Smart playlist update

Question

Can anybody tell me how often you can expect smart playlists to update? is it possible to set so smart playlists update daily or weekly?
Regards Greg

Answer 1

On the computer, at least with version 6 and the Mac version, they update on the fly immediately. For example, in my "Not yet Played" Smart Playlist which has the rule of a play count of zero, as soon as the song finishes and the play count it updated, it gets removed from the playlist immediately.
On the iPod it works a bit differently. As long as you are still in the playlist playing from it, it won't update. So if you pause of put the iPod to sleep, then start it up later where you are still on the last track that was playing, the playlist is unplayed. But if you then stop that playlist, go play something else (say in another playlist), when you go back to that playlist, it will update to reflect any changes since the last time you were playing it.
So in other words, for that same "Not Yet Played" playlist I have, say there are 180 songs in it. I start playing, get to 13 of 180, pause it. Hours later I start up again still at 13 of 180 and keep on playing more tracks. Always says 180. Now say after number 50 finished, I dump out of the playlist and go play a video. When I go back into the "Not Yet Played" playlist, my playcount will start at 1 of 130, so those 50 were removed after exiting and reentering the playlist.
Hope that helps,
Patrick