How to Create Different Play Ratios for 4 and 5 Star Songs   For a long time, I've been listening to music from various genre playlists that I've created. For instance, I'd call a playlist Shoegaze Genres and do the following: Match ANY of the following rules Genre is Shoegaze Genre is Dream Pop Genre is Noise Rock Genre is Noise Pop I'd stick that playlist out of sight in a folder called Archive and create the playlist G Shoegazing. (For all my different genre lists, I stick a G at the beginning of the title so they stay by each other.) Match ALL of the following rules Playlist is Shoegaze Genres My Rating is 5 Stars Last Played is not in the last 1 Week That worked fine until I wanted to add 4 star songs to the mix. I also knew I didn't want them to reappear in the list as often as the 5 star songs. Getting this right required 3 more smart playlists. If you want to do this, first decide what ratio you want. For the 5/4 star songs, do you want a 2/1 or 3/1 ratio? 1/2 maybe? From there, figure out how many days or weeks that will come out to, and then make your lists like this. (I chose a 2.5/1 ratio.) Match ALL of the following rules SP1 My Rating is 5 stars Last Played is not in the last 10 days Match ALL of the following rules SP2 My Rating is 4 stars Last Played is not in the last 25 days Match ANY of the following rules SP3 Playlist is SP1 Playlist is SP2 I stuck those in the Archive folder, and then set up the G Shoegazing playlist like this: Match ALL of the following rules Playlist is Shoegaze Genres Playlist is SP3 Now, I won't miss out on all the 4 star songs I have, but I will still be listening to the 5 star songs more often since they come back into the playlist sooner than the 4 star songs. by soundinthedark on Dec 23 | 1:50 am [0] Trackbacks

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