Smart Playlist Power with Folders
Keeping your Playlists in folders is a quick way to increase the effectiveness of your Smart Playlists. For example, if you want to make a Smart Playlist that checks several Playlists for some criteria, like the song rating, you could add each of those Playlists to the Smart Playlist. But you have to keep adding rules, setting the criteria, and setting the value.
Instead you could just reference a folder that holds the collection of Playlists you need to query. Dragging a Playlist into a folder is quicker and easier than adding fifteen rules to a Smart Playlist. You wouldn’t keep all your files in the root of your disk in Finder, it makes more sense to use folders. The same logic applies to iTunes. Keep your Playlists in a logical network of folders and you’ll find it’s easier to manage all those lists.
The screencast shows how to quickly make a Smart Folder listing tracks that haven’t been added to any other Playlist. Murphy picked this tip up from an article in Macworld magazine. The article also mentions scripts which can accomplish the same task. Stay tuned, Murphy will cover some iTunes scripts as the week continues.
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