Smart Playlists Not Updating on iPod

Don't keep on bumping your post (and after just two hours!). Its not cool.

Have you tried looking at the Device/Summary pane to see what options you have selected?

If you have Sync/Selected Playlists... selected, have you included the Recently Added Playlist?

Its apparent that Apple has broken this functionality on IOS7. Proof of that is easily explained because I've had the same smart playlists for years, and have used them to sync to multiple Apple devices.

Currently any device NOT running IOS7 continue to sync smart playlists correctly.

Currently any device running IOS7 does not sync smart playlists correctly.

I have:

Apple Ipod Classic 160GB - Smart Playlists update and work fine.

Apple Iphone 4 (old phone used for an ipod), running IOS6 - works fine.

Apple Iphone 5 (IOS7) - doesn't sync smart playlists

Apple Ipad mini (IOS7) - doesn't sync smart playlists.

I've already removed all music from from the devices and re-synced... I"ve watched the smart playlist begin to build and then once the sync is complete remove the majority of the content and add things to it that shouldn't be on it.

I have to agree, HighNDrye. It isn't recent, as in the last couple minor releases, but has bugging the poop out of me for a while. Why does my ipod touch first generation get it all, and get it right, and my iphone 4s fail to have half my music? Very frustrating. Thanks for independent confirmation.

Off to copy my smartlist contents to static lists to have *some* functionality.

Have you looked at the previous discussions listed on the right side of this page under the heading "More Like This"?

I see posts where people with older ipods don't update, but phone does update. But not my situation, and no solutions in any case.

TS

Ross93 wrote:

If I didn't keep bumping it my thread will have went unnoticed and I wouldn't have received a reply. It's not cool but I would have never otherwise received a response.

Well -

- I was being polite. It's not only "not cool", but its goes against Apple's Terms of Use. It is also not necessary to bump after just two hours. This is a worldwide forum and it's possible that someone with the answer to your question is asleep on the other side of the world to you at the time you posted and repeatedly bumped.

If you had browsed throught the other threads here, you would have noticed that you're not the only one to be having issues with Playlists changes not transferring to your iPod. In fact, the number of posts about it suggests to me that there is a problem as a result of iOS7.

So you can do two things, should you wish:

1. Look through recent discussions about Playlist update problems (rather than the "more like this" section, which will give you results prior to iOS7) to see if anyone has figured out a solution;
2. Wait for the next update to iOS7 and see if that fixes it.

Unfortunately smart playlists without auto updating makes them useless for me. That's really the entire point of using them in my case.

Manually creating static playlists just isn't feasible or convenient.

^This. Its simply not the same functionality. Its incredibly frustrating to see it correctly configured in my iTunes but not transferring over to the Music app.

Hello Everyone,

I'm experiencing the same issue at the moment. I'm hoping that Apple sorts this problem out in the very near future.

Many Thanks!

John