Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-15 Thread Phil Halton
This method does indeed work as I did exactly this to creat a playlist of radio stations. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 10:57 AM Subject: Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes. Hi

Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-15 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! OK you can also add to a named playlist by opening VO+shift+m then arrow to add to playlist sub menu and when you find the name of the playlist you wish to add to just VO+space or I think Enter! And the track will go into that list! Hth Colin On 15 Dec 2012, at 16:20, Jessica Moss wro

Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, So, if you wish to use the Copy/Paste method to populate your Playlist, then when you create the new playlist, simply press cmd-n to do this, then copy and paste your items into it. Do not use any of the Smart Playlists that you've created. You can tell whether a playlist is Smart or regu

Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-15 Thread Jessica Moss
Well, I always chose the "new smart playlist," option, in order to burn items to disk, which I would've asumed would be the same thing, which took me through a lot of those same steps, and before I upgraded, it let me do all those same things, then when I inserted a blank disk, it allowed me, of

Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, First, we need to distinguish between Smart and regular playlists. In your original post, you questioned about copying to a Smart Playlist. This is just not possible in any version of iTunes. A Smart Playlist is populated using matching criteria and thus items are placed in the Smart Pla

Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-15 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, now it looks like we're both confused. What I used to do, was name the playlist, then copy and paste what I wanted from my music source over to the list, then burn it to disk, but now when I tab to what used to be the area where the table was, it shows it there, but won't let me paste anyth

Re: creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-14 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Maybe I'm misunderstanding but, Smart Playlists normally cannot be pasted into. Smart Playlists are populated using search and matching criteria that you set up in the Smart Playlist attributes. I would expect that if you use a regular playlist, the Copy and Paste should still work. Late

creating smart playlists with the new iTunes.

2012-12-14 Thread Jessica Moss
I've just upgraded Itunes yesterday, and tried to create a smart playlist to burn to CD, something that used to be easy, and now can't paste the items into it that I copied from my music library for some off-the-wall reason. When I find the playlist and tab to it, it just says "empty table," th