Hi Paul, Ricardo, Jane, Mark, and Others, Just a few quick comments to add to these instructions. For Jane's question, the "Recently Added" smart playlist by default matches two rules: 1) Date added in the last 2 weeks 2) Kind is not podcast
In addition, as Ricardo noted, once you navigate to the "Recently Added" smart playlist and use the context menu to "edit smart playlist" you can check the box to limit the number of items in the smart playlist and fill in a number. The items appear in the order they were added. Jane's idea of creating a regular playlist of these items is also a good one. You can either do this as Ricardo suggested, by checking the box and specifying number of items in the smart playlist, then move to songs table for the playlist (e.g., with VO-J) doing a Command-A to select all, then do a Command-Shift-N to create a new playlist from your selection and assign a name to the playlist. Now you can work with these items separately within their own playlist and reorder them, if necessary, without disturbing the "Recently Added" smart playlist when you make editing changes. I'll just add that for almost anything you want to do in iTunes, there's likely to be an AppleScript at Doug Adams' "AppleScripts for iTunes" web site. So if you want to turn your playlist into an "Album" with the tracks numbered in the order they appear in your playlist, there's an "Albumize Selection" AppleScript: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=albumizeselection Bring up Links in your web rotor and type in "download" to locate the "Click to download this script" link. You can also find the PDF description link just beside it (either as the next entry in the Links chooser menu, or if you navigated to the "Click to download this script" link, just flick, right arrow (in QuickNav mode), or VO-Right arrow to it.) This AppleScript re-numbers the tracks in the album into playlist order, and optionally enters a new Album name for each track. The zip file downloads with instructions about how to use the AppleScript. (Place it in your account's Library/Scripts folder. Use Command-Shift-H in Finder to go to your home folder, then use Command-Shift-G to "Go to folder" and type into the text field, "Library", without quotation marks, and press return. Then create a "Scripts" folder (without quotation marks) from the file menu or with Command-Shift-N if this is the first time you are using AppleScripts. Navigate to the Scripts folder, and copy the AppleScript here. This will show up as an option in a new Scripts menu on your iTunes menu bar. Select your playlist, and choose this option from the Scripts menu on the iTunes menu bar to run the AppleScript.) HTH. Cheers, Esther -- 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.
