Yes, this approach works. For my case, it wasn't Voice Memos or Music playlists but instead TV Shows (after downloading one of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas freebies).
My solution was:
1. Untick the syncing of Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Books, and Photos
2. Perform manual sync (error disappears!)
3. Tick Music, then manual sync (see if error stays away)
4. Tick Movies, then manual sync (ditto)
5. Repeat
When I ticked TV Shows to sync then manual synced, the error reappeared. So, this leaves me with a TV Show syncing problem, but at least everything else now successfully syncs.