Hi Cara,
On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:34 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Hey All, -just have a couple of quickie questions for ya about
selecting playlists to sync with the nano. In the music tab, I have
my nano set to only sync selected playlists. In the table, only ten
playlists are shown, and I cannot seem to access any others than
those. Unfortunately, none of them are lists I wish to sync! ick!
I've created a playlist specifically for this purpose, but I can't
seem to either manually sync it or have it show up in that table to
check it to have it automatically synced.
How do you have your Options set on the Summary page of your Nano? If
it came up without "Sync only checked songs and videos" checked or
with "Manually manage music and videos" checked you'll have to change
the settings to what you want -- this is probably with the following
options checked:
"Open iTunes when this iPod is connected
"Sync only checked songs and videos"
"Enable spoken menus for accessibility"
(First and last came up checked automatically for me with VoiceOver
turned on)
If you change your configuration, find the "Update" button and check it
Then go the Music tab. You need to check the box for "Sync Music" and
the Radio button for "Selected playlists" (instead of "All songs and
playlists"). At that point you should be able to find a list of all
the playlists in your iTunes library in the table. It's a scrolling
table, so only about 8 entries get listed on my MacBook at a time.
Usually (but not always) you'll hear the alert that you've come to the
end of the visible table and have to scroll (VO-shift S) then arrow
down 7 or 8 times and escape.
In fact, if your other settings are correctly set up, that might be
the reason you can't get to the playlists you want checked. Simon
posted about this and I added comments about this (yesterday?).
I also tried dragging and dropping it to move it up in my sources
list, as it seems that the ten playlists displayed in the IPod table
for synced playlists are dependent on where they fall in my sources
list. So if I can simply move my created playlist closer to the top
of my sources list, I know it will show up in the table, as I've
seen this happen before.
The other tip I gave in my post is to create a folder for the
playlists that you want to put on your Nano. iTunes orders its
playlists alphabetically, but grouped by: first folders and their
contents, then smart playlists, then regular playlists. If you create
a folder for the playlists that you want to transfer, these playlists
will always appear first in the contextual menu lists for "Add to play
list", and if you ever do a manual transfer with VoiceOver drag and
drop (which you DO NOT WANT TO DO for your Nano 4G), the folder is
indeed much closer to the device. (it's also a good check of
mastering drag and drop, since if you can drag and drop a play list to
the folder, you can drag and drop it to an iPod -- remember to expand
the folder with VO-backslash so you can view the contents). The
reason you don't want to manually transfer to your Nano is that sound
tracks for your 4G only get generated when you sync.
See:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg42164.html
(Content transfer to the iPod Nano 4g)
for details.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to drag and drop! double
ick! lol!
So aside from the rather hacky practice of moving all of my desired
content to a playlist with an unrelated name which already shows up
in my syncing table, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I
can do to access other playlists than the ones already shown up in
the table in the music tab of my nano? Sorry for this basic
question, for what should be so simple, but it's just being a royal
PIMA at the moment! lol!
Anyway, am sooo diggin' on my lil pinky IPod! I've got a bit of
traveling ahead in the next few days, so will have 12 hours in the
air to catch up on some recent TV shows I haven't had time to check
out lately! <smile>
Anyway, hope yer' all havin' a terrific Sunday! Catch y'all laters!…
Cheers,
Esther
