Smartlist doesn't show any music, even though rules are correct and checkmarks are set too.

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Smartlist doesn't show any music, even though rules are correct and checkmarks are set too.

I migrated my music from a MacBook to an iMac. Music and ratings show correctly, and I am able to play them on the iMac. The migration also migrated my smart playlist, but now they don't produce any result, even though they should show thousands of songs. I tried creating a new playlist with the same result. All songs in my library are checkmarked, so that isn't the issue either. I even tried very bais rules, like "limit to 5 GB" and it only shows a few songs with total of approx 500 mb, even though I have hundereds of GB of songs.

Posted on Apr 30, 2016 12:48 AM

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ed2345

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Apr 30, 2016 6:26 AM in response to Mvposch

MV Posch,

An unexpectedly empty smart playlist is often the result of misapplying "Match All" and "Match Any" in the playlist rules.

There is also a recent iTunes bug for limiting a playlist when you use "selected by... random."

If you want to post the rules of one of the problem playlists, perhaps someone here can troubleshoot the issue.

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