Wow, Kevin, that's cool! thanks for posting this, I will definitely give this a shot. Cheers, Donna On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
> Hi Missy and others, > There is an easy way to manage your christmas music in iTunes without > creating a separate music library. > > I recently imported all of my christmas music at once so I could manage the > files as a huge block in the Recently Added playlist that comes with iTunes. > From there, you can do one of two things: > > 1. Create a new playlist and call it "Christmas Music." Select your files > and choose Add to Playlist from the contextual menu. (VO-Shift-M.) Choose the > christmas Music playlist you just created. > > This method works if you can quickly grab a bunch of songs at once and throw > them into the playlist. There is another way that is a little more efficient > and requires a few more steps. You can do this with a smart playlist. > > Find the songs you want to add to your smart playlist. Choose Get Info > (command-I) on the song or songs. > > You are going to navigate to the "Grouping" field. There, type in a > descriptive term like "Christmas". If you need to hunt for your Christmas > music among all of your music, set a VO hot spot so you can quickly get back > to the Grouping field. > > Repeat this with all of your Christmas music. > > When you've finished your 200 tracks, create a new smart playlist from the > File menu, or use command-option-N. > > You'll be presented with a dialog box that will let you set rules for the > playlist. Set it up like this: > > Match the following rule: Grouping contains "Christmas". > Uncheck the "Limit to X items" checkbox. > Uncheck the "Match only checked items" checkbox. > Check the "Live Updating" checkbox. > > Hit OK. You'll be asked to name your new smart playlist. Name it and hit > enter. > > Voila! You'll have a smart playlist containing all of your Christmas music. > Once you're in this playlist, you can check and uncheck these items in bulk > by selecting all and choosing check or uncheck al in the context menu. > > I've done this for my christmas music and it's a really good way of sorting > the good stuff into a playlist. It also lets you customize other smart > playlists by genre or other terms you stick in the grouping field. i.e. > Christmas instrumentals, christmas jazz, Christmas cocktail party and so on. > the benefit of using the grouping field is that you are able to customize the > genre specifically to the music without using a catch all term like christmas. > > Email me off list if you get stuck. > > Kevin > On 2011-12-19, at 10:36 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What you ask is not possible. For a song to be in a playlist, it need to be >> in the main music playlist. But, there is a way you can have all the >> christmas music skipped if your just letting the music in your music >> playlist play. After you've moved your christmas songs to a playlist, just >> uncheck them. This is as close as you can get to what your trying to >> achieve in iTunes. Well, now that I think about it a little more, I don't >> see why you couldn't make a brand new music library and just put your >> christmas music in it. Actually, thats probably the best way to go here. >> >> hth >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rwalker...@gmail.com >> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >> www.mobileaccess.org >> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: >> >>> Hello, all. I don't even know if what I'm wantting to do is possible, but I >>> figured I'd ask on here to find out. I know how >>> to buy music on Itunes, but so far, that's about all I've learned. What I'd >>> ideally like to do is find a way to make a >>> playlist containing all of my Christmas music, but have it be completely >>> separate from the main music list. That way, if I'm >>> navigating my list of songs during the rest of the year, I don't keep >>> encountering my 200 or so Christmas songs. Is there >>> even a way to do what I want, or even if I make a playlist for the >>> Christmas stuff, will it be permanently in the master >>> music list. Is there a way I can cheat and accomplish what I want using cut >>> and paste in finder? >>> Any assistance you could provide would be extremely appreciated, even if >>> there's no way to do precicely what I want, any tips >>> on building a playlist would be extremely appreciated. 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