[OAW]

I have a "New Stuff" Smart Playlist in the latest version of iTunes. It basically grabs any song with a Year > 2001 and a Date Added within the last 3 months. Now in iTunes it grabs the songs I want with no problem. However, for some reason when it syncs to my iPod this playlist has a lot more songs in it on my iPod. It seems to be including songs that were added more than 3 months ago.

This is the only situation where I've noticed a problem with syncing and I can't figure out what's going on. The only thing I can think of is that the Date Added value is different on the iPod than in my iTunes library. I did recently do some re-tagging on a lot of my songs which causes them to be re-synced to the iPod. Does this make the iPod think a song is newer than what it really is?

Any ideas?

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[SupahCoolX]

You can view the date added from within iTunes. Choose Edit:View Options to show that column, or press command-i to get info on a particular song.
If you re-rip a song, it will get the newer Date Added.
If your dates are all OK and it's just not pulling in all the right songs, maybe try deleting/re-creating the playlist?

[OAW]

Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
You can view the date added from within iTunes. Choose Edit:View Options to show that column, or press command-i to get info on a particular song.
If you re-rip a song, it will get the newer Date Added.
If your dates are all OK and it's just not pulling in all the right songs, maybe try deleting/re-creating the playlist?

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd already tried all that to no avail. So I'm posting here to see if anyone else has experienced this or if there's a way to fix it.

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[OAW]

Clarification:

My "New Stuff" playlist is:

Year > 2002
Date Added in the Last 3 Months
Live Updating

The playlist is fine in iTunes. Now it would seem to me that the playlist on the iPod would simply be a copy of the playlist in iTunes as of the last sync. However, the playlist on the iPod contains more songs than the one in iTunes. The problem is that the entire purpose of this playlist is for me to listen to just my latest stuff on my iPod. But it keeps grabbing a bunch of older stuff so all the latest tracks literally get "lost in the shuffle".

For instance ... I have a few 50 Cent songs (In Da Club, Like a P.I.M.P., etc.) that have a year of 2003 and a Date Added of 7/16/03. These were clearly not added in the last 3 months and they aren't in the playlist in iTunes. But they show up in the playlist on the iPod.

Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

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[OAW]

Ok ... now this is really strange.

Those 50 Cent songs had a Date Added in my iTunes library of 7/16/03 like I said above. However, for some strange and unknown reason, they had a Date Added of 12/8/03 when I clicked on the iPod icon in the Source column. So that explains why it was showing up in the New Stuff playlist on the iPod. It also demonstrates that the playlist on the iPod is dynamic and not simply a copy of the playlist from the iTunes library. Now how the hell it got a different Date Added on the iPod than in iTunes is definitely a mystery.

Having said all that, I changed the Genre tag on one of the songs and re-synced my iPod. I then noticed that the Date Added tag on that song on the iPod now correctly reflected 7/16/03. Looks like I will be able to just modify the Genre tag and re-sync in order to get the Date Added tag on the iPod to correct itself. Very strange indeed ... but I'm not one to argue with success.

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