How do I make a playlist play UNchecked songs?

When creating a new smart playlist there's a checkbox option called "Match only checked items".
This means you can make a playlist that will include unchecked items.
Now how do I get them to play?
In particular I use the Genre field in conjunction with the Grouping field to identify Christmas songs. After all a Christmas song can be Rock, Funk, Soul, Pop, Folk, etc. whatever. I keep these songs unchecked so that they don't turn up in my smart playlists the rest of the year when I'm making a playlist of e.g. R&B.
However, I also have a smart playlist called Christmas that collects all these unchecked songs. Now how do I get it to play those songs?
Thanks.

qda wrote:
I dug up my old apple account from years back just to log in here to tell Grant Greene:
You dug up an old apple account from years ago to respond to Grant Greene's 13 month old post?
I've been asking this question for years, because SOMETIMES I just make a playlist of a mix of checked and unchecked songs so that I can listen to ALL the songs in that playlist without checking them, ..
and valiant66 wrote,
"Besides, the checkmarks were put there to control what syncs with your iPod, not what you listen to."
which is incorrect. The option Sync only checked songs was put there for for additional control when syncing, not the only control
As noted, unchecking songs does more than simply not sync them.
And even when unchecked, you need to select the option to not sync checked songs.

Similar Messages

How can I make a playlist play on my iPod in random order?

I have made a playlist on my computer in iTunes. The songs are now in alphabetical order by song title, and when they play on my iPod they play in that same alphabetical order.
Is there a way that I can make the songs in the playlist play in some other order? Preferably, just a random order?
Or, is there a way that I can arrange them in iTunes that is not in alphabetical order and have them stay in that non-alphabetical order?
Thanks!

Just go to Settings, Shuffle, then turn it to Songs. The songs will stay in the same order in the playlist, but they'll switch it up.

How do I make a playlist to resync my ipod?

a couple weeks ago i was adding songs onto my ipod and i added too many *not enough room on my nano*, and my ipod added a new playlist to sync with *with only some songs on it*. i didnt like that idea so i deleted it. then my ipod was wiped clean, with no songs at all. i posted my problem here and eventually i got my songs back on by syncing it to an ALL playlist *a playlist with all my songs on it.* i deleted that playlist a couple days later *this time by accident, and i couldnt remember how i did it before, and i couldnt find the post i read how to do it* so i played around and made another playlist and just dragged my songs over, and clicked the "Automatically update all playlists" button. and my ipod seemed to be back to normal. but today it just deleted like 30 songs because they had moved off of my "Recently Added" playlist, and were not on my ALL playlist, because i never added them to it. its so annoying how i cant just get my ipod back to normal.
-- should i try to sync it with another playlist again? *if yes, how do i do that?
-- or should i just restore it to factory settings? *if yes, how & how do i back up itunes.
this has been going on for weeks now and im really getting frustrated, and i went to the apple store and the guy had no idea what i was talking about. i know this is lengthy, but PLEASE HELP ME!! thanks soooo much.

Why not just make a playlist with the songs you want on your iPod?
You can then make other playlists that have only songs from that playlist (if you want to have playlists).
Then tell iTunes to only update those playlists (onto the iPod).
To do this, connect the iPod to the computer. When it appears in iTunes go to edit-->preferences and click the iPod tab. Click the Music tab under that. Chose Automatically Update Selected Playlists and chose those playlists. Click OK.
<hr>
You can also uncheck the songs you don't want on the iPod (uncheck them in the iTunes library). Then go into the iPod Music Preferences (see above) and then check "Only Update Checked Songs" and click OK. You won't need a playlist.
<hr>
You can also set the iPod to manually update, so you just choose the songs and playlists you want on the iPod...
Managing Your Songs Manually
<hr>
You could just delete some songs from iTunes so that your library is smaller than your iPod. Then everything would be back to normal.
Also, there is no need to restore your iPod. If you did, you wouldn't have to backup your iTunes Music Library because a restore only affects the content on the iPod, not your computer. Of course, it is always a good idea to backup your music.
btabz

How can I make a playlist unchangable?

How can I make a playlist unchangable?

Right-click on it and choose "Copy to Play Order"
The songs can no longer be re-arranged (assuming that's what you meant). I think songs can still be added and deleted.
CG

How do I make a playlist of my podcasts in iOS7??

I like to listen to podcasts more than music. How can I make a playlist of all my podcast downloads in iOS7? And how can I do a random shuffle of the podcasts that I have not yet listened to? In the old operating system I was able to do this under iTunes after I removed the apple podcast app (based on advise from another posting). Now I am at a loss and regretting iOS7 upgrade.

Update - So I have found that I can make a random podcats playlist in iTunes on my computer and the playlist shows in the podcast app under "My Stations".
HOWEVER, the random order sort functionality is still not available on the iPhone Podcast app as far as I can tell. Really annoyiong. Still hoping Apple can find it in their hearts to better support Podcasting.
You would think that since the term PODcasting came about because of the first generation iPOD that Apple would care about maintaining this functionality with the iPhone!!???

How can I make music (mp3) play automatically in one Scene (NO buttons)?

How can I make an mp3 play automatically in one Scene (NO buttons)? I have been searching the net for answers for over 10 hours with no answer... My movie will not be for the web, it needs to be portable (CD or flash drive)...
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
thank you!

You just need to look in Help for the Sound class and possibly SoundChannel... if you have an MP3 in your library - right click it, and go to properties. Set the sound to export for ActionScript - and give it a class name - mySound will work. Then you can make it play with something as simple as:
var a:SoundChannel = new mySound().play();

I want to know how can I make my playlist in my iPhone be from oldest to newest?

I want to know how can I make my playlist in my iPhone be from oldest to newest?

You cannot do that from your phone. You can do that from your computer.

**how can i make chess to play online?**

Hi,
I want to make a web application which is a game of chess. I want to make it in such a way like on yahoo games. Where two people can play chess. I know how to make it possible to play on a single desktop pc. But how can i make it to play online. I need to know about what java technologies I should learn to make this project possible.
Regards,
Fahad Ahemd

ok but how I dont want to create webserver. I mean I can't affort it at this stage of my education. I can afford a webhosting. there are lot of opitons for webhosting are availabe. I can buy one for me. But I want to know what features of java or anything else should be available on that server. 2nd is what do u mean by socket programming. I understand http programming. It includes servlets and jsps. but what is socket programming and why i need it in this project.
waiting for reply...
Fahad Ahmed

I have updated to iTunes 10 and now my unchecked songs are playing... I don't want this and can't figure out how to have it like it was before (not playing unchecked songs). Please help!

I have updated to iTunes 10 and now my unchecked songs are playing... I don't want this and can't figure out how to have it like it was before (not playing unchecked songs). Please help! I leave the unchecked songs in there b/c there will come a point in time where I want to listen to these songs but right now I don't.

yes, 10.3.1, iTunes already restarted, menu settings already like that and still it will play all unchecked songs (including the checked songs of course). Why even have check and unchecked if the program is going to play all of them anyway?!
thanks for responding though...

HT1399 How can I modify my playlist so all songs play ay the same volume?

How can I modify my playlist so all songs play at the same volume?

mlagrandeur wrote:
How can I modify my playlist so all songs play at the same volume?
Turn on iTunes Sound Check, which you can do by going to Edit > Preferences > Playback and checking the box.
Let us know if that does the trick. If by any chance it does not, use the 3rd party program iVolume.

How can I make it so that my songs don't go on her iPod and her songs ....

Me and my mother just got iPods for christmas and hers was a U2 ipod and mine was a 30gb ipod. I have downloaded some songs and have imported some cds but my mother doesn't want those songs on her ipod. How can I make it so that my songs don't go on her iPod and her songs don't go on mine.Do i need to create another itunes?

The computer can tell the difference between your two iPods. When you first plugged each one in, you named them and the computer recognizes each one as a separate disk.
Now, when you plug in your iPod, and you are looking in iTunes at your iPod contents, you will see four buttons in the bottom right corner of iTunes - the first one is to display iPod options. Click on this, and under the music tab, select "Automatically update selected playlists only". Then, you scroll through your playlists and select only those you want to be transferred to your iPod. Your mother can do the same thing. Now you can each make your own playlists from the same music library, and only those songs you want to go onto your iPod will transfer when you plug it in. You can make the same selections for all the other options too (video, podcats. photos, etc), so that you only have to have what you want on each iPod.
I have two iPods, a new 5g video iPod and an ancient 1g iPod, and have no problems syncing each of them with different playlists and options.

How can I gift a playlist, with the songs in the order I choose?

How can I gift a playlist, with the songs in the order I choose, to a bunch of other people? Since iTunes won't allow me to burn a song more than a few times to disc, and I have to share playlists with my cover band (so we can learn songs), I need the capability to do this.

Drag them from where? I've tried to drag them from windows explorer and it won't allow me. It seems the only place I can drag files from is from the iTunes library list. The problem is there is no way that I can find to just see the songs from a specific folder on my drive in the iTunes library list. It sorts them by artist, album, genre, etc....but not by folder.

Play a song from itunes? it will show the art work then skip three or four songs and start playing! How can I get it to play the songs I touch? This is a new phone but has been restored from backup. Not even all my icloud music is showing

play a song from itunes? it will show the art work then skip three or four songs and start playing! How can I get it to play the songs I touch? This is a new phone but has been restored from backup. Not even all my icloud music is showing

Hi amorg1876,
If your iPhone is skipping over certain songs, you may want to check out this article:
Troubleshooting songs that skip
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3217
Cheers!
- Ari

Smart Playlists play 1 song at a time

Ever since updating to iTunes 7, my smart playlists play 1 song at a time. this is not only annoying, but problematic. I travel a long distance to work and have to constantly press play. Is this just an effect of the new software or is there a new option that needs to be checked to get this to work?
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Yes - all are checked. Here's my prob in detail:
- I have a smart playlist which includes all unplayed podcasts
- Before iTunes 7.0 (and I just rec'd the first update - no change), my playlist would continue to play all podcasts until I stopped it.
- After iTunes 7.0, it will only play 1 at a time, then return to the main iPod screen.

How do I make one video plays after the other

Let's say I have an idvd project with 5 different movies, how do I make one plays after the other? When I click next, it goes back to the menu. Thanks Alex

There are two ways to do this.
1. If you have it, use iMovie HD6. You can put all of your movies into one project, and add chapter markers at the beginning of each movie. This will allow you to play your movies straight through or select the individual movies, like a scene selection.
2. You can use iDVD instead. Check out this post by Old Toad on how to use this method.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8656075&#8656075
I hope this helps.

How do I make a playlist play UNchecked songs?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for