Playlists do not sync to iPod
I have a 60GB iPod. I have several smart playlists that just do not sync. They don't show up in the list of playlists if I check the 'Sync Selected Playlists' button in the Music tab. I have just created a new playlist - it does not show up in that list, although it did sync to the ipod. Then I made another dependent on that first one - it did not sync, and it did not show up.
Any ideas?
Pete
Well, as for unchecking Live Updating, I tried that, and it didn't work. On one of Apples support pages, as a last resort, it gives you steps for selecting all of the tracks in the smart playlist and then selecting "Make playlist from selection", thereby making a regular playlist out of the results from a smart playlist. That didn't even work!
The only thing I could do to get the podcast tracks to show up in the smart playlist on the iPod is to go through and make sure that every podcast feed in the playlist was being sync'ed to the iPod separately. I got them once to appear there, but they were completely out of order, which in my mind, kinda defeats the point of a playlist, no?
Ultimately, what I'm trying to do, which worked in iTunes 8 with my 60 GB iPod with Video, but not now with iTunes 9 and my new 160 GB iPod Classic:
A playlist of 40 or so selected podcasts, selecting all episodes whose play count is 0 (unplayed), and sorted in order of Release Date. This gives me one big playlist of all of my podcasts in chronological order when they came out. It's wonderful! Like my own little radio station that plays all of my favorite shows, when I don't know what's coming up next, but it's a program I like! And when a news event has happened, they will sometimes mention it on different shows at the same time, because it's by Release Date.
(That's another beef of mine. Why can't you set the Release Date tag for anything in your library? And why can't you use it in criteria for a smart playlist? TV Shows and Podcasts have them, there shouldn't be any reason the rest of everything in iTunes can't use the field. It would be very helpful all over the place.)
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