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Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

Last updated: May 12, 2021 7:18 pm UTC
By Jerrod H.
Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

Q: I really have been impressed with iTunes 7.  Separating content by having distinct libraries was long overdue. However, I feel like they didn’t finish the job: iTunes still merges Music Videos and songs together. I don’t like Music Videos showing up on my iPod when going through my songs, and I especially don’t like them in the new Cover Art view in iTunes.

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I see them as separate entities, and wish there was a Music Videos library in iTunes. Am I missing something, or is there a way to do this?

Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

– Niles

A: Unfortunately, there’s no way to elegantly give iTunes features like this, without Apple doing it for us. However, we can continue to do the workarounds we’ve recommended for similar questions at Ask iLounge: use Smart Playlists.

This works especially well here since the new iTunes 7 sub-libraries (Music, Audiobooks, etc.) appear in smart playlist conditions the same way Playlists do.

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First make a smart playlist that contains all your Music Videos using this logic:

Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

Then, make another which uses the contents of your “Music” library (automatically weeding out Audiobooks, TV Shows, Podcasts, etc.), but explicitly removes those found in the new “Music Videos” playlist:

 

Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

 

Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

Name these appropriately, add a prefix so they stay together, and enjoy your new audio-only song list. We too wish that Apple had chosen to provide a new library for music video content – and perhaps Digital Booklets – rounding out the entire collection of possible iTunes media types, but this is an acceptable compromise until your feedback convinces Apple to make the change.

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