iTunes vs. Music

[rbpeirce]

In iTunes I created a smart playlist that would look in comments for whatever I might enter, typically the name of an artist in a musical group. This worked fine in iTunes but recently I selected my iTunes database [itl file] to use in Music. That seems to work fine in all regards EXCEPT, searching comments fails. I don't know why. Does anybody?

 

[Slydude]

I have a handful of tracks with various bits of info in the comments field. Music seems to read the comments field correctly in the smart playlist that I checked, As soon as I remember which playlists use that field I'll check them.

 

[rbpeirce]

I have a handful of tracks with various bits of info in the comments field. Music seems to read the comments field correctly in the smart playlist that I checked, As soon as I remember which playlists use that field I'll check them.

Please. I need to get this working again. If I "Get Info" on a track the comments are there but the smart playlist doesn't see it.

 

[Slydude]

I'll check into that ASAP.

One thing occurred to me. IIRC I had to recreate a few playlists when I moved over to Music. I'm working from memory here so I'm not sure about that. I don't remember if there was a pattern to which playlists I had to recreate.

 

[rbpeirce]

This is what works in iTunes but doesn't work in Music:

 

[Slydude]

I checked a couple of my smart playlists last night and they seem to be OK. Most of them sort the collection by genre or artist. I only had one smart playlist so far that relied on the comments field and it was working as expected.

This morning created a new playlist that used the comments field and it seems to work I even complicated things a bit by making the playlist find songs that met two criteria.

As you can see the last two options at the bottom of the screen are checked and I can't seem to uncheck that one.

The same settings work if only the comments field is used. The difference is the rule is set to check all rather than any.

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[Rod]

Try creating a comment for a track in Music and see if the search function works for that comment.
If it does then chances are you've encountered another difference in the way the Music app works with data created in iTunes.

The problem is, Music is not iTunes any more than Photos is iPhoto. Even discounting the name change there have been many changes in the way the two work and what they can and can't do.

 

[Slydude]

Two things occurred to me as something that might need to be checked out to resolve this issue:

1. Double-check that the text in the comments field of a problem track and the text entered in the rule are exactly the same. iTunes and Music can both be very picky about this. The program often sees minor variations in text entry as two different things so "Hello" is different from "Hello " even though the extra space in the second word can sometimes be hard to catch.

Although I have several smart playlists, many of them were created after the transition from iTunes to Music. I don't think I recreated the other smart playlists after making the transition but maybe I did.

If you have a bunch of smart playlists recreating them could be real PITA. If you try this I would try recreating one or two playlists at first to see if they work before recreating all of them.

I'll keep looking and see if I can find anything more helpful.

 

[rbpeirce]

I just checked it again and now it is working. That's really weird. I don't believe I changed anything or rebooted but maybe I did.