100 Least Played   For those songs that you added to your iTunes Lib or iPod 100 Least Played song can help you discover cool songs that you even knew you had. Limit to - 100 - songs - selected by - least often played by amarre on Oct 19 | 6:07 pm [1] comments (4502 views) |  [0] Trackbacks

Rid yourself of Low Quality Tracks   Hate all those old 128 and lower kilobit files that seem to plague your library? I use this playlist to weed out lower quality tracks. Then, I replaced them with copies encoded at higher bit rates. I screen out Audio Books and Spoken tracks because most are encoded at lower Bit Rates: Match - All - of the following conditions: Bit Rate - is less than - 160 - kbps Genre - does not contain - Audio Book Genre - does not contain - Spoken or If you have trouble with sub-par Sample Rates, swap the Bit Rate parameter with: Sample Rate - is less than - 44100 - Hz Note: 44100Hz is CD quality sampling. To preserve your Playcount, see iTunes tip: Save Your Song Info by nate on Oct 17 | 3:31 pm [1] comments (4929 views) |  [0] Trackbacks

Clear unwanted comments   Do you have a lot of music you've acquired that has comment tags that you don't use or don't want? I have enough of an idea on the sorts of things for which I use my comments tag. Things like: record label, a 'cover' designation for song covers, genres, etc. Assuming you have some clear logic (prefixing Genre designations in the comments tag with genre:<name>, for instance). you can build this nifty smart playlist: Match ALL the following conditions: Comment - IS NOT - <blank> Comment - DOES NOT CONTAIN - genre Comment - DOES NOT CONTAIN - cover Comment - DOES NOT CONTAIN - label Add to this any others that follow your comment logic. Mine is a rather long list of conditions. (In fact, I learned that the window will grow too big for your screen, requiring additional comments to be inserted at the top!) Anyway, once this is complete, you can easily select this playlist. Then select all the tracks and get info on them to edit the tags. Then, with one mass edit action, blank out the comment tag by simply checking the tag and not entering any comments. Result: 'clean' tags! by momerath on Oct 15 | 11:09 am [3] comments (3917 views) |  [0] Trackbacks

Use a Comment Tag to subdivide genres   I find one Genre Tag to be limiting on certain kinds of music. Take the Housemartin's Excellent 'London 0 Hull 4' album which could be considered Rock, Pop interspersed with some Gospel music. I will use the comment tag to cover additional genres and build my genre based playlists this way: Match ANY of the following conditions: Genre - CONTAINS - Celtic Comment - CONTAINS - Celtic Why CONTAINS for the genre instead of IS ? Well, I have added some genres to break down large sections of my collection. My Celtic music is categorized in the following genre's: Celtic Celtic-Bluegrass Celtic-Folk Celtic-Pop Celtic-Traditional Celtic-Rock and so on. The same for some of my classical music and other genres. by momerath on Oct 15 | 11:05 am [1] comments (4231 views) |  [0] Trackbacks

Avoiding your Child's music   I'm not a fan of listening to some tracks I've got on my computer for my 4 year old. Nor am I fan of listening to Christmas music through most of the year. Thus: Match: ALL of the following conditions: Genre - IS NOT - Children Genre - IS NOT - Holiday Comment - DOES NOT CONTAIN - Christmas Album - DOES NOT CONTAIN - Christmas The first two conditions weed out properly tagged music. The last two weed out any exceptions which may have turned up. by momerath on Oct 15 | 11:01 am [0] comments (4047 views) |  [0] Trackbacks

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