There isn't an "edit playlist" button

Put your playlist in the Songs view. Select the heading of left-most column of numbers to sort on it. This is the Play Order. Drag new content from other areas of the library and drop them onto the playlist in the sidebar. Select the playlist and drag songs up or down the list, or remove, as required. In short you can still edit playlists as before, even if the tools are slightly different. You can also open a playlist in a separate window if that helps.

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Open a playlist and then at the top, click: View, View As, Songs. From here you can reorder, delete, add or whatever to the playlist.

Switch to the songs view and sort on the left most column of numbers which is the play order. You can now drag tracks up and down the list. Alternatively click on say the album heading so that it reads Album by Artist to get the conventional sort order.

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Editing playlist is as easy as it has always been. Nothing has changed. To edit a smart playlist, you click 'Edit Rules' in the context menu. To edit a normal playlist, you drag & drop tracks from/to it from other playlists. To sort a playlist you go to the 'View' menu. To change the view options, you go to the 'View' menu or press the 'Command' + 'J' keys on the keyboard.

You can drag and drop new tunes to your playlist. You can delete from your playlist—also you can control click to get a contextual menu

I found an alternative. Have the desired playlist open, and then go to View, and then View As. Make sure Playlist is selected. After that, click Show View Options. Two drop bars will pop up: View As, and Sort As. View As should be set to playlist and Sort As is whatever you want (name, artist, genre, whatever). In Sort As, pick whether you want it in ascending or descending order.

Hi,

You need to be in song view to sort playlist. You can also find duplicates in playlist. File>library>show duplicate items.

Jim

To me - whatever "improvements" were made to iTunes are not improvements. It was quite easy to edit a playlist in the past and now it's crazy difficult. Plus - many of my purchased songs on iTunes have disappeared from my playlists.

I agree...this now takes for ever to create a new playlist. I can't figure out why it would be removed. The EDIT button was one of the best improvements in iTunes and now it's gone. This is not an improvement. What is going on with Apple? I am having the worst problems with everything Apple right now.

May I ask who had the dozy idea of removing the edit playlist function? and have they been appropriately punished? itunes was always a bit awkward and I don’t really listen to music I use it for my audiobooks. As do my parents (in their late 60s) and removing that function has confused them to no end. Please may we have that “edit play list” back within the playlist being used? Also why can we no longer drag and drop order within the play list??

We also used to be able to sort the songs in a playlist and then delete any duplicates! I am not going to go an entire 450 song playlist to look for duplicate songs. Is this going to be addressed/fixed? When I left Spotify to come back to Apple Music I had to add songs back into my playlist randomly, and sometimes I would add dups. So being able to sort the songs by artist or title was KEY!

Not good.

It's not delete that we are having issues with. Or sort or anything other than the edit playlist function. Previously when you went to add additional music the playlist was on the right of the window and my songs were on the left and I could scroll through my songs and add to playlist and sort through playlist, all the functions I wanted. Now, the best I can do is view my songs and scroll through, hold mouse move a song, and single click on the "..." and single click "Add to Playlist" or "Add to Previous Playlist". Then I have to go to the playlist and sort, or just play randomly. This is so cumbersome. As well as the duplicative playlists that show up and disappearing songs, etc., What's the deal there?

This was helpful, especially opening the playlist in a separate window. Now I can have my songs open in one window and my playlist open in another, side by side and it's almost like the old "edit playlist" feature. THANK YOU!

still see my songs but WHERE IS THE BUTTON

I agree as well. Perhaps Samsung is correct and Apple is now history