Is your music library bigger than your iPod (round 2)

FIRST - go through your entire library like last time, selecting the artists that you want to put on your iPod, making their songs all show up in the bottom pane. However, this time after you select a couple - all you have to do is go down to the bottom window and hold the command key down (probably Ctrl on PC?) and click on one of the checkboxes, and it will check them all. Quite handy! (Thanks Mike!)

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Once you've gone through your library and checked everything you want on your iPod - you can create a Smart Playlist that shows you all the checked ones. Note: I have it set to limit at 55GB, but once I look in there, I'll make sure this list stays a tad below 40GB since that's my iPod's maximum.

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Then I made a smart playlist that shows me all whatever is NOT checked and therefore NOT on my iPod:

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This is so I can see the Newest Music in my entire music collection at a glance:

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This is how I have it set up to show me just the newest music on my iPod. This is pretty cool because it's using other playlists - there's no need to say Match only checked songs, since the iPod YES playlist is already set to query that, and there's no need to set the date as it will always use the same Newest Music date I have on my other list (which is what I want - you could always make them different here if you prefer by changing the 2nd one here to a Date Added after date.)

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Note that on any of your playlists you can go into the Edit menu (or hit Command + B) to view the browser. I knew how to do this but didn't have it on some of my previous screenshots. I've also taken off viewing the "Genre" column in all of my browsers (which you can do in Preferences).

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Last but not least - this screenshot shows you my *new* settings for updating my iPod, the "iRock"

 

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