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Apple Music Smart Playlists do not work through Home Sharing

I created a smart playlist in Music on my M1 Mac Mini - it works fine, the songs in the list obey the rules in the smart playlist.


When I access Music with Home Sharing on my iPhone the smart playlist ignores all the rules - the list is everything in the library.


I've submitted this as a bug in https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html


Not holding my breath. This post is information for others that hit this problem.

Mac mini, macOS 11.4

Posted on Aug 21, 2021 4:54 AM

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MikeGMIT Author
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Aug 24, 2021 12:28 PM in response to turingtest2

Did not know I could do that.

Exported the playlist as Unicode Text

Inspected it and it has a list of songs, not rules to select songs

Renamed the file

Imported it

It now shows up as a "regular" playlist.

Playing it now - the smart version would play a few songs then get lost.

Only downside is that if I add music that matches the smart rules this copy of the list is static so I would have to export/import again.

Not terribly painful.

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Apple Music Smart Playlists do not work through Home Sharing

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