How how I love me some iTunes Smart Playlists. It’s such a wonderful feature that allows you to enjoy your music more efficiently by setting up automatically generated playlists based on whatever criteria you’d like.
For instance, I have a “Top 100 Songs” (the most listened to of the collection), a “Forgotten Gems” playlist (for those good songs I haven’t heard in a while), where Rating is greater than 4 stars, and Last Played is not in the last 10 days, and a “Virgin Ears” playlist where Playcount is 0 (for songs I haven’t heard yet).
It’s fantastic. The trouble is though, while these work wonderfully in iTunes, for some reason they wouldn’t update automatically on the iPod. I’d listen to “Forgotten Gems”, but the list would never change. The “New Music” playlist (where Date Added is within the last month or so) would never change. It was very frustrating to be so defeated by such a little device… until now.
With the most recent Software Update comes the iPod updater with fixes for all iPods in the family, and much to my great joy, it seems they’ve finally fixed the Smart Playlist issue so they update on the fly. Thanks Steve!
For more ideas on what you can do with Smart Playlists, check out smartplaylists.com
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