Can't get rid off duplicate playlists in Music 1.1.3.3 (BigSur)

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Can't get rid off duplicate playlists in Music 1.1.3.3 (BigSur)

Hi,

Since I moved to Big Sur, the Music app in which I attempt to organize my music creates playlists that I didn't create, and duplicates them several times (fig 1)

Then I delete them but next time I launch Music, they're back.

They are not on my iPhone and iPad.

I do not sync my music via former iTunes now embedded in the Finder (fig 2)

The "Manually manage my music" is checked there (fig 3)

So it's not coming from any other device.

Any way to stop having this to happen? It's very annoying.

Thanks for any clue.

Steve J

fig 1

fig 2

fig 3

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Mar 24, 2021 4:57 AM

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sjordi Author

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Mar 24, 2021 9:37 AM in response to sjordi

Ok I found the solution.

Pain in the neck.

Actually, I had to go through all playlists in the Music Mac app and edit the rules for each and everyone of them.

What do you have there? A button called "Live updating" that keeps it alive and coming back.

Once you uncheck that option in each of the playlists, you can delete it, it won't reappear.

Even better you see it disappear from the Media Sharing folder and the iPhone finder Sync > Playlist tab... live!

Good, now I can reconstruct my library.

Thanks all for your inputs.

Steve J

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turingtest2

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Mar 24, 2021 5:41 AM in response to sjordi

Press and hold down Option+Cmd as you launch Music to open it in safe mode. Delete the unwanted duplicate lists. Close Music, reopen. Have the lists reappeared?

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sjordi Author

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Mar 24, 2021 6:56 AM in response to turingtest2

Well, looks like in the Mac System Preferences > Sharing > Media Sharing > Options...

we have selected Playlists guess what I found? See image.

I actually never created those playlists and I think it got screwed over the migration, which is surprising as I fully reformatted my Mac and did a clean Big Sur install, and reinstalled everything manually, nothing back from TimeMachine.

So my guess is that it's somewhere in iCloud.

Even if I uncheck them all and tells it to share all media, they still reappear. I wonder where they actually really are listed...

I don't subscribe to Apple Music and I used to have iTunes Match but just for 1 year about 6 or 7 years ago...

Thanks for your help.

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sjordi Author

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Mar 24, 2021 6:36 AM in response to turingtest2

Yes, unfortunately.

I'm currently in the process to fully remove all traces of Music files anywhere and start over by dragging and dropping my entire music library into it to see wether trailing playlists stay in place or are erased. But it doesn't let me start a new library, pretending I have devices attached to the Mac, which is wrong, and I even signed out from everything.

I'll check the iCloud sync and disable it to start over. Hopefully this will put things straight.

i had zero problems while on Catalina.

Thanks anyway

Steve

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turingtest2

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Mar 24, 2021 6:45 AM in response to sjordi

Do you have a subscription to Apple Music or iTunes Match? You might want to turn off Home Sharing in system preferences if Music continues to claim the library is in use when you try to option-start-Music to create a new one.

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