comments

smart playlist that avoids duplicates?

I have multiple barenaked ladies concerts in MP3 format. These concerts include several duplicate songs, but I enjoy the subtle differences so I don't want to simply delete them...

But I'd like to have a playlist that would play these concert tracks for me randomly while maximizing the time between duplicate songs. e.g. this simple example:

suppose I have songA, songB, songC, songD, songE and then songA2 which is another rendition of songA.

my preferred playing order would be something like:

songB
songA
songC
songD
songE
songA2
[repeat...]

The more I type this, the more I think this is a pretty tall order. :-)

by rob on Dec 01, 04 | 12:49 pm

[0] Trackbacks

I too have loads of BNL concerts. What you're asking is a tall order unless you're looking for an applescript solution... can anyone come up with something better?

by dfbills on Dec 03, 04 | 12:54 am

Here are a couple of options:

1) Treat each "concert" in iTunes as an individual "album" (you've probably already done this). Then load the "albums" you want into an On-The-Go playlist, and shuffle by album. Advantage: simple. Disadvantage: the songs within each "album" won't be shuffled.

2) To shuffle the songs in each indivdual concert. . . Turn each "concert" into its own playlist in iTunes, then randomize the songs each of these individual playlists. Then, load the "albums" you want into an On-The-Go and shuffle by album. Slightly more complicated than (1), but closer to what you're looking for. . . .

- - Scott

by Scott on Dec 06, 04 | 10:29 am

You must be logged in to post comments.

USERS

Log-In

try this


	Comments

comments


	Chris Henley: Try this guy out. He has some great stuff. http://ott ... Jun 13 \| 1:56 pm Chris Henley: IS this site still running? ... Jun 09 \| 5:06 pm Elizabeth: Now, is there a program that will put these lyrics on your Ipod? That would be genius... :D ... Apr 18, 06 \| 6:11 pm Sara S: Ah, I see your point now, especially with the running example. About the only workaround there would be to make ... Apr 16 \| 10:29 pm vaughnn: Sara, Thank you again for your consideration! ... Apr 15 \| 10:45 pm vaughnn: Good question Sara! I (usually) don't listen to the iPod with it in my pocket and little ear buds plugged into ... Apr 15 \| 1:53 pm Sara S: I don't think you're really reading what I wrote. Maybe I'm not explaining myself well. I didn't adovcate creating a single ... Apr 13 \| 10:13 am

sites we like


	All Music Guide Apple iTunes Daily Tunes Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes iPodlounge MacOSX Hints MacMinute ThinkGeek

XML/RSS Feed