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Preventing repeated songs while shuffling

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Q: If you want to listen to your entire library in shuffle mode, you just use the iPod’s “Shuffle Songs” menu option, and the iPod goes to work playing your entire library. But if you update the iPod, this option forgets everything it has done before, and I frequently hear songs I’ve already (sometimes just) heard in a previous session. How can I create a foolproof way to get through my entire library, without allowing changing menus or synchronizing to throw it off?

- Leann and many other Ask iLounge readers

A: The easiest way to make your way through your entire library is with a smart playlist that keeps track of what’s been played recently. For example, the following smart playlist will select a number of songs at random from the entire library (Podcasts and videos excluded), but only ones that haven’t been played in the last three weeks. We’ve named ours “Fresh & Random.”

The neat thing about this playlist is that because playcounts and “last played” dates transfer between the iPod and iTunes, listening to your music using either device will change the playlist. You need only synchronize your iPod to keep the list fresh and random. Enjoy!

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How can I view videos that I downloaded on my 60gb video? They show in itunes under movies but only two appear on my ipod. The two that appear do not play video only audio. I’ve converted all of them to video through itunes but no video. Help!!!

Posted by Bornwise1 on April 25, 2006 at 9:03 AM (PST)

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Help.
My conputer died, i have another computer in which we have a different ipod conected. I need to download my songs into this computer.I read many reviews and the solucion was to use podutil. I downloaded, but it is telling me that the computer cant read the ipods internal datebase. I tryed to unable it thru itunes, but itunes cant read it either. What should i do?

Posted by cata on April 25, 2006 at 5:50 PM (PST)

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Regarding the 1st Q. on shuffling podcasts: you can also simply make an On-The-Go playlist from your ipod of the podcasts you want to shuffle or play sequentially. Any other means of putting podcasts into playlists and adding said playlist(s) to the ipod will work as well. Hope this helps.

Posted by apha on April 25, 2006 at 5:56 PM (PST)

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hi everyone, my question has been asked by several people already but no answer has been provided. i have a pc, itunes 6.0.3.5, and i’m trying to put windows media player video clips into itunes, but it wont recognize this format at all, the ‘not possible sign shows’. i’m successfully loaded quicktime compatible video to my ipod, but not this windows med player ‘video clip’ format (by the way these are seinfeld episodes). does anyone have a solution to this problem, preferable a free solution…?
thank you all so much.

Posted by magiczeppelin on April 27, 2006 at 9:17 PM (PST)

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