ITunes Autofill Opens up
Fri, Mar 13th, 2009
Back in February 2006, over three years ago, I wrote an editorial asking--in fact, nearly begging--Apple to make the iPod shuffle's Autofill feature available to all iPods. If you've never owned a shuffle, Autofill is a feature of iTunes that automatically picks an assortment of songs, from either your iTunes Library as a whole or a playlist of your choosing, to fill up the iPod. (Depending on your setting, the tracks are chosen randomly or with preference given to those with higher ratings. You can even set iTunes to pick a completely new set of tracks each time you use the Autofill feature.)
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I was curious if anyone knows how to disable the auto-fill panel on iTunes 8.1. While some people may like this feature there are no circumstances where I would even consider using it, and to accidentally press it would really not be cool.
I have much more music on my iPod than my computer’s iTunes library; my iPod is a carefully controlled collection of my music while my library is a slurry of inherited, ‘borrowed’ or other miscellaneous music. Under no circumstances do I want these two music collections to merge, so the auto-fill panel is just taking up space on my screen and pissing me off by not going away.
Is it possible to get this button off my screen???
Is it possible that your entire music library is already on your ipod? If so then there’s no function for the autofill to perform, so maybe it doesn’t appear if all the music in your computer’s itunes library is already on your ipod. Is that the case with your setup?