How to create a BPM smartlist in iTunes
One of the great things about the iPod, is that when you create a smart playlist in iTunes, it gets transferred to the iPod, this helps greatly with planning sets, categorizing music using formats other than album, artist and genre, and in the case of iPod DJing, categorizing music by BPM.
Creating and iPod smartlist in iTunes is really simple. And allows you to catagorize music based on a variety of criteria. for the purposes of arranging music on the iPod for DJing, you first need to find out the BPM for each track in your iPod music library. Once your iPod music has got the BPM you need to open up iTunes.
In iTunes, go to file >> new smart playlist
a window opens where you can “match the following rule”, here you have a series of drop downs that correspond with the various info columns that are related to your iPod music collection.
In the drop downs select BPM as the criteria to categorize your music with. In the next field you can choose various parameters, here you want to select ‘contains’ or ‘is’ as the qualifier, in the last field, enter in the BPM number. If you want further customization, you can click the + button and add other perameters, this can help if you want to get really specific in your Playlists. The window will close and you’ll see a new playlist in iTunes, labeling the play list is also very important, the best way to label is to order it as follows *BPM 123 by adding ‘*’ all the BPM playlists will appear together on your iPod, ‘BPM’ obliviously sets that the tracks are arranged by BPM and the numbers show the BPM.
If you have a large collection of music this can be tough, but once its sorted, everything is very organized and any new music will automatically be sorted into these smart playlists…pucker.
When it comes to getting these smart playlists onto your iPod, its just a case of plugging in your iPod and syncing your iPod with iTunes.
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