Re: creating a smart play list
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.
Re: creating a smart play list
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.
Re: creating a smart play list
thanks, Tim. Between you and Kevin, I’ll get this figured out! Cait On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Check the exact words for your Genre. Often purchased Christmas Music has the genre “Holiday” instead of Christmas Music. If you use “is” then the genre needs to be spelled exactly the same in your matching criteria as it is in the Genre tag for the specific songs. If you use “Contains”, then it will look for that word within the Genre tag. Regarding whether or not it will play while shuffling other songs all depends on whether the Christmas music resides in the playlist you are listening to. If you’re listening to the main library of songs, then they will occasionally be played just because they’re there. You could uncheck them after Christmas time and tell iTunes only to play checked items but when they’re checked and within the library or playlist that you’re focused on, the possibility is there that they’ll be played in the shuffle somewhere. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 3, 2013, at 4:53 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.
Re: creating a smart play list
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.
Re: creating a smart play list
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
Re: creating a smart play list
Hi, Check the exact words for your Genre. Often purchased Christmas Music has the genre “Holiday” instead of Christmas Music. If you use “is” then the genre needs to be spelled exactly the same in your matching criteria as it is in the Genre tag for the specific songs. If you use “Contains”, then it will look for that word within the Genre tag. Regarding whether or not it will play while shuffling other songs all depends on whether the Christmas music resides in the playlist you are listening to. If you’re listening to the main library of songs, then they will occasionally be played just because they’re there. You could uncheck them after Christmas time and tell iTunes only to play checked items but when they’re checked and within the library or playlist that you’re focused on, the possibility is there that they’ll be played in the shuffle somewhere. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 3, 2013, at 4:53 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.
