Can't delete or clear songs in Smart Playlist

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Can't delete or clear songs in Smart Playlist

Guys,

I'm creating a smart Playlist to isolate my mini from my 20gb. I cannot for the life of me delete or clear any songs from a Smart Playlist, and it is REALLY annoying me. Can anyone please help? Everything is current versions BTW.

Thanks,

Todd

Posted on Nov 1, 2005 12:43 AM

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Answer 1

Spinsah

Level 1

30 points

Nov 1, 2005 1:27 AM in response to Todd Maillet

The reason you can't delete songs from smart playlists is because they are in fact "smart" playlists - whatever goes into them is totally dependant on the "rules" that you set in the "edit smart playlist" area. Smart playlists are completely automatic by these rules that you set, and songs can't be manually added or deleted in any way.

If you want to be able to manually add & delete songs from a playlist it has to be a manual playlist that you use.

Hope that clears it up a bit

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Answer 2

boxhead

Level 4

1,500 points

Nov 1, 2005 6:29 AM in response to Todd Maillet

You cannot delete songs from a Smart Playlist if you have the Live Updating checkbox ticked.

If you untick this box, you will then be able to delete items from the Smart Playlist. However, note that iTunes will then not automatically update the playlist.

The above is a useful for occasions when you want to have a tweaked Smart Playlist.

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