Hi Mandy.
To create a smart playlist:
1. Enter alt + F to open the File Menu.
2. You should now see the New submenu, arrow right to open it.
3. Arrow down to Smart Playlist and press enter.
4. You are now in the dialogue to create a smart playlist.
5. You will probably need to shift tab twice to get to the item on which
you will create your smart playlist, for example, Artist, Date Added, Genre,
Last played, etc. There are 44 items you can select from.
6. The following steps will create a playlist for songs that have not been
played in the last 3 months.
a) Set the first field to Last Played as mentioned a couple of steps back.
b) Tab to the next field and arrrow down to the setting described as Not In
The Last.
c) Tab again into the edit field and enter 3 for the number of months.
d) Tab again now to the next combo box and arrow down to Months.
7. After you have set all of the above, tab down to the setting described
as Limit To checkbox and press spacebar to check this.
8. Now tab into the next field and set it to 1,000 for the number of songs
you want to limit to your playlist.
9. Tab again to the next combo box and set this value to Items.
10. Now tab to the OK button and press spacebar to activate it.
11. Now give your smart playlist a name and press enter.
When you have completed the above, your smart playlist will appear in the
side bar along with Music, Device, iTunes Store, etc. You can tab into the
list of songs and see what the smart playlist has selected for you.
The final step is to connect your iPhone, open up the devices menu and
select the music settings tab. Go to the checkbox for Synchronise Selected
Playlists only and check this. You will now see a tree view with all of the
playlists available and you can de-select all apart from your new smart
playlist using the spacebar. Ensure your smart playlist is checked.
Whenever you connect your iPhone, it will synchronise it to the contents of
the smart playlist. As you play songs on your computer or iPhone, details
will be updated in the iTunes database so that the playlist will change the
contents when it knows you have listened to a song on your iPhone or
computer.
It may seem quite complex but it is really quite straightforward once you
start experimenting. You can make your smart playlists as simple or as
complicated as you like with multiple conditions. For example, you could
have a smart playlist for songs that have not been played in the last 3
months, that have been played less than 10 times and have a duration of less
than 5 minutes.
As for backing up, personally I back up my ripped music collection to a hard
drive but I do have a large collection of iTunes purchases which I don't
store on my iPhone and leave those in the cloud. Consequently, I have 1,207
full albums on my iPhone at the moment which are a mixture of ripped albums
actually being synched to my iPhone with no purchases included. The current
smart playlist I'm using to do this simply has the following rule:
First combo box set to Purchased
Next combo box set to Is False
Regards.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Mandy Palmer
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:47 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Bulk] [access-uk] Re: [Bulk] Removing songs from Iphone
Thanks Kevin that's helpful. Where do I find the smart play list feature,
and how do I get it to work, sorry I'm a bit thick about this! Is it also
better to back to the cloud and the computer or one or the other? I'm always
eager for suggestions.
Thanks again
Mandy
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kevin Lloyd (Redacted sender "kevin.lloyd3" for DMARC)
Sent: 14 December 2015 18:56
To: Access-Uk
Subject: [access-uk] Re: [Bulk] Removing songs from Iphone
Hi Mandy.
The best way to do this would be to use a playlist.
Create a playlist in iTunes, add the songs you want to have on your phone
and then select the playlist to synchronise with your phone rather than your
whole music library.
When you get fed up with some tracks or just simply want to add new tracks,
delete them from or add them to the playlist in iTunes. Next time you
synchronise, they will be on your phone.
Alternatively, you could create a smart playlist and let iTunes select songs
for you. For example, songs you haven't heard for 3 months, songs you've
never played at all, songs you've added in the last 6 months or songs by a
certain artist, genre, it is really endless. The smart playlist will update
itself automatically as you play and add new content.
If you would prefer to have all of your music available all of the time,
Ian's suggestion of a £25 annual subscription to iTunes Match may be
something you could look at .
Regards.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Mandy Palmer
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 4:13 PM
To: Access-Uk
Subject: [Bulk] [access-uk] Removing songs from Iphone
Hi I manage to sinc my songs that are on my iphone 5S fine on a windows 7
computer but I have over 8000 songs on the laptop and obviously don't want
all of them on the phone but I have about 1000 on the phone. Sometimes I
want to delete some off the phone and replace them with others just because
I get sick of them but every time I delete them and then back up my phone to
the laptop they reappear on the phone, is there a way of deleting them off
the phone without them coming back but not deleting them off the laptop??
Mandy
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