Christmas songs don't play
OK, I have strange problem in that my Christmas songs are not working. I point out that they are Christmas songs because I have no idea of when the problem started. Last year my Christmas playlist worked fine. It is a smart list that includes all genre christmas songs. On thanksgiving I tried playing it and it didn't play but it being a busy day I didn't look into it then. A few days ago my wife complained that she couldn't get the playlist to play on her iPod and looking into it I realized there was a problem.
The problem, the playlist does not play anywhere, not on our 4 iPods, not on the Apple TV or on the iMac or laptop, all with different symptoms, the iPods don't do anything when you hit play, the Apple TV says there are no songs in the playlist and the Macs will play the songs in the playlist if you hit play and stop as soon as the song is over, if you use party shuffle and choose the playlist it says there are no song that it can play.
OK, those are what it does, here is what I've tried. I played all the songs and they play fine by themselves, some are songs ripped from CDs and some bought on iTunes. I recreated the smart playlist, no go. I created a regular playlist and moved the songs into it manually, nothing. I change the genre to something else and create another smart playlist, nothing. I created a johnny cash playlist because I have some christmas and non christmas music from him, party shuffle does not show the Christmas music. I changed the Nightmare Before Christmas from soundtrack to christmas and it plays just the NBC songs. I created several playlists, both smart and regular with different settings and they work except for any Christmas songs
All my other playlists work fine, all the songs play fine when selected and played. Since it seems to be just the Christmas songs, I am at a loss especially since so many were bought on iTunes. Even changing the genre didn't work. I also checked that they were all checked so they would play. On the ATV I can select a song and it plays it and continues on to the next song as long as I don't select shuffle songs. unfortunately it only plays them in order that way. When playing, the ATV does say that there are 113 songs in Christmas but selecting shuffle still gives the no songs in playlist error.
Since last year, I have gotten a new iMac and have upgraded the system and iTunes, I don't remember what they were at last year. My itunes folder however was and still is on an external drive. I have a new 24" intel 2.8ghz iMac with os 10.5.5 and iTunes 8.0.2. I searched around and didn't see anything like the problem I'm having. I've thought of ripping the CDs again but that seems like a lot of work and it won't help the songs I got from iTunes.
Can anyone think of a reason for this? I'm not really in the mood to drag my system to the apple store just for this. I would like to be able to listen to my Christmas songs.
The problem, the playlist does not play anywhere, not on our 4 iPods, not on the Apple TV or on the iMac or laptop, all with different symptoms, the iPods don't do anything when you hit play, the Apple TV says there are no songs in the playlist and the Macs will play the songs in the playlist if you hit play and stop as soon as the song is over, if you use party shuffle and choose the playlist it says there are no song that it can play.
OK, those are what it does, here is what I've tried. I played all the songs and they play fine by themselves, some are songs ripped from CDs and some bought on iTunes. I recreated the smart playlist, no go. I created a regular playlist and moved the songs into it manually, nothing. I change the genre to something else and create another smart playlist, nothing. I created a johnny cash playlist because I have some christmas and non christmas music from him, party shuffle does not show the Christmas music. I changed the Nightmare Before Christmas from soundtrack to christmas and it plays just the NBC songs. I created several playlists, both smart and regular with different settings and they work except for any Christmas songs
All my other playlists work fine, all the songs play fine when selected and played. Since it seems to be just the Christmas songs, I am at a loss especially since so many were bought on iTunes. Even changing the genre didn't work. I also checked that they were all checked so they would play. On the ATV I can select a song and it plays it and continues on to the next song as long as I don't select shuffle songs. unfortunately it only plays them in order that way. When playing, the ATV does say that there are 113 songs in Christmas but selecting shuffle still gives the no songs in playlist error.
Since last year, I have gotten a new iMac and have upgraded the system and iTunes, I don't remember what they were at last year. My itunes folder however was and still is on an external drive. I have a new 24" intel 2.8ghz iMac with os 10.5.5 and iTunes 8.0.2. I searched around and didn't see anything like the problem I'm having. I've thought of ripping the CDs again but that seems like a lot of work and it won't help the songs I got from iTunes.
Can anyone think of a reason for this? I'm not really in the mood to drag my system to the apple store just for this. I would like to be able to listen to my Christmas songs.
24" iMac 2.8 ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
