View all iTunes 7 content in one smart playlist

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Wed, Dec 20 2006 at 7:30AM PST • Contributed by: PizzaCake

iTunes 7 split the library up into various sections: Music, Movies, Podcasts etc. However, I find that it's sometimes useful to see every item in your library in one place. To do so, create a smart playlist with the following rule:size is greater than 0MB.

I named this playlist Everything. Now I can see audio, podcasts, movies, PDFs, etc. -- the entire contents of my library, in other words -- in one place.

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View all iTunes 7 content in one smart playlist
Authored by: DougAdams on Wed, Dec 20 2006 at 8:58AM PST

This AppleScript will display the entire Library, as in pre-iTunes 7:

tell application "iTunes"
     set view of front window to library playlist 1
end tell

For convenience, you can also assign it a shortcut.

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/

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View all iTunes 7 content in one smart playlist
Authored by: perturb on Thu, Dec 21 2006 at 7:03AM PST

Thanks Doug, this hint is superior to the original post because smart playlists don't allow the full range of actions (e.g. you can't delete items from the iTunes library.)

I often have other separate iTunes windows up (store, podcasts) and had to make this change to avoid an error:


tell application "iTunes"
     set view of front browser window to library playlist 1
end tell

View all iTunes 7 content in one smart playlist
Authored by: DougAdams on Thu, Dec 21 2006 at 8:21AM PST

Right. I had posted the script off the top of my head, but I used "browser" in the version I've got posted at my site.

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/

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How about for an iPod?
Authored by: hargreae on Thu, Dec 21 2006 at 10:14AM PST

Is there a way to do this for an attached iPod? Sometimes files are on the iPod but don't show up in their respective areas (Podcasts, in particular) and it's hard to find them to delete them.

How about for an iPod?
Authored by: DougAdams on Thu, Dec 21 2006 at 4:35PM PST

As far as I can tell, this trick won't work on the iPod. Logic suggests using something like this:

tell application "iTunes"
	set view of front browser window to library playlist 1 of source "My iPod"
end tell

But this only shows the "Summary" screen.

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/

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View all iTunes 7 content in one smart playlist
Authored by: PizzaCake on Wed, Jan 24 2007 at 12:04PM PST

You can delete items from a smart playlist by holding down the option key and pressing delete, hope that helps.

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