Playlist Question(or Suggestion)

I have a playlist called "Best Of The Best". I want this playlist on both my iPod and my iTunes Library. I made a smart playlist and based on off the other, but while all the songs of the playlist are there, the order is not restored. Is there a way to do this so that the smart playlist is updated if I update the original AND the order of songs is the same.
(Reason why I have to do this...)
I'm using a MacBook, two iPods, setting it up so I can use both of them on this by only updating certain playlists to certain iPods, ect.
I have a 20GB and a 2GB Nano. I can store all of my music on the iPod, and only some on the Nano. So I want certain playlists on one and not the other, but I would like to only have to update my iTunes playlists and have the Smart Playlists updated off of that. I get that to work, just not the order of songs to work. Anyone have any suggesions?
IF NOT, APPLE, MAKE THIS POSSIBLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I CAN'T IMAGINE IT BEING THAT HARD TO IMPLEMENT.

Yea, but if I yell loud enough maybe they will hear me....
Does anyone know how to make a playlist based on another play list AND keep its order?

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You've posted to the iTunes Match forum, which your question isn't related to. You will have better luck posting to the iPod Nano forum: https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipod/ipod_nano

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Hi everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
I have a 60gb Colour iPod and have nearly filled it, so do not want to sync any of the podcasts to it. I've disabled Podcast syncing in the options tab after connecting the iPod, but Podcasts are still syncing because I have a large range of Smart Playlists which are set to show me what I added by date. This means they are treating Podcast content as being "Added On" a certain date and hence appearing in the Smart Playlist and being synced.
It is my understanding that to disable this I have to add a clause to the Smart Playlist which says "Kind, Is Not, Podcast" - is this the case? To go through every playlist I have would take ages and can anyone advise if it's possible to apply the same criteria to all playlists? I tried to select more than one by holding down Control or Shift but it didn't work.
Any thoughts would be very gratefully received!
Cheers,
Edd

This question has been answered in the general iTunes for Windows Forum.

Live updating smart playlist question

I made a smart play list for my songs that have no rating.
but once I rate them the music stops because of the live updating. I turn this feature off but my question is, when will the smart play list update with the live updating off? Daily?
Thanks

Ya I see your problem. The playlist is for stuff you haven't rated yet. If you rate it, it then comes out of that playlist. The problem being, if you rate the song while it is playing, it gets booted out of the playlist and since that is where you are currently playing music from, the song abruptly stops playing. Right?
As Beavis pointed out, if the live update is turned off, it will NEVER update because the playlist is frozen at the time you either create it with live updating turned off or when you turn off the live update feature.
So the solution is, leave the live update off. Then at your own schedule, when you remember, edit the smart playlist, click Live Updating, click ok to exit. The playlist will be updated with rated songs being removed and new stuff you added to the library being put into that playlist. Now edit it again and uncheck the box to turn off live updating and you can continue to play out of the playlist and rate as you go. Then repeat next time you are ready to update your playlist.
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Question regarding suggestion of new features

I'm probably going to touch on a sensitive topic, but please hear me out. In working with some legacy systems and I have the need to deal with unsigned values. Needless to say this is difficult to do in Java. There are some work around solutions, but they are hardly ideal. I would like to suggest this feature be added to the language. The question I have is how do I go about suggesting a new feature and get the ball rolling? Is it as simple as forking and developing it all yourself hoping it gets merged in or does it mean you have to go through the JCP?
Thoughts?

TuringPest wrote:
you still havent shown that you NEED unsigned ints.
That's kind of an odd statement. Let me see if I'm hearing you right. I don't NEED unsigned ints because I can always cast them up to longs, etc and handle them that way? Does the fact that one is not the other play a role? Say like I were to commit that back to a database (or worse, a binary file). I'd have to always do some conversion and handle an overflow possibility because I'm treating it as a long...
also, there might be another good reason beyond the fact that they arent really necessary:
the java opcodes were made to fit into a byte.
as it is now, a lot of those opcodes are used
for primitive conversions and every permutation of primitive arithmetic.
if they added 4 more primitives to the existing 6...Couldn't that statement apply to any language addition? "I'm sorry I shouldn't do it because I've only got a byte and need to save it for more useful stuff."

[iOS][Playlists] Car Mode Suggestions

The main reason I have Spotify is for my commute. And there are a few improvements I wish could be made for the Car Mode. 1) Using the Spotify feature integrated into my car, I can scroll to a playlist and select a song. But once that song is selected, I can't select another song in that playlist easily. (Aside from just hitting previous or next.) It makes me select "Playlists," find the playlist I want, and scroll through everything again. 2) Which brings me to my second suggestion. There's a short limit on how many songs appear on my screen (car screen, not phone)... I continually have to hit next if the song I want is at the end of a playlist. Can you remove that limit or at least make it larger? (I think it's currently at 25 or something like that.) 3) Finally, if you're going to lock the entire app while in car mode, I'd like to have a search function integrated into my car system. Thank you!

Updated: 2015-07-29Hello there!
Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately we can only handle 1 feature request per topic, otherwise it's impossible to manage the received kudos / give the idea a proper status.
If you want to start a general feedback topic, that's great! But please use the respective help forum then. ;)
When you're re-posting those ideas in separate topics, please make sure to use the search function, since a lot of ideas might already be out there in the ideas forum. Also make sure to mention what kind of car system you're using.
Thanks again!

Questions and Suggestions

Scott:
My apologies for using a wrong thread to post new items. I hope you can now spare some time to look into these and provide insight.
Regards!
Erick
Greetings colleagues!
My message is not an answer to the above-referenced topic/subject. I want to bring in some more substance and see how our friends at Oracle Support--or other colleagues, can address them.
But first let me thank Oracle support for the answer to my recent posting! Regrettably, that didn't much address my question fully. Maybe, I wasn't just more clear.
I agree--please bear with me-with you that there might be limitations and there. Not only on this item, but to many other. These are all inherent to a new technology. I will try T list some, and suggest improvement whenever possible. Let's call these "improvement opportunities" instead of limitations/bugs.
(1). My previous question. We are dealing with a relational database, and our requirements, I dare suspect, might be more than O HTML DB CAN, actually deliver? Suppose, again, I have 4 tables. PRODUCTS, VENDORS, PRESENTATIONS, PRESENTERS. Why these last 2 tables? Before any technology enters our corporate IS environment, it must be approved. It goes through a strict technology acquisition process. Vendors that are selected, say for the bid, must do presentations. At the end, the Technology Committee will make a decision (after doing a Technical Proof of Concept (TPOC).
Now, we want to be able to list presenters and presentations for each product (whenever available). There are more than 1 presentation for a given product and there also situations where you have more than 1 presenters for a presentation.
Can you generate this using a tabular form? I double. I tried, using the Wizard. You can only select 1 table when building this tabular form. However, you can get the SQL script using the SQL Command processor.
(2). The dilemma: We want reports for presenters and presentations o be displayed on separate pages. Here is where it gets more tricky, maybe because I just stated with O HTML DB 2 months ago.
My SUGGESTION to Oracle Developers: Can you make it possible to decide, when creating a region, to display it on a different page other than the one on which you generate the, say the report script? I think that depending on redirection creates confusion, and makes the tool less user-friendly. When you allow a developer to decide, at time of region creation to display the report on this page, or another page, you really create user-friendliness and increase application maintainability.
(3). Buttons: Why has Oracle re-invented the wheel here? Is it possible, in the next release, to make it possible to have graphic insertion icons within a region (just like most tools we are used to do? This would save us a significant amount of time. Having to upload graphics 1 at a time, then include these in the app is time consuming (especially if one has many graphics).
(4). How Tos: I do sincerely commend you guys on a fantastic job. However, we all (developers and Oracle Support team/Developers) must admit that the tool is still immature and there are many improvement opportunities. May I ask why is it that I crete a region now, code an SQL script. Everything works now. I backup the application. The next day, however, when I access the same app, what worked yesterday fails to work now! This has happened many times and it is pretty frustrating.
The best books are those that provide good examples, but also show the result of each code (for instance). Many people learn faster when they look at a code, then see the result. Reading text like a history book, in the development context is taste-assassination.
Do other experience this instability? If so, could you please share with me what you do? I suspect an application level "bug.
Again, I know the product is new and really commend Oracle's team for a fantastic job.
Tanks so very much in anticipation!
Erick

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Creating smart playlist question

Hi,
This seems like it'd be very simple but for some reason I'm having problems creating the smart playlist I want to create. I have a lot of hip-hop instrumentals and I want to create a smart playlist that filters them out and displays only hip-hop tracks that aren't instrumentals. All the hip-hop tracks I have are labeled as either "hip-hop" or "rap" (or some combination of the two) in the genre field and if they're an instrumental then they have "instrumental" in the name field, i.e., "Stressed Out (Instrumental)." What I've done so far is to try and create a smart playlist with the following three criteria:
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P1
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Hey guys, I recently went from a 80 gig player to 16 gig player and wanted some suggestions as to get a nice playlist together. This is what I want to do:
I want to synch 10 gigs of music, chosen at random from my entire catalog.
is this possible? is there a way to cap media type to a certain gig, etc, while also choosing random tracks?
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