Move playlists from iPhone to iTunes

TrumanWilhelm wrote:

The traditional way to transfer playlist from iPhone to iTunes is just using iTunes, no doubt the fast way I think.

Pretry sure this question was answered more than 2 years ago...

Apparently they are not there. This is the problem OP and I are facing. That was our question when we asked, how can sync or import it so it appears there.

Edit: those are all the default playlists. from the images I have seen, playlists usually is denoted by a different icon, one with bars and a musical note.

Kiddolicious wrote:

Apparently they are not there. This is the problem OP and I are facing. That was our question when we asked, how can sync or import it so it appears there.

So you have other playlists you can see in the Music app on your iPhone?

Edit: those are all the default playlists.

Yes. They are smart playlists. The gear icon indicates this.

from the images I have seen, playlists usually is denoted by a different icon, one with bars and a musical note.

There are 2 kinds of playlists. Smart playlists have a gear icon, regular playlists have the musical note.

Chris CA wrote:

Kiddolicious wrote:

Apparently they are not there. This is the problem OP and I are facing. That was our question when we asked, how can sync or import it so it appears there.

So you have other playlists you can see in the Music app on your iPhone?

Edit: those are all the default playlists.

Yes. They are smart playlists. The gear icon indicates this.

from the images I have seen, playlists usually is denoted by a different icon, one with bars and a musical note.

There are 2 kinds of playlists. Smart playlists have a gear icon, regular playlists have the musical note.

Yes, this is the issue we are facing, only smart playlists are synced. Yes, I do have playlists on my iPhone that is not appearing in my iTunes. I guess its an issue that is different from most others who are viewing this thread even though we are all asking how we can import playlist from phone. Because for us (OP and I) if the playlist is not syncing, we wanted to know how we can manually import it into iTunes.

Kiddolicious wrote:

Because for us (OP and I) if the playlist is not syncing, we wanted to know how we can manually import it into iTunes.

Until now, no one has stated that they can see playlists on the iDevice but not all playlists the iDevice are showing.

The OP did not understand what I wrote and used Senuti to copy playlists from iDevice to iTunes.

I believe it was not that OP did not understand your instructions but it did not make any sense. It was the same for me as well when I first tried to follow the steps. OP had resorted (to what I know) a third party programme which I am hoping not having to. Because we do not see the our playlist on the iTunes, we assumed we had to transfer it manually, and exporting it from iTunes wouldn't have made any sense then since we couldn't see it. Guess it is some sort of bug/error, wouldn't matter how many times I sync, the lists would not appear.

Kiddolicious wrote:

I believe it was not that OP did not understand your instructions but it did not make any sense.

Okay.

It made so much sense that like 12 other people after that understood exactly what I wrote.

The OP made no mention of not seeing any playlists anywhere. Just that she thought I had it backwards (moving playlists from iTunes to iPhone).

and others replied also they did not know what the OP was on about.

Have you tried Senuti (or other program) to get these playlists from iPhone to iTunes?

Could you possibly make a version of this script that works on Mac as well?

I had a huge iTunes library on my external hard drive, and one day the hard drive got corrupted so I had to recover the data, wipe it clean, and then put the data back on there. Unfortunately, the folder with all the original music files survived, but the actual folder containing the iTunes library did not, so I had to make a new music library on the external, and based on what I've been reading in this thread, my playlists (that I just recently 'exported' off of an old iPod that still had them) won't work when I re-import them...but your script might be able to fix that.

Help?

daemontrances wrote:

Could you possibly make a version of this script that works on Mac as well

USe this -> http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mirroripodplaylists

Unfortunately, the folder with all the original music files survived, but the actual folder containing the iTunes library did not,

So you are now making regular backups of yoru external drive, correct?

Time Machine is dead simple to use.

Plug it in.

daemontrances wrote:

based on what I've been reading in this thread, my playlists (that I just recently 'exported' off of an old iPod that still had them) won't work when I re-import them..

Yes, it will work fine.

daemontrances wrote:

What about this though?

turingtest2 wrote:
"If you have a "new" library, even built from the same original source files, then the IDs in the device created with an earlier library won't match."

I don't follow. What about it?

A playlist is a playlist. It is a list of songs.

When you import it to iTunes, if the songs are in your library they will be in the playlist.

Thank you for all of your help! I managed to get all the playlists back into iTunes just by opening iTunes with the new library and then using iRepo X to transfer all the playlists back. It worked!!!! They got transferred back perfectly, just as they used to be, with only one playlist that was empty because the album in question was deleted off of the harddrive.

You need the full version of iRepo X to transfer songs, but the trial version works just fine and transfers all the playlists with no problem. I am so glad!

Thank you again!

Following the instructions, there was no "export" option when right clicking on the playlist.

However, having the playlist selected, then going to File, Library, you find export and import playlist. From here you can export the playlist to the desktop and then import into iTunes.

I got this far:

Select the playlist you want on the iPhone then right click - Export...

When I connect my iphone, I can see my iphone, I can see the playlist, but when I right click, there is no export option: I get, Play, Shuffle, Play Next, and Add to Up Next

I've never used a more frustrating program than itunes!

I too was having this problem. I found the export function up in the menu bar. Select/left click the playlist, and in the menu bar go to file, and then library. There should be an export playlist option there, as well as the import option as well