Sorting library podcasts by song rating

I can sort my Library/Music easily by rating but I can not sort Library/Podcasts by rating. Songs that I do not like I mark with a rating of one star and I desire to sort by rating and delete all with a rating of one star. Can this be done? Is there an alternative way to do what I desire? I'm using latest version of iTunes.

You could create a smart playlist that contains all your podcasts and then sort that by rating.
Hope this helps.

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If I do a normal library and playlist backup, will that also backup song rating and song played count?

Hi everyone, just wondering if when I do the routine backup straight from the iTunes menu and I've exported my playlist and library.xml file. I've also backed up the entire /Program Files/iTunes folder. Will they also backup my 'Song Rating' and 'Song Played Count' for my playlist? Thanks.

Backup from iTunes has gone. The .xml file isn't enough to rebuild the library completely. The .itl file is the crucial one, though you need all the media too.
See this User Tip.
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Why do songs keep duplicating in my Library. One song has duplicated five times. If I delete the unwanted duplicates will it delete the song entirely from my library? How do I get the four unwanted duplicates out of my library?

Why do songs keep duplicating in my library. One song has duplicated five times. I have many that have duplicated up to 3 times. How do I get the duplicates out of the library without removing the song completely?

As above, Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
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Sorting my Podcasts/Smart Playlist

I used to be able to sort my podcasts in a smart playlist, from my highest rating to lowest rating.
I must have done something, but now my podcasts are no longer in the same rated order after syncing to my iPhone.
I know I am doing something wrong cuz I did this before, but cannot figure it out.
Any help would be appreciated

Smart playlist sorted on Release date still out of order on my touch. How can it not make sense to the Apple people that a serial podcast should be played in order of release date. And multiple related podcasts selected in the same smart playlist should all be played in temporal order. Even filtering on smart lists cannot be based on the release date. IE I want all of the podcasts "RELEASED" in 2008 in a list and I want to play them in temporal order. It is such a no brainer that I cannot believe that I am writing this again for the FOURTH itunes release!! Smart lists?? More like moron lists!!
Seriously regretting recommending apple to friends. WIth this much incompetence they are likely to come out with the latest and greatest new tablet device and forget to put a camera in it.

Sorting library

I have a library of 6000 songs and I just spent hours unchecking songs that I don't want on my ipod. With the sorting headers at the top of my library, if I click on the "check" column, will it check all my songs again or will it sort between the checked and unchecked songs (which I want)?

It will just sort the list. Checked first, then unchecked. Clicking at it again, will reverse the order.

I have used the same laptop for all three of my iPhones but awhile back this laptop had a virus so my husband wiped it out and now when I sync my iPhone I no longer get my entire music library ( including purchased songs) on my iPhone. How do I fix this?

I have always used the same laptop for all of my iPhones but awhile back this laptop had a virus so my husband wiped out the laptop and now when I sync my iPhone I no longer receive my entire music library (including purchased songs) on my iPhone. How do I fix this?

kimberlyfromtopeka wrote:
Ok,thanks but, I should be able to something so that I am able to sync the entire library again not just the purchased songs.
If the non purchased music is not on your computer, how can it Sync to your iPhone...

My ipad was not letting me download any sort of app or song unless i posted my credit card. when i posted my credit card information the next day my credit card information said itunes was charging me $22, and i dont know why. could someone please help me

a couple of days ago i purchased an itunes card, but for a couple of months i was unable to download any sort of app or song, because it wanted me to post my credit card on my billing address. i had not purchased anything, yet the next day on my credit card it said i had purchased $22 worth. i dont know why if i had not purchased anything.

You will need to contact iTunes support and ask them why you are getting the message and how to resolve it, which you can do via this page (these are user-to-user forums) : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page

My library of 800 songs has been replaced by 48 older items which I believe are off an older device (old nano belonging to another family member). How do I get my songs back?

My library of 800 songs has been replaced by 48 older items which I believe are off an older device (old nano belonging to another family member). How do I get my songs back?

See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash.
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Can I adjust the sorting of Podcast as displayed on the IPOD itself

Itunes by default sorts my podcast with the newest podcast at the top.
If I want to redisplay the sorting within iTunes, I just click on the release date column and they re-sort with the oldest at the top. This doesn't change the way they sort in the ipod window. The ipod still displays the newest at the top.
I'm just learning about the sort order field in itunes - info - sorting but I don't see how this can set up the change of date option as a permanent change to sort by date descending. Any advice or am I just trying to mess with my ipod too much.
Thanks,
Nyimbo

Don't worry about messing with your ipod too much. It is probably the best way to learn about it.
So far the best way I have found is to create a playlist, I usually use the same name as the podcast, sort the podcast by the release date, select all of them and add to the playlist. Then just play the podcast from the playlist.
Someday Apple may wake up and realize people, their customers, would like to install podcasts onto their iPods in the same order they are in iTunes.

I keep getting error (-9808) when I try to download a podcast or song

I keep getting error (-9808) when I try to download a podcast or song. I have searched the discussions & help section, but cannot find this error code anywhere. How do I fix this? Thanks. Jeff

OK, you turned off your filewall, but did you disable Norton Internet Security completely? For some issues just disabling the firewall is not enough. I once had a connection problem with Gracenote that went away when NIS was disabled, but turning off every element of NIS individually and together did not work.
Some people have found adding the following to trusted domains helped:
phobos.apple.com
phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93434
Occasionally flushing the DNS Resolver cache helps:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304084
Are you able to connect to the store normally with just downloading affected, or is there a general store connection problem?
The other thing is have you run your network diagnostics from the iTunes Help menu? Posting the result might help.

I downloaded iOS 7 and now in my music library all my songs are not in the order of the original albums. How do I get them back into order?

I downloaded iOS 7 and now in my music library all my songs are not in the order of the original albums. How do I get them back into order?

go to settings>general>reset>reset home screen layout and see if they appear.

ITunes Library cutting off songs

I posted this in another topic, but I'm not sure if it belongs here or there...
All of a sudden, my itunes library is blending songs when I play them in order. When each song has 4 seconds left, the next song on the list starts playing, as if a DJ's mixing them. It's annoying, because it cuts off the end of songs, and I don't know how it will affect the burning of CDs.
Anyone know why it's suddenly doing this, and how I can make it stop?

It looks as if you have Crossfade playback: switched on.
You can find this setting in Preferences>Playback.
hope this helps.
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Podcasts are songs????

Hi everyone, newbie here I just bought a 30GB iPod yesterday, and followed all the instructions on how to sync it, etc and it works fine, but my question is, when I did that it lists all my podcasts under songs as well as under podcasts on my iPod. Is this normal? And is there a way to move them off the songs list and just leave them under podcasts?? Sorry for such a dumb question, but I want to make sure I'm using it correctly...
Thanks in advance for all your help!!!

Hi Kozmo,
I have a similar experience with my nano. I find that podcasts made in Garage Band appear as songs, not podcasts. Unfortunately, I have not determined how to fix this and have things registered properly. It is especially annoying as I want access to the text portion of file which is not available when the file is a song.
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HT3281 How can I sort the podcasts I download so that the smaller ones download first

Hi All
A cool feature that I am looking for is a way to sort the podcasts that I downlod by size, so that I can download the smaller ones first and fast and then keep downloading untill all pocasts are downloaed.
So for example: I subscribe to a podcast from Scientific American called 60-second science. Now this is a minute or so long commentary about some interesting scientific topic. Typically the podcast is in the range of 1.5 to 2.0 MBs. It downloads in seconds, and I also subscribe to Audio podcasts from London School of Economics which typically are 1.5 hours and the file is in the 30 to 35 MB range and some times even larger.
So when I make the list of podcasts to downlad, I would like to be able to clik on the headers of the coumns in iTunes and have the entries isted just kike Windows Exploer wuld sort, and then click download and the podcasts will download fast and then slow down as the file size gets larger.
Is this feature in today's iTunes 10??? Or could it be introduced in future versions?
Thanks
Wassim

I think you can use download manager, just try to find it in google and install it. Most of download manager has waiting list or queues.

My itunes library has more songs than my ipod will hold.

My itunes library has more songs than my ipod will hold. What is the best way for me to choose what actually goes on the ipod?

Or, when you are synching choose the songs you want on the IPod by checking them in the library, then tell it to only synch checked items.
To be honest, the 'smart playlist' is probably a simpler way though. Go to playlists, click 'create new smart playlist' and choose your parameters from there. As you add new music to the library the playlist will update itself.

Sorting library podcasts by song rating

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