Google Music Playlist Duplicate Songs/Nonsyncying Playlist Solution

[frigidinferno]

For those of you who have had these problems (which is a number of you, as I found out after a quick search), I had the same problems and found a solution after tinkering about. The alternative, deleting all old music and resyncing, often still gave me problems so I'm hoping this will be helpful. If anyone has found a more elegant solution, please share it.

Step 1: Create a NEW Playlist in iTunes WITH A UNIQUE NAME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER USED BEFORE.

This is important. For whatever reason, the music player will assume a playlist with a name you've used in the past is already synced and it will ignore it. It also has to be a NEW playlist, not an old playlist that you rename. I used "Test1", "Test2", etc. Don't worry, you'll be able to change it to something else later.

Step 2: Add one song to the playlist that you do not actually want in the playlist.

Again, important. When you sync in the next step, the playlist that appears in google music won't contain the song you added.

Step 3: It may take a minute or so for the playlist to appear in the list of playlists to sync; wait until it is visible and then sync the playlist with google music manager.

Step 4: Wait for the Playlist to appear in google music. It will appear as an empty playlist.

Step 5: Remove the song from the playlist in iTunes and wait for the playlist to disappear from the list of playlists to sync in google music manager before syncing the playlists.

Empty playlists are not recognized as syncable so they will eventually disappear from the list of playlists that you can sync.

Step 6: Add ANOTHER song you do not actually want in the playlist

Again, when you resync in the next step, the song will not appear in the playlist on google music.

Step 7: Wait for the playlist to appear in google music manager, and then resync.

Step 8: After the playlist appears again in google music, add all the songs you actually want in the playlists, and sync the music manager.

You might have to sync a couple times and/or wait a couple minutes, but eventually, you will see that the songs are being added to the playlist in google music.

Step 9: After your songs are added, you can rename the playlist both in iTunes and in Google Music. It will still sync properly if you add and/or remove songs from it.

 

[ram130]

This is really annoying issue that keeps happening ..over and over and over again. Is there no solid fix? Anyone confirm this working without occurring again?

 

[koltregaskes]

Thanks for posting this but I've tried this and it doesn't appear to work. I get all the way down until the part where I add the music I want on the playlist but my playlist doesn't sync.

Question though, your instructions miss out what to do with the last song you add to your playlist that you don't actually want on the playlist. Should this be deleted before I add the songs I do want on the playlist or after? Also, do I require do to this for all my playlists that have the duplication issue?

The duplication issue is driving me insane. So if anyone can help it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[seanvree]

I also have this issue. I have 3 or 4 songs duplicated in my library. So annoying.

Has anyone tried third party apps like DupeOut?

 

[gkillerx]

Still a bloody issue! Fix this **** google it's horrible

 

[ram130]

Yep...still happens. Solution above helped for a while, then back to this crap again.

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[robindra]

My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.

Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?

 

[JDStone]

My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.

Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?

This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.

Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!

 

[smoysauce]

This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.

Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!

Same here. I have tried removing all music and playlists online, clearing app data on my phone and tablet, uninstalling music manager and all preferences and files, created new playlists in iTunes and re-added the songs (even removed all music from iTunes and re-imported it), rebooted, re-installed music manager and tried to upload things again, everything uploads but my playlists are *STILL* empty. I have tried this from Mac Mavericks and even Windows 8.1. It was working perfectly fine a couple weeks ago, wonder if Google updated something that broke the playlists from populating. I sent them an e-mail, but haven't heard anything. Granted, it's a free service and you get what you pay for, it's frustrating to see a service with such great potential fall short because of a few bugs. I kind of wish they would come out with their own offline music player that would interface directly online, so I can get rid of iTunes once and for all!