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Found this on a forum... seams others have had the same issue and its a simple fix as below... will try it when i get home...

"Right-click on the movie and click on “Get Info”. Then select the 3rd tab “Video”. By default videos added here will be tagged as “Movie”, change the video kind to “Music Video”(see picture below). Click Next to do the same thing to the rest of the videos, once you finish tagging all to music video, click OK and all the videos will disappear from this Movie Library section. Don’t panic, they are all added inside the Playlist of Music Video now. "

This is only one of the steps, the reset is here:
http://blogs.catydesign-studio.com/2008/08/07/create-video-playlist-on-ipod-touch/
 
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Well, the guide above sort of works...
You right click on one of you're music video's, click 'Get Info'/'Options' and change the Media Kind to 'Music Video' then click next and repeat for aLL music vids, All you're selected vids will then move from the Movies folder to the Music folder, you then create a playlist and add the vids to it and then under the 'Sync Music' tab, select you're new playlist and tick the 'Include Music videos' box at the bottom the sync...

Now when you look in you're music player, you will see the new play list and can play them all in succession or skip from one to the other without having to return to the menu.

Under the Video player, the initial screen will show 1 video = number of episodes, this when selected will show All the indiviual files and play as before, no skip and returns to menu after the current playing video has finished.

Hope this helps others, apparently its a know issue with the Gen 2 and Itunes ?
 
UKDTweak said:
Erm, i have looked and checked forums, its a common complaint, I dont want to copy All my hundreds of mp3's to the ipod, nor do i wish to spend an hour scrolling through the list to select or deselect the files i want, i just want to transfer specific files in specific folders, as with most devices... As I said, i found the easiest way seams to be via play lists, my god man, READ first!! Im not raging, just pointing out a major niggle with an otherwise neat product.
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Click that little "X" next to the progress bar up top (if it's still importing tracks)

If you don't want all your tracks (I'm confused, because when you setup / install iTunes it asks if you want to search all drives??), and can't be bothered with manually creating playlists you could just try a few smart playlists, that's a lot less hassle.

For instance, I have a "Random 10GB" smart playlist that automatically shunts 10GB of random tracks on to the iPhone :)
 
I like the smartplaylist, I typically have a playlist that includes all of my 5* songs, I don't rate every song, just the favorites, and when I rate a new song, it's automatically added to the playlist and automatically syncs to the iphone/ipod when I dock it :)

Still prefer foobar for my general media player (on Windows)
 
Yeah, the smart playlist is severly overlooked IMO.

I've never bothered rating songs (too many to plough through), but I can see it being a nice way to build a heap of good songs :)

I wish Genius had a better range of options; 50, 100, and 200 songs is limited. I'd like at least a "GB" limit, or a larger "500" song limit.
 
EVH said:
Yeah, the smart playlist is severly overlooked IMO.

I've never bothered rating songs (too many to plough through), but I can see it being a nice way to build a heap of good songs :)

I wish Genius had a better range of options; 50, 100, and 200 songs is limited. I'd like at least a "GB" limit, or a larger "500" song limit.
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Can't you just type in how many songs you want to limit it to or even GB limit size?
 
IMO manually creating playlists is very antiquated.

I have a load of smart playlists set up so that every time I plug my iPod/iPhone in it will automatically put the most recent 200 songs I have added along with my favourites and auto categorise them into genres until my iPod is full :)

when you have a library which is well tagged most things are easy.
 
I have a setup playlist of recent stuff I want to listen to and then a smart list. Every song I like has a star against it. The smart list is made up of all the starred songs with a play count (to begin with) of less than 1. Once a song is listened to it drops out of the list (as the play count has gone up). Then when the smartlist is empty, with all the songs having been heard once, I up the play count entry by 1 and they all jump back in again. It's like having my own radio station of songs I like without the short term repetition. I also have another list of songs with more than about 10 plays so I also have the stuff I like to listen to a lot on hand as well.
 
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