Syncing music creates duplicate "1" Playlist

If you did as I suggested, and removed the affected playlists from syncing, and that did not help, the next thing to try is to completely turn OFF automatic syncing for Music. Go to iPhone's Music settings screen in iTunes, uncheck Sync Music, and Apply. This should remove ALL songs from iPhone.

Use iPhone to confirm it no longer has any songs (or playlists) synced from your Mac. Go to iPhone's onboard Settings screen

Settings -> General -> Storage & iCloud Usage -> Manage Storage (under Storage) -> Music

If you find any song files still stored on iPhone, remove them from there.

Then, connect iPhone to Mac. In iTunes, set it up to Sync Music again, like before. Since those "duplicated" playlists were not on iPhone before you set up syncing again, the discrepancy should be resolved.

Seems this happens when (a) you've made a change to the playlist in iTunes then (b) the iOS device has the playlist open (active) while syncing. Appears the sync process can override the device's lock so the "active" playlist on the device is renamed and the "new" version of the playlist is sent through.

I totally agree. It has gotten way too disorganized to handle a large music library. I might go back to my MP3 player...or even a cassette Walkman

That should probably work, I'll try that the next time it happens, thanks!

Thank you but this solution did not work for me. My icloud sharing is turned off. What a frustrating problem this is!

I reported it on 5/2 to the link you supplied. No response yet. FYI.

George

Feedback is a black hole. They rarely post back but claim to read everything.

tt2

I don't care how old this post is.......this is exactly the problem.

I've had the same issue on my iPad. This is a bug, right?

OMG. Thank you for solving this stupid put irritating problem!

Hey iTunes: simple code line add is to make the most recently-updated playlist dominant.

I have to agree with this. Surely this could have been fixed in one of the endless stream of updates we get. No matter what I try, I have to double sync, or manually delete excess playlists.

Here here! My thoughts EXACTLY - thank you!!

Oh they can pop up second device verification but they can't add an option to just close the playlist and songs you're using before Syncing?

It used to work until they fixed it.

If you sync then your "playlist" on the computer changes, when you sync again the changed playlist from the device becomes "playlist 1"