annoying bug. Basic list sorting not working... real bottom shelf work apple.
workaround update: limit to must be turned on, set it to an absurdly high number if you don't want to actually limit the playlist, then one of the sortby options in that submenu will work. The live update checkbox is irrelevant from experimentation.
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I copied a smart playlist to a regular playlist in order to change the order of the individual selections. I then burned the regular playlist to a cd, but the cd burned it in alphabetical order as it appears on the smart playlist.

I changed the order, then burned a cd but the cd copied the songs in the order of the smart playlist, which was alphabetical. What am i doing wrong in this scenario, and is there a way to change the song order in a smart playlist? I am a new MAC user. Is this unique to the MAC format?

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I usually make two playlists.
One playlist with favorites I do want on the iPod and another smart playlist to fill the rest of the iPod. Just limit the size to th esize of the iPod minus wthe size of my iPod selection playlist.

What is the Smart Playlist

I read about the Smart Playlist all the time..what exactly is that? Also
what is the on the go playlist? I just have my playlists that I made.
Sorry it's such a silly question..but I'm still learning.
Thanks for any responses!

A smart playlist is one that you construct using rules, rather than adding songs to the list manually. From iTunes, create a new smart playlist (File menu, as I recall), and fill in some rules. For example:
Genre is Rock AND
last_played is not in past 1 month
There are pull-down lists for most of the options; it isn't hard to figure out.
This is a very powerful tool for organizing your collection, without spending much effort on playlist construction.
Be aware that there's a bug on the iPhone and Touch, where the 'select by' rule gets things backwards (e.g. most recent <-> least recent). If you avoid that option on the smart playlist setup, you should be fine. There are also reports of problems with 'live update' on these playlists, but they don't seem to affect everyone.

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I subscribe to Mashuptown.com's podcast and if I like a particular one, I will rate it a 5 and it should go into my Smart Playlist I set up with the rules, "Rating is 5" and "Artist (or Album) is Mashuptown.com".
However, the Smart Playlist is listing ALL Mashuptown.com podcasts and will not disappear from the list until I rate the ones I don't want a 1, 2, 3 or 4.
Additionally, when the Podcast is first downloaded and I right-click to rate it, it's already checked as a "5" but has empty stars in the rating field and I'm not able to change it to "None".
I tested a Smart Playlist with regular music and it doesn't seem to have the problem the Podcasts do.
Any solutions? I have the latest iTunes, everything is up to date. Note, this USED to work and stopped working since the last couple of iTunes updates.

Another test lead to changing the rule to "Rating is 1" and only the Podcasts I rated 1 show up in the Playlist. It appears the problem is only for those Podcasts rated 5.

Since I upgraded to iTunes 11.01 the "Smart" playlists feature no longer works. I can CREATE the list but, the songs that I have played don't accumulate in the list. I haven't changed the steps that worked for me previous to the upgrade. I have no idea

Since I upgraded to iTunes 11.01 the "Smart" playlists feature no longer works.
I can CREATE the list but, the songs that I have played don't accumulate in the list.
I haven't changed the steps that worked for me previous to the upgrade.
I have no idea how to fix this and can't find mention of anyone else having a similar problem.
Any suggestions?

Click on a station and drag to the left. The playlists sidebar will open up. Drop on the playlist you want to add to.
tt2

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I have lost all playlists, how do I recover originals. I attempted the troubleshoot fix of using the Smart Playlist, but I did not utilize a smart playlist.

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I use smart playlists for listening to my UNPLAYED podcasts and video podcasts. When an episode is played through completion, it should be removed from the playlist. This doesn't work live while listening to the ipod. The smart playlist only seems to update after syncing with the computer. This live-updating smart playlist feature worked fine on my second-gen nano.

As I know for current moment few parameters do not work for live updateble smart playlist. Try to remove Podcast and Video Kind from your playlist(s).
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One smart playlist displays wrong songs on iphone 5 since ios7 / itunes 11.1.4.62

About a month ago I updated my iPhone 5 to ios7 and this week I updated my iTunes to 11.1.4.62.
Yesterday I noticed that one of my playlists I haven’t listened to on my iPhone in a long time was not working properly at all. It is a smart playlist that I’ve used successfully for a long time and it is syncing correctly to my 4th Gen iPod Touch (ios 6), which makes me think the problem is with the iPhone/ ios7. On the phone, it did not contain the correct songs and most of the tracks had a little “cloud” symbol next to them; they would not play, but I was invited to “download” them, which I did not attempt as I was not on wifi at the time.
This morning I have spent some time experimenting to get that playlist with the correct songs to sync from iTunes on my laptop to the iPhone without success. In between the changes (below) I have executed
Basic re-sync
Powering the phone off and on
Closing and re-opening iTunes
The changes I’ve tried have included
Unticking the playlist, syncing the iPhone to remove the playlist from the phone, re-ticking the playlist and re-syncing the phone (the contents of the playlist were still wrong on the phone despite appearing correctly in iTunes, both in iTunes’s own version of the playlist and how the phone’s version of the playlist displayed in iTunes whilst connected)
Deleting the playlist in iTunes, repeating above steps having recreated the smart playlist in iTunes before the resync.
I have only been able to get the songs I want in a playlist on the iPhone by creating a new playlist that is not smart from the contents of the smart playlist, then unticking the smart playlist and ticking/syncing the new unsmart playlist instead. Other smart playlists are syncing fine. Please note that my iPhone has over 6500 tracks on it, so completely removing and resyncing the entire lot would not be an option I’d want to look at. I cannot see that the random songs populating the problem playlist on the iphone have anything in common – they are a mix of purchased music and tracks from CDs. All are in my iTunes on my laptop – I don’t have any music stored solely in the cloud.
I have checked all my settings both on the phone and in iTunes, including those for iCloud and cannot see that I have set up anything that would be causing this. Can anyone help please?

JayPeeDubs wrote:
I am hoping Mac represtentatives will read this.
They won't, as you should have learned by reading the Terms of Use of this forum that YOU agreed to by signing up to post. You've wasted your time.

Smart Playlists still not updating on ipod?

Sorry to pull up an old topic, but any news on the smart playlist problem? My 2G mini doesnt update SPLs, can't say the same for any other models. Is the best solution still to use an old update?
Thanks in advance.

This is the latest update.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1246954#1246954

Was the Smart Playlist podcast order bug on iPod nano fixed in iTunes 11

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