Hello Andrew and Tim, I'm coming in late to this, but at the risk of introducing a new wrinkle, I think there's an easier way to make the modification Andrew wants for his smart playlists. Instead of using checkboxes do the following: after creating your first smart playlist with all the criteria and limiting the size, create a regular playlist from those selections by navigating to the table of song listings, doing a Command-A to select all, and then apply the Command-Shift-N shortcut to create a new playlist from your selection. Assign this a name like "My Albums 1". Then, edit your smart playlist to add rule like "Playlist" "is not" "My Albums 1". That's all you need to do. You now have a regular playlist that keeps track of all the items you burned to your first CD, and you added a rule for your smart playlist to apply all the same criteria, but not to include the contents of that first playlist. You can continue in this fashion to create regular playlists of your smart playlists with Command-A to select and Command-Shift-N to create playlists from your selection, and you can continue to add rules to not include each successive playlist in your smart playlist. Further, you now have a record of the playlist for each CD that you burned.
Actually, if I were to start this topic from scratch, I'd suggest that the most efficient way to proceed with what Andrew wants is to use AppleScripts, such as the QuickConvert AppleScript from Doug Adams' AppleScripts for iTunes site. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > 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.
