I'm trying to create an "albums not played for the last 3 months" playlist, that I could sync onto my iPod.
Is it normal that autofill always chooses the same songs out of my library to fill the iPod with? No matter what I do to those tracks (listen to them on the iPod, try do delete them in "manual" mode), they always come back when I sync with autofill.
I do have quite a substantial amount of other tracks that I like as well, but it feels like autofill picked once and for all the tracks it likes most.
I have read the Managing Your iPod With Smartlists document (PDF) (non-PDF link) but nothing has come of it.
I own a 2G iPod nano (first generation) that I'm using together with iTunes 9.0.1 on my Mac.
Best Answer
I sympathize completely. This is one of my biggest complaints with iTunes - that it doesn't inherently make any distinction between complete albums and "singles" - random tracks that aren't with a complete album.
What I've ended up doing is systematically clearing the album tag from all singles. You can then make a smart playlist that omits tracks with no album. If it bothers you to mess with the metadata that way, you can find a different attribute to change, as long as you're consistent and it's something smart playlists can filter for.