Filter Smart Playlists by Kind   You can use the "Kind" filter in an iTunes Smart Playlist to prevent anything but MP3 tracks from appearing in it. Create a Smart Playlist: Kind - is - MPEG audio file Other strings are: MP3 - MP3 audio file AC3 - AAC audio file iTunes Music Store song - Protected AAC audio file AIFF - AIFF audio file WAV - WAV audio file Streaming Audio - Playlist URL Streaming Audio- MPEG audio file I gleaned these strings from AppleScripting. My favorite is "MPEG audio stream" for a Radio Stream because I can keep streams from being selected for a smart Playlist. They tend to just keep playing and I don't edit them out -- I was just about to write a 'script to do that for me automatically, when I stumbled on to this hint. PS: If you are not sure of the "kind" of a track, copy and paste this to Script Editor, and run it while your "mystery" track is playing. It will display a dialog box with the kind of the playing track. You can copy and paste the info from the dialog: tell application "iTunes" display dialog "Current track's kind is:" default answer ((get kind of current track) as string) end tell> or Get info on the track and look for the value of Kind: in the Summary panel. from Doug Adams by dfbills on Aug 12 | 1:18 am [0] Trackbacks

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