Smart sizing for smart playlists

[pedant]

I am an expert user (usually an early adopter), but only just got my first iPod--hence some wishlist ideas.

I have encoded my large CD collection on my Mac, and can easily fill the 30 gig of the iPod. I am using smart playlists to do so. I download all my 4 or 5 star music (around 22 gig and increasing as I rip my CDs), and have a second playlist for around 6 gig of 3 star music that is least played so as to cycle them.

Since I am continuing to rip my CDs in alphabetical order, the 22 gig of must-have 4 or 5 stars is growing and I must manually decrease the 6 gig of 3 star music.

Wouldn't it be good for the size limit of the 3 star to be automatically calculated? Or how about a meta-smart playlist that in one place allows me to select all of the 4 or 5 star playlist and a balance from the 3 star playlist?

[studogvetmed]

I may not understand what you are saying exactly, but I think this feature is built in. From the window you select criteria for your smarplaylists, check the box that normal says "limit to 25 songs" and change it to how many GB of information you want chosen and then it can be chosen randomly, by play count, recently or last added, etc.

Hope this helps, or if I am misunderstaning your wish please post back with what you meant.

Cheers, and good luck,
Stu-dog

[pedant]

Stud-dog

Thanks for your reply, but I think you misunderstood what I meant (or at least I was not very articulate in my request).

My wish was for this to be more dynamic. If I have smart playlist one as uncapped, I know I can set playlist two be capped at x GB, but I would love to be able to set smart playlist two to be dynamically capped at whatever is left on my iPod given the current size of smart playlist one.

[studogvetmed]

I see now! Thanks.

You'd like to see smart playlists that could communicate with one another in some way.

A wish I have for smart playlist is a better filter with some ifs and thens. Right now you can only set up match any or all of the following. I want it to be able to match one and then select from multiple possibilities