How to create a favorite songs playlist on iTunes

Have you ever been in the position where you want to hear your favorite songs on iTunes, but you don't have the time to sift through your iTunes library and find them all one by one? No problem! Have the program find them automatically by creating a favorite songs playlist on iTunes using the smart playlist feature.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• iTunes

1. To create a favorite songs playlist on iTunes, first select file then scroll down to "new smart playlist" (or press CTRL+ALT+N). A smart playlist box will open.

2. Underneath "match the following rule" select "rating".

3. In the next box to your right, select "is greater than"

4. In the next box to your right, choose either 2, 3 or 4 stars. If you select 2 stars, your favorite songs playlist on iTunes will have only songs with 3 or more stars. If you select 3 stars, your favorite songs playlist on iTunes will have only songs with 4 or more stars, and so on and so on.

5. Select the "live updating" button on the bottom of the smart playlist box.

6. Optional: check the box "limit to", pick a number of items and on the box all the way to the right of that select "most often played". This makes your favorite songs playlist on iTunes more picky, by only taking those songs which are both highest rated AND most often played.

Tips & Warnings

• If you haven't rated and given stars to your music, you can still construct a favorite songs playlist on iTunes by unchecking "match the following rule" and simply following step 6. This will create a most played playlist but may not be quite as accurate in determining what you like.
• For other iTunes playlist ideas, consider viewing some of the articles below.

Resources

• How to create a new songs playlist on iTunes

[somatoma]

on 1/14/2009 Great information. Thanks