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 Lyric Sample

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To enhance theme-specific playlists, add a small sample of the song's lyrics to the Comments.

by dragon on Dec 06 | 8:00 am
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 Top 20 lists

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I hope nobody's posted this. I don't remember having seen it.

With my old 1G iPod, I used to have ten playlists called Top 20; the first one had the twenty most-played songs, the second had the next batch of twenty, and so on. The first one was easy (uncheck the "Match the following condition" box and set the next criterion to "Limit to 20 Songs chosen by Most Played"), but the rest had to be done manually, by tabulating the play counts of the next twenty songs and inserting those values into (Play Count is between 15 and 19) or whatever the numbers were.

My 4G iPod has new categories, and one of them is Playlist, which makes automatically generating sequential Top 20 lists a piece of cake. The first list is the same as the first one above; give it a name like "1st Top 20". To generate the second one, use the same criteria, but check the "Match the following condition" box and set the condition to "Playlist is not '1st Top 20'". This will give you a new playlist of the twenty most-played songs that aren't the actual top 20--the second half of the top 40, if you like. You can repeat this as often as you like; the third list will have two conditions, "Playlist is not '1st Top 20'" and "Playlist is not '2nd Top 20'", and so on.

And since they're Smart Playlists, songs will constantly be juggling themselves in and out of the various lists, particularly if you frequently do what I do and put one song on repeat play for half an hour or so.


by pyramus on Dec 06 | 8:00 am
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 My kid's SPL

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Match any of the following:


Genre is "Children's Music"
Genre is "Disney"
Comment contains "[Kid's name]"
Limit to one hour by Least Recently Played


The "Comment" allows me to capture other music that my child may be interested in at the time. At present (don't ask me why) this list includes Seal, Elvis Presley, and They Might Be Giants! The "Least Recently Played" condition allows me to enjoy some variety while listening to my child's tunes. . .


by Scott on Dec 05 | 8:00 am
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 Podcasting suggestions

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Hello!

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.

Okay, hope this helps some people!


by marc hummel on Dec 04 | 8:00 am
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 Easy scrolling

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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.


by statik on Dec 03 | 8:00 am
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