Q: Is there a way to look at my iTunes songs and tell if they have been added to a playlist?
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Sep 4, 2016 4:25 PMby Rysz,HelpfulAFAIK, there is no way to find this out in iTunes, not even by creating a smart playlist.
The closest that I found is this AppleScript from Doug's iTunes scripts website.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=showinplaylists
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Sep 4, 2016 4:24 PMby mollyrose1956,Thank you for your response. I'm not sure I really understand exactly what that does (I'm not extremely tech-savvy), but I see that it is only for macs, anyway. I do have a macbook pro for a laptop, so maybe I could try it on that, if I get to feeling venturesome. I'm always afraid of downloading things like this, though – basically because I'm not that tech-savvy & I don't want to mess up my computer! I appreciate that you took the time to help.
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Sep 4, 2016 4:31 PMby Rysz,Sorry, I should have noticed that you posted in iTunes for Windows forum. My bad.
The script seems to accomplish what you want, but works in the opposite direction. Rather than make a list of songs not appearing in any playlist, it will display whatever playlist a song foes appear in. Selecting each song in turn just to find if it's used in a playlist seems extremely tedious, so not much lost here.
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Sep 6, 2016 10:29 AMby turingtest2,The easiest way is make a playlists folder for your playlists, move the playlists that count in this respect inside the folder (you might want to leave the iTunes pre-supplied ones alone for this project) then make a smart playlist for everything that is in music, but not in the new playlist folder.
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