Playlist "upside-down" in iOS 5 (this may be an iTunes issue)

Yeah im having the same issue havent found any solutions yet

I've encountered this problem too. For now, I've deleted all my music off my iPhone 4S and will be resyncing it. I'll get back to you with my findings.

Having this issue as well. Have lots of playlists sorted by rating and they are all syncing upside down. Have tried deleting all the music from Iphone and reloading but problem persists. Would appreciate any help/solution in the matter.

I have had song title to sng mismatches only on the iPhone 4 and only since upgrading to ios5

Ok, well I removed all of my music from my iPhone 4S, and resynced it all. It didn't solve the problem. The order of my smart playlists is still very messed up on my iPhone. This problem is definitely related to iOS 5, because prioring to installing it everything was fine.

I have the same exact problem. I normally have my lists set up up in order of most recently added. On the iPhone the lists shows up in reverse order. Apple, please fix this problem.

Hiya,

I have the exact same problem. I have 2 or 3 playlists on my iPhone 4, which are fine and appear just as they do on iTunes but my main playlist I listen to has installed in descending order ever since the iSO 5 update! I usually have the music in order of songs with the highest play count to the songs with the least play count but its now the other way round. I've had a mess around with my iTunes playlist, deleted the playlist off my phone too but nothing works.

Any help to fix this issue would be much appreciated. Thank you!

It's not a complete solution, but I was reading on this other forum that if you add the "date modified" option and use that instead of the "date added," it works. I've done that for my playlists, and it has helped some.

Also, for smart playlists, it works to edit the playlist, check the box "limit to" and change the number to some higher number, and change the "selected by" option to "most recently added."

HOpefully that helps.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13656072&posted=1#post13656072

I am happy to report the 'date modified' edit has vastly improved the reverse listing of my songs. Thank you for the tip!

I'm having the same issue. However adding the 'date modified' view field does not help me. I've also tried unchecking 'live updating' as this has been the problem in the past when a similar issue occured but that didn't help either. This issue is also happening with my photo albums..... a huge pain in the A when trying to view most recent photos. Please fix, Apple.

Not sure if this will help for your playlist sorting, but it works for me for a Most Recently Added Playlist for music on iPhone 4, iOS 5.0, iTunes 10.5 (141), Here's what worked for me after lots of experimenting:

To Create a "100 Newest" playlist:

1. In iTunes, delete any previous 'X Newest" playlists if they've not been syncing correctly since iOS 5 update, especially if they have referenced other playlists. In my experience if these playlists are not syncing in the correct order, there is nothing you can do to make them sync in the correct order - cut your losses and delete.

2. In iTunes under 'Library' in the sidebar, select 'Music"

3. From the 'File' menu select 'New Smart Playlist'

4. In the pop up box that appears, check 'Match the following rule:'

5. In the next line, in the pop-up menus, select the following: 'Media Kind', 'is', 'Music'

6. Check the "Limit to" checkbox and enter the '100' in the box, and then select the follwing option in succeeding popup lists: 'items', selected by 'most recently added'

7.You may check either or both of the options 'Match only checked items' and 'Live updating' - in my experiments these had no effect.

8. Click 'OK' and name your smartlst '100 Newest' or anything you'd like.

Here's something to note:

In your iTunes 'Music Library', the sort order is newest song at the top of your library when the LIBRARY is sorted by 'Date Added' and the small triangle has it's apex pointing down. To me this means the LATEST song is on top.

In your '100 Newest' playlist, to sort so the newest song is at the top of the playlist when the PLAYLIST is sorted by 'Date Added' , you'll note the triangle is oriented with the apex pointing up. To me this signifies the 'YOUNGEST ADDED' song is on the top.

However you view those two items, it's interesting that you'd expect the sort order might be reversed according to the triangle orientations, but it's not. And that's one of the sorting problems I had with syncing my playlists - newest were on the bottom on my iPhone playlist, but on the top in the playlist in my iTunes Library. Certainly not a consistant user interface.

Also note that if you've used a previous hint in referencing a dated order playlist to avoid a previous iTunes playlist syncing bug, those lists now won't sort properly any longer. As I said - cut your losses and start anew.

Hope this helps someone else. It took me a long time to get right.

The "Date Modified" seems to work for me, though I only really use 3 playlists majority of the time. All the album ones were OK, hope a fix helps out the rest of ya.

I'm having this same issue. It's interrupting my long-standing system for listening to music. Please fix, Apple!

Same issue with my iPhone 4. I have a list sorted by ratings and when I go from 5 stars to 1 star or lower, somewhat random order. If I try reverse psychology and sort it from lowest rating to highest, it sorts in that exact order from lowest to highest. No other sorting involved (smart sorting). Very odd.