Syncing music creates duplicate "1" Playlist

I agree! iTunes has become way too complicated!

I agree!

Don't know if anybody has tried this but I am going to delete a song from a playlist and see what happens.

Do you mean closing the Music app or the iTunes Store app? I remember when Music was called iTunes and still refer to it as that. Anyway, I will give it a try.

I have this exact same issue buying new music via the iTunes Store. After buying new music via the iTunes and simply changing Song Info from the iTunes Genre to my own Genre (for easy library organization) and then sync'ed, iTunes creates new Playlists version 1-2-3-4 etc every time I synch'ed. It's silly as now I have to manually delete these older Playlists (complete less the new songs I bought), on both the iPhone and the Mac to stop the unnecessary proliferation. If Apple's mantra is to make something that "simply works" and it does this behavior, is this not the antithesis of that mantra? I do not understand the value of the replication, therefore why would Apple defend it, let alone not fix this clearly silly behavior that forces it's customers to manually remove the effects of their software's behavior. Apple Developers, Steve Jobs would not have allowed this to occur and your job would be at risk. Why are you forcing customers to perform manual tasks to fix inadequacies in your core software? Please stop this inane behavior. I am a long time Apple buyer who is at serious risk or looking elsewhere. George

I haven't added a song to my playlist in a very long time yet when ever I try to sync my 5s With my computer it results in the "1" Playlist being added to my I tunes library, then it trys to automaticly add that "1" playlist back onto the phone, which results in it saying I don't have enough space (even though there is 5 gigs worth of free space it cant add 162 MB?!) for it on my phone and then I can't sync. This has prevented me from doing anything on my phone! I can't add or remove songs or apps because It says I have no space, I cant even update the OS because everytime I sync it creates duplicate playlists, adds them to my library and then tries to add them to my phone, I even get a "2" and "3" Playlist added some times and then it tries to sync those too with out my consent! This is rediculus and it shouldn't be this hard to do. This crap has been going on for years so SERIOUSLY APPLE WHEN WILL YOU PATCH THIS GLITCH? I shouldn't have to delete everything on my phone every time there is an OS update, and reinstall less and less stuff each time thats just absurd.

Deleting everything , then syncing the phone, then reinstalling everything seems to be the only thing that works to prevent this.

For me I never thought iTunes was anything more than a good program for the average iPhone totting user. No question that it's always been complicated, because it's a dog with fleas. iTunes is fixed based on crowd requests rather than starting out with a pro level music management program. For me all of these answer are noise.

All I need to know is... how can you tell which is the latest of the duplicate playlist with added number? Do the added numbers represent an updated playlist. How can you track it when you have Playlist then Playlist 1, Playlist 11, playlist 2, etc.

I am a music aggregator with 50 plus years experience in music and technology. Please don't answer me if your not 99% sure of what your saying.

I absolutely agree!

This broke when Apple directed focus to buying tunes from your mobile device and allowed creating and editing playlists on the device.

The sync is probably broken if you edit a playlist on your phone then iTunes makes an update before the sync, too. It's a train wreck.

Make sure the device you are syncing to does NOT have iCloud sharing turned on. Otherwise, it gets confused as to whether to sync from cord attached to computer or iCloud. Thus, the extra list.

Thanks this has finally seemed to solve my issue. Still looks like I have 2 songs left as duplicates but then again it's down from the 400 I haven't been able to get rid of.