Thanks Sterling R!
Unfortunately, as mentioned, the songs on the iphone aren't actually in a playlist. Yes, they do show up as "recently added", but there is no list / folder in ITUNES edit it's rules.
If i click on my "jazz" playlist; the edit option becomes available.
If i click on my "purchased" playlist, the edit option becomes available
if i click on ANY of the playlists in itunes folder (even on my iPhone), the "edit" option becomes available.
if i were ABLE to click on a playlist titled 'RECENTLY ADDED', i believe it, too, would allow the "edit" option to become available. Unfortunately, there is NO PLAYLIST in itunes or iPhone entitled "recently added". (On the iphone (6s), There is a "section" underneath the playlists called "recently added"... you cannot edit that... it's just there all the time. This is what i'm trying to remove from my phone.)
The problem is when i reach the end of my loaded playlist, the music from the recently added begins to play...there's no way to stop it.. unless i turn my playlist on repeat. These songs are NOT on the phone actually. They dont take up any space. They are cloud storaged. This creates the 2nd problem.
The second half of this problem is when i sync my phone to my car, the car records my phone's music library as having 1600 songs : 350 from my "Jazz" playlist and the rest are those not actually on the phone.... and of course, it tries to play those songs...but they're not actually there ... so they crash the car's music sync. (If i leave the phone connected to cellular, then, it uses my data allocation to try to play those songs from the cloud - not a download, either...just access the cloud and plays them.)
The only way i can prevent them from crashing the car sync is putting the phone in airplane mode.... then, so much for hands free driving and navigation, right?
So, hopefully you can feel my pain 🙂
The link you provided does instruct me "how" to create a new smart playlist, but that i already know how to do, and not the option needed in this case. Let me say, i appreciate your reply and fine effort to help...sincerely.
Any further suggestion on how to get rid of that "recently added" section from my iphone is welcomed. (By the by, i have an iPAD 2... it syncs to the same computer and follows the same update schedule as my iphone...but it does NOT result in a "recently added" section showing up in my library at all.... go figure.)
