Smart playlist of latest Albums

AFAICT, this seems an impossibility. You can set up a smart playlist for the latest added tracks, but only limited by number of tracks or overall size, neither of which is what I want. I sync this 'Latest' playlist to my iPhone and I don't want to get only part of an album since I probably wouldn't know until playing it and having it stop part way through when I'm not home. I really want to be able to be able to specify that this playlist only includes complete albums, but so far I've not been able to achieve this, even with multiple smart playlists etc.
Has anyone cracked this and found a way to make a Smart Playlist that contains the latest COMPLETE albums, limited by number of albums perhaps, or overall size?

Am I to assume that no-one else has found a way to do this?

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Cannot create smart playlist based on Album Name

Hi All. Does anyone know why I cant create a smart playlist based on album name any more? When I try to create it I don't have the option of adding songs by album, the option has disappeared fromthe list! Im running the latest Itunes.
This is really getting on my nerves now as I have had to reload my PC, my music backup is fine but the library got corrupt and I need to recreate my playlists. Heeeellppp !!

Hi All. Does anyone know why I cant create a smart
playlist based on album name any more? When I try to
create it I don't have the option of adding songs by
album, the option has disappeared fromthe list! Im
running the latest Itunes.
This is really getting on my nerves now as I have had
to reload my PC, my music backup is fine but the
library got corrupt and I need to recreate my
playlists. Heeeellppp !!
Hi there I just created a smart play list based on album name, I went to file selected create new smart Play List. Then selected Album (from drop down menu) then ( IS ) then Type in album Name eg Dark Side Of The Moon ... was what I did it with
Cheers Noel

Smart playlist not showing albums

I wanna make a smart playlist that shows albums > tracks instead of just tracks.
I mean that you see a list of albums, then select an album and play the tracks.
Now i get a whole list of tracks, and don't know where one albums ends and the next album starts.
Is that possible?

Make sure that the Album column is showing for the playlist, and then click the Album header to sort by the album name.
If you just want to play specific albums, you will probably find it easier to turn on the Browser (View menu -> Show Browser). Then you can select an individual album and play all it's tracks, or select an artist and see (and optionally play) all album by that artist.
Hope this helps.

Smart Playlist of random albums

I want to create a Smart Playlist that contains randomly selected albums...until the playlist reachs a certain size. I know how to tell it to "limit" the list to X GBs "selected by random". However, this won't give me complete albums.
Any help is appreciated!

Well, since there is no Smart Playlist option that allows you to specify whole albums, this currently appears not possible to do with a Smart Playlist.
Rob

Is there a way to make a smart playlist to display albums with NO cover art

I want to see which of my songs do not yet have album art, in an easy manner ... Thanks!!

You can download and run this VBScript (or copy and paste from below). It will create a playlist called "No Artwork" containing all the tracks with no artwork.
The forum TOS requires me to say: "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link" because I have a paypal donation link on my webpage, but the program is free (donation totally optional)
' # itunesno_artworkplaylist.vbs
' # This script will find all the tracks in the selected playlist that do not
' # have artwork and put them in a playlist called "No Artwork"
' # Copyright (C) 2007 Robert Jacobson
' # written by: Robert Jacobson (http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts)
' # Last Updated: 04 Mar 2008
' # Version 1.0
' # This script is GPL v2. see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Option Explicit
Dim iTunesApp ' iTunes.Application object used to access the iTunes application.
Dim tracks ' The tracks collection object of the Library object.
Dim FileList ' The list of files that have been copied.
Dim i ' A counter variable.
Dim Msg ' A string for a message.
Dim f ' A file object.
Dim sources
Dim source
Dim m
Dim artwork
Dim num
Dim track
Dim numtracks
DIM use_windows
Dim tmp_playlist ' Temporary playlist to select
Dim rand
'detect CSCRIPT context & use InputLine
IF Instr(lcase(wscript.FullName), "cscript")>0 THEN
use_windows = 0
ELSE 'detect WSCRIPT context & use native InputBox
use_windows = 1
END IF
Set iTunesApp = CreateObject("iTunes.Application.1")
Set tracks = iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist.Tracks
numtracks = tracks.Count
If use_windows = 0 Then
Wscript.Echo chr(9) & "tracks: " & numtracks
Else
Wscript.Echo "Processing... will prompt when complete" & Chr(10) & " (Click OK to continue)"
End If
' Create a playlist
Set tmp_playlist = iTunesApp.CreatePlaylist("No Artwork")
For m = numtracks to 1 step -1
Set track = tracks.Item(m)
If track.Kind = 1 Then
Set artwork = track.Artwork
if artwork.Count = 0 Then
tmp_playlist.AddTrack(track)
end if
End If
Next
Wscript.Echo "Done"

How do I create smart playlists for albums?

Hi,
I have a lot of albums and each album has their proper track listings meaning their proper track songs. I would like to create smart playlists for all my individual albums and for every individual album has a smart playlist with the proper track songs in the smart playlist for the album?
1.) Would doing this be possible?
2.) If so, how could I do this?
I forgot to mention a lot of my albums are multiple CDs, and a lot also include bonus CDs.
I don't know many tracks or CDs off the top of my head, but here are some album names as an example.
Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1
Road Trips vol. 1 no. 2
Road Trips vol. 1 no. 3
Road Trips vol. 1 no. 4
And the list goes on.
Thank you,

An album in iTunes is a collection of tracks that have the same Album name and the same Artist or Album Artist. Older iPods only work with Artist. The iPod has menu listtings for Artists & Albums built in, so again no need to duplicate with playlists. Any tracks you put on an iPod will, if correctly tagged, show up in their relevant album, and in the artist listing, the genre listing, any playlists that you include, etc.
For tips on organizing tracks in iTunes and on an iPod see the Grouping tracks into albums article. It needs some updated images, but the information is otherwise still relevant.
tt2

Automate creation of smart playlists

does anyone know of a script or how to automate the creation of smart playlist based on informatio from specific tags?
For example, create a smart playlist called "artist - album" based on the artist and abum name of a selected song.

You might find something at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes.

After updating all softwere I am unable to update smart playlist?

I have updated both my itunes and ipod touch to the newest versions. After doing this i am unable to sync my smart playlist and one application that I played for will not work.
ex: my recently played playlist will not update,the songs are added but they go on a random order somewhere were in the middle of the playlist. The beginning of the playlist has not changed regardless of what songs i play or how many times i have updated the ipod, it seems as if it is locked.
What i have tried doing: restarting computer, restarting ipod, restoring ipod, creating new smart playlist, when ipod is attached clicking music in the ipods tab menu and selected only the smart playlist.
Please help!

For getting podcasts to sync correctly:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10237036#10237036
For getting smart playlists arranged by album or artist to sync correctly:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10234242#10234242
And for smart playlists that are top 25 type playlists (although I'm not sure why there's a difference, this stuff is all really messed up) try turning off live updating in your smart playlist settings. And post here if that prevents your playlist from updating when play counts change, I don't use that list and I'm curious.
And also complain here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

ITunes11 smart playlists not working

I can't get a smart playlist to work on the new iTunes11.
I created one with the search criteria to show all files added after 11/20/2012. Although there are 231 files that fit that criteria, none are listed in the smart playlist.
So I created a smart playlist with the search criteria to show all files with the word "vinyl" in comments. [I record old vinyl albums onto my computer, so I add the "vinyl" comment so that I can isolate them.] This playlist resulted in zero items even though my old smart playlist -the one that was constructed in iTunes10 but transferred into iTunes11- does work. However, my iTunes10 vinyl smart playlist does not list any "vinyl" files added after upgrading to iTunes11.
So I created a smart playlist with the search criteria to show all files where the artist included the word "Smith". Considering that I have many Chris Smithers tracks and many tracks from the Smiths, I would expect those files to appear. And yet this smart playlist also resulted in zero items.
I am having zero luck using smart playlists with iTunes11.
Smart playlists are nothing new to me. I have successfully created dozens of them over the years. Has something changed that I am overlooking?

I seem to have the same problem.
If this is confirmed (or if this is just a plain bug, which would be no better) than this is a disaster.
I use smart playlist for sorting albums. For example:
- normal playlist for "must have"
- normal playlist for "nice to have"
- normal playlist for "can live without"
-> and a smart playlist with "none of the above" (ie "not sorted")
Then I just have to move albums from that smart playlist to any of the above and it is now sorted.
Well today with iTunes 11, whatever I do with the album, it stays there.
Pointless Apple, fix that bug!!!

Smart playlists: song order not correct, mainly with "feat." artists

When creating smart playlists--usually for albums that have guest artists--the track order gets thrown out of whack, and I don't understand why. For example, just bought Santigold's most recent album, of which one has "feat. Karen O" in the "Artist" category. That's the first track on the album, but gets dropped to the last on the playlist. Any thoughts on how to fix this? It is incredibly frustrating.

Set a common Album Artist. Sort the resulting playlist as Album by (Album) Artist.
tt2

Smart Playlist is showing duplicate icloud purchases

When I go to make a Smart Playlist of an album that I have purchased and dowloaded from iTunes the playlist that is created not only includes these downloaded songs but also duplicates of the same songs with the icloud icon next to them. Can anybody tell me why and how to stop it? Thanks!!

It would appear to be a bug...
Sign out of the iTunes store.
Sign in again.
tt2

Adding new albums to smart playlist PLEASE HELP

Having a little trouble adding new albums to smart playlist that already exist. Can this be done?

Having a little trouble adding new albums to smart
playlist that already exist. Can this be done?
I am trying to edit smart playlist but songs dont show up, they are in the library.

How can I make a smart playlist sort album by artist in order of size?

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I thought a good way to pare down the list would be to sort album by artist, and then filter that list in order of the size that each artist takes up. It's more important to get rid of an artist that I don't like that also hogs a lot of space than one that maybe only has one track. I figure if I could scan down the list and exclude the worst offenders, it conceivably would make the task much simpler.

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I usually make two playlists.
One playlist with favorites I do want on the iPod and another smart playlist to fill the rest of the iPod. Just limit the size to th esize of the iPod minus wthe size of my iPod selection playlist.

Album ratings and smart playlists

Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone can help me with the new iTunes functionality. I am trying to create a smart playlist with album ratings between 0 stars and 5 stars (basically all albums) and limit the playlist to 4 gb. I am trying to just create a random list of albums to sync to my iphone. Everytime I create a random list it always truncates the final album to exactly match 4gb so there is always an album that is incomplete.
Can anyone think of a different way to accomplish this so you can get ALL complete albums? There must be a way. Sorry if I sound picky about this but I am an album guy, not a random song guy.

Hi there. Try the following:
iTunes -> Preferences... -> Playback -> Shuffle: Albums
Now take your smart playlist you created, and set the 4GB limiter selected by "random" instead of "album". Because we forced shuffling to be by album only, this "random" will select entire albums, randomly. I just figured this out a few minutes ago and it seems to work great.
If you want all albums, you can probably omit the album rating rule (you might need to set Kind to "MPEG audio file" or something to skip podcasts, etc.)
To refresh your list, select and delete all tracks in the playlist, or use the Reshuffle Smart Playlists script available at dougscripts.com/itunes. Or you could add a criterion saying that Last Played must be greater than a month, or so.

Auto album ratings breaks smart playlists - hollow stars

I've seen this discussed a few times but the given answers don't seem to work, maybe it has changed again in the new release of itunes (I'm on 9.1.1.12 on XP). I have a smart playlist of all the songs which have not been rated. Once I'd rated 19/29 of them they all disappeared as itunes had calculated an album rating (which is fine) but then applied that rating to all the unrated songs. In some views the songs are listed as unrated but the key thing is that the smart playlist thinks they're rated when they're not. Previous postings say to unrate the album but whenever I do that it just automatically rerates again. How can I create a playlist of songs that I have not yet rated?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
I've just had a look at this under V9.1.1.11 current Windows build (is yours 64-bit perhaps?) and, as far as I can tell, rating tracks (filled stars) will produce an automatic rating (hollow stars) for an album. Likewise rating albums will produce an automatic rating for each of their tracks. If you only rate some of the tracks of an album without explicitly setting an album rating then the remaining tracks should stay unrated. I can set ratings for all but one track of the album and the last will stay happily unrated. What rules are you using to determine what should be in your unrated playlist?
tt2

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