Dear tim, That's great! I did think that maybe checking or unchecking individual songs might work but did not relish having to do it for each and every one of them. Your method is easier.
Thanks again. Andrew On 2 Aug 2012, at 14:48, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > The logic behind this one could be difficult. A way around it though could > be through the following: > > • Go to your existing Smart Playlist. > • Interact with the Table. > • Press cmd-a to Select All. > • Press VO-shift-m to bring up contextual menu. > • Choose Uncheck All. > • Stop Interacting with the Table. > > Now create your new Smart Playlist using the same parameters as before but > add the rule: > > "Checked" "Is True" > > This should do the same thing as before but only include songs that aren't in > the original one. You'll probably wish to burn the playlist then recheck the > items in the first playlist if you wish to play them in iTunes later though. > > Hope this works for you. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-08-02, at 3:57 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Listers, >> >> I've now got my smart playlist of mpeg audio files only in my iTunes. Thank >> you for helping me to accomplish this. I've learnt an awful lot from this >> experience. >> >> Now I've limited the size of my smart playlist to 700 MB so that I could >> burn it to just one cd. However, I will want to create another cd once I >> have more songs which means creating another such smart playlist. Can this >> be accomplished in such a way that the same songs won't get moved to the new >> smart playlist? The dilemma I have in my head is that I would use the same >> rules to move songs to the new playlist, and I fear that the same songs >> might be placed in the new playlist defeating my object. Is there a way of >> avoiding it? Will iTunes recognise the fact that the first playlist already >> contains a number of songs and therefore won't move them to the second one? >> I fear that it might be too much to ask. >> >> Many thanks >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
