Playlists set to random in iTunes won't stay random on my iPod. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted by friarjohn on Oct 25, 2009 - 8 answers

I think my question might be too vague to google properly, so I turn to you. I'm looking for a wide variety of songs about cities. Not necessarily about a specific city, but in general. A couple of examples of the type of song I'm looking for is Dread the Day (Ghosts of Lemora) and Take Back the City (Snow Patrol). I don't care about musical genre. I'll listen to just about anything. :)
posted by sandraregina on Sep 17, 2009 - 47 answers

I'm putting together this jamband playlist for an overseas trip. Pretty simple, right? [more inside]
posted by Jim On Light on Jul 24, 2009 - 5 answers

Is there a way, within iTunes, to change playlists (or navigate back to the main library) and to place the cursor in the search box using just the keyboard? [more inside]
posted by OmieWise on Mar 1, 2009 - 3 answers

How can I browse and listen to iPod playlists or genres by ALBUM instead of by artist or song title? [more inside]
posted by stst399 on Sep 24, 2008 - 8 answers

Is there a way to remove a song from all playlists in iTunes without having to delete the actual song? [more inside]
posted by planetthoughtful on Sep 17, 2008 - 8 answers

Greetings, I have burned a audio cd with windows media player 11 and would like to print out the list of songs. In order to do this I need to find and install mpexp.dll. The only site that I can find that has this insists that I enter a security code that states Only enter symbols attached to a cat. Of course it is impossible to determine which symbols to enter because they want you to join the premium service for a fee. Does anyone know where I can find this dll. By the way the site is Rapidshare.com, obviously a site to be avoided. I also find it very frustrating to have to go through all this bunk just to print out a list!
posted by Daddest on Jun 9, 2008 - 14 answers

I have a very confusing iTunes problem, regarding transferring songs to an external hard drive, and maintaining playlists and ratings... hopefully it will not be confusing to any of you, brave MeFites! [more inside]
posted by polyester.lumberjack on Apr 2, 2008 - 8 answers

My iPod/iTunes is completely out of control. I have 8,000+ songs, and they are minimally rated. My default rating when I add tracks is 4 and I downgrade tracks if I don’t want them to come up in shuffle, which runs off a playlist that’s “all songs rated 4 or higher.” This just ain’t cutting it and I find myself skipping more songs than I listen to. [more inside]
posted by SampleSize on Oct 16, 2007 - 9 answers

Editing Windows Media Playlists remotely [more inside]
posted by loquax on Jun 26, 2007 - 1 answer

Itunes smart playlists on an ipod are apparently quite stupid: A smart playlist that will list by date added to the ipod, not the entire itunes library? [more inside]
posted by disclaimer on Jun 4, 2007 - 6 answers

I have two iPods - a 60 GB for general use and a shuffle for exercise. I want to create playlists that delete songs I skip on the shuffle, but not songs I skip from the 60 or in iTunes. [more inside]
posted by andifsohow on Apr 11, 2007 - 3 answers

How can I configure a Smart Playlist in iTunes to play songs randomly but, should it randomly select one particular album comprised of three songs, that it plays that one album in the order intended? [more inside]
posted by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments on Apr 7, 2007 - 7 answers

I have 2 installations of iTunes. I want to transfer a play-list from one to the other. Both have identical libraries. However the file paths of the two libraries is different on each computer. Is there a way to do this? Theres [more inside]
posted by gergtreble on Jan 30, 2007 - 9 answers

How can I use iTunes smart playlists to fill my iPod with a good mix of new, favourite and random albums (not just songs)? [more inside]
posted by chorltonmeateater on Nov 25, 2006 - 6 answers

How do I tell itunes to just do it's best at filling up my ipod? [more inside]
posted by cschneid on Nov 24, 2006 - 10 answers

How do I convert XML files into XSPF? [more inside]
posted by monsterhero on Oct 2, 2006 - 4 answers

Where to find historical radio station playlists? [more inside]
posted by symbebekos on Sep 21, 2006 - 5 answers

iPodFilter: Can you do complex filters in Smart Playlists? [more inside]
posted by pettins on Jul 22, 2006 - 11 answers

Save my itunes playcounts and ratings! Damnable windows has crashed! [more inside]
posted by gergtreble on Jul 20, 2006 - 6 answers

songs about/featuring d.c./l.a? [more inside]
posted by ilikecookies on May 20, 2006 - 28 answers

What songs do you recommend about survival against odds or in the face of adversity? I am putting together a CD of songs to remind me I can push through anything. Examples of what I am looking for are: 18 Wheeler by Pink I Get Knocked Down (Tubthumping) by Chumbawumba I Will Survive by Cake (I like their version best, sorry) Any suggestions are helpful, but I am not particularly interested in breakup songs. If it is not a song where you can not sum it up into something along the lines of "Bring it!" or "Is that the best you got?" then it is probably not what I am after.
posted by slavlin on Mar 25, 2006 - 51 answers

Moving iTunes Playlists? [more inside]
posted by Manhasset on Jan 29, 2006 - 7 answers

iTunes Smart Playlists: how do I see what I've been listening to a lot recently? [more inside]
posted by heeeraldo on Dec 7, 2005 - 10 answers

Organizing MP3s questions. I've got about 50 gigs of music on my hard drive with everything in its place, all nice and neat like. I don't have just random music all over the place, but everything is separated by artist-album in their own folder in the "C:\my music" folder (if that even matters). [more inside]
posted by NoMich on Dec 5, 2005 - 19 answers

Yet Another iPod Question: I want to have a smart playlist that sorts the music on my iPod. But if I create a smart playlist and drag it onto the iPod playlist, it adds all the music from my entire library that fits that smart playlist. [more inside]
posted by pornucopia on Nov 23, 2005 - 7 answers

Burning more than 7 copies of an iTunes playlist. [more inside]
posted by tr33hggr on Nov 14, 2005 - 22 answers

What nifty playlists do you have in iTunes or for your iPod? [more inside]
posted by keswick on Oct 3, 2005 - 21 answers

iTunesFilter, part I: Why can't podcasts downloaded from the Music Store play in shuffled playlists? Is there any way around this? If I'm in a shuffled playlist mixed with podcasts and regular MP3's, it will only go from regular MP3's to regular MP3's and skip the podcasts downloaded from the MS altogether. Of course, if I go back to linear play mode, the podcasts play allright. iTunesFilter, part II: Is there any way to make the podcasts always start at the beginning of the track (i.e., to remove the bookmark function)? [more inside]
posted by jchgf on Oct 2, 2005 - 2 answers

One iPod (60 GB). One PowerBook. One XP Box. One keswick. How do I keep all four happy? [more inside]
posted by keswick on Sep 12, 2005 - 9 answers

Is there an easy way to convert a text list of songs (in "Artist - Song" format) into a working playlist? What I'm trying to do is take the Audioscrobbler Top Tracks list, and load it into Winamp. [more inside]
posted by monsterhero on Jul 24, 2005 - 7 answers

Is there a software that can create mp3 playlists using tags (or something like it)? MI [more inside]
posted by saysthis on Feb 20, 2005 - 7 answers

iPodFilter: Why can't you easily add the currently playing song to the On-The-Go list? From the Now Playing screen it should be possible to add the currently playing song directly to the On-The-Go playlist. It seems that I can only add songs to the On-The-Go list by surfing out to the songname in the current playlist and then holding Select on the songname to add it to the list. I would like to put my iPod on song shuffle and add songs as they randomly play. Impossible? [MI] [more inside]
posted by grabbingsand on Jan 17, 2005 - 5 answers

What are the best songs to jog to? [more inside]
posted by grrarrgh00 on Dec 16, 2004 - 30 answers

Itunes Filter: One of the missing features of Itunes is a true weekly top 25 list...[mi] [more inside]
posted by szg8 on Sep 20, 2004 - 8 answers

PlaylistFilter: I find Winamp's native playlist manager too restricted. Ideally, I want a plugin/player with a playlist module that can accomodate trees and metadata; the extreme case being where I can have an arbitrary number of fields (incl. trackname, artist, genre, "mood"...etc) and then pass it through selection filters (all Classical which are AT MOST 3 mins AND NOT baroque AND soothing...etc). Of course, this is kinda the ideal case. What's the best realistic solution? (I don't mind switching players).
posted by Gyan on Aug 18, 2004 - 11 answers

What to do about the compilations? I've recently started using iTunes for my mp3-listening activities, and finally have a use for metadata tags other than Artist/Song/Album (dynamic playlists make my socks roll up and down, up and down). But how to deal with greatest-hits collections and other compilations, where the album-release date has nothing to do with when the song came out? Do people (that is, you) actually look up the year for each song? If so, where? If not, what do you do?
posted by gleuschk on Mar 9, 2004 - 13 answers