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iTunes: Smart playlist-create - a manual

  • Nov 06, 2025
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In iTunes, you can create normal Playlists, even smart playlists. How this works, we will show you in this practical tip.

Smart playlist in iTunes to create

  1. You can open your iTunes music database.
  2. Click on the Plus icon.
  3. Then select in the drop-down menu and select "New playlist create".
  4. You can now begin Creating the smart playlist.
Smart Playlist to create

Smart playlist configure

Smart playlists have long been a part of iTunes, and the function was also improved and sophisticated.
  • First, you should set the window length of the Playlist, and whether to automatically update.
  • Now you can begin the actual work: the intelligent song selection.
  • You have in the various drop-down menus, a wide selection of criteria. You can also insert many other criteria in the list on the left, click the Plus Icon.
  • So you can easily create a Playlist according to your Wishes. Your imagination has no limits.
Many options are available

Example of a smart playlist

As an example, we want a smart playlist, which shows all unplayed and new Songs of the last two weeks.
  1. First of all, select a criterion "added within the last 2 weeks".
  2. Next, select the item "playback is 0", to only there in Songs view.
  3. Add the "media kind is music," Podcasts, and movies, to exclude.
  4. Now, change if necessary the number of Songs and you can specify whether the Playlist should be updated automatically.
  5. With a click on "OK" to save the settings and the Playlist is created.
A smart playlist
Tip: read also, like you albums in the iTunes library, put in a can.

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