Somehow over the last year (during an update I suspect) our iTunes library created thousands upon thousands of empty playlists. There are roughly 3,000 labeled "C" .... and there is another as well. We cannot figure out a way to delete them. I spent hours trying once to delete but once another device synced, they were back (and I had never gotten rid of all of them). Help, please. Incredibly frustrating.
Have you tried turning off iTunes Match? You can do this under settings>music
I'd like to continue to use match ... I'm hoping someone has a solution for deleting multiple playlists at a time. There was a thread last year that detailed the issue but I'm having trouble locating it. Hoping someone who has been through this will be able to provide some insight.
Try this script. It worked wonders for me - I had 4450 blank playlists.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=deleteemptyplaylists
That said, I cannot find a way to stop the re-creation of them...after completion of this script (took a few hours to run but deleted all blank playlists), I am getting new blank playlists created every few minutes...Playlist, Playlist 1, Playlist 2, etc. Anyone have any ideas about how to solve this? I have tried turning off iTunes Match on all of my devices (including iOS device) and quitting iTunes and turning it back on, and the creation process continues.
Good luck!
Originally posted the question in 2015 and appreciate the response. We still have thousands upon thousands of empty playlists. I've tried running scripts, turning off match, you name it. They get deleted and then, somehow, they all return. Beyond frustrating. Every playlist we have now starts with the letter A ...you can imagine. Thanks for trying.
How do I delete multiple (thousands) of empty playlists created by iTunes Match?
