Certain Smart Playlists Won't Sync to Apple Music

SuddenlyWolf wrote:

Actually, doing a bit of editing, a playlist I made that duplicates one of the above without the "Playlist is not dj mixes" rule worked fine. Does that rule just break apple music?

Yes, Apple Music won't take playlists that depend on other playlists, or include content that is excluded from your iCloud Music Library, e.g. tracks that are duplicates, error, ineligible, etc.

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Apple will not allow any playlists that reference another playlist. They broke the playlist model when they introduced Apple music. The ability to reference another playlist which was introduced 15 years ago, has been unceremoniously removed. It's useless to talk to support, they don't understand this, but the developers have gotten the message and their "work around" is a message that you can't do this. They documented the bug and made it a "feature". We now have dumb playlists.

Playlist referencing another playlist are still not working. Is this being worked on or is it just a feature that has been removed? Not only can't I reference another playlist from a smart playlist, but I can't drag and drop tunes from a dumb playlist to a smart playlist. Why?

EdFladung3 wrote:

Playlist referencing another playlist are still not working. Is this being worked on or is it just a feature that has been removed?

No idea if they are working in general right now, but playlists that depend on other lists have always be excluded from the Apple Music and iTunes Match subscription services.

Not only can't I reference another playlist from a smart playlist, but I can't drag and drop tunes from a dumb playlist to a smart playlist. Why?

You cannot add items manually to a smart playlist, if you want to change a smart playlist's contents edit the rules. FWIW I have many lists that work with keywords that I store in the Grouping tag. E.g. one value might read Alice/Bob/Charlie and a rule such as Grouping Contains Alice would match with that track.

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