[Philmco]

OK, so I finally pulled the trigger and picked up my 160g iTV and while it's syncing as I type, I'm a bit miffed because I know tomorrow morning after I play with it a little to confirm everything works, I'm going to have to start all over. Here's the issue: When syncing music, you get two choices... either ALL songs and ALL playlists or just selected playlists. Am I missing something here or just nuts??? WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE LIBRARY??? I want and should be able to sync all songs and SOME playlists... I realize all I have to do to fix this is just create a playlist that is a copy of the library, and maybe I'm nitpicking, but this to me is an unnecessary step (and adds yet another item to scroll through). Anybody have any tips or tell me what I'm unable to figure out for myself.

[mcbane666]

With my ipod when i select some playlists, there is a box at the top with no text beside it, not sure what that is, you could try that, or you could make a smart playlist that just adds all your song from you library, this will automatically update as you add content

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
OK...What? So, you want to sync all of your songs but you only want some of your playlists? Why? Do you have a lot of playlists and feel it would be a lot to navigate ( scroll ) through? If so, it would take a very lot of playlists to make a burden.
I don't have one but can't you select certain playlists [using check boxes] under the Music tab -- select Apple TV in the source list? That's how it works with the iPod.
BTW, it's not iTV but AppleTV. iTV was the codename.

[Philmco]

Exactly... I have a ton of songs that I want access to (21,123 and growing), and more playlists than I want to display. It may seem silly, but it is kind of a nuisance when you've spent time organising files the way you want them and then have to look at all these duplicates on screen. Some are seperate playlists for the ipod, some works in progress, others that are sort of just goofy or risque that I don't necessarily want to scroll through while AppleTv is on display for guests. If you just sync selected playlists, only songs that are in a playlist gets synced. What just doesn't make sense to me is that the Master Music file (represented by the blue music note icon) is not an option!! This seems like an absurd oversight. So unless I'm missing something, the only way I can see to get all the songs in is to copy the entire music library into a playlist called "All." It's both an extra step in set up and it essentially leaves me with two library files.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
OK. Fair problem. Unfortunately, I also can't think of a way to get around it. I forgot about only the songs within the playlists are synced. Well, time for you to submit some feedback.

[Philmco]

Thanks so much for that link. Perhaps I should've vented there in the first place!!

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
Constructive feedback is always helpful. Apple offers it for most products...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/