iTunes match will NOT display playlist (iPhone 4 8gb white at&t)

Found a trick.. This issue has been bugging me since i had my iPhone 5 replaced yesterday

First: have both iTunes match on, iOS Device and Computer

Second: change a playlist name. Example "Untitled Playlist" change to "Untitled Playlists" put another letter in there, like i did with the "S".

Third: go to your device and it should pop up. give it a minute to load it. let me know.

Settings>General>Usage and delete the Music file. That worked for me. Thanks! 🙂

I had tried all of the methodes, but none of them worked for me. However, today, Apple pushed out an update for iTunes with several bug fixes. So I downloaded the update restarted iTunes match on my iPhone and it worked! Hope this will help some other people too.

I have tried all of the above suggestions and none of them work to get my new playlists on my PC to show on my iPhone 4s. I have upgraded to iTunes 11.0.1.12. I've tried dissabling iTunes Match, re-syncing via USB, and re-enabling iTunes Match. At no time during this process did my new playlists ever show on my phone. Even with iTunes Match dissabled, re-syncing via USB did not make my playlists show on my iPhone. That makes me think this must be more than just an iTunes Match issue. It must be a problem with syncing playlists with iTunes in general. Re-enabling iTunes Match also did not make the new playlists show on the iPhone. Interestingly, all my older playlists which were created before I started using iTunes Match, and before I upgraded iTunes 11.0.1.12, all show perfectly on my iPhone. I hope Apple fixes this issue soon!

Problem solved, sort of:

In each of my newer playlists that weren't showing, there was one song that was not eligible for iCloud. (Cloud icon with a slash though it) Removing that song from the playlist caused it to show imediately on my iPhone.

The problem with this is, as I mentioned above, I also dissabled iCloud and synced via USB. And without re-enabling iCloud, the playlist still wouldn't show on my iPhone when that song was in it. So perhaps the song is "not eligible for iPhone" in addition to being "not eligible for iCloud". The only trouble with this is there was no indication of this either in iTunes or on the iPhone. I had to figure it out by trial and error and by sleuthing through the playlist to notice the icon.

What should happen is that the playlist should show on the iPhone and in iCloud but without the offending song. Anyway now I know what to look for if this happens again. I hope this helps others.

I was having the same problem syncing playlists through iTunes Match. I discovered I had several songs that do not work with iCloud, still do not know why, however they are indicated by a cloud with a stripe through them. After I removed these songs from the playlist it came right up on my phone. Hope this helps.

Hey guys:

Sync, update, back up

make sure Match is turned on

with phone plugged in go to:

Music>More>Shared> select the name of your itunes library

this will share your itunes library with your phone

and viola

all of your playlists will be available to you and match will match do its thing!

Happy New Year!

After reading all the posts, I have the feeling there is something more fundamentally amiss. With Match turned on (both in iTunes on my iMac and on my iPhone 5), when I go to music with the phone selected in itunes, it does not give me the screen that allows me to select playlists to synch. As though, there is no intention for this.

When I turn off match on the iPhone 5, all my previously selected playlists are there, but I only have access to what I have synch'd, not what is in the cloud.

I am able to create new playlists on the iPhone 5, using songs fro the cloud, but as several have mentioned, that would be starting from scratch, and nobody wants to do that.

Anyone able to select playlists for their IOS device from itunes with match turned on in both places?

Michael

Same Problem. No playlists. Neither on my iPhone nor on my iPad. This *****!

There has been a glitch on the server-side which Apple has fixed. Disable iTM on the iOS device, launch the Music app and let the content clear out, then re-enable the service.

Itunes match is the buggiest piece of crap I have ever had the misfortune to use. Apple should be ashamed of itself selling this junk, in fact I want a refund.

I have succesfully used it once, the rest of the time, it just seems to like overwriting itself and making playlists randomly dissapear on one computer but not the other.

Garbage. 100%.

This worked. Thanks!

I have had iTunes Match for a week and certain playlists would not sync to iPad or iPhone. I simply had to remove some songs that would not sync properly to the cloud. After I deleted the song entirely, I went back to the cloud and downloaded the couple of offending songs. Then added them back to the playlist and wihin seconds the playlists appeared both on my iPad and iPhone.

I did the following to get playlists from my iMac to sync on my new iPhone:

1) Open your "Music" App on your iPhone.
2) Tap "..." to access More Options
3) Tap "Shared"
4) Choose "Library"

Tap "Playlists" and all of your old Mac playlists are there.