Long lost gems
November 10th, 2006 | Brandon Barker is a huge proponent of iTunes’ smart playlist capability, and the more and more I mess with it, the more I love it. I have dabbled a little bit in creating smart playlists, but haven’t come up with anything too dynamic.
Recently, though, I created a new smart playlist entitled “Long lost gems”.
You can see several things. All of the songs haven’t been played in the last three months. This can be tricky because I have a habit of being impatient and pushing “next” 5-10 seconds before the song is over, especially if it has a long outro. Next, I make sure that I haven’t skipped the song in a while, assuming that if I have skipped it recently, I wouldn’t really want to hear it that badly. I make sure that the play count is greater than five, hence the denotation as a “gem”. Checking the “Live Updating” box at the bottom is nice because after I have listened to a song on the playlist, it is automatically removed and replaced with another song with the same critera.
For more suggestions regarding smart playlists, check out smartplaylists.com. If any of you have experimented with smart playlists, what are some of your better/favorite configurations?
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This has nothing to do with iTunes or playlists… but I miss you. I could use a friend to converse with.
Boolean operators are our friends.
I have a good one called “Good Singer Songwriter Types” - match any rules, with a list of about ten artists .. . .lets me define my own genres based on artists w/o using the predefined CDDB genres.
I don’t know what that list will lok like for me, but I copied it exactly. I just hope I don’t have any Dying Stars in it.
i copied your criteria exactly too. my new smart playlist only had 2 songs. well, i’ll take it. yeah, i’ll take it.