Dear Esther and Tim, Thank you both. It's been a fabulously helpful learning experience. I am beginning to undersand at last the power of play lists and smart playlists. I shall look for the script which will probably result in more questions being asked as I have never used scripts. <smile>
Best wishes Andrew On 2 Aug 2012, at 16:34, Esther wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
