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Greetings,
If we all remember the snaffu in 2005 where smart playlists wouldn't live update on some iPods, I was happy it was fixed supposedly when I upgraded from my lovely 3g iPod (the 3G iPod was not affected during that time).
To my dismay, though I noticed out of my few six smart playlists that have a true live update, I noticed that only one was live updating. The playlist in question that actually worked was one based off of two separate playlists and set to select 84 mintues by least recently played.
After trying to hunt down the "limit to" button as the possible culprit, I narrowed down the common link as a single statement: "Playlist is not "exclude"".
So, I thought that perhaps there was an issue with smart playlists built on a "not" playlist exclusion. However it went deeper. My exclude playlist was built on positive statements for audiobooks (genre is), my videos (one each for video kind is), and podcasts (podcast is true). After reading an issue about the term "podcast is true/false" breaking smart playlist I changed this condition to genre is podcast instead.
Still broken. So I got rid of video kind condition and made one condition. "kind does not contain video".
Works.
So final conclusion. The conditions Podcast is and Video kind in smart playlist break live updating on the iPod. They update fine upon sync to iTunes, but do not live update on the iPod.
It appears that smart playlist based on other playlists do live update as long as the required playlists are available on the iPod (I had heard a report that this didn't work).
Hope this may help a frustrated smart playlist lover.
If we all remember the snaffu in 2005 where smart playlists wouldn't live update on some iPods, I was happy it was fixed supposedly when I upgraded from my lovely 3g iPod (the 3G iPod was not affected during that time).
To my dismay, though I noticed out of my few six smart playlists that have a true live update, I noticed that only one was live updating. The playlist in question that actually worked was one based off of two separate playlists and set to select 84 mintues by least recently played.
After trying to hunt down the "limit to" button as the possible culprit, I narrowed down the common link as a single statement: "Playlist is not "exclude"".
So, I thought that perhaps there was an issue with smart playlists built on a "not" playlist exclusion. However it went deeper. My exclude playlist was built on positive statements for audiobooks (genre is), my videos (one each for video kind is), and podcasts (podcast is true). After reading an issue about the term "podcast is true/false" breaking smart playlist I changed this condition to genre is podcast instead.
Still broken. So I got rid of video kind condition and made one condition. "kind does not contain video".
Works.
So final conclusion. The conditions Podcast is and Video kind in smart playlist break live updating on the iPod. They update fine upon sync to iTunes, but do not live update on the iPod.
It appears that smart playlist based on other playlists do live update as long as the required playlists are available on the iPod (I had heard a report that this didn't work).
Hope this may help a frustrated smart playlist lover.