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A simple reminder about smart playlists and multiple iPods iPod
This is a rather simple, slap yourself in the forehead type hint, but I thought it is worth a quick reminder for those of you out there who have a mixed iTunes library of music and videos, as well as multiple iPods.

My iTunes library is around 45GB, which is perfect to completely load my 60GB iPod video (white!), but I also run around with a 6GB iPod mini for the fun of it. For the past few days, I have been killing myself trying to figure out why my "Unrated" smart playlist, set to a max size of 4GB, would not transfer all 4GB over to my mini.

Then it hit me. The playlist had videos in it, which iTunes (intelligently) wouldn't transfer over to the video-less mini. A quick edit of my Unrated smart playlist to add the rule: Kind / does not contain / video, and poof! All 4GB happily Firewired over to my mini.

So, remember kids, if you have videos in your library (like the full iTunes collection of the Colbert Report...), remember to modify all your smart playlists to avoid video files and keep your iPods happy.
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A simple reminder about smart playlists and multiple iPods
Authored by: PanicRoom on May 31, '06 12:09:48AM

That's odd. Though I do it rarely, when I try moving a playlist with videos to my
4G iPod, iTunes usually pops up a warning telling me that it won't transfer those
files. No guesswork needed. Hasn't this been a feature of iTunes for a while
now?



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A simple reminder about smart playlists and multiple iPods
Authored by: MrHen on Jun 02, '06 08:26:42AM

If all you want on your iPods is music, than creating a separate smart playlist named Music and set it up to throw out Videos, Podcasts, and anything else you do not want (I have sound effects, spoken word, incomplete song samples, etc).

That way when you create your iPod playlists you can set it up so that you can match anything Unrated and anything Music without having to manually add all weird formats to thirty different iPod playlists.



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New Smart Playlist criterion
Authored by: sabberworm on Jun 02, '06 11:07:13AM

Apple really should introduce a new Smart Playlist criterion "Playable on iPod" with a dropdown that lets you select Any/All/1G/2G/3G/4G/5G…



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