I've really started getting into Podcasts, but I hate how they can mess up your iTunes library organization. And iPod synchronization should be hassle-free, given they're called Podcasts.
So here's what I do with iPodderX and my iPod. I set all the feeds I want to sync with my iPod to be saved in a playlist named "Podcasts." To set the playlist location, double click on the feed name and type in the name of your playlist.
Then I make a SPL from the Podcasts playlist and limit to new podcasts within the past four days. I suppose you could use other limiting factors like time and space, but this works for me.
A lot of times the mood hits me to play a certain song where I can remember the title but not the artist.
The scroll wheel works well, but if you have 5000 songs it gets pretty tedious going through the Browse>Songs to find a song somewhere in the middle of my collection.
The solution was to create smart lists that break up the songs into smaller lists by title.
i.e.: Title: ‘A,B,C’
- Auto update = Yes
- Title begins with 'A'
- or Title begins with 'B'
- or Title begins with 'C'
Rinse and Repeat for the rest of the alphabet.
Now when I want to pull up a song that starts with "L", instead of scrolling through 5000 songs, I just pull up my play list "L,M,N" and have only a handful to go through to find the song I want.
If, like myself, you have many different genres of music on itunes, but are sick or hearing only 1 or 2 of ur largest genres all the time, this playlist creates an even mix of all your genres
1st, create one playlist for each genre which would look something as follows:
genre -> is -> rock
last played -> is not in the last -> 8 weeks
my rating -> is greater than -> 2 stars
limit to 20 songs
live updating
i name all of these Z-G-Rock; the Z to bring it to the bottom, the G to signify which master playlist this relates to (genre) and rock to tell me more info.
after making one of these for each genre, sumtimes with slight modifications depending on the number of songs you may have for that genre, i created the master playlist from all of these like this:
Match Any of the following conditions
Playlist -> is -> Z-G-Rock
Playlist -> is -> Z-G-Techno
Playlist -> is -> Acid Jazz
Playlist -> is -> Funk
On a recent road trip a friend asked if I had any music by women. I realized I had no easy way to access any of it without drilling down into individual artists or albums.
So I created this...
I put a "@+" in the Comments field of all the music I had featuring a woman/women artists or that was composed by a woman/women.
The "@+" resembles the symbol for "female" on its side and yet is unlikely to be in the Comments field otherwise.
I now have several SPLs built around this idea.
Such as:
Women Rock
Match all:
Comment contains @+
Genre is Rock
or
101.5 KWOM
Playlist is 101.5 KPOD
(see the great SPL by that name here
on SmartPlaylists.com)
Comment contains @+
(In fact I have more than 1400 songs by women, _not_ counting women who fronted great bands like Blondie, The Pretenders or Jefferson Airplane! Do I have any music by women? Indeed!)
