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Click the red download button above. A file named uniquetoipodplaylist.zip will be downloaded to your "Downloads" folder.
This .zip file contains a disk image (.dmg) file. Double-click the .dmg file to mount and display a disk image window in the Finder.
Now, open a new Finder window and navigate to your [username]/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ folder.
(The user Library folder is hidden by default. Option-click the Finder's Go menu and select "Library" to make it visible.)
If there are no folders named "iTunes" or "Scripts" there, create them.
Select and drag the files from the disk image window into the "Scripts" folder. Scripts placed in this folder will appear in the iTunes Script menu.
Close the disk image window and eject it from the Finder sidebar. Refer to the included Read Me doc for additional installation options and usage info.
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Create a new iPod playlist of tracks not assigned to other playlists

AppleScript for iTunes

Unique To This iPod Playlist v1.0

Create a new playlist on your iPod, listing those tracks in the selected iPod playlist which have not been assigned to any other playlist on the iPod. Read Me explains all.

(Note: In order to launch this PowerPC-era script on an modern machine, it must first be opened and then saved using Script Editor which is located in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder. More information is here.)

Latest version:

v1.0 August 11, 2005

Further:

see the read me PDF
short url: https://dougscripts.com/348
category: iPod

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Current v1.0

Free to use, but a payment
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Info:

works with: iTunes
file format: Script
Gatekeeper Security: None
total downloads: 1,383
.zip download size: 237.7K

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