itunes match playlist

I've had this issue but solved it by adding a playlist folder and putting the playlists I wanted synced in that folder. Synced perfectly!!

I finally fixed this bug with my itunes match and want to share it with everyone. I updated to iOS7 on my iPhone 4 and the playlists were all showing as empty or with only a few songs. Tried pretty much everything - hard resets and turning on/off itunes match. Finally I turned off iTunes Match on both the iTunes on my PC and also on the iPhone. Did a hard reset to the phone. Logged out of both (Apple user ID). Logged back in again. Connected the phone via the USB to the PC and then turned match on again inside iTunes on the PC. And then turned it on again on the iPhone. Bingo!! I can now see all my music again :-)))))))

I'm in the same boat! all my playlists dissappeared instantly the second I turned on Match on my iPhone. They are totally gone. Only answer I have come close to finding is that they only sync through Match if they meet "certain criteria"..BUT NOBODY KNOWS OR SHARES WHAT THAT CRITERIA IS!!! And there is no warning that you are about to lose all your playlists just by turning on Match...it's been 3 hours since I turned it on and I've spent the whole three hours here trying to figure out what a huge mistake I just made and if there is any way to salvage it!!!

WHAT IS A "HARD RESET"?

I fixed it by moving the playlists I wanted to sync in a folder. For instance, I created a folder nameed "a music" and put a few playlists in the folder and they showed up on my phone.

But my playlists already totally disapeared the instat I toggled Match "On" on my iPhone. I can't find them anywhere. Not sure how to restore them and get them back to try the folder approach. I am on iCloud and this only happened 3hrs ago...maybe turn off Match and try to resync to the Cloud? See if they comeback? HELP!

Also can't distingush what music is uploaded "safely" so I can delete it off my iPhone....the only reason I did this to begin with was to free up the 11.5G of music on my phone! But I don't know what is uploaded and what can't be uploaded so I have no idea what is safe to delet off the phone...AHHHHH!!!! I have a few posted questions...need help on all aspects of this disaster!

They are still there in iTunes. You can see them if you log into your iTunes account. I'm able to access my iTunes account on my Mac. I added the folder there and did sync over to my iPhone. I am able to select what music I want to sync to my iPhone on iTunes as well and freed up a lot of room on my phone.

I have had this since the iTunes outage yesterday (11March'15), I stupidly logged out of the iTunes store thinking this would fix the issues. It didn't, instead it lost all my playlists one I had been working on for months! How can I get them back? I also have missing album art since day one of iTunes match.