Random music with a playlist?

Hi everyone,
Just a simple question... I have been running with my Ipod and Nike+ thing for 2 weeks now, and Inwanted to know if it was possible to have random songs with a playlist I use for my jogging.
I don't want random of all my songs, just from one playlist, and I don't know how to do.
So far, it always begin with the first in alphabetical order.
And is it possible to have statistics in an other way? instead of 5min/km, to know my km/hour average... Well, just to know, I don't care much, I can make the calcul myself, but still.
Thx!

Create a new Smart playlist.
Match Rule;
Playcount is 0 (or Last played is not in the last 2 months).
My rating is not 1 star. (Rate songs 1 star that you don't want on the iPod)
Limit it to 7200MB at random.
Select teh iPod in iTunes. Click the Music tab.
Select Sync music and Selected playliusts.
Select this new playlist.
When you want to change the music on the iPod, select this playlist, click a song, select all (ctrl A) then press delete.
It will immediatley fill up again based on the criteria.
Plug in the iPod to sync it.

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I can't find a way to pull music from existing playlists when I create a new one. I make new playlists everyday with my job and this makes it very time consuming for me!

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Is it possible to move my iTunes from the old laptop to the new one (including all the music files and playlists) without having to start all over again with a blank iTunes?

Is it possible to move my iTunes from the old laptop to the new one (including all the music files and playlists) without having to start all over again with a blank iTunes?

yes
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Before you do it make sure iTunes are updates on the old computer and it works without any problems.
This will copy all your media, music, movies (provided you did not change the default location).
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and also authorize your new computer (both done from the tom menu bar in Store.
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How do I transfer my music library and playlist from old computer to new computer with windows 7?

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Well... yes, this works, but for me, it's a bit less than ideal.
I don't want to have to turn Shuffle on or off then navigate to the desired playlist.
What I want is a sort of "Smart Shuffle Playlist" that will contain X number of songs that I put into it and will always play those X songs in random order. Other playlists (non-Smart Shuffle Playlists) would not be touched.
Why? Some playlists would be an exact, fixed sequence of songs that I really prefer to listen to in a particular order. Other playlists would be a bunch of songs that would play in a random order every time.
The current options are *so close* to this... but just not there.

Keeping only some music, or deleting playlists from device?

Hi all,
I have 16 GB of music on my iPhone after I turned on iTunes Match. I want to delete most of it, but there are some songs that I want to keep on the device. This has been much more difficult than I thought. I've been having this issue ever since I subscribed to iTunes Match when it was finally stable enough to work on my music library (about 10 months after subscribing, around 6 months ago).
The reason I want to keep some songs is because a large part of my music is in lossless format, and I listen to it on high quality audio systems and can easily tell the difference between 256kbps AAC and CD quality. The CD quality sounds much better, and I definietly want to keep about 5 GB of music in this format on the iPhone, as I listen to this music even at home with my iPhone plugged into my receiver or over AirPlay. If I delete my entire music library on the iPhone and download the songs again, they will be downgraded in quality. I've done a lot of research about this, so I'm sure this is the case, unfortunately.
So now I have to manually delete about 1000 songs (out of ~1400) from my iPhone music library. What's worse is that I have almost as many artists and albums as I do songs, the nature of the music genres I have - rarely are there albums or more than 2 or 3 songs from just one artist without it being a remix by another. This means I can't just go through different arists or albums and delete the ones I don't want. It has to be songs. Plus I am not good with the names, so I have to listen to the song before I know whether to delete it. The songs I want to keep are easier to identify, but unfortunately I can't just choose them.
I could create a playlist of all the songs I want to keep, but there is no option to delete songs from all other playlists. In fact, there is no option to delete all the songs within a playlist, or even delete a song from a playlist itself! All my music is organized by playlists, so it's easier to find the songs to delete by navigating through playlists, rather than the flat list of 1400 songs. The only way to delete a song from there is to open the playlist, play a song, then click the top right icon to show the album where it will usually show just the one song (as I have about as many "albums" as I do songs), and only then can I swipe and delete the song.
This is a huge hassle, and I have been doing this to free up space on my iPhone. I have about 32MB free, and before I can download an app, get an update, or even check my mail, I have to go and find more songs to delete through this method. After deleting about 10 songs, I have enough space to continue using the phone for about a week or two. But I just don't have the time to go and do this for 1000 songs!!!
When I plug the phone into the computer, I can see all the songs in iTunes. I wish I could just select the songs (for some reason I can't change the sort order, which is a pain), and delete them. But iTunes won't let me!
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I checked how long it's taking me with the current method. I have 1400 songs (on the device) in 85 playlists, taking up 16 GB. I want to keep about 350 songs, around 5 GB I'm guessing. This is an estimate, because I only know which songs I want to keep when I hear them, or by which playlist they are in. It's easier to find the songs that I want to keep, but instead I must to delete the songs I don't want to keep, as that's the only way Apple allows it.
It takes about 6 seconds to navigate to the song (on average, navigating through playlists), about 10-20 seconds to play it, and 3 seconds to delete it. That's about 25 seconds per song. With 1000 songs, that's 25,000 seconds = 7 hours of work!! And that's continuously doing this, which isn't even possible as sometimes I get stutters or random freezes for a few seconds before the iPhone is operational again (background apps/notifications?).
Even if I could select multiple songs within a playlist, or use iTunes to delete, it might not be much faster. Let's say it takes as long as 5 minutes to evaluate a playlist and select songs to delete from the playlist. With 85 playlists, that would be 85 * 5 = 425 minutes = 7 hours! Now if I could do it as fast as 1 minute per playlist, which might be possible with iTunes (e.g. it has Select All or allows you to delete an entire playlist on just the device, without affecting iTunes Match), it would only take 1.5 hours, which is reasonable.
But it's still somewhat ridiculous having to spend an entire workday just to salvage ~350 songs. If I could "tick" and select these songs that I want to keep via iTunes, I think it would take me about 5-7 seconds in the worst case if I have to listen to the song. I usually know the name of the song that I want to keep, so it would be faster, but even if it did take 6 seconds on average, that would be 6 * 350 = 2125 seconds = 35 minutes. Now that's more reasonable!
If anyone has any suggestions to speed up or make this process easier, I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise I'll struggle with waiting for a better solution while in the meantime spending 5-10 minutes deleting a few songs every week. At this rate, I estimate I'll finish in 100 weeks. This doesn't sound that bad actually, but it'll probably get more and more difficult finding the songs I don't want since there will be a higher ratio of songs I want to keep vs. not. So it might be closer to 5 years (or I'll have to spend more than 5-10 minutes per session), at which point I'll hopefully have a 256 GB iPhone and don't have to worry about running out of space, especially with a measily 16 GB of music. I'm tired of the running out of space warnings ever since I got my first iPhone (64 GB).
Thank you everyone! For listening, and any advice you can give!

This is a good idea. Somehow I forgot about it, as I haven't been using the computer I used to sync my iPhone with for like a year. I stopped thinking about syncing when everything moved to iCloud. However, I still do have access to that computer (sort of - it doesn't have a monitor right now), and more importantly the original music files that I want to transfer! I remember this was my original idea when I first signed up for iTunes match and wrote it down somewhere, but forgot about this plan. Probably because it took months to get the feature working in the first place.
I was scared to turn off iTunes Match once I got everything working, as I didn't want to go through all the hassle again. So whenever I plug in my iPhone, it wouldn't let me manage my music. It seems to be much more stable now, so I suppose I can just disable it on the iPhone. I can keep it enabled on the computer, right? Then I sync the playlists that I want, and it should delete anything not selected on the iPhone. Hopefully once it's done and I turn iTunes Match back on, it'll go back to working smoothly.
Thanks, Michael. I forgot about transfering the music from the original source. I'm getting used to how powerful these iOS devices are nowadays that I forget you can't do everything with them, that more complex operations are better done on the desktop, but in a specific way.
I still think that iTunes should let you delete music straight off the iPhone when it's plugged in. But that's another issue.

Problem Sharing Music with my other Computer

Ok, I have two Mac's....a MB Pro, and a Mac Mini. The MM has ALL of my iTunes files stored on it, in it's entirety.
I just want to have some random music on my MB Pro. Is there a way I can drag a playlist from my Mac Mini to my MB Pro besides burning a CD/DVD of the files?
I see the Mac Mini songs on my iTunes Sharing Folder on my MB Pro.

If you don't mind copying the random music into another folder on the MM, thus being a bit redundant and taking up more space, that you want on your Mac Book Pro here is my solution.
Copy what you want into another folder on the MM.
When networked, mount the MM as a network drive.
Open the MBP iTunes and designate its Library as being in the folder on the MM.
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I use mpd with sonata for playing my music, and after trying exaile there is one thing id really like for mpd, and that is the dynamic playlist function.
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I dont want to use exaile as it just feels too big and slow and bloated (not KISS ), i know a little bit of python so i thought i'll try and make my own little script/program as Sonata has audioscrobbler support, but i dont think there is anyway to query similar artists.
I think im going to try and make this as a daemon type program that will run in the background adding songs to the playlist.
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I've not done much with python so i thought this would be a good way to try and improve.
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Last edited by Kane (2008-06-05 13:24:33)

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similar_cache[prevartist] = similarartists
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timer_control()
Last edited by Kane (2008-06-06 16:22:49)

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In the latest verision of ITunes (downloaded yesterday) I can no longer see how large (in GB's) my music library or playlists are. This is a very valuable function and it seems to have disappeared. Anyone know where it is?

Go to the View menu and turn on the Status Bar. If you don't see the menus, go to the small icon with the arrow at the extreme upper left and select "Show Menu Bar":
Regards.

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I just purchased an iPod Classic, and after making sure I had the latest ver. of iTunes on my Intel MacMini, printed out the User Guide and carefully began learning how to operate the iPod. My first step was to ensure I had manual control (vs. auto synch) because I want only selected songs and playlists on the iPod, not my whole iTunes Library.
On pg. 24 of the Guide is the topic "Synching music from selected playlists onto iPod Classic." Just what I wanted. OK, I selected iPod "in the source list" (aside: Shouldn't it be "in the device list?" I dispair of imprecision). This brought up the iPod Summary page, showing I had selected Open iTunes when connected and Manually manage music and videos. Next I clicked on the Music tab.
This presented me with Synch Music next to an empty check box. Below it, and entirely grayed out was:
Entire music library (showing a checked box)
Selected Playlists, artists, albums and genres (next to an unchecked box).
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When I selected Synch Music, I got the message: "Are you sure you want to removed existing mlusic, movies and TV shows from the iPod and synch with this iTunes LIbrary? I selected Cancel because:
1. The grayed option Entire Music Library is checked, not mly preferred option of Selected playlists, artists, albums and genres. .
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OK, my first thought was the checked box in the iPod's Summary window: Manually manage music and videos. So I went there and unchecked it, which immediately brought up an alert to the effect "Are you sure you want to automatically synch your entire iTunes library, etc. etc...? I quickly cancelled. Thus, I seem to be in a Catch-22 situation.
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I want to share my music with my granddaughter and she wants to share hers with me. We use the same computer but log in with different accounts. If the music is in the computer is seems there should be a way to share all the music. Can we do that??

There are sharing abilities built into iTunes. In the iTunes Help menu just type in "share."
I personally don't care for the way iTunes shares music. I have taken a different route. I use file sharing to share my Music folder with my wife.
From the Finder window right or control click on Music.
Select Get Info
At the bottom of Get Info click on the lock icon to unlock changes
Under Sharing click on the + to add access to another user.
Select you daughters id. and add her.
Give her Read Access.
Click on the Gear icon on the bottom and select "Apply to enclosed items."
Have you daughter do the same for you. You will now have access to each others music.
There are several ways you can listen to each others music.
To listen to just one song I just use the Finder method. Open Finder and click in the spotlight search field (upper right). Type in some criteria (i.e. Artist, partial title, album name). Files will appear in the finder window. Select the icon view option. You should see album artwork. Move your mouse over the track you want to listen to and your should see a play button appear. Not sure which OSX versions support this (10.6 does). Click on the play button. If you don't see a play button you can play by selecting Get Info. There is a play button in the preview section. You can also play with Quick View.
To listen to a playlist you will need a multimedia player like VLC (google it if you don't have it).
From iTunes you can export your playlist from File > Library > Export Playlist... (.m3u works well) Give your daughter read write access to the playlist file and from the Open With entry select VLC. (use the get info method)
Copy the playlist file to you daughters drop box in her public folder. Have your daughter use the get info function to make sure her copy still points to VLC and not to iTunes. If you open the playlist file with iTunes it may copy the tune files to her library. (don't want to end up with multiple copies of tunes on your Mac)
Double clicking on the playlist file will open VLC and begin playing. There is a playlist button on VLC to view, sort and select tunes from the list.
Phew! Hope that helped.
Dan
P.S. Haven't tested this with copy protected stuff.

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I want to be able to share some musice with other users on the same iMac?
Is it possible to do without having to share everything?
Thanks, Crankyhead.

Create a playlist containing the music you want to share. Then select Preferences in iTunes and from there select the Sharing tab. Turn on "Share my library on my local network" then click on "Share selected playlists" and click on the playlist(s) you want to share.

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I have created 2 playlists under music in the iPod Shuffle. I can't find a way to sync songs with a certain playlist. I can only sync it at the top level Music.
I don't want to have to copy all the songs to music and then select songs to sync with 2nd playlist. Is there any way around this?
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You can have one playlist on it, it a manner of speaking. There is no way to put multiple playlists on it and jump between them, if that is what you are trying to do.

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