New updated version of Itunes does not sync Song Ratings / Comments to Playlists

This was helpful - but not the root cause . Having looked at similar folk with the same issue , it transpires that , if you have the iCloud Library On - anything you do on playlists doesn't sync - such as updating song ratings .

The Comments thing, as you pointed out was a misnomer, - however, again if you add comments to your songs , it doesn't update them in the playlist that contains that song on itunes as you are using the cloud.

I disabled the cloud library, on both itunes and iphone and it syncs as before.

Note : the facility to add playlists also disappears if you are using the icloud library ( a bit crazy really as the only reason for playlists is for when you want to sync them with a smaller, mobile device) . So if you want to sync ratings , playlists etc between ipod/iphone and PC ,don't use the ICloud Library