One way around this is to use the search function to grab a batch of "Christmas"-related songs. the song may have "Christmas" in the title, the genre, the album name and so on. This is a good way of grabbing most of the content to tag it.
You can then do a search for terms like "Holiday" "Seasonal" and so on. Don't forget to do a search for Xmas spelled with an X. This should help you avoid doing a search by hand. I've done grouping on things like: christmas: The catch all playlist that holds all Christmas music. Family Christmas: Family-friendly Christmas music I put on with family so they aren't tortured by west coast cool jazz versions of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. (I don't see a problem with that, but they don't have good taste in music anyway.) ;) Instrumental Christmas: Christmas music without words. Modern Christmas: New Christmas music that lives or dies depending on whether I or family likes it. This is a very small playlist. These can reside in a playlist folder. HTH, Kevin On 2013-12-04, at 2:25 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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! 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