ITunes Genius Only Doing Checked Songs

Question

Is there a way to use the Genius feature on my entire library without checking all the songs? I have way too many songs and I only have 4 gigs of them checked for my iPhone so that I can update it easily, but I like listening to all the others when I'm at home and not using my iPhone. I want to have Genius results of all the songs, is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Some formatting has been lost from my older post. Perhaps this simplified version will help::
Make the following playlists:-
Unchecked - Smart Playlist with the rules Playlist is Music and Checked is false.
Exclude - Normal playlist - once created drag the contents of Unchecked into it - this records all your currently unchecked items.
Sync - Smart Playlist with the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Exclude. You could also add a Limit to X Gb selected by most recently added to make sure it can't grow too large for the space on your device that you want to allow for music.
You can now throw away the first playlist and check your entire library (control click an unchecked box). Change your iDevice sync rules to sync with the Sync playlist. New music will always be included. Older stuff will come off if your sync list grows too large. Drag stuff you know you don't need onto the Exclude list and other stuff can pop back into Sync to fill the available space.
You can then shuffle everything, except anything you later decide to uncheck or set as Exclude from Shuffle. What gets synced is everything except the music you deliberately choose to exclude by thowing it into the Exclude playlist. It will take a few minutes to set up the playlists and change your sync options, after which it is almost as easy to maintain as the checkbox method, and a lot harder to accidentally lose all your selections, plus you get to shuffle what you want.
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