Hi Ricardo, I believe that the default rules for the "Recently Added" smart playlist are: 1. Date Added is in the last 2 weeks 2. Media Kind is not Podcast You can change any of these rules for this smart playlist or create a new version of the smart playlist with modified rules and a new name to suit your own selections. Occasionally the original smart playlists fail to update. You can certainly reset the rules, as you did, to limit the size of the list by number, by adding additional rules, or by modifying the existing rules. However, I believe that the "Recently Added" smart playlist that comes predefined for iTunes selects all content that has been added within the last two weeks that is not a podcast. (I could be wrong about this; it's a long time since I started a completely clean iTunes account).
The smart playlist that I described was specifically for streams, however. I should add that I also sometimes create smart playlists as a fast way of finding content and then delete them once I'm through. Hope this answers your question. Write back if there's some point I didn't respond to in sufficient detail. Cheers, Esther Ricardo Walker wrote: >Hi Ester, > >Is this just streams that last 2 weeks in the recently added list? I'm asking >because I've had things on my recently added list for months. I have it set >to show the 150 most recently added items to iTunes. > > >On Feb 1, 2010, Esther wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Yes, going to your "Recently Added" playlist is a great general way of >> finding recent content. This tip is not limited to streams, but also helps >> you find anything that has just been added to iTunes (within the last two >> weeks, and not a podcast), so it's particularly useful to find content which >> was added, but which lacks tagging information. You can select these items >> and use "Get Info" (Command-I) to add this information. I was going to >> suggest using "Recently Added", but it struck me that some people may have >> played other streams in the past (i.e., added more than 2 weeks ago) and >> wondered where they went. Creating a smart playlist that shows all streams >> is a good way to solve that problem. Thanks for the suggestion, Ricardo; >> it's a good one. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Feb 1, 2010, Ricardo Walker wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Or you can also go to your "Recently Added playlist". Depending on how you >>> have your fields sorted, ascending, or descending, it will be near the top >>> or bottom of the list. >>> On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Esther wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Mary, Donna, Mark, and Others, >>>> >>>> The other way to locate streams that have been placed in the iTunes music >>>> library (in case you weren't able to use Command-L for the stream while it >>>> was playing) is to use the smart playlist feature and with a rule like >>>> "Kind contains stream". From anywhere in iTunes, press Command-Option-N >>>> to create a new smart playlist. You'll hear "smart playlist, selected >>>> by". Then, VO-Right arrow so that you hear "rules section" and interact >>>> (VO-Shift-Down arrow), in order to supply a rule or rules for inclusion in >>>> the smart play list. You'll be on the pop up button that says "Artist". >>>> Use VO-Space and then press "k" to change this to "Kind" in the menu for >>>> the pop up, then press return to commit this change. VO-Right arrow past >>>> the pop up button for "Contains" to the text field and type in "stream" >>>> without the quotation marks. Then press return to commit all changes and >>>> leave the smart playlist. You'll be prompted in a "Name Playlist" dialog >>>> window to enter a name for your playlist. The name "stream" will be >>>> entered as the default suggestion, but you can type in your own selection. >>>> Press return to commit your changes. Now, there will be a smart playlist >>>> in your sources table named "stream" or whatever title you assigned. If >>>> you want this to appear at the top of your smart playlist entries, add a >>>> hyphen to the start of the name you choose, since all playlists appear >>>> ordered alphabetically by category in the sources table. A playlist name >>>> like that is preceded by a hyphen or other character that appears >>>> alphabetically before letters or numbers will show up first in the list of >>>> smart playlists, before default smart playlists like "recently played". >>>> >>>> Downloaded files with names like "listen.pls" or "listen-1.pls" don't show >>>> up as playlists in iTunes. Instead, their contents appear as streams in >>>> the music library. The list of iTunes radio streams is fixed to only >>>> include the streams that appear in that category. However, you can >>>> construct your own playlists of streams. Use either the context menu for >>>> selections and "add to playlist" or copy and paste the entries to a >>>> playlist. >>>> >>>> The usual difficulty people have is locating the streams after they have >>>> been added -- hence, Mark suggested using Command-L to track the stream as >>>> it is playing. The smart playlist solution is a quick way to find all >>>> streams in your library -- including the ones that got added before you >>>> could identify the tracks. Then, you can use "Get Info" (Command-I) and >>>> navigate to the "Info" tab for the entry to add tag information or even >>>> your own comments to make these streams easier to locate for iTunes >>>> searches. Or, you can simply go back to your "stream" or "-stream" >>>> (that's the same name, "stream", but with a hyphen preceding the name) >>>> smart playlist to locate your streams. >>>> >>>> My description of creating the smart playlist was a bit sloppy from a >>>> pedagogic point of view -- if you use VO-Space instead of pressing return >>>> to select pop up menu items you don't run the risk of exiting the smart >>>> playlist early. (VO-Space is used to "perform the default action"). And >>>> you should really stop interacting with the rules sections (VO-Shift Up >>>> Arrow) then navigate (e.g. with VO-Right arrow) to the "OK" button and >>>> press it with VO-Space to nicely view the other smart playlist options and >>>> commit the changes to the smart playlist. Because I'm familiar with the >>>> smart playlist menu structure, I press the return key to commit my >>>> changes and exit the menu whenever I'm finished setting specifications and >>>> I press the escape key to cancel actions and quit instead of navigating to >>>> the "Cancel" button and pressing it with VO-Space. For a detailed >>>> description of smart playlists in iTunes, see the (long) archived post >>>> titled "Introduction to Smart Playlists (long)" at: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg01294.html >>>> >>>> HTH >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Esther >>>> >>>> On Feb 1, 2010, Mary Otten wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks, Mark. You rock! Itunes let me make a playlist with the current >>>>> song, so that should do it. >>>>> >>>>> Mary >>>>> >>>> >> >> -- >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
