Suggestions for Smart Playlists

Recently, I purchased an iPod Classic. As a Mac user for 2 years, I have experienced the advantages of using a Mac-based computers and its OS itself. Therefore, I trust Apple brand in whichever products they are selling and recommends to my customers, friends and relatives. However, when I was trying out the features of iTunes, like the Smart Playlist, I realised certain flaws to it.
When I was setting the rules for which type of songs to be placed into the playlist, for example, I only want Trance music only, but not the podcasts. However, no matter how I set the rules, it shows the other genres of music like Dance in the playlist, furthermore, the podcasts still shows up.
I would like to suggest to place an additional function to the Smart Playlist by adding a "DO NOT" function. For example, DO NOT place any songs like podcasts or Dance music. This way, it makes it easier for heavy users like me to place songs without thinking much of how to set the appropriate rules to it. Thank you.

Suggestions for Smart Playlists
tell Apple via _*iTunes feedback*_.
JGG

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    I'm sorry but none of these suggested fixes work, including sort before sync, media kind as music, not referring to other smart playlists, turning live update off, setting Play Order; nothing worked. Plus, on large smart playlists (2000+ songs), not only were they not ordered correctly but the phone (4S no less) pauses 20 seconds to think every time you go into the playlist after a sync.
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    For me, order is critical only on my Recently Added playlist, so I went manual with that one. The others I tend to shuffle so the lack of ordering isn't as big of a deal.

  • Are movie ratings available for smart playlists

    I'm trying to make a playlist of movies by rating (not personal stars but G PG PG-13 etc...) I can't seem to find a column to filter on. Where is this meta data available?

    Sorry, but that information is not directly available to use in a Smart Playlist. You could put the rating in the Comments field which would make it available for filtering in a Smart Playlist.
    Regards.

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  • Suggestion for new playlist criteria

    I don't know if any iTunes developers are active on these forums (should that be "fora", as in "criterium/criteria"?), but if they are, I would find the addition of options "Artwork is True/False" and "Audiobook is True/False" tremendously useful as playlist criteria in iTunes.
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    Welcome to discussions, Martin!
    This is a user-to-user forum.
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  • Multiple criteria for Smart Playlists

    When I want to make a Smart Playlist with multiple criteria, such as a SP for my Classical and Jazz songs only, I select genre, then type in Classical, following that I click the "+" button next to that and put Jazz as my Genre. I click save, then I get a dialogue box that tells me about non-matching items. Is a multi criteria SP even possible or am I just not doing it right?

    Logically, that makes sense, of course (it's not your "entire" lib, it's just everything except Harry)
    There might be another way, but here's how I would do what you want:
    I'd create a new folder and place two SPs in it, one for classical and one for Jazz. Then I'd create a third one that consists of "Playlist Classical" and "Playlist Jazz".
    It sounds sloppy, but you could use that single folder for any playlist you wanted to use in this way, keeping the combination SPs out in the straight listing.
    Hope that helps
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  • Looking for Smart Playlist Documentation for iTunes Match (iCloud), and iOS

    With iTunes Match I don't understand exactly how Smart Playlist's are suppose to work with iTunes Match (iCloud) and my iOS devices. I am looking for some official (possibly draft) documentation.

    Is this a general rant or do you have a specific question ?

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    Aside from reinstating the ability to open playlists in separate windows I'd like to see iTunes support per playlists default playback settings that would be set at the point a playlist is selected.  These settings would include whether shuffle and crossfade was on and which particular EQ setting should be used for that playlist.  For example I have a podcast only playlist and for that I always want shuffle and crossfade off and the EQ to be the Spoken Word preset.  For music playlists I'm likely to want shuffle and crossfade on with the EQ set off.

  • ITunes 9.1, Still no fix for Smart playlist?

    So, I downloaded the latest version which is 9.1 but my smart play list still is messed up. Recently added songs are at the bottom when it should be at the top.

    Did you add a Date-Added column to the playlist and right-click the playlist and select Copy to Play Order when it's properly sorted the way you wanted?
    If not, that's your problem, not iTunes ... my "New Editions" Playlist is sorted the same way and it works perfectly.

  • Suggestions for additional playlist criteria

    I don't know if any iTunes developers are active on these forums (should that be "fora", as in "criterium/criteria"?), but if they are, I would find the addition of options "Artwork is True/False" and "Audiobook is True/False" tremendously useful as playlist criteria in iTunes.
    Also, the addition of "Grouping" as an additional option under "Music" in the iPod firmware would be very useful too, as having it only in iTunes is not tremendously useful.
    Many thanks,
    Martin Reed

    Here is the proper place for iTunes Feedback. Even though it is listed as request for music, it is the only iTunes feedback page that exists. It will get read I'm sure.
    bd

  • Workaround for iPhone smart playlist bug

    There is a bug (do a search for smart playlist in this forum) with smart playlists not displaying the correct songs on the iPhone.
    I just tried something that seems to have worked...
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    Excellent idea Jeff.
    Your approach works for the same reason that my original idea works.
    The inclusion of another playlist as a condition in a smart playlist, causes the playlist to become "rasterized" or static.
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    The problem of course, is that there's a bug in the way the iPhone calculates these rules (probably related to the porting of code to a new architecture).
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  • 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.
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    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.
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    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

  • Media Source Organizer Smart Playlists - won't link up to new hard drive

    I recently tranferred all of my tracks to a new hard drive. I updated the PC Music library and it's working fine except for the Smart Playlists. They still refer to the old hardrive. How do I update the location for Smart Playlists?
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    Hi,
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  • Smart Playlists with Implied Criteria

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    Wrote a little blog post about this:
    http://birdhouse.org/blog/2014/02/03/how-to-create-itunes-smart-playlists-with-i mplied-criteria/

    So I went through technical support because I had this exactly some problem.  Smart playlist shows up in iTunes on my iMAC, as well as via Apple TV (both via iCloud and Home Sharing options.)  It also fully populates those smart playlists.
    For my pre-existing Smart Playlists (that only have criteria for the GROUPING field) show up, have songs, but are quite a few songs short.  I then created a brand new play list with brand new tracks... and its empty on iPhone 4S and iPAD2.  Apple TV and IMAC are fine.
    So technical support provided me with this response:  For smart playlists to work on iOS devices, the songs must be downloaded to the device. 
    My feedback was this: So this is chicken and the egg.  You create the playlist to easily locate and download those songs to your device, but you cant because they have to be on your device before they will show in the playlist. 
    I suppose the only work around is to create the smart playlist w/ your filters.  THEN create a regular playlist and copy everything in the SMART Playlist into the regular playlist. 
    I have not used Apple products for very long... approaching 2 years.  I moved everything to Apple.  Computers, laptops, portable devices, etc... I have been VERY impressed.  HOWEVER, this makes the point of Smart Playlists completely manual when it comes to your iOS device. 
    I will for sure be launching a compliant to www.apple.com/feedback. 

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