manchali
Member
Ok, so I did my backups of the iPhone and iTunes, then updated iTunes 12 on Windows 7 PC, dreading the new changes. Surprisingly the install went smoothly and everything seemed fine, however I went to add some music to my iPhone and the playlists were not showing up for me to select. I then looked in the music section of iTunes 12, the playlists view, and I cannot find an entire folder, it's sub-folders, and the many many playlists that were contained within are simply not appearing. I have a habit of making periodic screenshots of various aspects of iTunes (view options, columns, preference pages, etc) including the lists of the playlists in the sidebar. I pulled up my old screenshots from iTunes 11 to verify that the folder is indeed missing. I also have individually saved many of my playlists within this major playlist folder to preserve custom play orders which were very important for me for these playlists
What annoys me most is that this major playlist folder contains my "desert island" playlists and subfolders. I searched for a song known to be contained within this folder, and when I right click on the song and choose "show in playlist", the playlists are not showing up there either.
I am tired and it's late and I will investigate further tomorrow if any other major playlists/folders are missing. All of the playlists contained within that folder and it's sub-folders were smart playlists; not understanding how so many would go missing....I wonder if it's based on the criteria of the smart playlists and iTunes 12 no longer recognizes those criteria - ugh!
This may be the last straw though. I may have to learn the ins and outs of media monkey after all....very sad, sigh. At this point I am scared/paranoid to hook the classic up to the PC lol, wonder if I sync-ed it if the same playlists will go poof on there as well.....
If anyone else has experienced this, please share, or if anyone has suggestions on what steps I should take, they are most welcome. I know it's early days and all....
Just figuring out what my I should do next..., do a clean install of iTunes 12 and do a restore, to see if the playlist folder/subfolders/playlists return, or find iTunes 11, do a restore, etc...
What annoys me most is that this major playlist folder contains my "desert island" playlists and subfolders. I searched for a song known to be contained within this folder, and when I right click on the song and choose "show in playlist", the playlists are not showing up there either.
I am tired and it's late and I will investigate further tomorrow if any other major playlists/folders are missing. All of the playlists contained within that folder and it's sub-folders were smart playlists; not understanding how so many would go missing....I wonder if it's based on the criteria of the smart playlists and iTunes 12 no longer recognizes those criteria - ugh!
This may be the last straw though. I may have to learn the ins and outs of media monkey after all....very sad, sigh. At this point I am scared/paranoid to hook the classic up to the PC lol, wonder if I sync-ed it if the same playlists will go poof on there as well.....
If anyone else has experienced this, please share, or if anyone has suggestions on what steps I should take, they are most welcome. I know it's early days and all....
Just figuring out what my I should do next..., do a clean install of iTunes 12 and do a restore, to see if the playlist folder/subfolders/playlists return, or find iTunes 11, do a restore, etc...
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