Richard Dean
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Q: After turning on iCloud/iTunes match, my playlist was duplicated 2000 times

Today I created a playlist on my iPhone 4 called "xmas." Now a few hours later this playlist has been duplicated more than 2,000 times -- it appears that way on my mac Mini, iPhone and iPad. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

Posted on Nov 18, 2011 4:11 PM

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Richard Dean

Q: After turning on iCloud/iTunes match, my playlist was duplicated 2000 times

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  • by PhoggyPhamily,

    PhoggyPhamily PhoggyPhamily Jul 16, 2012 2:18 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jul 16, 2012 2:18 PM in response to turingtest2

    tt2,

     

    It worked!! I went to bed and came back in the morning and they were gone! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much. This has been an issue for our family for several months now, and the folks at Apple were not of any help.

     

    For all future problems, I will turn to these forums...

     

    Phoggy

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 16, 2012 2:59 PM in response to PhoggyPhamily
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    Jul 16, 2012 2:59 PM in response to PhoggyPhamily

    You're welcome.

     

    tt2

  • by PhoggyPhamily,

    PhoggyPhamily PhoggyPhamily Jul 16, 2012 3:07 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jul 16, 2012 3:07 PM in response to turingtest2

    OK... I take it back. The empty playlists are all still there. If I run KillEmptyPlaylists, it deletes only 1 playlist at a time. If I run KillTopLevelPlaylists, I get an error that reads like this:

     

    Line: 120

    Char: 5

    Error: Object required: 'L'

    Code: 800A01A8

    Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error

     

    Any ideas??

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 16, 2012 3:44 PM in response to PhoggyPhamily
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    Jul 16, 2012 3:44 PM in response to PhoggyPhamily

    Any ideas??

     

    Not yet.

     

    Just made sure the version ot KillTopLevelPlaylists online matches mine and tested it here where it works fine.

     

    Both playlists include rules to avoid deleting playlists called Voice Memos or Purchased on ... Would either of those explain your results?

     

    Have you disabled Match before trying to clean up?

     

    When you run KillEmptyPlaylists does the script produce an output report saying how many scripts were processed and how many removed? If so what results are you getting?

     

    tt2

  • by Leopoldi,

    Leopoldi Leopoldi Jul 18, 2012 8:30 PM in response to kurtmalec
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    Jul 18, 2012 8:30 PM in response to kurtmalec

    This solution worked great for me too...problems syncing (step 7), 20,000+ empty playlists on all devices... TrackShift fixed it in about 4 minutes.

  • by Rfnz,

    Rfnz Rfnz Jan 6, 2013 10:44 AM in response to chriswries
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    Jan 6, 2013 10:44 AM in response to chriswries

    Thank you! This thing has been driving me nuts. I use playlists a lot and was having to make every playlist start with a letter earlier in the alphabet than the erroneously replicated list. No thanks to iTunes support. They didnt even respond to my request.

  • by laguna_b,

    laguna_b laguna_b Jan 23, 2014 2:13 PM in response to Richard Dean
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    Jan 23, 2014 2:13 PM in response to Richard Dean

    Same issue here. So annoying. It seems like able is becoming like Microsoft. Sad!

  • by pingu.ch,

    pingu.ch pingu.ch Dec 10, 2014 4:50 AM in response to laguna_b
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    Dec 10, 2014 4:50 AM in response to laguna_b

    Am I getting this right: we are complaining since 3 years in this thread that this payed service is a mess - and there is still no fix or (at least) an official statement from Apple?

    What can we say... it's just bad...

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