Excellent info, thank you both. I like the idea of limiting the size of a smart playlist for my shuffle.
I'll have to look for the setting of a song played a minimum of so many times. I haven't seen that one before. Thank you, Traci Caffeine & a cure! I am apart of the “Caffeinated Climbers” & we are climbing 1311 steps to help fight cancer! Learn more & donate here: http://www.llswa.org/site/TR/Events/BigClimb?px=1570735&pg=personal&fr_id=1250 On Mar 1, 2013, at 5:35 AM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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. 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