Apple Releases iTunes 12.4.3 With Playlist Syncing Fix

[Fenway]

I don't blame you a bit. But I DID beat the problem and made it work, despite iTunes' messing up. And it is nice to use my iPad pro as a desktop photo frame slideshow for my personal albums. And to keep my family photos close and in order as I made them, not as iTunes wants them. It's just a pity they wrecked that part of it too. It used to be sooooo easy. Just choose the folder and add it to the devices and bingo, each album displayed as it was made to. One of the best ideas they came up with, but they broke it. And, no, I don't use iCloud for photos or Music storage, just device settings and such. These are not replaceable and I don't trust them that much. I wish I could.
Oddly enough, I have not had any problems with the Playlists problems like I have read about, and I have at least 15 on my devices. Well, not yet anyway.

 

[Cravendale]

I was getting 1-2x duplicate playlists all the time so will be happy to see that resolved - appears to have gone but I guess time will tell.

What definitely hasnt gone is that my iPhone/iTunes insists on syncing my entire library of album artwork (1900 files) every single time it syncs - meaning syncing takes 4x longer than it should.

 

[Superhai]

Itunes seem to have added the possibility to create metadata to name composers work and each movement in suites or similar grouped entities. This is interesting especially for lots of classical music, but can be used also for other kind. The metadata will also work in the iOS Music app as well.

 

[mollyc]

Been fighting with this bug for a couple weeks trying to get playlists to match correctly between iTunes and iPhone. SO glad this has been addressed!

edit: NOPE. Still not syncing correctly. In iTunes a playlist has x songs, when connected to iTunes, Device/iPhone/Playlist - the playlist matches the iTunes library playlist. But after synching and going to the playlist on the iPhone itself, song/s missing.

The only way I've been able to do a work around is to go into the iTunes library and for the songs that wind up missing from the iPhone, uncheck selection (song), sync, check selection (song), sync, and then the song/track actually shows up on the iPhone and in the playlist in question and matches the iTunes playlist.

I had this exact problem and finally resolved it by right clicking on the Playlist name in the sidebar of iTunes (in my computer library, not device) and clicked Copy To Play order, then resynced, and the full playlist finally showed up on my phone.