Near Duplicate Playlist is Created when Syncing with IPhone

I've manually deleted the duplicate playlists and have resync'd. This was my previous solution. Will report back when this happens again.

After a sync yesterday, my playlist was duplicated again. Tonight I noticed iTunes has recently downloaded multiple versions of an album purchased in July... ??

I have just been deleting the extra playlists off. But I have been dealing with duplicate files from a computer upgrade so I haven't put much thought into the extra playlist's I just with it would be fixed. But with how they treat the Macbook people with the dead GPU that had paid over $2K I am doubting they will worry about us using free software.

I've been having the same issue everyone time I sync my iPhone with iTunes on my Macbook Pro. iTunes is creating a duplicate playlists and naming them, "Name of Playlist 1." I end up getting duplicates of all of my playlists and I have to manually delete them. It's annoying.

The other bug that's mind boggling si when you turn on iCloud and iTunes Match, all of your music will be replaced by Apple with a version of their choice. Your own music will be removed from your computer and placed in the trash bin. I don't why anyone with an existing personal library would ever choose this option given the correct information. The problem is Apple doesn't state this anywhere. To Apple's credit, they gave me an Apple USB Super Drive when I purchased my new Macbook Pro to rectify the problem.

It's unbelievable that Apple would let this issue go on for so long and replace personal music libraries with cloud versions and delete music that has been purchased by individuals who own the music. I don't think Steve Cook or any of the executives understand how important music is to their customers or else this would have been resolved a long time ago.

I have this problem too, however I found a really simple way to fix it : use Smart Playlists.

1) Create a regular playlist with the songs you want
2) Create a smart playlist (File > New > Smart Playlist)
3) Define the criteria :
"Playlist" + "is" + "name of the playlist you want"

That should do the trick. Note that you can play around with multiple criteria, wich I found very useful if you have a really large library. Have fun!

***The only problem with this approach is that you won't be able to change the playlist from your iOS devie, but you can still create a new playlist on your device and later merge it with the original playlist.

Hey Apple, I abandoned everything I knew and loved (including my FAR superior HTC One M9) for the SOLE purpose of making my music syncing easier.

This has been going on for several months now, and, based on your lack of a response, there is no end in site.

Might I suggest un-f*cking this problem relatively soon? I've already given up on the new Macbook. Let's not have my iPhone go the same way, eh?

I had to do a full delete/reinstall of itunes last week (for a different reason, actually), but that did nothing to address my playlist duplication problem.

Press and HOLD on the duplicate playlist on your iPhone, then a window will pop up giving you a Trash Can to delete it.

This is what I do to. Delete the duplicate playlists. This problem goes back to 2015 and there does not seem to be a fix. I would like the duplicate playlists to not be created in the first place.

Worked. Thanks a lot!