Hi Tim and George, thanks both of you for mentioning Match. I can't imagine how, but somehow it got turned off on my Mac. Since I have no idea how that happened, I would never have thought to look there. I'm syncing everything back up now, so hopefully the problem is taken care of. Cheers, Donna > On Apr 12, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > It sounds like the problem resides on the iDevice. Something there isn’t > allowing proper syncing of your iTunes Match data. I suggest you go into > Settings then either Music or iTunes & App Store and turn off your iTunes > Match service. Then connect your iDevice to your Mac with the USB cable, > select the iDevice from within iTunes, and go into the Music portion of > these settings. Tell it not to sync any music and apply those changes. This > should clear music that is left on the iDevice and because you’ve turned off > iTunes Match on the iDevice, the Music Library database on the iDevice is > rebuilt. Confirm by going into the Music app on your iDevice and notice that > all, or almost all, of the music will no longer be on the iDevice. You > should now be able to go back on your iDevice and turn the iTunes Match > service back on. Also make sure the “Show All Music” item is turned on. If > this item is not on, then music and such that is only up in the Cloud is not > seen on the iDevice. Once both of these are enabled, go into the Music app > on your iDevice and let it do all its reconfiguring as it pulls down the > iTunes Match playlists and such. This may take a few minutes. If you wish > for any specific playlists to have their music stored locally on the iDevice, > go into that playlist on your iDevice and double-tap the Download button near > the top of the playlist right after the Download All button. Those music > titles will then be available to you even when you’re not connected to WiFi > or cell data. > > Now, after all this, if the playlist still doesn’t show up, then it likely > means that you may need to try and update Match on your Mac as things there > may not be properly being sent up to the Match servers. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 11, 2015, at 13:17, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm still having problems getting my playlists to sync up. I tell you I have > been one of those who has not understood why people want a music manager > other than iTunes, but if this playlist thing is unsolvable, I'm going to > start looking around too. This is such a basic thing and it's ridiculous > that it's still a problem. > > OK, sorry for the rant. Does anyone know if there is a way to force a > playlist to copy to your phone? The only thing I have left that I can think > of is to completely delete the playlist and then re-create it and hope the > new playlist will sync. > thanks, > Donna > P.S. Running latest iTunes, and IOS 8.3. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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