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

[Scott Stamper]

Steve, and all
Thanks for the info and feedback. Mission accomplished!
Scott
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Scott Stamper		Chapel Hill, NC
On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:17 PM, sw wrote:

>
> 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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