Organizing stand-up comedy in iTunes

[Gallick]

Hi folks,

Came here hoping somebody would have a good solution for me. I've got a sizeable music library, a few thousand songs, and I'm a big stand-up comedy fan. I have a bunch of stand-up albums from various artists in my iTunes library, in amongst the music.

What I'm looking for is a better solution than to have stand-up comedy and music mixed together. When I'm listening to music, I usually set it to shuffle the entire library, and I often get stand-up tracks since I have so many of them. I was hoping I could easily dump the stand-up into, say, the audiobooks category, but since they are music files, it doesn't seem that easy.

What are you stand-up aficionados doing with your collections? Any better way than to have it all mashed in with your music?

 

[GGJstudios]

You can easily separate it by Genre. Have a Smart Playlist for Genre=Comedy, so you can quickly uncheck all the comedy, so it won't play in the shuffle.

 

[Kate.]

I keep all spoken word type files under Audiobooks. Music is just for music. Comedy, speeches, any kind of lecture, those are all in Audiobooks for me.

 

[tkermit]

I am keeping all my (amateur) live recordings of trade friendly artists separate from my main iTunes library by organizing them with Songbird. Seems to work well for me, since I don't listen to them on my iPod anyway.

EDIT:

I was hoping I could easily dump the stand-up into, say, the audiobooks category, but since they are music files, it doesn't seem that easy.

But it is ?!

 

[instaxgirl]

Get info > Options > media kind > Audiobook

(as in the screenshot above)

Get info > options> skip when shuffling > yes

 

[Gallick]

I knew I was missing something simple.

Thank you all!