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Smart Playlist to limit certain Artists

As with many my iTunes library is far larger than my iPod capacity, so I use smart playlists to limit the amount of music on it by GB. However I've found that when I choose songs by random I often end up with too many songs by certain artists and not enough by others. I'm looking to specify a smart playlist that would limit the amount of songs from certain artists.

For example a playlist for all of the following:
120 GBs of music chosen by random from entire library
include all songs rated 3 stars or higher regardless of artist
limit to only 30 songs by John Lennon
limit to only 30 songs by Johnny Cash

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 27, 2009 10:52 PM

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Feb 28, 2009 8:02 AM in response to jeffcdo

Not exactly, but you can come close by building multiple Smart playlists where one may reference another. Following is just one idea. Make a separate playlist of all music for which Artist does not contain Lennon or Cash. Grab 119 Gigs from that and 1 Gig completely at random. Vary the formula until you get what you want.

If you like doing that sort of thing (I'm guessing from your post that you do!) it will be a fun project.

Smart Playlist to limit certain Artists

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