Live updating on classic ipod

Is there any way of live updating your ipod whilst not connected to your computer. Especially with Smart playlists, e.g. Recently played playlist

Unfortunately, the iPod Classic need USB cable, to connect to PC and iTunes to update.
It is not a IOS device like iPod Touch or iPhone, that has WIFI hardware and software.

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Live updating broken in ipod touch 1.1.4

This smart playlist dont work in the touch:
All rules checked
Stars = or > 3
last time played: not in the last 2 weeks
Live updating checked
This simple rules dont work.
Anyone have a solution or info about it?
iPod touch 8gb

Try using my method I posted here.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2608775&tstart=0
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Smart playlists not live updating on ipod touch (2nd gen)

Scenario:
I have a smartplaylist with live updating ticked in itunes. this playlists looks for tracks with a star rating between 4 and 5 stars and places them in the playlist. in itunes when i listen to new music with no rating and i give it a rating that meets this rule it works and places that said track in the playlist.
I then sync my ipod and the updated playlist with the new tracks that i have just rated goes on there. all good so far.
But when i rate a track on my ipod when i am away from my computer and i give it 4 or 5 stars it does not "live update" and place it on the said playlist. I have to wait untill i get home and synce with my itunes library for the newly rated tracks to go on my desired playlist.
isnt that the point of "live updating" playlists?
I should be able to rate a track and for it to go onto this playlist whilst i am "on the go"
This way of working always worked on my other ipods. just not with my touch.
any help or advice? is this a known software bug to do with the touch?
Thanks for reading, Comments and suggestions welcome.

Yes, I've had this problem several times. There seem to be certain criteria you can't use in a playlist and expect it to work on you iPod. I don't know if this will solve your problem but here's what I've figured out:
I have a 5G ipod classic. Any playlists that I've created using the criteria 'podcast is true/false' won't live update on the iPod. I've solved this by changing the criteria to 'genre contains podcast' and that works just fine.
The playlists that I've created using the 'playlist is' AND selecting one of (oh how to put this) iTunes library playlists that appear at the top of itunes (in my case "Music" and "TV Shows") (the ones with the icons), also do not live update on the ipod. For whatever reason, these default playlists seem to break live updating on the iPod, but not in iTunes. I got around it by using a whole list of genres to include/exclude to create my music playlist (there's probably a better way to do it). For my playlists that contain TV shows, I set all the TV shows I've ripped from my DVD's to have a genre of 'music and television' and use that to create a playlist. That also works.
You stated that you use the rating criteria to create your playlist, but might you also be using the default lists at the top too? of course, i'm not using an ipod touch so maybe this isn't helpful. I hope it is, because i know how crazy this was making me... good luck...

Smart Playlist isn't live updating on Ipod

Now that my itunes and ipod are updated to the latest version, my smart playlists don't live update on my ipod. When I listen to my smart playlists on itunes, it does live update. Can anyone help me?

I found out what was wrong. The podacast true/false option in the smart playlists stopped it from dynamically updating. I found the solution from http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1848130&#1848130
Thank you for trying to help me. You guys were very responsive. Later.

To All IPod Users having Trouble with Live Updating playlists.

I thought I should share this with other IPod users as there is quite a bit of discussion on the net about it.
After 3 days trying to get "Smart Playlists"to live update on my IPod touch, reading, researching and reading more, I finally got my Ipod playlist to live update.
I've discovered that certain rules break live updating.
OK it is only a basic set of rules, but it is working.
The 1st thing I did was group all my songs using the "Composer" field. Do not use sorting, it breaks live updating.
example: All songs were composed by Music, all Soundtracks were composed by Soundtrack. And so on. I did this in ITunes using "Get Info".
I placed two rules in my playlist:
Composer is Music
Last Played is not in the last 6 months.
I ticked "Live Update"
Do not use Limit to as this breaks Live Updating as well.
If your list is in a different order on your IPod then in ITunes just select any other column in ITunes other than the numbered column, e.g. Name. Your list should match now in both ITunes and your IPod.
Just use shuffle within the playlist to mix things up.
Once played your track should drop off your playlist.
Hope this helps.

I live by my Smart playlist to sort out all my TV shows and Video Podcast but it suddenly stopped updating after I paid $25 for the iTunes Match service.
It stopped in iTunes. I don't worry to much about my iPhones because I plug them in every day and it will update iTunes.
If iTunes doesn't work the apple TV, iPads and iPhones don't work.
Do I need to cancel the iTunes Match service?
Please someone find a fix.

IOS update still did NOT fix the live updating to smart playlist on iPhone

I updated to the brand new iOS 4.1 today, and I am still having an issue that has made me upset for the past few months. For years and years I have been able to use smart playlists that have live updated on my iPods and iPhones without problems. Recently, within the past few months of software updates, my smart playlists have stopped live updating.
Here are two examples I'm talking about:
1. I have a smart playlist of music that I call Unrated for iPhone. The smart playlists requirements are that it has no star rating and that it is limited to 500 MB. I used to be able to rate songs on my iPhone, and they would get removed from the playlist automatically within my iPhone without having to sync it with my desktop. Now, as I rate those songs on my iPhone, they stay on the unrated list.
2. I have another playlist called 5*'s least recent. The requirements for this smart playlist are that the songs have 5 stars, and they are limited to the 75 least recently played songs. Songs used to be removed from that list once they were played. Now, they stay on that list until I sync my iPhone to my desktop.
What happened to live updating? Is anybody else experiencing this problem? I have loved this feature for years and now there is a bug! Has anybody brought up this topic before? Because I couldn't find any solutions.

FYI, I've found that Live Updating can SORT OF work. It seems if you only have two rules, live upating works (IE, I have one that is a Rating must be 3-5*'s and last played cannot be within the last 8 weeks). Once the song is played it disapears off the playlist. BUT, as soon as I try to add a third rule, it doesn't work anymore! This is unfortunate because two rules really limits the ability of the playlist...
Cheers,

Live Update no longer working on iPod Classic

I have "Live Update" selected on many smart playlists on my iPod Classic. The playlists no longer Live Update, I need to re-sync in order to update the playlist.
This started happening around iTunes v11.1. My iPod has the most recent firmware, which hasn't been updated in years.

Dear Chris:
Yes, turning off Protected Mode indeed solves the problem!
Specifically, we today (June 9, 2012) installed the new Adobe Flash v. 11.3.300.257 on several Windows 7 PC's, all running Firefox v. 14 (Beta), and none of the Firefox installations would confirm that the installation was performed successfully. For example, the Adobe Flast test/about site, https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about, would not work. And, likewise, YouTube videos and other Flash-encoded videos did not work either.
So, we tried your suggestion to disable the new Protected Mode, and it worked. That is, every single machine on which Flash did not work in Firefox now functions perfectly. So this conclusively demonstrates that there indeed is some kind of bug in the implementation of Protected Mode.
Can you please let me and the other Adobe users know when this is fixed. Thanks.
Also, could you likewise let us know the risks of turning of Protected Mode (although we really don't have any choice, as Flash will not work on Firefox with PM turned on).
Thank you. Much appreciated.
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Updating classic Ipod w/o the wall charger

I tried to update my classic 20gb Ipod this afternoon after 4gbs of songs were missing from my Ipod and was asked to plug Ipod into wall after update. Well I don't have the wall adaptor anymore, I left it in Oregon when I moved to HI to keep items to a minimum when I moved and everyone I know has a new Ipod that didn't come with one, what can I do other than having someone send me my wall adaptor from Oregon which will take a week (I don't know if I can live w/o my Ipod that long).
I've tried resetting the Ipod with the hold (on then off), menu+select button for 6-10sec and no luck.
Thanks!

You might want to repost in the regular iPod forum. What you have is not a Classic. Confusingly, the Classic is the most recent generation of iPods.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=151

My Classic IPod had been working perfectly with Windows Vista OS and on a dock. I left it unattended for 10 days, recharged it and tried to play music on the dock. All that shows on the screen is the Apple Logo and I am unable to restart or update the IPo

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The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.

Smart playlists with live updating not syncing right on my ipod touch??

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The book is in ibooks format. The extension is ".ibooks". I did delete it from itunes and download it again from the store a few times. I tried updating my ibooks app. I even sent it to the ipod through dropbox. I looked through all the settings I could find in itunes and ipod. So far no matter what I do, ibooks does not see this book.

Smart playlists not live-updating on iPod

I use smart playlists for listening to my UNPLAYED podcasts and video podcasts. When an episode is played through completion, it should be removed from the playlist. This doesn't work live while listening to the ipod. The smart playlist only seems to update after syncing with the computer. This live-updating smart playlist feature worked fine on my second-gen nano.

As I know for current moment few parameters do not work for live updateble smart playlist. Try to remove Podcast and Video Kind from your playlist(s).
It's possible replace Podcast parametr for "Genre is Podcast"(or set your podcasts genre), and Video Kind for Kind is contains video.
Please, tell me about your progress.

Live Updating Smart Playlist... but not live updating iPod?

I have several video files that I want to convert to iPod-compatible MP4. I have a program to do the conversion in a batch mode and then add the files to my iTunes library.
I also have a live-updating Smart Playlist (for all files where the Kind includes 'video' and the playcount is 0) to catch these files as they come in. I have this playlist as one of the ones set to be automatically updated on my iPod.
However, in my test runs, the video is properly converted and added to my iTunes library, and the Smart Playlist picks it up as well. However, it does not then send the file to my iPod (which is already in its dock) unless I first eject the iPod and reconnect it.
I'd really like to get this working, as I'm hoping to do this on a somewhat regular basis--have a selection of stuff queued up when I go to bed, and then have it waiting for me on my iPod when I wake up to go to the gym. It worked for me over the weekend, when I bought an episode of Knight Rider from the music store while the iPod was connected--it was downloaded and added to the playlist, and then copied to the iPod with no intervention from me. Unless my memory is faulty or something.

Welcome to the Discussions Steavis,
As far as I know, a sync to the iPod only occurs upon the first attachment, as long as your settings are set for such action.
The iPod will only sync after the initial attachment if you initiate the sync yourself. I believe it is in a pull-down menu, and/or CTRL-Click the iPod in the source list and select "Sync".
I am not sure if that is all correct, but in my experience, if I have connected my iPod, it syncs, then I say load in a CD to iTunes, I must re-sync the iPod before they transfer.
Not knowing what you are using for this automation to get the app that converts and adds, etc, can do, I might explore a script that runs at a specific time of day and initiates a sync to any iPod connected. That should be fairly easy to do.
Beavis2084

Classic ipod update/transfer/compatibility questions

I have a classic ipod (old) that has a cracked screen, and does not hold a charge well. I have itunes downloaded on my pc (also old). I'm looking to upgrade everything at once. My questions are:
If the songs on my current ipod are windows compatible, do I need to purchase a pc again, or can I purchase an ipad or mac and have the songs play without having to repurchase my whole music catalog?
If I can have the "windows" music play on a new apple product do I have to use my ipod as a hard disk to transfer the music, since classic is not icloud enabled? If not, what would be involved with the "switch-over"?
If my current windows compatible music won't play on a new apple product, will an ipod touch be compatible with the new windows version? At my local apple store, it said XP, Vista and 7, not ME.
Thanks.

I believe iTunes version 7.x will support the 3rd gen iPod. That's what I had before I had to upgrade to a new iPod. Version 2.2. was the last firmware update for those iPods.

What is the latest update for the iPod classic 5g I have the white 30gb model.

What is the latest update??

You can check for the latest firmware updates for your iPod by connecting to it to your iTunes library and clicking on the Check for Updates button from under the iPod's Summary tab.
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How to turn on / off live updating for all smart playlists at once?

Hello. Is there a way to turn live updating on or off for all my smart playlists at once? That would be a fantastic feature since too many smart playlists with live updating turned on brings iTunes to a crawl.
Currently, I run iTunes on Windows 7. I have over 40,000 songs, and I have hundreds of smart playlists to help organize all my songs and what's on my various iPods at any time. The problem with having so many smart playlists is that iTunes runs very slow. One thing that I do to make iTunes run slightly faster is to turn off live updating for as many smart playlists as I can stand (by going into each one and editing), but then it's hard to tell which have live updating turned on and which don't. As a result, many of my smart playlists don't get updated when I would like them to because I have to go in and manually edit each one again to turn it back on. Maybe showing which have live updating turned on or off would be useful, too?
On a related note, my iPod Classic will actually not work when I sync too many smart playlists. This has been a long-standing problem with iPods, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been fixed yet. I have not experimented to see if it makes any difference if the smart playlists have live updating turned on or off.
Thanks.

this is exactly what i was hoping to see -- but i can't get it to run right on iTunes 12, yosemite
it also doesn't seem to recognize "Home Videos" or "Audiobooks" as special and tries to turn them off -- i modified the earlier script to add those two to the lists of exclusions, but still get the same error message on the first "unspecial/real" smart playlist -- hasn't somethign changed in the object model perhaps?
thank you muchly!
=mjb
tell application "iTunes"
activate
set allPlaylists to (get every user playlist)
repeat with thisPlaylist in allPlaylists
if (thisPlaylist is smart) and name of thisPlaylist is not in {"Music", "Movies", "Podcasts", "Books", "TV Shows", "iTunes U", "Apps", "Ping", "iTunes DJ", "Genius", "Home Videos", "Audiobooks"} then
set view of browser window 1 to thisPlaylist
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iTunes"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
click menu item "Edit Smart Playlist"
end tell
end tell
end tell
set theCheckbox to checkbox "Live updating" of window 1
tell theCheckbox
if (its value as boolean) then click theCheckbox
end tell
click button "OK" of window 1
end tell
end tell
end if
end repeat
end tell

Live updating on classic ipod

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