How to transfer playlists to iPhone with new iTunes

Thank you so much. This finally worked. You are my newest HERO🙂

Sorry this didn't work for me. This is a hopeless situation. I have half my music.

music tab? what does this do? all i see on the music tab for iphone is that iTunes Match is on

I turn off iTunes Match, but on the iPhone it still says iTunes Match is enabled.

I've tried posting to these forums without much luck. Won't keep me from trying to solve the iTunes/iPhone/Playlist problem.

Tonight I tried deleting all of the songs from my iPhone. When SYNCed with "nothing" checked, no playlists, no purchases, nothing, the iPhone (device on iTunes) still said it had 35 songs. I opened the iPhone and sure enough, more than the 35 songs are still there. Many songs were flagged with a cloud. Even after deleting iCloud from the iPhone. The cloud songs are sill there.

Of the songs STILL on my iPhone , I can drag delete them, but they return after I sync it again. The really annoying thing is that I have deleted about a dozen songs from my library, deleted them from iTunes purchases, deleted them from my everything I can find and they still show up on my iPhone after SYNCing. Why? Where are these songs stored?

I posted on one of these forums that I created a playlist with 1805 songs just for my iPhone. Under device, it shows 1810 songs. In the iPhone itself, there are 1958 songs. Many of these songs are songs I deleted from everything I can find. They still keep coming back.

If the iTunes library isn't the place where the songs are stored, where are they stored?

PS. Under device, I click the little triangle next to the iPhone and Music, iBooks, and Videos come up. When I click on music, there are the songs I can't delete off my iPhone. How can I delete those songs. They won't delete with the delete key and there doesn't seem to be an option under edit.

OK, I've been playing with iTunes for several hours now. I tried deleting all the songs on my iPhone. I can't. Seems there are about 15 to 56 songs (depending on where I look) that stay on my phone nbo matter what.

Oh, Yea, I updated to iTunes 11.1.5

Here is what I'm getting. After deleting all of my Playlists and trying to delete all of the songs on my iPhone, there are still a lot of songs left on my phone. I created a new Playlist. Note: I only have one playlist.

My library has 2616 songs.

Purchased has 666 songs. Only one purchased song from my iPhone.

My iPhone playlist has 1797 songs.

Clicking on the iPhone in "Devices" reveals "Music" and a folder with the name "iPhone"

and the Playlist titled "iPhone Playlist" as residing in the iPhone folder.

Clicking on Music shows 1803 songs

Opening "Music" on my iPhone and finding the number of songs I find 1851 songs.

While in "Device," if I click on 'Music' (instead of Summary), it shows 1802 songs on my iPhone.

What gives? There is no correlation between any of them.

Why Can't I select which songs go on my iPhone?

Where are these other songs coming from?

I really don't want to go through one-at-a-time and find the duplicates

Is it possible that these suggestions/instructions are for a PC's version of iTunes as opposed to a MAC's version of iTunes? Because I'm a new MacBook owner and the configuration (or things I asked to look for) does not seem to be the same. i.e.: It aint workin'

Thank you - was just tearing hair out. Thought I'd done every variation of "Add to" and Administration IPod there was. Well done for not giving up.

Terry

I was so frustrated with the whole "songs on my iPhone don't match the songs on my Playlist and songs under the heading "MUSIC" in iTunes" that I made lists out of them and compared them side-by-side. I had as many as 158 songs tht didn't match up to my iPhone. That is, the iPhone was storing 158 songs that I didn't include on my Playlist.

Here is what I found.

• After comparing them side-by-side, it turns out that songs I had manually deleted from the phone kept coming back when SYNCed, even though they weren't in the Playlist.

• If they were on the phone and not on the playlist, I could not delete them from the phone again.

• I reloaded them onto the playlist and then SYNCed. After they were again on the iPhone, this time with them also on the Playlist, I could delete them from the iPhone, delete them from the Playlist, and then SYNC.

That was the only way I could remove them.

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Also, under iTunes, the "Purchased on iPhone" only shows one song. Now, I clearly remember purchasing more than one song over the iPhone, so I went looking for them. Sure enough, they were on the iPhone even though they were not in the Playlist.

I added them to the playlist, deleted them, then deleted them from the playlist and wouldn't you know, they came back. The only way I could prevent it from reloading was to uncheck it on the Library list.

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iTunes needs some attention.

I have the same problem. Just bought new iPhone 5s and can't transfer my play lists from iTunes. What are these clowns at Apple doing? With each revision it appears that things are getting worse and worse.

I really miss Steve J. Are they trying to run Apple to the ground as they did before Jobs returned.

As an example of adding some of the useless apps. They may be useful for some users but for **** sakes you should have at least the choise todelete some of the garbage!!

Thank you! I followed your instruction (sort of) and can now see all the playlists on my i pod.

This is what I was doing, this is what happened, this is what I did, this is what worked.

I always used iTunes to create playlists on my devices (iPod, iPhone5S). At some point with with the upgrades I found myself ready to throw the computer and devices out the window because I was no longer able to use the computer and create playlists on my iPhone5S, my iPod did not have the same issue.

Both my PC and iPhone 5S were updated to the lastest software.

iTunes 11.2.0.115

With my iPhone5S plugged in and iTunes running.

iOS 7.1.1 (Your software is up to date).

I clicked on iPhone in the top right area of iTunes.

I clicked on Summary.

Scrolled down and I clicked to select and check mark "Manually manage music and videos"

[A window popped up saying something about deleting all my data from the phone. It did! Thank god I have everything backed up.

If "Manually manage music and videos" is already check marked and you're having problems...I have no idea what to tell you].

I clicked playlist in the top middle area of iTunes (always create the playlist on your PC or MAC first).

Selected the playlist I wanted on my iPhone5S (viewable on the left list of the screen).

I clicked on the first song of the playlist and pressed CTRL+A which selected all songs & then I right clicked with mouse and selected "add to playlist" and chose the playlist on my phone which I created after I clicked the manually manage music and videos box.

Try it.

Yes, this is really a simple way to transfer playlist from iphone to itunes. Just need 4 steps. You can also follow the way below:

Step 1. Plug iPhone into computer via the USB cable, and then launch iTunes.

Step 2. iTunes will ask you whether you want to sync your iPhone with it, choose “No”.

Step 3. Click “File > Devices > Transfer Purchases”. I hope you get most of the playlist from iTunes.

Step 4. iTunes will transfer the playlist automatically. After the transfer, you will get the playlist back in the iTunes Library.

I hope these steps can work for you. If you have more questions about transferring playlist, you can also use iPhone Transfer to solve the issues.