Remove recently added play list?

I need to try and claw back some space on my 160 classic. Is it possible to remove the recently played list? I never use it, nor do i really use the recently added list either. The only ones i use are top 25 and top rated. Would removing either of this lists give me back any space?

Removing playlists won't free up storage space on your iPod. Playlists don't contain actual songs, just links to songs.
If you want to free up space, you need to delete the song files themselves.

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I accedentally deleted my recently added play list which is where i synch my music from how can i retrieve the playlist i'm not concerened about the songs because there in my library but i would like the recently added playlist back on the left side

I recently deleted my recently added playlist accidentally I have been trying to retieve it but can't it's not the music I'm
concerened about because it's all in my music library . but I do need my recently added playlist back because that is
where i download music to cd's is there anything I can do

In iTunes go to File>New Smart Playlist
Recently Added:
Match the rule "Date Added">"is in the last">"1">"Days" make the days and the interval to suit yourself, you can have days, weeks or months.
Check the box "Live Updating"
You can read more about smart playlists here: How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes

Modifying recently added song list

iTunes 9.0
is it possible to customise the recently added song list?
I have imported a lot of albums in one go but only want some of the albums to show up in recently added. I was hoping I could remover some of the albums from the recently added list, is there a way to do this?
Christo

Oh, I just discovered how to create a smart playlist. Cool.

Skype Automatically Removing Recently Added Conact...

Operating System: Windows 10 & Windows 7
Skype Version: 7.0.0.102 & 6.?
(Maybe helpful?) Note: I have Over 5,500 Contacts, but this issue just started recently.
Anytime I get a new contact request and add a user, soon after chatting with them, Skype automatically removes them from my list and a (?) icon is left neer their name.
Case 1:
New pending contacts which which to add add me are removed seconds after I add them.
I click the "Accept" button, and within seconds they are automatically removed from my contact list.
Case 2:
Existing contacts are sometimes removed, and I'm left with an "Add to Contacts" button for contacts which I haven't even removed.
After clicking "Add to Contacts" for this case, the request is sent, but soon after they accept or we chat a bit, they are removed again.
I have this same issue on two machines, Windows 7 and Windows 10, latest Skype and also some older version, around 6.2 or so. Let me know any other information you need to assist or questions.
I use skype for business and am slowly making the switch to livechat after being unable to resolve this issue.

Hi,
There is a limitation of the Skype contact list around 8000 contacts and it seems you've reached this limit. As a result whenever you add a new contact you'll either have the contact staying in pending and not getting added even after it was accepted or you'll lose contact authentication with another one. I would suggest you do a clean up of your contacts list or create a second new Skype account. Take a look here at how you can stay signed in on multiple Skype accounts on Skype for Windows desktop: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA829/how-can-i-run-multiple-skype-accounts-on-windows-desktop
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How do I delete the recently added songs "List is getting to large

I am unable to find ,how to delete the "RECENTLY Added" songs after having moved them to the various ctegories I selected

The Recently Added playlists in iTunes is a Smart Playlist. So in order to remove songs from this list you need to either wait until the song is no longer qualified to be listed in the Smart Playlist (more on that in a minute) or you need to adjust the rules out the Smart Playlist accordingly.
Either way though, this playlist hardly takes up any available hard drive space as it is just a list of pointers to your actual song files and not duplicate entries or anything of the sort that would be eating up significant amounts of drive space.
If you'd like, you can edit the rules out this Smart Playlist in iTunes to contain a smaller set of tracks or change the Date Added rule to only keep songs from a smaller time frame to help reduce the size of this playlist. To do this, right->click on the Recently Added playlist and select Edit Smart Playlist. A new window show pop up.
In this window, you can the Date Added rule so that it contains tracks that were added in the past X (X being a number of your choice) number of days, weeks, or months. You can also enable the Limit to X (X again being a number of your choice) rule to contain a smaller or larger number of items, GBs, MBs, hours, or minutes. To enable it, simply place a tick mark next to the rule.
When you are finished editing the playlist, click the OK button. If you did make any changes, the list should update dynamically immediately and will continue to do so as time goes on.
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Help - added play lists and lost ability to get at downloaded apps. :(

Hey... I'm brand new to ipods - managed to sync and load my first few CDs to my ipod (yay me), but now it won't open the three apps I've downloaded so far (Skype, Facebook, and an owners manual). How do I fix this?

solved the problem by deleting and then redownloading the apps... but sure wonder what I did wrong. Where is a 10-year old when you need them?!

Bug Voice Memo and Smart Play lists

Hi all,
I have an iPod Touch 3rd with firmware version 3.2.1 and ITunes 9.0.2
I´ve just found a weird bug related to smart play lists and Voice Memos.
If you create a smart play list with the rules 1 and 2 or rules 3 and 4 (described bellow) this list will not sync with your Ipod.
1-Media kind is not Music
2-Media kind is Voice Memo
or:
3-Media kind is not Voice Memo
4-Media kind is Music
For instance, If you create a smart play list with rules 3 and 4 (if you want to listen only to music) the smart play list will not sync with your Ipod.
It sounds to be an ITunes' bug...
Does anyone know a work around to this issue?
Thanks in advance,
Roger

Any ideas?
It sounds to be a bug in Itunes...
It is very annoying as you can't create a smart play list only with music (excluding Voice memos). For instance, every new voice memo included is automatically added into "Recently added" play list, and it is not possible to include a filter to exclude voice memos within it.
thanks in advance

Recently Added Playlist Deleted

I Know this may sound stupid to some but, I some how managed to delete the recently added play list in i tunes, Iam a fairly new user.I cant seem to find a way to restore it, which is a shame because I used it a lot. pls help, thanx in advance for your time.

Hello there,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
The playlist you deleted is basically a smart playlist, so you can get it back by creating a new smart playlist.
To do this:
*Go to File -> New Smart Playlist*
Then where it says "Selected by", choose "most recently added".
You can also change the limit to how many songs they display or you can choose the number it was before. Then title the playlist if you wish and you should be good to go.
B-rock

How do I add a folder to the library into the smart playlist called "recently added"?

Hello Apple users! I really miss the old version of I-tunes that allowed you to manually add files and folders from your hard drive directly into individually created I-tunes playlists with nothing more than copy and paste. I don't mind that the new version requires some additional steps, like having to go through "add file/folder to library" onto a temporary "recently added" sub-master list, from which I could then transfer them to the sub-folder playlist categories afterwards...except that I can't! The I-Tunes Playlist window does not have a "recently added" category already there, so I have to manually create one ("new smart playlist"), and then create a set of "rules" to then have a writeable clean slate onto which each new "add file to library" could go...This works only for the first folder I add, but then after I copy them to their sub-folder destinations, I can't delete them to make room for the next batch, nor does the next batch even go in...I've then tried deleting the current "recently added" smart list and creating another, (with a new set of rules) , and then tried adding the next group using "add files to library", only to have the original batch come back up again and the new batch not...Apparently, I can add all the files and folders I want, but they only go to one place, which is the main master list under "library" and they all get mixed in together and are virtually impossible to find!
I have about 20 playlist folders on my C drive under "My Music"...How do I get them onto I-tunes anywhere except scrambled in random order?

I have about 20 playlist folders on my C drive under "My Music"...How do I get them onto I-tunes anywhere except scrambled in random order?
Boca Babe,
Just add them to your iTunes library, and then sort as you wish.
Don't try to add things directly to Recently Added. Recently Added will pick songs up automatically, e.g., all songs whose "Date Added" is in the last X weeks.
If you would like to add files or folders of songs directly to a playlist, create a regular playlist, not a smart playlist. Then open it and drag the files/folders into it. They will be added immediately to that playlist, and to your library if they are not already in it.

Recently Added Playlist having problems?

Couple of weeks ago my music in the 'Recently Added' playlist listed each track in the order they were added to the library. Now all the tracks in the playlist are all over the place, despite the fact that it is a smart playlist. How can i solve this problem? Is there an alternative method instead of adding the date added column in the playlist? I would appreciate it if anyone could help me.
Thanks in advance.

Click at the top of the Date Added column, and the list will sort by Date Added.
The column where you see a triangle is the one it is currently sorted by.

[Your Music] Remove items in the 'Recently Played' list permanently

Current implementation (refer to image 1):Items in "Recently Played" list are hideable via the menu button.However, these items come back when you reconnect the device to the Internet (or log into Spotify).In addition, items that are hidden cannot be unhidden until reconnection to the Internet or relogin of Spotify. Proposed implementation (refer to image 2):Replace "Hide" funciton with a "Remove" function.Removes the item permanently (across all devices that is logged into the same account).
"Hide" function can remain as long as there is an option to unhide these items instead of reappearing after reconnecting to the Internet or relogging into Spotify. Additional idea:Remove all Played History, does the same as removing an item, but to all items.

Updated: 2015-07-14Marked as new idea and edited the title slightly to make it easier to find via search. ;)

Songbird Damaged iTunes Meta Data and Recently Added List. Best way to fix?

Hello, Apple forums.
A while ago (Long enough to fix some of the broken Meta data), I tried out Songbird as an alternative for when I'm gaming and want a little extra resources.
Unfortunately, I set it up to sync between iTunes and Songbird, and Songbird "updated" my iTunes information and removed META data in the process for any song played on Songbird.
It also had the recently added moved to "Songbird > Recently Added," and proceeded to fill it with every song in my library.
My music is stored on a Western Digital MyBook external HDD (320GB) formatted to FAT32.
I have fifteen playlists, and would like to retain ratings and play counts on the songs.
My library reads "8196 songs, 19:15:40:31 total time, 50.13"
Granted, a couple hundred of these are the ones missing the META data and are broken entries (IE has all the data listed but does not have the file where it should be) and their META-less version added from %library%\music\unknown artists\unknown album\
(The tracks retain their real name with the track number prefixing them, it's just a matter of going through all of the songs and matching them up)
Given that this is as it is, how should I go about this?
I would also like to keep the apps for my 2nd Gen iPod Touch (iOS Pois0ned 4.2.1).
All music is either imported from a CD or an independent artist.
I don't have access to all of the CD's, nor do I particularly want to manually re-add everything.
I am more concerned with the recently added playlist being fixed! I understand that I will have to cut my losses on the META data!

I thought you said Songbird had removed metadata. Most files carry metadata in a tag. If a file "goes missing" because another program chooses to relocate it iTunes will retain an entry in the library with all that information. The FindTracks script makes a bash at locating the moved files in a number of alternate locations, including the unknown artist/unknown album folder or the main Music folder. If the files have actually had metadata removed, but have a tag, then iTunes will read the damaged data and update itself. Not necessarily what you want. For files that are in a logical artist/album layout but don't have tags you could be better off repairing tags first with, for example, MediaMoney's AutoTag from Filename feature.
tt2
I had to look up RAT. I'm guessing you meant something like remote admin/access tool. By all means be wary of anything recommended on this site but to accuse me of being underhand without any evidence is hardly the way to start a fruitful conversation. I thought you wanted help here...

Why won't my ipod touch sync all my playlists (like 25 top played or recently added)?

I have tried to sync my iPod and it won't sync all of the playlists. For example it won't sync the 25 most played or the recently added, it won't add any of the playlists that iTunes makes. The playlists are still in my itunes library but they do not show up on my iPod. Even the purchased playlist is letting me delete or edit the list but it never has before.

Do you have any restirctions set on your ipod in Settings/General/Restrictions/ ->App Installation?

HT2905 I have lost all my play lists from my itumes library, and all of a sudden i have 2/3/4 duplicates of the same song. when i look at when they were added it says all added on 11th March 2013! i added most of them years ago. please help?!!

All my plat list have vanished, and all of my library has been duplicated and triplicated and some have 4 copies. i looked to try and delete the copied ones and tried to delete by putting on when they had been added. the date came up 11th march 2013 for ALL of the songs!. my library is at least 4 years old, and i constantly add songs. so why would it come up that date? and why have all my play list dissapeared?(I think also on that date) please help?

Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. Note that in iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show your past purchases with links to stream or download them.
In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
Alternatively, depending on exactly when and why the library went missing, there may be a more recent .tmp file in the main iTunes folder that can be renamed as iTunes Library.itl to restore the library to a recent state.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working make a backup!
Should you be in the unfortunate position where you are no longer able to access your original library, or a backup of it, then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
I've noticed more of these missing library posts of late and a common factor since I started asking is AVG Anti-Virus. It seems it might be at least part of the reason why the library file disappears. Try excluding the iTunes folder from any real-time scanning process.
Reverting to an earlier version of your library may clean up the duplicates issue along with restoring the original date added values. If you still have real duplicates I have a tool that might be able to help...
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Recently added and recently played playlists have disappeared.

Hi, I have just looked at my itunes library on my Iphone 4s and noticed that my recently added and recently played playlists have disappeared. Does anyone know why this has happened and how can I get them back? Preferably without restoring my whole phone.

Solution/work around:
Add a new smart play list.
File > New Smart Playlist. From this point a pop up will appear.
Match following rule is selected
(Date added) - (In the last) - (2) - (weeks)
No limit set
No match only checked items
Live update selected
Then <ok>.
Change name of smart playlist to something like 'New Music' and Sync to IPhone/IPod.

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