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  • Hello

    • 8 out of 10
    • Poe
    • Poe rocked my world with "Angry Johnny" (I want to kill you/I want to blow you/Away) and "Trigger Happy Jack" (Trigger Happy Jack/ You're gonna blow/But I'm gonna get off/Before you go), as powe

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    • Mike Patton may well be one of the hardest working men in showbiz these days, and his latest with Fantômas underscores just about how far out he is willing to travel.

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  • Physical Graffiti

    • 10 out of 10
    • Led Zeppelin
    • This album bears every flavor of genius from the five records that came before. It is, I believe, the band's finest. With Physical Graffiti, Zep came raging back to their musical home territory -- har
  • Every Day: The Best of the Verve Years

    • 8 out of 10
    • Joe Williams
    • Joe Williams was Figure Two in my three-man education in singing. A brilliant vocalist, scatter, and interpreter of jazz and blues, Williams produces music that's totally unique, yet sounds so effortl
  • De Nova

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    • The Redwalls
    • Wow! Perhaps my 5-star rating is simply because the Redwalls are not only new and fresh (none of them older than 22!), or perhaps its because -- despite their ages -- they are able to totally capture

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iPO Quick Tip

iTunes: Automatic Custom iPod Playlists

Depending on the size of your music library, it can be pretty easy to run out of space on your iPod before you run out of songs to load on it. No need to despair, since this is a perfect opportunity to avoid an over-filled iPod and keep your portable music selection fresh with a little help from Smart Playlists.

My 4GB iPod nano doesn’t even come close to holding my entire iTunes Library, but sometimes it’s just the right size for my activities. I overcame the storage limitations by creating a series of Smart Playlists that give me a random selection of music from different genres that I haven’t listened to in the past week.

Here’s how:

  • Launch iTunes.
  • Choose File > New Smart Playlist.
  • Make sure that Match all of the following rules is checked.

  • Start by making a new Smart Playlist.
  • Set the first rule to Genre and contains and enter a genre that you want to include on your iPod. In this example, I entered "Blues."
  • Now click the plus symbol that’s off to the right of the rule you just created. This adds a new rule.
  • Set this new rule to Last Played and is not in the last.
  • Enter 1 in the field next to the days pop-up menu, and then change days to weeks.

  • Add rules for genre and last played in the Smart Playlist pane.
  • Now check Limit to and enter a value in the items field. I changed items to MB since I want to load songs on my iPod based on its overall storage capacity and not based on a specific number of songs.
  • Leave selected by set to random.
  • Leave Live updating checked.
  • Click OK.

I made Smart Playlists with these settings for several different musical genres and sync all of them with my iPod. Now when I go out I have a wide range of music styles to listen to, and the selection is always fresh since I’m not listening to the same music I heard a week ago.

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