Hi Esther, No you were perfectly clear. It has been a long time since I have done a fresh install of iTunes as well. I change that setting and probably just forgot. lol.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
