[threestain]

My music library has just grown too big for my 10GB ipod. I was using the auto-sync feature of itunes as I'm just too lazy to sort out playlists and like just shuffling through my library. How do I get itunes to update the playlist it creates periodically so that as my music library grows and is updated (playcounts etc) it stays current? Aside from deleting it and starting over?

Thanks!

[lngtones]

Originally posted by threestain:
My music library has just grown too big for my 10GB ipod. I was using the auto-sync feature of itunes as I'm just too lazy to sort out playlists and like just shuffling through my library. How do I get itunes to update the playlist it creates periodically so that as my music library grows and is updated (playcounts etc) it stays current? Aside from deleting it and starting over?

Thanks!

Create a smart playlist that has a random selection of 10GB of songs...

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by lngtones:
Create a smart playlist that has a random selection of 10GB of songs...

...or get a new iPod (that's what I did!)

Sell your current one on eBay with lots of nice photos. I sold my 5 GB model (original) for $400AU on eBay. Picked up a brand new 15GB for $500AU.

Well, that's my advice.

[Montanan]

There's a shareware program available called iTunes Library Manager. With it, you can have two (or more) iTunes libraries in place simultaneously -- keep your "full" one in place for use on the computer, and then create a second one that's a 10 gig subset of the main one ... and use that one to sync with the iPod.

[threestain]

how do I get it to automatically update - it stays the same at the moment which is very annoying, despite having auto-update on.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by threestain:
how do I get it to automatically update - it stays the same at the moment which is very annoying, despite having auto-update on.

Create smart playlists of stuff, totalling not over 10GB, and have those playlists auto-synced.

-s*

[threestain]

Well I have that - a random smart playlist totalling about 9.2 GB, with liveupdate on autosyncing.

And it stays the same. very silly if you ask me!

[Spheric Harlot]

Dumb question:

You do have the playlist set to include a "not played in the last XX months" criterion, right?

Else it obviously won't update, since it has no reason to remove/replace any tracks.

-s*

[threestain]

Not a dumb question at all - had completely forgotten to put some sort of rule that made it change - thank you!

However, whilst thinking about it, there should really be an option for a completely random selection to be added on every update/sync - what do you guys think?

[poocat]

i agree. that took a lot of effort.

i too (og five gig) have more music than ipod space.
i too want it to give me a changing random group,
but i DON'T want it to give me things i haven't heard in a while, i want to hear a RANDOM selection of things that changes, some of them recently played and some of them not.
we'll see.
i'm trying new configurations and seeing what happens.

btw, does anyone else have a problem where if you put a smart playlist in the following format it doesn't work?

follow any rules:

artist is not ...
artist is not ...
artist is ...
artist is ...

so. this playlist will include all songs from the "artist is" selections, but it WON'T leave out the "artist is not" artists.

what's up with that?!

poocat.

(yes, i'd like a new itunes.)

[threestain]

I think I've come up with a simple workaround - a random playlist not containing any songs played in the last 1 day. Keeps everything relatively fresh and also most things are included. Not ideal but seems to work a bit!