Music library bigger than your iPod?
| So - deal is I have more music on my hard drive than can fit on my 40GB iPod. So, I had to figure out how to put just what I wanted on there. At first I thought it was simple and I could just take the artists I don't want on there, out of the folder I have set up as my iTunes folder.. but it doesn't work like that. So, after searching a bit and asking my friend Tack's advice on help - he found this note about it on Apple's site. But I couldn't get it to bring up that message for me, it only kept telling me it would fit as much as possible on there as it could, but I wanted more control than that - so I created my own little system and that's what I've posted here.
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(you may want to skip down & read #5 first - or just note that my iPod is named "iRock" and the playlist #5 denotes is where I've put all the music I want on my iPod) | |
 | Newest Music I don't know about you, but I have quite a bit of music on my hard drive. So sometimes when I buy a new CD off iTunes or rip a CD onto it, it can get lost amongst the many gigs. So this smart playlist is set to grab anything added after a certain date (that I change often). Usually it's set to show the last couple weeks. |
 | Newest Music (on iRock) My iPod is the "iRock". So what this smart playlist does is it says: Look only in the playlist "*** My iRock***" and show me the music added after a certain date. view screenshot |
 | NOT on iRock This smart playlist shows me everything except for what's on "*** My iRock***" view screenshot |
 | Unknown Artist Smart playlist set to show what tracks have the artist & album name blank. I don't do near good enough job weeding out all the crap I have in my collection (aka tracks that don't have the proper info entered in), as I have about 350 songs of this nature in there now. Probably from compilations and downloaded tracks over the years. There's also a Doug's Applescript for this somewhere. |
 | *** My iRock*** Create a Playlist for all the music you would like to have on your iPod. (FYI mine has the ***'s so that it stays at the very top) I found the best thing to do was to view your library & select several artists at a time, which puts all their songs in the bottom frame where you can then go down & hit Select All & drag them to your playlist. See this example for more detail of what I mean here.
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| The very last crucial step is to set your iPod update settings to update only the 2 playlists. Like this: view screenshot
Hopefully this helps someone else out there... it works for me! :) Comments/Feedback welcome. | |
UPDATE: For those of you uber intrigued... you may want to read the next post (12/29/04) for a different way to do this. "Round 2" :p
