Ok, good idea, that should work. and, I didn’t think of that. having a brain dead day, I guess! thanks a bunch! Cait, off to play with i tunes
On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Kevin Shaw <tvsound...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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! 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. > > -- > 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. 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