[iTunes] How to Manually select a portion of a library without individual clicking

[sw]

On Tue,Sep  6, , at 3:33 PM, Scott Stamper wrote:

> Steve,
> Here's how I set up the Smart playlist:
>     "Match All"
>     "My rating is 5 star"............I've rated the music I like  
> best with 5 stars

  So far so good...

>     "Size is 3800MB"...........hoping this correlates to the  
> playlist size, rather that the song size

  This will limit you to only songs that are 3800MB in size....which  
should be none...
>     "limit to 500 songs selected by Random" ............figuring  
> 500 songs will probably exceed 3.8GB.....true, false?

  This is where you can limit by size... use the pulldown and set to  
MB or GB

>     "live updating" checked
> Thanks for your reply. Let me know if you (or anyone else on the  
> list) thinks this is how to set up the Smart playlist.
> Scott
> "It's like deja vu all over again"--Yogi Berra
> Scott Stamper            Chapel Hill, NC
> On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:43 PM, sw wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Tue,Sep  6, , at 12:34 PM, Scott Stamper wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>> My library far outstrips my mini-iPod's capacity, so I have to  
>>> manually add music to the Pod. My question is, how do I select,  
>>> say, the last half of my library to load onto the iPod without  
>>> having to individually click several hundred tunes? I know about  
>>> "select all", but how can I "select 1/4 or 1/3" of my library to  
>>> manually load into the Pod?
>>>
>>
>>
>>  The easiest way is to set up a Smart playlist according to size.
>>
>>  If you have a 4Gig iPod, then make a Smart playlist that selects  
>> from your library. randomly if you want, 4 Gig worth of songs.
>>
>>  The just sync that playlist with your iPod.
>>
>>
>> Steve
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>> but you may also be the world to one person.
>>
>>
>>
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