ITunes newbie - playlists from CDs?
Somebody gave me an iPod Nano for Christmas. I went and got iTunes; I had no problem importing the 150 or so CDs I have ripped onto my computer into it, although it couldn’t find some of the cover art.
The problem is loading my device. I want to load only certain albums from certain artists onto it, and the only way I can find to do that is to create a playlist for each album, then sync it to the device. That’s kind of tedious. Is there a way I can make individual playlists for all of my albums at once, or do I have to make them one by one?
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I found this.
I read the perl code and everything looked good.
I’m assuming you are using Windows.
Thanks, @johnpowell. Want to get a little more familiar with the app itself before I let a script drive it. Aren’t the playlists just XML somewhere? I’ve had the thing for like 2 hours.
Your ipod should be able to play albums individually through it’s menu, but if you only want some songs/albums to update to your Nano – just uncheck the ones you don’t want in your Library. They won’t update then. And it won’t clutter up your playlists.
Or am I missing something? Cause that seemed terribly obvious.
It is just XML.. But I can’t imagine doing it by hand. It follows this format.
<key>Playlists</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Name</key><string>Library</string>
<key>Master</key><true/>
<key>Playlist ID</key><integer>21361</integer>
<key>Playlist Persistent ID</key><string>BF0D73999A54B8B4</string>
<key>Visible</key><false/>
<key>All Items</key><true/>
<key>Playlist Items</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>2023</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>2025</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>2027</integer>
</dict>
@asmonet , I’ve already loaded a few albums on it. But it goes like this:
Create a playlist
Add an album to the playlist
Create another playlist
Add an album to the playlist
iterate.
What I want to do is create a playlist for every album in my library, so I can select the ones I want and sync them in one shot. Manually creating a playlist for every album I have is going to be awfully tedious. I don’t want to sync my entire library to the iPod (not enough room anyway), and the only way iTunes gives me to aggregate my collection is by artist or genre – not album.
With my other MP3 players, I just drag and drop folders from my HDD to the device. So easy….
Simply make it so you manually manage music. The option is here.
Then you can just drag stuff over. Like this.
The thing is, I thought I had done that. I know I set it to manage manually, but it reverted to the default setting.
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