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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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060524174341450