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Prevents smart playlists
Nice hint. I'd just spotted that my manual updates weren't keeping play counts, renaming, &c in sync. Creating an `iPod' playlist and syncing it does the job nicely.
However, it has another problem. I did have a smart playlist set up on the iPod which selected random tracks to listen to according to a few criteria (not recently played, high enough rating, avoiding some genres). But if the iPod is synced to iTunes, it can't hold its own playlists! And I can't tell it to sync with an identical playlist in iTunes, because that selects tracks from the entire music library, not just those on the iPod... Anyone know a way around this? ---
Prevents smart playlists
My workaround involves using a ID3 field I never use (in my case, Composer). If you add something (like "iPod") to each of the Composer fields of your iPod tracks, you can then just add the criterion "Composer is iPod" to all of your smart playlists.
Prevents smart playlists
That might work well if your iPod always has the same subset of your music library; mine is likely to change regularly. And I wouldn't want ID3 tags being rewritten every time... not to mention that I don't have a spare field! |
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