I LOVE SMART PLAYLISTS!
My iTunes Music Library is 60gb.
My iPod is only 30 gb.
Here's my wish:
I want my smart playlists to apply only to random 30gb chunks of my music library, but there is no way to specify "have these 100 smart playlists sum to 30gb".
I think what I want to do is to simply write an applescript to select the checkboxes for 30gb of music and then just check "only sync checked songs" or whatever that option is.
Does this make sense? Please let me know if there is a better way.
In addition, there are still songs that I want to keep unchecked, so I think I'll write another script to first set say the BPM field to 0 for all songs that I currently have unchecked, and then tell my "Check 30gb" script to ignore any songs with BPM = 0.
I also like to listen to full albums, so I think I want it to select full albums up to 30gb, there's a script at Macosxhints.com that I can't seem to find right now that might help me out some.
Anyway,...I don't know anything about applescript, so any tips or useful websites would me much appreciated.
You might start with Jerry Kindall's iPod Remix script (www.jerrykindall.com). I've struggled with the same issue with my original 5 GB iPod, used partially as a backup drive, and a collection of over 6 GB of songs.
iTunes allows you to limit a smart playlist to a total size
where you get 'Limit to 25 songs' by deafult change it to 'Limit to 30 GB' and select by random
by Tilo R Oakes on Jan 14, 04 | 10:21 am
The problem with your solution, Tilo, is that Mike wants to limit a collection of playlists to 30 GB.
by on Jan 14, 04 | 12:01 pm
Well, Mike, your ultimate solution was just released and posted today to VersionTracker: Playlist Blender, $10 shareware from William Wareham. Check it out.
You might start with Jerry Kindall's iPod Remix script (www.jerrykindall.com). I've struggled with the same issue with my original 5 GB iPod, used partially as a backup drive, and a collection of over 6 GB of songs.