How to: Smart Playlist...

I've got about 5200 songs in my library, and they all don't fit onto my iPhone, so I have to pick and choose. The problem is, if a song isn't assigned to a playlist , it gets lost in my my library. I'd like to make a Smart Playlist for all songs not assigned to a playlist. Anyone know what parameters I'd use? I can't seem to figure out what I need. Thanks!
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That worked pretty well. I didn't realize I had so many songs that weren't assigned a playlist.
Something I didn't realize though, the car doesn't recognize Smart Playlists.

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HT1386 My Smart Playlist is showing 1200 songs, but my phone has only 755. ***?

I have complete albums that show up in iTunes, but will not show up in my playlist. I have researched this and there are many other people that have the same problem, but I can't find an answer that works for my phone. This is ridiculous.

I'm not sure I understand your issue. Smart Playlists can only be created in iTunes on a computer. You could easily have a Smart Playlist on your computer that has 1200 songs, but if that Playlist has not been sync'd to your device, then your device could have far fewer.
Also, not sure what complete albums in iTunes has to do with what is in a Smart Playlist. It really depends on how that Smart Playlist has been set up.
So, we are going to need some more information that provides us with clarifications on the points above before we can help.
Cheers,
GB

I have smart playlists on my iphone that i never created and when i connect to itunes and go to "on my phone" they are not listed there but they are definately on my phone. How do i get rid of them?

I have smart playlists on my iphone that i never created, a couple of them are duplicated and I cant figure out how to delete them. When i connect my phone to pc using Itunes these "Ghost" playlists do not even show up when I click "on my phone". These lists are there and they do have songs and work, I just want to get rid of them and I dont know how. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay. Try checking "manually manage music and videos", and then click the flippy triangle next to your device. Then select the items you want to delete and just press Delete on your keyboard.
Uncheck when you're done.

How do I get my old playlists back? I seem to have only a bunch of "Smart Playlists" which is kind of stupid because the stuff that itunes populated them with don't even meet the crteria of the list! But that's another story.

Against my better judgement, I updated my Itunes software when I got my wife a new Iphone. Problem is, instead of my old playlists, I can only view a few "Smart Playlists". In addition, what songs are in them include a bunch of my daughter's music, which isn't even stored in this computer. So it would seem that somehow my itunes is screwed up somehow. Does anybody know how to get rid of this "Smart Playlist" crap and get me in touch with my old library and playlists?

See this post.
tt2

How do I create a smart playlist that automatically gets updated when I add songs to other specific playlists?

Basically I have a number of playlists containing specific types of songs, and also have an "All Songs" playlist that contains everything from these playlists. It would be really helpful if the songs I add to the smaller playlists could also be added to an "All Songs" smart playlist automatically. How would I do this? I tried to make a smart playlist by selecting "Playlist" "is" "[names of each playlist]." But nothing happened. Is there something more I'm supposed to do? I'm not really familiar with how smart playlists work, so I may be doing something wrong.
Thank you!

I tried to make a smart playlist by selecting "Playlist" "is" "[names of each playlist]." But nothing happened.
Check up at the top of your smart playlist rule for "All Songs". Is it currently saying "Match all of the following rules"?
If so, change the all to any, as per the following screenshot:

How can I change the order of songs in a smart playlist?

Hi there,
I have a question about smart playlists.
I have a smart playlist where all songs rated 5 stars are ordered in descending order, meaning the latest additions first. That works well in iTunes and I can rearrange the songs there without a problem.
But when I start the iPod on my iPhone the order of songs in this playlist is always the same. In my case the latest songs are always put last no matter how I sort the songs in iTunes. I tried to delete and create a new smart playlist but the result is always the same.
Is there a solution?
Thanks for your answers....

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3044

How can I stabilise large transfers of data & retain full smart playlists?

Hi,
I hope somebody can help. Now that I have more than 20,000 songs in my iTunes, all of which I want to sync, my ipod classic 160gb goes into the 'infinite reset loop', or, when occasionally appearing to sync correctly, ends up with 0 songs, 0 video, etc. on the iPod.
This is despite supposedly having some 22GB of unused space.
I assumed it was by 2-and-a-half-year-old iPod succumbing to old age and bought a replacement, but the problem occurs on the new machine too.
I have tried various solutions from the Discussion forum, e.g.:
1) procedures for checking for hard-drive errors
2) restoring to factory settings and then re-syncing
3) I found one helpful tip for creating a new smart playlist to introduce the files in stages, which is supposed stabilise the transfer of large amounts of data. While this was helpful, and appeared to stabilise the data, I was left without all my smart playlists (except the one I'd created for this exercise). Transferring back to Syncing the entire library, so as to regain all my smart playlists, merely made the iPod unstable again.
I really want to be able to access my (extensive) smart playlists: I'm presuming it's the very amount of these that is contributing to the problem. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks!

jcannon wrote:
I am using my notebook whch only has 2GB RAm... I might need to try the workstation PC which has 8GB..
I did read all the data using the read from text file vi and displayed it all in a strinbg indicator (reading in x number of bytes/lines at a time)... How can I no plot this text/string data?
8GB won't really help you unless you also use LabVIEW 64bit. 2GB should be OK.
To graph it, you need to decimate it as shown in the link I gave you earlier. Most likely, your monitor has only a few thousand pixels across, so it is not worth to display more points than that. It won't look any different if done right!
Can you show us your code? Can you attach a small sample file that has the same structure, just with less data?
LabVIEW Champion . Do more with less code and in less time .

Smart playlists; no longer smart in version 3 how to tell Apple?

Since iphone and ipod version 3 & itunes 9 smart playlists will not sync onto ipod. Several posts relate to this. Apple has posted a complex set of solutions, including to disable live updating. The later works but eliminates the value and purpose of smart playlists as a means to manage subscriptions and updates.
The final solution is to create a second smart playlist with the rule "playlist is (name of first playlist)". That works but is far too complicated for the average user, and has made my playlist panel into double the size with half the convenience.
If anyone knows how to contact Apple with a request for an acknowledgment that they need to fix this problem I would appreciate it. Two updates later, no fix, not even a promise to try to fix.

Anna:
Yes, I am fully updated. The last update did not resolve the smart playlist jumbling.
The solutions mentioned in my post were in fact published by Apple at this link http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3044
That would be fine but it tends to suggest that the user is doing something wrong that has to be "changed" when in fact the problem arose with the latest software versions, and the user workaround is clumsy and unsatisfactory.
I will try using the feedback form

How do I add a folder to the library into the smart playlist called "recently added"?

Hello Apple users! I really miss the old version of I-tunes that allowed you to manually add files and folders from your hard drive directly into individually created I-tunes playlists with nothing more than copy and paste. I don't mind that the new version requires some additional steps, like having to go through "add file/folder to library" onto a temporary "recently added" sub-master list, from which I could then transfer them to the sub-folder playlist categories afterwards...except that I can't! The I-Tunes Playlist window does not have a "recently added" category already there, so I have to manually create one ("new smart playlist"), and then create a set of "rules" to then have a writeable clean slate onto which each new "add file to library" could go...This works only for the first folder I add, but then after I copy them to their sub-folder destinations, I can't delete them to make room for the next batch, nor does the next batch even go in...I've then tried deleting the current "recently added" smart list and creating another, (with a new set of rules) , and then tried adding the next group using "add files to library", only to have the original batch come back up again and the new batch not...Apparently, I can add all the files and folders I want, but they only go to one place, which is the main master list under "library" and they all get mixed in together and are virtually impossible to find!
I have about 20 playlist folders on my C drive under "My Music"...How do I get them onto I-tunes anywhere except scrambled in random order?

I have about 20 playlist folders on my C drive under "My Music"...How do I get them onto I-tunes anywhere except scrambled in random order?
Boca Babe,
Just add them to your iTunes library, and then sort as you wish.
Don't try to add things directly to Recently Added. Recently Added will pick songs up automatically, e.g., all songs whose "Date Added" is in the last X weeks.
If you would like to add files or folders of songs directly to a playlist, create a regular playlist, not a smart playlist. Then open it and drag the files/folders into it. They will be added immediately to that playlist, and to your library if they are not already in it.

Items not showing up in library while visible in smart playlists. How to fix?

I just added some music to my iTunes Library. It shows up in my Recently Added smart playlist, as well as newly created smart playlists, but for some reason it isn't in my library. I've searched for it, I've used the column browser, I've tried just scrolling through my Library and it just isn't there. All the tags are correct, and when looking at my iTunes Media folder in Finder, the songs are correctly placed in the Music/Artist/Album folder tree of the iTunes Media folder.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
PS. My iTunes Media folder isn't located on my Macintosh HD, I've moved it to an Airport Disk and pointed iTunes to it in its preferences.

The problem just fixed itself. I got irritated and quit messing with it. When I came back an hour later, it was fixed.

Since I upgraded to IOS5, my Smart Playlists are in a random order. Since I use it for listening to Talking Books this makes it useless. How can I control the order of a Smart Playlist?

Since I upgraded to IOS5, my Smart Playlists are in a random order. Since I use it for listening to Talking Books this makes it useless. How can I control the order of a Smart Playlist?

It may be best to recreate the folder and the smart playlists from scratch.
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How to highlight or make a Smart Playlist of missing music files?

I recently converted my library from Mac to PC and out of the 45000 songs there are around 1500 missing. It'll take forever to search my library for the ! next to each missing sing. Anyway to simply get all the missing songs in one list?

You really don't get it, do you.
I really do: You can't bring yourself to say "OK, my solution is not practical or helpful". You're dancing all around it.
I wasn't meaning to "lecture" you but I was - and am - really annoyed. I'm sorry, but I honestly felt that your solution was more about you feeling a need to be technically correct when clearly it was an unhelpful answer and I'm not going to go along with that. And it looks like you're not going to admit your solution was unhelpful.
I might seem to be over-reacting but the thing is it's not just this thread.
I have noticed that there is a lot of this going around on these forums and it's annoying because it derails perfectly sensible questions and wastes a lot of time. It's happened quite a few times to me and the common thread seems to be those who engage in this behaviour have a whole lot of "discussion board points".
What you should have asked is, "Is there an available field in the tags of a movie file that I can use in a Smart Playlist to select for only HD movies". And I would have given you a one-word answer. NO
Yes, I should have. Technically. Semantically. I suppose. Sure.
But anyone can get that from "How can I make a smart playlist of only HD movies?" without assuming I'd want to first manually select all the movies. That's the purposes of the joke quote which seemed to be lost on you. I wasn't just randomly quoting you know, I was making a point.
If only you'd given me a one word answer. Now that would have been helpful.

How to rid smart playlist of all video and keep selected music in it only?

I tried making a smart playlist that would be the source to Party Shuffle. I was successful in putting all the music into the playlist that I wanted, including exclude the music I didn't want. The one thing that's bugging me is that I put edited the playlist so that both Movies & Music Videos would not appear. It appears that when I edit the settings to that, not only do the Movies/Music Videos disappear, but so does all the music! WHY????? Why does this happen????

Okay, firstly, I'm sorry. I'm new to this ridiculously un-consumer-friendly service, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to post a new question, so I am just posting in the first topic I've seen.
a) How do I post a new question?
b) My question is this: I just accidentally deleted my downloaded files from my hard drive. This consisted of only free podcasts. Now, when I look on iTunes, I still only see the files I have never downloaded. How do I get it to recognise that the files I have previously downloaded are no longer present?
If anybody could answer either of these questions (or preferably both), that would be grand.

How do you set up nested rules for iTunes smart playlist

How do you set up nested rules for a iTune smart playlist

Hello \"alice\",
It sounds like you want to add additional criteria to your Smart Playlists. I found an article with steps you can use to refine your Smart Playlist. Step 2 specifically has what I think you are looking for:
2. To have iTunes add songs that match specific criteria, make sure to select "Match the following rule," then make your selections from the pop-up menus.
For example, you might want iTunes to only add songs that are by a particular artist, or songs with at least a four-star rating.
To add additional matching criteria, click the Add button.
You can find the full article here:
iTunes: How to create a Smart Playlist
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1801
The article says it is archived. In the current version of iTunes, in step 1 you will select File>New>Smart Playlist. Also, if you need to edit an existing Smart Playlist, you can right click (or hold command while you click) on it and select Edit Smart Playlist.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

How to create "Purchased on iPhone" smart playlist?

I lost my old iPhone Larry but the "Purchased on Larry" playlist was still active. My new iPhone Ploobie's purchases were automatically added on it, but as soon as i synced my iPhone to my computer, the new songs got deleted from it. I ended up deleting that playlist in order to create a new one for my new iPhone. However i have found you can't create a "purchased on iphone" smart playlist from neither my iPhone or my computer. Could someone please give me some advice on how to do it?
Thank you.

I am having the same issue. I tried merging two "Purchased on iPhone" playlists. I created a new playlist and copied all tracks from both playlists into the new playlists. I then deleted both "Purchased on iPhone" playlists. I purchased a new track on my iphone hoping that when I plugged in my phone to sync a new "purchased on iPhone" playlist would appear so that I can then paste all the tracks in the playlist. The new "purchased in iPhone" playlist was not created and now I have no idea how to add it back.

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