It’s about time that I belabor you with my musical likings from the last year.

Top 10 songs¹ added to my iTunes library for 2010.

1. Daylight – Matt & Kim – Grand
2. Intro – The xx – xx
3. Animus Vox – The Glitch Mob – Drink the Sea
4. Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’ – Hanson – Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’²
5. Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt & Kim – Grand
6. Difficult – Uffie – Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
7. Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
8. Colors – April Smith & The Great Picture Show – Songs For A Sinking Ship
9. I Hope I Become A Ghost – The Deadly Syndrome – The Ortolan³
10. Right As Rain – Adele – 19

Top 10 released in 2010

1. Animus Vox – The Glitch Mob – Drink the Sea
2. Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’ – Hanson – Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’
3. Difficult - Uffie - Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
4. Colors – April Smith & The Great Picture Show – Songs For A Sinking Ship
5. Rill Rill – Sleigh Bells – Treats
6. Horchata – Vampire Weekend – Contra
7. Bombay – El Guincho – Pop Negro⁴
8. The Grid – Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy
9. The Game Has Changed - Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy
10. If You Think You Need Some Lovin – Pomplamoose – 3 New Songs Woot!

Here’s my lists from 2006, 2008 and 2009 if you’re interested. You can see what else I’m currently listening to on Last.fm.

1. White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

2. Sun It Rises – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

3. Horchata – Vampire Weekend – Contra

4. Little Secrets – Passion Pit – Manners

5. Blue Ridge Mountians – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

6. Oliver James – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

7. Skinny Love – Bon Iver – Fore Emma, Forever Ago

8. Meadowlarks – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Damn, this is a good album!)

9. The Beastie Boys Vs Matt And Kim – Good Ol’ Fashion Rump Shaker – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four (download here)

10. Vultures – John Mayer – Continuum

Here’s the top 10 list of songs released in 2009.

1. Little Secrets – Passion Pit – Manners

2. The Beastie Boys Vs Matt And Kim – Good Ol’ Fashion Rump Shaker – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four

3. Zero – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!

4. Brother Sport – Animal collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion

5. Hysteric – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!

6. Passion Pit vs. Juvenile – Back That Sleepyhead Up – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four

7. 1901 – Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

8. Evident Utensl – Chairlift – Does You Inspire You (I dug the music video before the song)

9. Bead Prez vs. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks of Hip Hop – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four (orginal version of Two Weeks came in at #16)

10. Happy Up Here – Royksopp – Junior

Here’s a list from 2006 as well. Apparently I skipped 2007!

Old in internet time, but hilarious.

I had the entire thing stuck in my head today…all day.

Love it.

Update #3: I was playing around with my smart playlists this morning and discovered an additional tidbit of information that may be useful for some. When syncing smart playlists, pay attention to which column you have the ordered the music by.

As you can see in the above screenshot I have my playlist sorted by ‘Date Added’ which is exactly how I want things ordered. Once I synced my iPhone playlist showed my music sorted by ‘Date Added’ as well.

If I were to have ‘Play Count’ selected as the column to sort by and then synced my iPhone, then that playlist would display the songs ordered by ‘Play Count’

I found this out while playing with the Apple Remote app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The selected column to sort by also effects how playlists are displayed in the iPhone Remote App.

Update #2: New updates that came out kinda fix this problem. Read more here.

I noticed the other day that Smart Playlists were not syncing correctly to both my wife and my own iPhone.

I found one fix that allowed the sort order to be correct, but disabled the Live updating function of the Smart Playlists. Which meant that every time an attribute of the playlist was updated (Such as rating a new song for my ’5 Stars’ playlist) nothing was updated upon syncing with my iPhone.

This totally defeats the purpose of a playlist that automagically updates my iPhone with the last 100 added, or top rated songs. ARGH!

Alas, after following a suggestion from this discussion thread (Thanks Dave Jelfs!) we now have a solution. In fact there’s even a bonus side effect for those who only want to sync music, and not video within your playlists.

Update: Joel S points out that this is not totally accurate. “In my own testing, these playlists will still include Music Videos.”

First find your Smart Playlist in the sidebar.

Ctrl + Click on the playlist and select “Edit Smart Playlist”

A new window will appear with all the settings for that particular playlist. Add a new rule  of ‘Playlist is Music’

Click to view

You’ll notice ‘Live updating’ is still on.

Now sync your playlist with your phone. TaDa!

While is is a workaround it does allow for the playlist to be synced, auto updated and appear sorted as you wish on the iPhone.

Like my previous troubleshooting articles I hope this post will be quickly updated when Apple roles out a fix. Until then, happy Smart Playlist syncing!

As with everything YMMV. I was using the following setup.

Macbook Pro 1.83 Ghz
Snow Leopard 10.6.1
iTunes 9.0.1
iPhone OS 3.1

If you have an improvement please leave a comment.

Via his YouTube channel I also stumbled upon Operation, a original song with a great music video.

His work sounds clean, but not too deleberate.  I hope you enjoy!