Mixed playlist

I use a macbook to play music/videos as part of a children's church. The playlists contains both videos and music (audio) files. I just got a new iPad and I'd like to use instead of lugging the macbook back and forth. So far, however, I can't find any way to play these on the iPad. Why did apple split the playback tools into audio or video only apps? Is there an app that replicates the ability of itunes on the mac, e.g. handle a playlist with both music and videos?

i was just looking here to see if there was a way to do this for my party tonight.
guess not. a shame
so instead of putting videos in the shuffle, i'll put them in a separate playlist and switch over at some point

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Video and Audio Mixed Playlist Idea...

Ok guys...would anyone else like the following functionality in iTunes?:
I'd love to set itunes up for a party, and make a playlist that includes BOTH video and audio files (you can already do this....so, cool so far)....
Then, I'd hook my output up to my plasma TV. When itunes is playing an audio track, it would have the visualizer up, when it comes to a video track the video would automatically replace the visualizer...then switch back when it encouters another audio track.
Imagine once you had 100 music videos, or even 50 mixed into your playlists...It would be your own personal video jukebox.
Am I crazy or would anyone else want to be able to "present" their playlists like this?
as a sidenote: i'm quite impressed how well these videos scale when you play them on a television. on my $5k plasma, they look as good as broadcast television, but not as good as HD or DVD, obviously. So, anyone complaining about quality is probably trying to watch them full screen on a 1024X768 or larger monitor....thats to be expected.

i was just looking here to see if there was a way to do this for my party tonight.
guess not. a shame
so instead of putting videos in the shuffle, i'll put them in a separate playlist and switch over at some point

Multiple Genius Mix Playlists

On my ipad after signing up for iTunes match I now get multiples of each genius mix. They all show the same album art and name, but I have 3 of each of them instead of just one. When I try turning iTunes Match off and on again it doesn't fix the problem. Anybody else have this problem. I have it on my 1st generation iPad, 3rd generation iPad and new iPad Mini. Any thoughts?

i'll try that. also wondering if they will randomly mix when merged like that? ideally, it would be great to pick two+ songs then tell genius to create a playlist and watch is pick em and mix them itself.

Video playback in mixed (video and music) playlists

How can I set a video playlist to play both the songs and the videos (not just the audio from the video)? My 5G ipod would allow both video playback and songs from the video playlist menu. On my 160g classic, I only see/play the videos on the mixed playlists from the video playlist menu.

The 3ivX codec is in your quicktime library folder, normally: root/Library/QuickTime, but I don't think, that Apple encodes their movies with an unsupported codec. Maybe there is another unsupported codec in your library that creates the iTunes-stuttering or the reason for your problem is completely different. I paste here the content of my library folder. If you have anything else in your folder, quit Quicktime Player and iTunes (if they are running) , remove the plug-in and try your movie again in iTunes. Hope, this helps.
Here's the list of my library content, that is working with iTunes 7:
AC3 Codec.component
ACTLComponent.qtx
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AXELplayer.qtx
DivX Decoder.component
DivX Encoder.component
DVCPROHDCodec.component
EyeTV MPEG Support.component
FCP Uncompressed 422.component
ffmpeg DivX.component
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
KinomaExporter.component
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MP3.component
msmpeg4v2.component
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on2vp3.component
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Sorenson MPEG4 PcktX.qtx
Sorenson MPEG4 ProX.qtx
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Merging multiple Genius mixes or playlists

Is anyone aware of whether it is possible to mix/merge/combine multiple playlists or genius mixes into a larger mix/playlist? if not, is anyone aware of whether it may/may not be a pending feature?
Thanks in advance for any replys.

i'll try that. also wondering if they will randomly mix when merged like that? ideally, it would be great to pick two+ songs then tell genius to create a playlist and watch is pick em and mix them itself.

Mixed, cross-fade playlist CD burning

I am wondering if it is possible to burn “mixed” playlists to an audio-CD in iTunes.? Just to clarify, by mixed I mean a playlist that is set to cross-fade play. Will this be carried over to the burned CD?
If this is not possible in iTunes , are ther 3rd party applications that would enable me to do this?
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Reb

iTunes does not have this feature. Roxio Jam does, though. You can not use Jam to burn iTMS-purchased tracks.

Playlist with mixed songs and videos

I'm trying to use a Nano to play music and videos with a projector system. I'd like to play a playlist with both mp3 audio files and mp4 music videos.
Setting up the playlist is no problem. In iTunes (Mac) it plays fine, switching between audio and video modes.
However, on my Nano, if I play the list from the Songs menu, I only get the audio from the video files. OK, fine, I understand the logic of that. But when I select the playlist from the Video Playlists menu, I only see the Videos and it won't play the music-only files.
Is there any way to get the Nano to play the mixed playlist like iTunes does?
Cliff

You can't do it with the iPod nano, but I have been doing it with a 5th gen for several years. I was shocked to find out this feature is now gone in the new nano. I'm guessing (but would like confirmation) that the same is true for the iPod classic since they use the same GUI/OS.
I sent feedback to Apple here - http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodnano.html
Maybe if more folks who want that feature back, Apple will fix it.

How can I create a playlist that syncs with my ipod touch 5 that plays both podcasts and music? Before updating to itunes 11 I was able to do it and now it seems that the power is gone. (I do not have the podcast app on my ipod touch 5)

When apple first introduced the podcast app for my iphone I discovered that installing it took away the option to have a playlist (smart playlist or regular) that mixed music, audiobooks and podcasts. I therefore quickly uninstalled it and was happy to have my iOS devices happily mixing music and podcasts.
With the push to itunes 11.1 and iOS 7 on my ipod Touch and ipad mini I no longer have mixed playlists. I do see (according to itunes) that the podcasts are copied to my devices but there doesn't seem any way to play them. Nor do my mixed format playlists contain them.
When combined with the change to the podcast tab in itunes that shows all available by default and doesn't seem to offer any way to Turn it OFF so I can easily see what new unlistened to podcasts exist it seems that the way I got used to using my itunes since my ipod nano first generation has been eliminated. I haven't read why so if someone could point me to their logic on how come I would want the changes they keep trying to force on me I would at least understand their motives.
If no one has a better fix I have discovered that I can declare the podcasts to be audiobooks and get them to play that way. One downside to that approach is that it doesn't clear them out of the podcast folder thanks to the change to the iCloud friendly format or whatever they were hoping for.

And what is the wording of the error message?

Can 'track list' button show your playlist rather than album track list?

Hi all
My 3GS iPhone has my music on it in the form of whole albums which live in individual playlists on my Mac, but I also have playlist 'mixes' which I've created from various songs from multiple albums.
When selecting to play a 'mixed' playlist on my iPhone I tap on it, tap the first song to start the music playing, but then if I tap the top right 'track list' button, instead of showing all the tracks in my created playlist it just shows the entire album tracks from where this particular song has come from. Visually I prefer the 'track list' screen but it seems I can't use it if I'm playing a 'mixed' playlist. Is there any way around this?
Also, this is the same if I have a double CD album: once I hit the 'track list' button it shows just CD 1 (or 2 if I'm further down the play list of course), rather than all the tracks even though on they all live in one single playlist on my iTunes. I've even taken the starts of the track names off (some of them start with '1_01 Song Title' for example) when importing them into iTunes to see if that helps but it doesn't: the iPhone KNOWS how that track was originally supplied!
Any help or clarification on this would be very helpful!
Markos

sadly, that kind of customization is only easily doable on a computer. the iPhone and it's core apps can not be changed by users. you can request the feature be put in, but unless there are a LOT of requests, you shouldn't get your hopes up as there are a lot of these kinds of requests, and by implementing it, how many other users would be angry and demand it be changed back? http://www.apple.com/feedback/
if you are playing a song that you selected in a playlist, you should be able to hit the 'back' button in the top left to go back to the playlist and view your songs in the playlist.
in regards to the 'cd 1 of 2' thing, you will need to change your song info to get this to show in the format you want. to see the song info, select a song and go to 'file -> get info'. that will show you all of the ID3 tag information, which you can edit to do whatever you want.

Playlist shuffle problems

I'm having issues with playlist shuffling on my iPhone 4, and the only discussion I found with the same problem remained unanswered. I have a playlist of various classical music that I want to shuffle randomly, and it won't. If I play it in order, all 53 songs will play and can repeat in order. If I select "Shuffle" from the list of songs, or if I hit the blue "shuffle" icon on the cover art, it changes from "1 of 53" to either "1 of 8" or "1 of 9" (depending on which song happens to be playing). The smaller groups don't seem to be based by artist or by album, but I can't get it to shuffle all 53 songs. I tried making a smart playlist by genre, and I tried making the playlist manually. Nothing seems to work. I have another mixed playlist with various artists and multiple albums, and it functions normally: I can get it to shuffle randomly through all 51 songs across albums and artists no problem. There must be some property of the music files or the playlists that I'm missing that's causing this bug, but I'm at my wit's end. Any suggestions?

Do all the songs in your playlist have a check in the box to the left of each song's name? Songs without a check will be ignored unless specifically selected to play. If you don't see the checkboxes, go to iTunes > Preferences > General and check "Show list checkboxes".
To check or uncheck all boxes on a Mac with one click, hold down the Command (cmd) key and click on one of the checkboxes with the mouse. You can use this in a library, a playlist or in search results.
If the check marks are not the source of your problem, select one of the songs that won't play when shuffling. Open the song's information window (cmd + I or File > Get Info) and click the Options tab. Check that "Skip when shuiffling" is not checked.

Mini/BMW iPod Interface doesn't show all playlists

The iPod interface that BMW created for the Mini Cooper is pretty dandy. It does have a few limitations, one of which is that it will not show more than 255 items in a list. Meaning, If I have 500 artists on my 160GB Classic, only the first 255 will be accessible using it. The same is true for songs/albums/playlists.
So, to make this long story shorter, I can only get the interface to display up to the 57th playlist. My understanding was it should show 255, based on the instructions.
I have the 160GB ipod classic, and planned to have issues accessing all the artists on it, so I made playlists. I figured if I pick my favorite artists, make "best of" playlists, as well as a bunch of mix playlists, I should be fine. Sure enough, made 'em and had around 90 playlists, none in excess of 255 tracks. I figured I'd connect up and be good to go!
Well, surprise, surprise, only half the playlists showed up. I was getting around 55 instead, and weird thing is that the last playlist would cut off part-way through.
So, last Saturday I spend a lot of time running back and forth between my Mac and my car rearranging the lists and trying to find the rhyme and reason behind what I could access in the interface.
To backtrack, I have the Sat Nav, and just got Sirius installed last week as well. The software is definitely as up-to-date as it can get for now.
Anyway, to make a long process a shorter story: it turned out the playlist list (CD 1) is not solely based on items inside the folder. I don't have the exact number, but the number of playlists is based upon the number of tracks in them, up to around 5000. For example, if I added tracks to a playlist that appeared earlier alphabetically, it would cause the number of songs in that last playlist to decrease by the number of songs I added. If I shorted or removed lists from the top of the order, the number of lists added at the bottom was based not on the number of lists I deleted but the number of tracks in those lists.
I also wiped my 160GB iPod and re-did all the playlists, cleverly titled "Test 1" through to "Test 25."
The result: I could see 20 playlists, each averaging 240 tracks. Around 5000 tracks again. This doesn't seem to be an issue with my iPod, it seems to be the adapter.
Anyway, this wasn't what I expected, and so I give the warning to those with very large libraries that there really is no good way to access all your music without a great deal of advance planning, and even then the best you seem to be able to do is access 5000 of your tracks. Which is actually a ridiculously large amount of music, unless of course you have 11,000 on your iPod and got the interface expecting to be able to access just about everything. However, for most users, it is still a pretty great product.
If anyone finds they have a different experience with their ipod adapter, I'd love to hear about it. I sure hope it's not a situation specific to my car. If there's anything anyone out there can think of that might help from the iPod side of things, please let me know, otherwise consider this a word of warning to avoid the MINI/BMW iPod adapter if you have a large library!

i don't think "all" unwatched appear in there.. only some portion... at least that is how it has worked for me. since i've re added a bunch of my movies a littel while back to the library (after adding meta data to them) unwatched would be something like 100+ movies which likely wouldn't be a good thing if they were "all" listed there..

Smart playlists not updating live after 3.1.1 upgrade

Same discussion started back in February about the 3.0 update (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9937797)
I thought for sure live updating would work properly with such an update from 3.0 -> 3.1.1, but no luck! I guess it takes more than 7 months to fix this.
As a refresher -- if you have a smart playlist that includes a "not played in the last xx days" condition, the old OS (2.2.1) would automatically remove a played song from the smart playlist on the iPod so your playlist is always valid. However, in 3.0 and 3.1.1, the iPod does not automatically recalculate the smart playlist and you have to sync with iTunes to get the song to be removed.

I have discovered a workaround for this issue. As with most workarounds, it's not too pretty, but it gets you there.
Knowing that live updating smart playlists that refer to other playlists won't properly update on the iPod, and taking advantage of the fact that iTunes 9 now allows for nested logic in smart playlists, we can make a complex nested logic smart playlist that live updates on the iPod as long as it doesn't refer to another playlist. In place of referring to another playlist, refer to some metadata instead. The cleanest metadata tag in my opinion is "Category." It is metadata that does not by default display in playlist view (you can enable it under the View menu), and is not visible when selecting Get Info on a track. You can use the excellent "Enter Category Text for Selected v1.1" script to enter Category tags, available at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=entercategorytext . Just enter the name of the playlist the track is contained in for the Category tag.
I'll give an example of how this works. Let's say you have a long playlist named "day" containing certain tracks you like to listen to when the sun is out. You want to create an intelligent and self-updating megamix playlist of tracks only from the "day" playlist that will play songs you haven't heard, as well as songs you've heard and have rated. As an added smartness, you want to hear the tracks you've rated higher more often than the tracks with a lower rating. You want this new "day mix" playlist to live update properly on your iPod touch.
First you'll need to tag all your "day" playlist songs. Download and install the "Enter Category Text for Selected v1.1" script mentioned above. Select all the songs in the "day" playlist, run the script, and enter "day" for the Category.
Now you can make the smart playlist. In iTunes 9, create a new Smart Playlist. Using the new nested logic in iTunes 9 smart playlists, select the following conditions:
) Match any of the following rules:
) all of the following rules:
) Category contains day
) Playcount is 0
) all of the following rules:
) Category contains day
) Rating is *
) Last Played is not in the last 6 months
) all of the following rules:
) Category contains day
) Rating is **
) Last Played is not in the last 5 months
) all of the following rules:
) Category contains day
) Rating is *
) Last Played is not in the last 4 months
) all of the following rules:
) Category contains day
) Rating is **
) Last Played is not in the last 3 months
) all of the following rules:
) Category contains day
) Rating is ***
) Last Played is not in the last 2 months
) Live updating
You should find that the new "day mix" smart playlist properly live updates on your iPod touch.
As with any workaround, there are troubling aspects. One is that you'll need to constantly update your metadata tag of choice (Category, in my example) each time you add new tracks to a source regular playlist on your iPod. I'm also unsure about overloading the metadata with a number of tags in the case where tracks co-exist on multiple playlists. Also be aware that smart playlists like this tend to hang the iPod for several minutes with the "Updating Library" screen, so be prepared to be patient.
I hope this is of use to someone. Please post any streamlining suggestions for this workaround.

Duplicate Genius Mixes in iTunes 10.4

I have just re-synced my music from iTunes to my iPhone and have noticed that iTunes has now created a number of the same type of Genius Mixes.
I dont really need to have 3 mix playlists of Jazz... I tried to delete the ones that I didnt work, however when I refreshed genius, they re-appeared.
Is there any way of stopping this from happening?? as I would rather only have one Genius mix for each type of genre

I just experienced an issue that I believe to be the same, but it occurred after I tried to move my iTunes library to a new computer. I did so by creating a new library, then adding the previous library's "iTunes Media" folder into the new library. Everything copied over just fine, but every time I try to enable Genius, it lets me sign in, agree to the license, and then it crashes iTunes with the same message you described above.
I didn't sync any devices, I do have Home Sharing enabled (so the PC is authorized), and I don't quite know what's up. Genius worked on the previous computer perfectly.
The new PC's details: Windows 7 (SP1) 64-bit, 2GB RAM, ~1.0 Mbps download connection, 1 Ghz Dual-core AMD processor.

Updated 3.1.1,,,problem about the genius mixes

I updated my ipod touch to ver3.1.1
but there do not have genius button next to playlist, artlists, songs....
i can't use geniues on my ipod touch....
is there something wrong on my touch,,
what can i do?? how to install geniues mixes to my ipod touch
pls help~

It seems that the Genius Playlist can only be added to an iPod Touch when you sync all of your music or sync all music by selected playlists and select the Genius mix playlist. On the iPod Touch go to music, clike the more which should show the Mixes, click edit and drag the genius icon down to where the bar is that says, playlist, songs, artist etc. You do loose one of your selections since the bottom bar only holds 4 items and the more.
You must leave the ipod set with the sync music checed, if you dont' the ipod will re-sync and delete the mix.

Genius playlists question

Sorry if this has been asked before but I was wondering if there is a way to create playlists from the genius mixes. Like instead of just choosing a genius mix in itunes can you make it a playlist to use on your ipod?
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Like instead of just choosing a genius mix in itunes can you make it a playlist to use on your ipod?
Yes.
Use this script -> Dumb Down Genius Mix Playlist v1.2
"This script will copy the tracks of a playing Genius Mix playlist to a new "dumb" (regular) playlist, which, for example, can be copied/sync'd to older iPods that do not accommodate Genius Mixes. You can subsequently copy the contents of additional Genius Mix playlists to the new playlist, refill it, or create more. (Each Genius Mix playlist only contains about 70 tracks maximum, which is why you may have several, say, "Rock Mix" playlists.)"

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