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Albums in Reverse Play order on iOS (Smart Play...

iTunes 12.6, ios 10.2 -- but bug has been around for several releases...

Quite simply, I create a Smart Playlist on iTunes containing an album, showing correct song order (e.g. 1 through 10).  When I sync this to an iPhone or iPad I'd expect the playlist to display in the same order.  In fact on the "On My Device" view of iTunes this holds true.

Synchronize this with any of my iOS devices and two differences appear.   Most significantly, the Smart Playlist reverses the play order of each album.  (e.g, play order is now 10 through 1)

Less significant is the fact that depending on the sort selected in iTunes, the album sequence changes.  (Album by Artist/Year album order is OK, sort by # randomizes album order, sort by # in reverse is no different).  In ALL cases, the song order reverses.

The only work around I've found is to take the Smart Playlist in iTunes and copy all the songs to a regular iTunes playlist and sync the regular playlist.   It adds a couple steps every time I sync but let me cycle albums through my devices and the order stays correct.

I've reported this through the feedback link at least a half dozen times over the past six months or year.  No answer and no fix makes me wonder if there's something else I can fix.  Anyone else seeing this?

(iPod Classic works, though!)

I have had the same problem and it started last year after I upgraded to iOS 10.  For a year I worked with Apple support and engineers and they have finally arrived at the conclusion that it's because I use smart playlists and not regular playlists.  I don't understand after years of using these they suddenly became a problem.  So if I want my tracks to play in the correct order I have to change every one of my smart playlists into regular playlists.  I have hundreds of them, so I'm not sure what I want to do. 

My approach has evolved since first posting this.   Now I use AppleScripts to populate "static" playlists and run them nightly in a cron job.   Up to then I'd just copy everything from the Smart Playlist to a "static" playlist and would sync those static lists to the device.

One of my Smart Playlists usually hovers around 3,000 to 3,500 songs.  (It's based on age since I last played a song, where the age is coded in the "grouping" field as "#02mo" or "#03mo" and so on).   That was causing partial albums to go in the list if I'd played a song individually.   AppleScript gives me better control of this.  If any one song is aged, I add the whole album to my list.

Just to put the albums on my iPad, I'd add that smart playlist so I could pick from the album list.

But another iTunes Sync bug showed up.  Every time I restart iTunes or at other "random" time, iTunes would resync all 3,500 songs, even if it just synced them 30 minutes prior.   My guess is this is yet another smart playlist sync bug.

Smart Playlists used to work so well.   In fact they still work very nicely on my old iPod Classic.   iOS devices?  Not so much...

最后更新：2017-10-15 22:01:12

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