I like the fact that sync downloads voice memos to my Macbook Pro. But I do not like the fact iTunes includes my voice memos in my general music library. It's a bit goofy to be listening to my music on shuffle and all of a sudden have it start playing my voice speaking! Is there a way to prevent them from showing up there – but still have them synced?
This has been happening for as long as I've been making voice memos, and is happening in iTunes 11 also.
Best Answer
I totally agree with you about Apple not implementing a proper place for voice memos in iTunes. They've even added a separate window for home made movies in iTunes 11's Movies section. This kind of disappointing.
But anyway, perhaps you already now this but one possible solution would be to uncheck syncing of voice memos in iTunes's settings for your iOS device.
This way, they won't be downloaded to your MBP so you will have to manually transfer them.
Manual transferring of voice memos might be disappointing for you but on the other hand, a smart playlist might affect your iTunes library's performance since a smart playlist keep scanning library for changes.