Hi Traci, As Chris pointed out, the status bar that displays the number of items, playing time, and size of your selected playlists at the end of the iTunes window is turned off by default under iTunes 11, and you need to turn on showing that again either by navigating to the "View" menu on the iTunes menu bar and selecting "Show Status Bar", or by using the iTunes 11 keyboard shortcut of Command-Slash for toggling the status bar between show and hide.
Another way to control the size of a playlist that syncs to your shuffle or other device is to use the smart playlist option of limiting the size of your playlist to a specific size. For example, let's say that you want to create a smart playlist with up to 1.8 GB of music content that you want to transfer to your iPod Shuffle. You can use the Command-Option-N keyboard shortcut to create a new smart playlist, navigate to rules section and interact to set up rules for the content you want to include, like "Artist is" or "Album is" and then fill in the name in the text box. Remember that you can set the pop up buttons for any of your rule selections to items like "Artist", "Album", or "Genre", and that once you create a second rule by pressing the "add" button at the end of your first rule, you can navigate back to set the pop up button that specifies whether you want to match "all" of the rules or "any" of the rules. Once you have set up a few rules for what you want included in your playlist, you can stop interacting with the rules section and navigate to the check box that allows you to limit the content of your playlist in terms of number of items, time, or size (in MB or GB, according to the selected pop up button) and by selected criteria, such as album, artist, highest (or lowest) rating, most (or least) often played, most (or least) recently added to your library, etc. Then you can go view the resulting playlist content and decide whether you want to modify any of the rules for content or selection. Smart playlists are convenient ways to create playlists to specific criteria -- like making a workout playlist that is exactly 30 minutes long. If you like the selection criteria, and want to freeze the selections, just do a Command-A to select all the items in the smart playlist and then do a Command-Shift-N to create a new playlist from your selection and assign it a name. That will keep the selection criteria from changing. However, if you always want your playlist to give preference to the most recently added content of your library, for example, using a smart playlist can continuously update its contents to meet meet such criteria. You could make one of the rules be that only songs you had played a minimum of 20 times be included included in your smart playlist, and that rule would update over time. Just some alternate suggestions for creating playlists. The ability to limit smart playlists by size, and to specify preferred criteria for cutting things down to match this, can be very handy for deciding what you want synced to a device. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 28, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > It is normally shown in the status bar at the end of the window which is off > by default. You can turn that back on with Command-Slash. > > CB > > On 2/28/13 5:34 PM, Traci wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having a hard time finding the size of albums & playlists in iTunes. I >> see number of songs & length of time, but where has the memory size gone? >> It would be helpful to know, if I can sync a particular playlist or album >> onto my Shuffle. :) >> >> Thanks, >> Traci >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
