by botijo » Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:42 pm
As you can see from the image, the first option is to include other "Playlists". So you can create playlist A with all the songs you want (it can be complete library), and AutoPlaylist B should filter Holiday songs. From this point on, you have three options:
- Modify the Autoplaylist B (the one you are synching), so during November-January it does not filter out "Holidays"
- Sync playlist A during Christmans, sync playlist B during the rest of the year
- Sync both playlists, and do a shuffle play (I suppose that is what you are doing, and I hope the iPod is capable of that!) on either playlist A or B depending on the season
If you try option 1 or 2, please be aware that you might need to select the option to delete tracks not found in the synchronization playlist.
I hope any of these solutions suits you. It is not automatic, but at least option 3 needs far less interaction, something you might be able to endure.
Note: I do not see the point on not doing the genre filtering if you are browsing your music in the iPod by Author and Album, so that is the reason I suppose you are interested in shuffle play all the time.
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As you can see from the image, the first option is to include other "Playlists". So you can create playlist A with all the songs you want (it can be complete library), and AutoPlaylist B should filter Holiday songs. From this point on, you have three options:
[list][*]Modify the Autoplaylist B (the one you are synching), so during November-January it does not filter out "Holidays"[*]Sync playlist A during Christmans, sync playlist B during the rest of the year[*]Sync both playlists, and do a shuffle play (I suppose that is what you are doing, and I hope the iPod is capable of that!) on either playlist A or B depending on the season[/list]
If you try option 1 or 2, please be aware that you might need to select the option to delete tracks not found in the synchronization playlist.
I hope any of these solutions suits you. It is not automatic, but at least option 3 needs far less interaction, something you might be able to endure.
Note: I do not see the point on not doing the genre filtering if you are browsing your music in the iPod by Author and Album, so that is the reason I suppose you are interested in shuffle play all the time.