Seems a very nice music-sync feature has been dropped (Touch 8GB, 3rd gen)

Hi,
I don't know whether this has been brought up before (searched various sections of the support forums but did not find any reference to it) but if so, please excuse me.
Before upgrading my touch to iOS4 and/or updating to the latest versions of iTunes (I don't know which of those two updates can be accounted for this missing feature, that's why I mention both) there was a nice music sync option via which you could define the amount of disk space to fill up with music (you could also select f.e. that you preferred higher rated music to be selected) which would randomly fill your touch up to the limit specified with a random list of music.
It seems this functionality is dropped (at least I couldn't find it anymore) for my iPod Touch. It was a feature I really loved. All I am left with now is to either select "entire music library" or "selected artist, playlist or genre". Selecting the first won't work as my iTunes library is ten times bigger than what would fit on the iPod, the second option does not really randomize the music list but always makes a selection out of the playlists I have. Next to that I completely lost the possibility to define the maximum amount of memory to reserve for music.
Am I so stupid that I overlooked this feature completely or has this really been dropped? If so does anybody know why it has been left out in the latest iTunes versions?
Rgds,
Jan.

i liked this feature too
i used to have it on my mp3 player too.
:O)

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