Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods

Aug 15, '03 10:28:38AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I have a 10 GB (3rd gen) iPod, but more than 10 GB of music on my iBook. I've been thinking about how to swap out what music I'd like to listen to. I don't like manually copying songs; it's too clunky, and I've got to unmount the iPod manually.

What I ended up doing was setting iTunes to copy only checked songs to the iPod, then creating a smart playlist to match any song over one second in length (because there needs to be some sort of condition to match), which is also checked. I select or deselect whatever songs I want, then check that playlist to make sure they total less than 10 GB. Plug the iPod in, autosync, all done.

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