Unchecked Smart Playlist?

As I have a very large music collection, I use the checked/unchecked option to control what gets synced to my iPod. However, I'd really like some way to see what albums I currently have unchecked: there doesn't seem to be a way to sort by that quality. Is there a way to create a Smart Playlist only displaying unchecked items?
Thanks in advance.
iTunes 7.1.1.5 Windows XP

Hmm, the only way I can see of doing this is to create 2 smart playlists.
The first playlist must have a condition that is always true and set to match only checked items
Playlist1
Match all
date added after 01/01/1900
Limit to unchecked
Match only checked items checked
Live updating checked - if you want this to be more than a one off.
Playlist2
Match All
Playlist is NOT playlist1
Limit to - unchecked
Match only checked items UNCHECKED
Live updating - same as playlist1
The effect of this is that playlist2 will contain everything not in playlist1 i.e all the unchecked tracks

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HappyPants wrote:
Why can't my criteria simply be limit size to 14800MB ...
So I guess checking random just selects random songs, it's not actually a criteria. So really that Should be a criteria....Random. Just that.
I Just want a certain number/size of random songs.
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HappyPants wrote:
In my case I really don't want to use the criteria as you suggest, "last played is not in the last 'x' days" because sometimes I like to hear the same songs over and over again ... I just can't fit all my music on my ipod and wanted the nano for it's size. So the best solution for me is to just have it randomize my songs a bit every time I sync.
Then how is iTunes supposed to differentiate between the songs you like to hear over and over and other songs that it needs to select "at random"?
HappyPants wrote:
After some thought, I chose to do: last skipped is not in the last 1 day.
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Now you're thinking
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Oh poops, I hate when people do this. I found the answer, finally, like immediately after posting. I think.
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Hello,
After many calls to Apple regarding my smart playlists not syncing correctly I figured I'd try the forums. Since iTunes 9 (back in November) my playlists have not been syncing correctly, at all and it's not just a case of the songs being out of order, the entire playlist/s is incorrect, with songs I didn't even add to the list.
I only have 16gb to play with on my phone, my entire library is over 40gb, so I depend on smart playlists so that only selected songs (4 star rated or better) make it to my iPhone.
Other then unchecking live update, is there any other solutions that actually work? I'm way beyond frustrated with this issue and the fact that they STILL haven't fixed it.
iTunes 9.0.3
iPhone 3.1.3
Both were just updated this week, the iPhone this afternoon.
Thank you for any help!
Regards,
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