Transfer iPhone playlists (ref) to XML on Mac?

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Transfer iPhone playlists (ref) to XML on Mac?

hi,

Since iTunes is not around anymore, Music on the Mac keeps losing my library and shows an empty one now and then.

I'm tired of reimporting all music and recreating the playlists. So now and then I save them but they drift form the current state.

My iPhone has my correct playlists but it seems there is no way to export the playlist from the iPhone to the Mac.

I'm not talking about transferring the music itself, only the playlist, so I get an XML file that I can re-import into Music.

Is this possible? I tried iMazing, it can export all music from the iPhone to the Mac hard disk, but that's not what I want, just the list of all music in the playlists

Thanks for any clue.

Steve

Posted on Oct 13, 2024 9:04 AM

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sjordi Author

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Oct 13, 2024 1:44 PM in response to sjordi

PS: Also I do not use the "sync" option for my music but have "manually manage my music" checked.

So syncing would erase everything on the phone and re-upload the music from my hard disk, not what I want.

I just need to extract the current playlists references (XML) from the iphone, without the music files.

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