windows phone 8 - xbox music app - not syncing xbox music playlists

Take a look at this Microsoft support article:

support.microsoft.com/.../2784105

"If your playlists contain songs from your computer's personal music collection, create the playlist in the Zune software or create the playlist in Windows Media Player and use the Windows Phone app for desktop to sync the playlist to your phone."

"If your playlists contain Xbox Music songs, get an Xbox Music Pass to play these on your phone."

So if you are like me and don't use the Microsoft music pass:

1. Don't use the Windows 8, metro Windows Phone App

2. Don't use XMBOX Music App

3. Install Windows Phone App for Desktop

I already had synched with the metro Windows Phone app from my Windows 8 laptop, so I:

1. Wiped my phone (settings, about, reset phone), keep in mind this will wipe all data, so if you have anything you need on it then back it up first

2. Went through setup steps on my phone, but did not connect it to my computer

3. Removed the Music metro app (XBOX Music) and metro Windows Phone app

4. Downloaded and Installed the Windows Phone App for desktop

5. Recreated playlists I had deleted in trying to fix this issue by using my zune software and auto playlists, then closed the Zune software.

6. Plugged in my phone to my computer

7. Launched Windows Phone app for desktop

8. Selected the music and playlists I wanted and clicked synch button

9. Now my playlists are on my phone, but have no songs

10. I clicked sync again and I noticed it still said I had 6 songs to sync, I clicked again a couple times and got down to 3 songs and an error popped up that these 3 songs couldn't be synced.

11. I closed the windows phone app

12. I moved the 3 songs out of my music library to another location ( I used downloads)

13. I opened the WP 8 desktop app and synched again. Now it said synching my playlists at the bottom

I now have all my playlists populated. It must be the last thing that is synched and the error on the 3 songs prevented it from ever getting to it.

Are you using the Phone app or the Windows Phone app for Desktop? There's two versions you can use to transfer music. You could also use Windows Media Player for transferring data. It's also fantastic for making playlists.

pocketnow.com/.../how-to-sync-windows-phone-8-automatically is the link I found on how to auto sync music.

You could also try the mass transfer protocol to drag and drop your music collection - this method does NOT work with DRM protected (like the Music Pass) music.

There have been some hiccups in DRM with syncing to a Windows Phone 8. Interestingly, this is sometimes associated to the hidden cache data on the phone.

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What I had to do to fix a similar problem was delete the music from the phone, turn on hidden files and folders, and delete the contents of the four hidden folders (playlists seems to be optional). After that's done, try restarting the phone and syncing
the music again. It might take a few minutes for the drm to sync back up with your account.

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Another option is to create a playlist of all music in the Zune software and then use the Windows Phone app for Desktop to sync the playlist to your phone. Once it's been synced, you can delete the playlist .PLA file out of the hidden playlist folder. This
seems to remove the DRM that associates the music to a particular account (but still identifies it as Music Pass content) and let's you play it right away.

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Good luck!

When is MS going to allow me to use xbox music pass playlists to SYNC the music between my windows 8 pc and my window phone 8 SO that the music is stored on the wp8 device SO I am not paying ATT broadband fees every time I want to play music pass music?

Zune had this feature - the music would be local on the phone or zunehd device but expire after about a month IF the device didn't reconnect to the Zune software - truly the best of both worlds..

What I think is also not mentioned in any of the official MS work arounds is: running Windows Media Player, Zune, xbox music metro app cause PLAYLISTS to DUPLICATE and TRIPLICATE on your PC... Zune re-creates WMP playlists, then WMP fights back and XBOX
finds them BOTH... UGGGGG

I just checked on my Windows 8 laptop under the "Music" app and the playlists I created on the Xbox console are listed under my music and they have the correct number of songs in each playlist and they have the correct songs in each playlist. So this appears
to be a clear bug in windows phone 8.