Kevin, this makes perfect sense, so thanks! doing it this way, though, I’d have to go through my 7,000 plus library by hand and tag each song with the christmas grouping, right? I was trying to avoid that, if possible.. Cait, probably being lazy
On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Kevin Shaw <tvsound...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Cait, > > I'm the one who manages the Christmas music playlist n my family, so I have a > sure fire way for you to create your smart playlist. > > Instead of using the Genre field to create the playlist, I use the Grouping > field to indicate that the files are christmas songs. > > YOu can do this easily by pressing command-I on the particular song, > navigating to the grouping field and typing "Christmas". YOu can do multiple > songs at a time this way. I do this for particular songs on an album, > especially if I don't want the entire album in my christmas playlist. > > Once you have "Christmas" in the Grouping field, you can specify that > Grouping contains "Christmas" in the smart playlist rules. YOu'll have a > smart playlist containing all of the songs you want. > > To prevent the songs from coming up on shuffle when you've got the rest of > your library playing, you can select all in the Christmas playlist and > uncheck them. (I do this after the Christmas season.) If you check "Skip when > Shuffling" in the options dialog, they will skip when you use shuffle, but > not if you're playing the songs one after the other in your playlist. > > I personally check and uncheck the songs in the playlist, as I prefer the > occasional surprise Christmas song when I am shuffling through the rest of my > music or when programming music for a party. > > Contact me off list if you need a hand with anything here. > Kevin > > On 2013-12-03, at 6:53 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to create a smart play list of all my christmas music in i tunes. >> >> I have ahuge huge library, so don’t want to do this by hand! >> >> I started to create the list by selecting genre, then told it that it was >> christmas music, picked live update, then saved it. >> >> What am I missing? >> >> Oh, and I also don’t want the play list to be played when I shuffle other >> songs.. >> >> Thanks for any help! I thought I had a handle on this, but obviously I’m >> lost! >> Bread crumbs welcomed! >> Cait >> >> -- >> 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. >> 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. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
