Create Smart Playlists for iPods without music in iTunes
Dec 28, '06 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: deef
Dec 28, '06 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: deef
If you create a smart playlist in iTunes, even if there are no matches, when you transfer it to an iPod it will use the criteria to select from that iPod's library.
Say your iPod syncs with computer A, but you only have computer B with you, which only has a small fraction of the music on computer A and/or the iPod. You can connect the iPod to computer B's iTunes, set it to manage music manually, then create a new smart playlist on iTunes containing criteria which refer to music which is on the iPod but which isn't on computer B. iTunes shows it as empty, but when transferred manually to the iPod, the criteria work and it fills up based on the library in the iPod. In other words, the smart playlists on the iPod are actually dynamically generated on the iPod itself.
Just make sure you don't set the iPod to sync with computer B, or it will wipe out whatever's on the iPod. See the directions here under "Connecting your iPod to another computer" for background info.
Say your iPod syncs with computer A, but you only have computer B with you, which only has a small fraction of the music on computer A and/or the iPod. You can connect the iPod to computer B's iTunes, set it to manage music manually, then create a new smart playlist on iTunes containing criteria which refer to music which is on the iPod but which isn't on computer B. iTunes shows it as empty, but when transferred manually to the iPod, the criteria work and it fills up based on the library in the iPod. In other words, the smart playlists on the iPod are actually dynamically generated on the iPod itself.
Just make sure you don't set the iPod to sync with computer B, or it will wipe out whatever's on the iPod. See the directions here under "Connecting your iPod to another computer" for background info.
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