Lesson 16. Helpful Smart Playlists

A Smart Playlist is a rule-based playlist that can help you organize your music in creative ways. Smart Playlists aren’t tied directly to iTunes Match, but they make the experience of using iTunes—or accessing your music library from other devices—much better.

Recently Added Smart Playlist

Smart Playlists can keep track of the newest music in your library. If you prefer to hear your newest music more often at first, keeping a single, automatically updated collection of your most recently added music makes that simple.

The rules for the Recently Added Smart Playlist are simple: Date Added is in the last 14 days (see Figure 16.1). (You can finesse this rule to your liking, obviously, if you prefer to expand the ...

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