Near Duplicate Playlist is Created when Syncing with IPhone

Hi guys,

Yeah, I'm still following this one and it's sad to hear that it got reversed again. To be honest, from the time I posted here, I only synced for about 3-4 times, since I haven't much new music :/ but it seems that everything is still ok for me, however from what I see, I'm pretty sure, it would come back to me as well, if I synced more often.

Hope iOS 9 will have this problem fixed. Will be following this one and I'm sure that we will eventually find a way to get rid of this problem completely 🙂

Good to hear that you're still able to sync OK.

Yep, it worked for me for a few days, but then, I do change whole playlists and alter others fairly frequently.

Let us know if things take a backward step?

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I been having the same problem and its driving me nuts. For me it duplicates every time i modify a playlist. The new playlist usually the old song listing. I have just been deleting the new playlist. Does this have anything to do with subscribing to Apple Music? Has this happened to people who have not subscribed to Apple Music?

I don't subscribe to Apple Music, and I see what you are describing. And I have six iPhones in my family with different Windows and OS X platforms for iTunes, and six different accounts, and we all see it.

I have this issue. I want to delete the playlist I do not want but cannot figure out how to do that? There is no option I can find within iTunes? HELP?

Such a ****-up. Is APPLE listening??

Had this issue for quite a while as well.

The only thing I can work out is that if I add/remove songs from the playlist when the iPhone is not connected, then sync later, I get the iPhone's playlist with a 1 at the end.

However, if I sync the iPhone, add/remove songs, sync again, there is no playlist with 1 at the end.

I am not sure what the time frame is, but I added some songs last night to a playlist. When I synced tonight, there was a duplicate playlist present.

Just played around with the playlist tonight and removed some songs, synced and no duplicates.

Hey there.

Yep, that seems to work and at least makes it possible to avoid having to delete the playlist with the "1," after it.

Thanks.

That's also fixed my issue of newly downloaded songs not appearing on the iPhone.

However, the idea of syncing should be that the phone syncs on connection, which is obviously not happening.

The fix you suggested works, but amounts to having to perform what amounts to a "manual," sync.

But, I thank you once again for making life a little easier, much appreciated 🙂🙂

Hopefully, the advent of iOS 9 will have all this in hand.

We can but hope!

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Same duplicate playlist issue here. I am so tired of Apple sending out updates that are sometimes more trouble than they are worth. Apparently they to care enough about us to address problems with their OS.

I know it doesn't matter, but I have to say that when my Verizon contract is up next month, I am done with Apple. Not trying to start a flame war. Just saying. I have had so many problems that took Apple forever to address.

I installed iOS9 yesterday and it seems to have fixed the problem!

I wish I could say the same! 😉 😠

I've just installed iOS9 and now iTunes doesn't recognize my iPhone at all!

Why does like have to be so frigging complicated?

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Apologies, I take my last comment back.

When I updated iTunes, I thought there was something fishy about the install.

Having uninstalled and reinstalled it, the playlist thing does seem to be solved with iOS9 🙂

However, I still have this weird thing with new purchases not showing up in playlists..

Does anyone else have this issue?

I have the same problem. I can see that the songs are meant to be there when I look at my iPod in iTunes, but they're not making it onto my iPod -for the last two weeks. Also, I created a new playlist last week, and though it's there in iTunes under my iTunes playlists and iPod playlists, it's never made it onto my iPod.

So frustrating!

Sorry to hear that.

All is fine with my iPhone 6, since the update to iOS9.

However, my old iPod Classic has had issues for sometime now 😕

Sometimes it syncs immediately, others, it takes 4, or more connections for it to be recognized!

I keep trying! It's only been since I did the ios9 update that I've had problems. Perfectly OK until then!

I can confirm this is happening to me on iOS 9.0.2 with an OS X 10.11 host as well. Which means this is not a iTunes on Windows issue, but either an iOS issue or some flaw in the synching mechanism or iTunes code that is common to the Mac and Windows. It's basically made iTunes syncing so bad for me that I just listen to streaming radio on my iPhone now, as maintaining playlists is futile and more work than it's worth.