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Q: Temporary Fix for Smart Playlist order bug

I stumbled across a Smart Playlist that was keeping the correct order and discovered why.  It was a Smart Playlist that contained 2 other Smart Playlists.  The original Smart Playlists didn't keep their order but the new one that combined them did.  So I experimented on a few other Smart Playlists by making new Smart Playlists that only contained another Smart Playlist.  And it works.  I've also been able to keep Live Updating enabled.

 

Hopefully this will help everyone who reads this get by until Apple fixes this bug, which they seem to reintroduce about once a year.

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 12:39 PM

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  • by alex2099,

    alex2099 alex2099 Jul 5, 2014 4:34 AM in response to Dee Run
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    Jul 5, 2014 4:34 AM in response to Dee Run

    Thanks - this mother/child playlist structure also solved my problem. I have a "recently added" playlist that contains only the last 50 items, sorted by recently added, that are a particular type (basically music, not memo, podcast etc). Recent versions of IOS 7 on my iPhone 4 have caused problems with this playlist. For some reason it will display a list of "recently added" as it would have been 12 months ago. Not recent songs (like today), but songs that were added 1 year ago or older (from what I can see). The playlist appears OK on iTunes, but on my iDevices (iPhone 4, iPad Air both with IOS 7) they are totally wrong, listing songs that were added just over a year ago.

     

    Totally fine on my (dumb) iPod. My guess is that there is something wrong in the way the playlists are being calculated in the iDevice.

  • by Rick Bargerhuff,

    Rick Bargerhuff Rick Bargerhuff May 12, 2016 6:47 PM in response to JoshRink
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    May 12, 2016 6:47 PM in response to JoshRink

    This was the fix for my 'Rec. Added' smart playlist not using the order I wanted. I tried everything - Recreating the playlist, changing options on the playlist, etc. Renaming the playlist 'Recently Added' and then creating another smart playlist that chose only songs from the 'Recently Added' playlist worked.

     

    Thanks!

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