Can't edit playlists with update to 12.7.0.166

You can edit and sort your playlist if you view as songs. Click on your play list. Click on view. Select "View As" and "Songs". See picture below. Once you get an order that you like, you right click on the play list and select "Copy to play order" and the order of your playlist is updated to what you saw in song view.

With iTunes 12.7 you can have 3 or 4 playlists open (right-click on a playlist name in the sidebar and use Open in New Window) and drag content from one to another. As long as the target playlist is sorted by Play Order you can choose where the dropped item will end up in the list.

tt2

henry quelch wrote:

Each playlist takes up the full screen. How did you get them alongside each other?

At the top right of a window there is a maximize/restore down control. If the window is maximized then restore down, then resize and position as desired.

tt2

Sadly this didn't work for me, no way could I open and display the lists as you had them!

My best solution was to use my laptop which still had the old itunes on it. I edited some playlists then synchronised so that they were then on my PC.

Please somehow let us have the edit button back!

I call bullcrap. I'm a tech, and rarely complain about new features and enhancements....but this really stinks. I want to sort my tunes alphabetically-automatically, not manually What could possibly be the reasoning for taking away this feature? PLEASE RESPOND APPLE?

Yes - more dumbing down and a total lack of understanding how people want to work. I am a pro DJ and used to enjoy iTunes back in the day when you could simply double click to the left of ANY playlist in the left column and it would open that playlist in its own floating window. I used to have sometimes 10 or more windows open to chuck music into from my library to create a bunch of cds to take with me when i was going to play a gig. Apple kindly removed this brilliant feature a LONG TIME AGO and I have been asking ever since for it to be reimplemented. Unfortunately some idiot at Apple HQ thinks they know better than the people who need this tech to HELP not HINDER in their daily working life. So much for progress - iTunes just gets worse and worse and why?

Thanks tt2 - AT LAST - that is very helpful - it's only taken Apple about 5 years to reinstate this old function. It will probably take another 5 for them to let you double click the icon to the left of the playlist to open it in a separate window - how it was in iTunes 5 and 6 I think! So much for progress! I only used the Edit Playlist as a workaround for this lost function so now it is back happy days we can drag and drop tracks from any number of playlists to each other, which is how it works best and most logical. Cheers!

yeah but guess what? Say you've got a track playing, and you drag another track underneath it to play next. It will actually NOT play next because it doesn't like, register or load or something. The playlist has to be closed and then opened, which defeats the purpose because the music has to be paused.

One step forward...

I was trying to use a second window to organize some content into a new list last night and iTunes kept asking if I wanted to add duplicates to the list when it shouldn't have. Turns out my new selection in the main list was really my old selection. When I tired selecting something else first before what I really wanted the entire list jumped to the top. So much for new "focused" interface. 😮😕

tt2

Thanks for this tip, but I still want the Edit Playlist Button back. I use this constantly when DJing, to move songs in & out of the running playlist. But ultimately this may actually be more functional, as you can have multiple other windows open. I resized the windows just with the bottom right corner - seemed to work ok.

Tell Apple via Feedback - iTunes - Apple.

tt2

Did you perhaps miss this post where I mentioned that you can once again open multiple playlist windows?

tt2

Use Feedback - iTunes - Apple to let Apple know. You could also consider reverting to iTunes 12.6.3.6.

tt2

I have the same issue and HATE the "NEW" solution. Give us the old edit button back!!!