Gerardo,
I don't know if my suggestion is more efficient or not but it possibly might save you some time depending on how your music is organized in your iTunes library. iTunes has the ability to create what it calls Smart Playlists which might save you some time if your library is organized by album as I believe the default approach is when ripping albums with iTunes. At least in my iTunes library, my music is organized in the following folder structure: My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\Artist Name\Album Title with Artist Name and Album Title replaced with appropriate values. So let's say I have the album Aerosmith's Greatest Hits in my library and I want to create a Smart Playlist of it. Here are the steps I would follow on my Windows 7 desktop running iTunes 12.6: 1. Select the File menu. 2. Select new from the file menu. 3. Select Smart Playlist from the new submenu. 4. This opens a dialog box with the default first item ticked to match Music in the drop-down box which is what you want. 5. Next, you have the first rule drop-down box which has a default setting of Artist and in my example, I fill in the text box with Aerosmith so the first rule states that Artist contains Aerosmith. 6. After filling the value in for the artist, tabbing once lands you on the add button which you execute to add another rule. 7. The drop-down box defaults to a value of Artist again for the second rule and I selected Album from the drop-down and typed Greatest Hits in the box specifying what Album contains. 8. I then executed the Ok button to complete the rules and a new dialog opens to name the playlist. 9. I then had a playlist in iTunes meeting the rules established in creating the Smart Playlist. I don't know if you'll find that more efficient or not but I wanted to put it out there as an alternative. I hope this helps. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 6:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ITunes on Windows Seeking a more efficient way to create playlists I'm retaking the use of ITunes after almost 6 years of not used it for music purposes, to put music on my 5S; I'm wanting to create playlists based on how I have music folders organized on my Laptop, thus the process I follow for this is; I mentioned the process, hoping maybe there's a faster way? 1.-Songs are already imported inITunes, for this example a folder calledOldies, which I'm wanting Track1 on the playlist to be Pretty Woman by RoyOverton, Track2 Over the BoardWalk, Track3 Diamond Ring, songs which somehow got put at the very top of the list, thus I select those three, and from the Context menu, create the Oldies Playlist, 2.-Continuing creating thePlaylist, I'd like Track4 to be "The Wanderer", Track5 "My Girl", so I tab toSearch Edit box, and type in "Wanderer" and down-arrow to let the song come up, and use thecontext menu to add it to the Oldies Playlist; 3.-Following the same Search&add process until I finish the playlist to mysatisfaction. Is this the way to do this, or is there a more-efficient way I might not know of forcreating playlists using ITunes for Windows? -- Gera Enviado desde Thunderbird -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 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