iTunes 101: Wrangle your iTunes LPs with Smart Playlists
Photo courtesy of Jay Robinson
Earlier we mentioned how to explore the iTunes LP format and how easy it is to peek inside and check out all of the non-Flash, CSS-based awesomeness. But if you happen to be somewhat less geeky, it's pretty likely that your definition of "exploring" iTunes LP is much more focused on playing music, reading liner notes, and checking out custom graphics.
If all you really want to do is check out your growing library of iTunes LPs then there's an easy way to bring them into one single collection. We have covered using Smart Playlists to manage your Library on several occasions. It's also possible to create a Smart Playlist that will list just your iTunes LPs. Just create a new Smart Playlist and set the filter field to "Kind," the operator to "contains" and in the text field type "iTunes LP."
That's all there is to it, and I'm honestly kind of surprised Apple didn't include some form of visualization a la Cover Flow to make it easier to peruse your shiny, new digital LPs. If you've got any Smart Playlists or other iTunes 9-related tips, let us know in the comments -- we'd love to hear from you!
Update: proper attribution to Jay Robinson now added to the image -- a glitch in our CMS caused the error, for which we apologize. - ed.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Big Dave said 2:54PM on 9-15-2009
Could have at least given Jay Robinson credit for this, you even stole his image.
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iBearTouch said 2:59PM on 9-15-2009
Wow... busted.
Evan Walsh said 3:26PM on 9-15-2009
I was about to say the same thing.
http://jayrobinson.org/2009/09/11/some-notes-on-itunes-lp/
Scroll down to the bottom and view the image (and the technique) that TUAW stole. Integrity much?
Victor Agreda, Jr. said 3:43PM on 9-15-2009
An issue with adding a credit in our CMS caused the image to drop the credit. We have now fixed it. We were in no way trying to rip off Jay, and if you will check, the Source link ALWAYS linked back to his page -- as is our common practice.
destructo said 2:56PM on 9-15-2009
Apple has added some great new functionality to smart playlists in 9.0 - sub parameters!
In fact, I wrote about it today on my blog: http://destructoville.blogspot.com/2009/09/in-version-90-itunes-smart-playlists.html
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jayrobinson said 3:19PM on 9-15-2009
Wouldn't mind... thanks, Big Dave!
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Big Dave said 4:47PM on 9-15-2009
Np sir, keep up the good work!
@tuaw It wasn't just the image, it was also the whole process that you make it look like you figured it out yourself. Could have just said, Thanks to Jay for teach us how to.....
Jay Robinson said 7:03PM on 9-15-2009
Thanks. Appreciate it, TUAW!
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