Apple Music Playlists Not Updating in iTunes

I added some Apple Music Playlists to my iTunes, like "Today's Hits" I change the playlist view to the song list and add the Release Date field to the table to I can sort by release date newest to oldest. This is because the Apple Music Playlists like these don't completely change every week, they only partially change so I can see at the top of the list the newest released songs that have been added to the playlist and just listen to those.


However, I noticed today that the newest release date is 11 days old. So I went on to music.apple.com on the web and looked at the play list and there are new songs that have not synced over to my Apply Music Playlists in iTunes. This hasn't been the case always and I noticed something strange happened recently in that Apple wanted me to unlock my Apple ID a few days ago. When I loaded iTunes it kept asking me to login and wouldn't let me do so. I had to go to Apple Music on the web and login, close and reopen iTunes. Very buggy Apple software!


My guess is something to do with the account lock and the fact I had iTunes closed for several days during the period broke the synch of my Apple Music Playlists. However it's been a half hour since I opened iTunes and my Apple Music Playlists have still not updated in iTunes. It appears there is no function in iTunes to force a sync with Apple Music.


Anything I can do?


Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 11:30 AM

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Posted on Dec 15, 2020 11:35 AM

Here's how I fixed it. Go into Edit > Preference in iTunes. Uncheck the box to sync to iCloud, there will be a pause and your playlist list on the left will dramatically change. Go back in and check the box. Waa laa. The playlists are updated, however it won't remember your previews View As setting and fields you added to the columns of the song table view.


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Dec 15, 2020 11:35 AM in response to Jazzeee

Here's how I fixed it. Go into Edit > Preference in iTunes. Uncheck the box to sync to iCloud, there will be a pause and your playlist list on the left will dramatically change. Go back in and check the box. Waa laa. The playlists are updated, however it won't remember your previews View As setting and fields you added to the columns of the song table view.


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