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Does adding a new song or video to your " Recently Added " playlist, reset the 2 weeks before the playlist is gone & u have to get find them the old fashion way by scrolling threw the songs ?

Posted on Jul 21, 2014 10:06 PM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2014 1:13 AM

Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox wrote:


Does adding a new song or video to your " Recently Added " playlist, reset the 2 weeks before the playlist is gone


If you mean that the Playlist is empty, then that is because you have not added any new items to your Library for more than two weeks. It is not the Playlists that is there for two weeks - it's the songs etc. For example, if you add a song to your Library on "day one", and then more songs on "days, six, seven, ten and fifteen", then on day fifteen, the song you added on day one will no longer be in the Recently Added Playlist. Only songs added on days, six, seven, ten and fifteen will be in the Playlist. On "day 23", only songs added on days ten and fifteen will be in the list. If you add more items to your Library on "day 23", then the Recently Added Playlist will have songs from "days ten, fifteen and 23" in it.


You can also add songs to other Playlists so that you can group any songs together that take your fancy.

  • You can create a Regular Playlist, to which you add any song that you want.
  • You can create as many Regular Playlists as you want.
  • You can create Smart Playlists, which have rules, to which iTunes will automatically add (or remove) songs, according to those rules.
  • You can have as many Smart Playlists as you want.


You could, for example, create a Smart Playlist that has songs added between two weeks and two months (or whatever times you want). With such a Playlist, songs dropped from the Recently Added Playlist could automatically be added to a "Not So Recently Added" Playlist.


Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox wrote:


& u have to get find them the old fashion way by scrolling threw the songs ?

You can find a song by looking in the Artist menu, the Album menu, or even the Genre menu. Since each of those menus will be smaller than the songs list (which I assume is where you are scrolling through the songs), it will be easier to find the song. If you are using the Songs view (that is, the song list), then you can narrow down the number of songs by selecting the album, artist or genre that you are interested in. Look at the screenshots below of the Songs view, and notice how the number of songs can be reduced by narrowing down the view:

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One thing to note of course, the last shot shows only songs by the artist Antonio Forcione that are tagged with a Genre of "Acoustic". There may be other songs in the Library, by him, that are in different Genres. To see all songs by that artist, use the "All Genres" line but select the artist in the Artist list.

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Jul 22, 2014 1:13 AM in response to Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox

Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox wrote:


Does adding a new song or video to your " Recently Added " playlist, reset the 2 weeks before the playlist is gone


If you mean that the Playlist is empty, then that is because you have not added any new items to your Library for more than two weeks. It is not the Playlists that is there for two weeks - it's the songs etc. For example, if you add a song to your Library on "day one", and then more songs on "days, six, seven, ten and fifteen", then on day fifteen, the song you added on day one will no longer be in the Recently Added Playlist. Only songs added on days, six, seven, ten and fifteen will be in the Playlist. On "day 23", only songs added on days ten and fifteen will be in the list. If you add more items to your Library on "day 23", then the Recently Added Playlist will have songs from "days ten, fifteen and 23" in it.


You can also add songs to other Playlists so that you can group any songs together that take your fancy.

  • You can create a Regular Playlist, to which you add any song that you want.
  • You can create as many Regular Playlists as you want.
  • You can create Smart Playlists, which have rules, to which iTunes will automatically add (or remove) songs, according to those rules.
  • You can have as many Smart Playlists as you want.


You could, for example, create a Smart Playlist that has songs added between two weeks and two months (or whatever times you want). With such a Playlist, songs dropped from the Recently Added Playlist could automatically be added to a "Not So Recently Added" Playlist.


Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox wrote:


& u have to get find them the old fashion way by scrolling threw the songs ?

You can find a song by looking in the Artist menu, the Album menu, or even the Genre menu. Since each of those menus will be smaller than the songs list (which I assume is where you are scrolling through the songs), it will be easier to find the song. If you are using the Songs view (that is, the song list), then you can narrow down the number of songs by selecting the album, artist or genre that you are interested in. Look at the screenshots below of the Songs view, and notice how the number of songs can be reduced by narrowing down the view:

User uploaded file

User uploaded file

User uploaded file


One thing to note of course, the last shot shows only songs by the artist Antonio Forcione that are tagged with a Genre of "Acoustic". There may be other songs in the Library, by him, that are in different Genres. To see all songs by that artist, use the "All Genres" line but select the artist in the Artist list.

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Jul 22, 2014 11:44 AM in response to Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox

You don't "add" songs to a smart playlist. The rules determine which songs are in the list. Change the rules and a different set of songs will qualify. In this case any song that you added to the library more than 4 weeks ago (recalculated daily) will fall out of the list. If that doesn't suit you can change the rules so that everything added since a particular date is added to the list. Then at some later point in time you can review that rule.


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Jul 22, 2014 12:51 PM in response to Ten_Tailed_Light_Fox

No. If you buy songs, or rip any of your CDs those tracks will stay in your library until you remove them and in the recently added playlist for the next four weeks, after which they will disappear from the recently added list only. Anything you add in a weeks time from now will stay in recently added for four weeks and thus disappear in five.


Each and every track has a date added property, along with many other properties. Each and every rule in each and every smart playlist is analysed after any change to the library to determine which tracks belong in which smart playlists. Whether or not you buy or rip more songs has no impact on when the existing songs stop qualifying for the playlist, but yes if you don't add any more songs to the library in the next four weeks then by that time the playlist (as currently defined) will become empty.


If you want a list that never becomes empty then something like

  • Playlist is Music
  • Limit to 100 items by most recently added
  • Match only checked items

would probably do, with your choice of limit.


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