iPod How can I make Christmas Songs Hidden Until Christmas?

[superbungalow]

This is very annoying. I added a bunch of Christmas songs to iTunes last year, and enjoyed some festive music through the Christmas period. Now, however, it is February. Is there anyway I can make these just not sync to my iPod or hide, until Christmas. I'm fairly sure there's no built in way in iTunes to do this, so a hack would be fine. Has anyone else ever had this problem?

 

[xUKHCx]

You could uncheck the songs, this way iTunes won't play them and there is a preference not to sync unchecked songs IIRC.

 

[duncanapple]

Bingo - this is what I do. The only downside (and please someone correct me if I am wrong, I hope I am...) is that it takes a long time to check/uncheck each song, esp when you have hundreds of them. I wish there was a way to batch check/uncheck.

 

[Cinematographer]

Show all christmas songs and CMD-click on one of the checkboxes, this will un-check all of them.

 

[leumluath]

Make a playlist of Christmas songs. Synch music, and selected playlists, then uncheck the playlist until Christmas.

 

[rdowns]

Have all the xmas songs with the same genre, say Xmas. Make a smart playlist where all songs are genre xmas. Don't sync that playlist.

 

[synagence]

Either use Genre as a marker or add a comment to all your xmas songs then make smart playlist with comment and then uncheck all at once

 

[duncanapple]

Show all christmas songs and CMD-click on one of the checkboxes, this will un-check all of them.

Thank you! I even thought I had tried this - I guess not! Like I said, I am glad I was wrong

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Bingo - this is what I do. The only downside (and please someone correct me if I am wrong, I hope I am...) is that it takes a long time to check/uncheck each song, esp when you have hundreds of them. I wish there was a way to batch check/uncheck.

Select songs -> Right-click and Uncheck Selection (will turn into Check Selection if they're unchecked):