Creating a portable library based on playlists in itunes

I have a very large library which of course brings down the speed of itunes. My wife is a fitness instructor who makes a few playlists a week, and it thoroughly frustrated. Is there a way to create a second library that contains music files only from the playlists in her itunes? This way, she can add music to this second library as she needs it (from the primary via a windows search or purchase from itunes itself), and have a responsive itunes programs.

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- Apps are locked to the account that purchased them.
- To update apps you have to sign into the account that purchased the apps. If you have apps that need updating purchased from more than one account you have to update them one at a time until the remaining apps were purchased from one account.

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I have recently created a number of video playlists and I'm wondering if there is a way of creating a library of these playlists.Secondly is there way of adjusting the brightness of videos without downloading third party software.

Playlists in iTunes are stored in the main database iTunes Library.itl. They don't exist as a separate class of files. You can use File > Library > Export Playlist... to export individual playlists in various formats. These could be imported into another library if all of the required files of the playlist were on the same paths. In general however there is no need to export and reimport playlists to iTunes. Simply Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy so that the entire library, or any individual files, can be restored if needed.
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After creating a new playlist in iTunes, how can I add my entire music library --at once-- to the new playlist. I want to download all my music from Icloud at once on my Macpro

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You have two separate questions here...
To get all your music into one playlist, select Music in the sidebar and click the Songs view at the top. Then, highlight all the songs and drag them into your playlist.
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is it possible to generate a playlist lets call it, that is like a shuffle playlist but able to fill an ipod? where would i find the command like, " fill ipod randomly from itunes library"? wouldn't it be great !! just hook up the pod and have it filled with random songs from your library. every day you could have a new playlist, but a really big and different one.
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Just create a new Smart playlist.
Limit it to 27.5GB at Random.
Also, set it to My rating is not One Star.
Rate songs you do not want on the iPod to One star.
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To change the music, select this playlist in iTunes.
Select all songs and press Delete. It will fill up again at random.

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When you connect the iPod, you should see your Summary page... it has a picture of the iPod, next to its name, serial number, software version, capacity, and format. Down towards the bottom of this page is a section entitled Options. Below this there is an option that says "manually manage music and videos." Is this option selected?
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Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
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Hi all,
I've been trying to get the right answer to this for a long time, but I seem to be continually coming up against very complicated solutions that are too intricate for me to actually try. I hope someone will have the knowledge (and the patience with me!) to help.
My wife received an iPod as a gift from the Mayor of San Francisco. It came pre-loaded with a bunch of songs about "The City by the Bay." It's a Nano, so it doesn't have iOS 5, the iCloud, etc.
So I have two questions.
(1) I have my own iPod, iTunes account, and my own laptop. My wife only has a work laptop so she can't load iTunes onto it (which would make this very simple).
(2) I would like to be able to create a situation in which:
(a) She can create her own library on my computer. Her library would include a lot of music from my library (but not all). In other words, I want to move some music from my library to her library, both of which are on my laptop.
(b) She can sync her iPod on my computer.
(c) She can load all the San Francisco music into "her" library.
Is there a simple way to do this? I don't want to do the "separate playlists" variation because that's not how I want to run my own library. I want that to remain as crisp and clean as possible.
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