Playlists and music are not syncing (can't add any music to my iPhone now)

Thank you Thorte!

Are you listening Apple? With music you are becoming the guy on the screen in the "1984" commercial! I want to decide what I listen to on my iPhone! I want to decide what song I am listening to! Please stop making it harder and harder to do it. I am the best DJ for me, and I want to be able to do my job without reading an instruction manual every few months.

Strange fix for me to add the playlists was clicking the Heart button on the playlist next to edit playlist in iTunes and within ten odd seconds the playlist appears on my iPhone -strange but true

One massive Caveat, it only works with songs available in the cloud those songs that are 'waiting' to be added won't appear.....

PS I personally also then click the three ... buttons on my iPhone for each playlist and click the make available offline just in case

Thank you, I think it worked. When I first downloaded Apple Music I suddenly was left with no space on my phone. I had to reset my phone and was left with no music but this has got my music back. Thanks again.

For me:

In setings -> music

I put iCloud music library off and then on. It resynched my songs and playlists!

im beyond puzzled why they have it set up like this. I uploda music videos all the times since i have a showcar and play Music videos instead of just plain music on my car. Unless your giving me free music videos Apple you better fix this. Allow us to sync from itunes on top of the library. have 2 tabs i dont care

Be nice if they enabled the summary tab for windows owners . I still can't find my playlist. . Every time I turn off Icloud or whatever its turns it back on my phone . They better come with an update soon

Hi mate I had the same problem none of my playlists were syncing to the iphone except some rubbish U2 album. The fix was:

Go to Settings - Music and turn off 'iCloud Music Library'.

Sync iphone

Done!

For Non-Mac users with apple iphone and or ipad . You have to make sure that Icloud and apple music are off on ALL devices within your network otherwise the summary tab won't allow you to manually manage existing Itunes playlists . Hopefully there will be a fix for this

I dont think apple music needs to be turned off just Icloud but I'm not sure . Havent used the apple music part yet for various reasons

The option mentioned is not shown in iOS 8.4. I see "Show Apple Music", "Join Apple Music", a couple of Library settings, "Subscribe to iTunes Match" and some Playback options. No "Turn off iCloud Music Library".

The option of turning off the iCloud Music library fixed this (or got it working the way one would expect) for me.

Here are my comments:

• When using the iCloud music library, Apple Music basically chooses to delete your music from your device and play from the iCloud instead.
• After about 30 minutes, it seems impossible to sync the playlists from my Main library to me devices. It just didn't seem to want to happen. If it is possible, I will be stunned Apple has made this such a difficult task. how hard should it be to make a playlist available across all devices?
• For some ridiculous reason, my playlists seemed to then start to replicate (ie Rock, Rock1, Dance, Dance1 etc etc)
• I do not wish to redownload every song that I already have every time i want to listen to it. If I am not on WiFi, my cellular data will never last, and I get 6GB per month.
• Even on Wifi at home, this will really start to suck down the data that our family shares. Add to that, we have 3 family members who all like to listen to music. Again, we can't download everything, every time. I can not understand why they are not following Spotify's lead and only playing the cloud version if it is not available on a specific device.

To apple !

If this is how you start to make things for users, you will have people exiting your world very quickly. I have a background in IT, I work in IT and I have studied it extensively. I'm no genius and I dont know it all, but frankly, if this is THAT hard for me to work out, there is no way the average person is going to be a fan of this product. Apple, you dethroned Sony who had enormous potential to literally own the mobile music space, you are very quickly putting yourself at risk with this latest move.

EASY FIX!!!

In iTunes, on the existing playlists that won't sync... right click and duplicate them. This will create a '(playlist name) 1' playlist. These should appear in the Apple Music app. Then simply delete all of the original playlists and edit the names of the originals to remove the '1''s and your problems should be solved!

Hope this helps,

Darryl

Same issues here as well. Finally decided to just start from scratch (my old library is still in Time Machine) wiped out everything and added from songs from my iPhone, however everything is greyed out on my MBP. MBP finally allows me to access to my library but the few deletions I made there won't sync with my iPad or iPhone. Add an album in iTunes, (plus sign turns to a check) go back to my library and none of the new albums are there. Go check my iPhone and guess what all the albums are showing. I understand there are a few "bugs" to work out but this is insane. What is the point of having cloud syncing if it fails miserably. I should not have to rebuild a 15k song library because the merge I was prompted to do jacked everything up. I won't even touch on my experience trying to actually download songs in iTunes, but I'll be goddamned if I have to re-download all of them manually via my iPhone since it seems to be the only part of this equation that somewhat works.

any one having this problem all you need to do is turn off icloud music library on your phone then you will be able re sync all your songs and playlists back on to your phone.

I'm sure apple will need to fix this so it automagically syncs, but this worked for me by toggling off and back on, the playlist then showed up.

On your phone:

Go to Settings -> Music -> Turn off iCloud Music Library