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Forget-Me-Nots
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My roommate and I were just discussing the other day whether I was in the Top-10 most anal iPod users in the world. Now I've found this site, it's terrific to find so many like-minded people out there! And to think that I haven't even been using Smart Playlists until now!
Before sharing my cool Smart Playlist, here's some indcation of the extent of my anal-ness:
1. All intros and interludes on rap albums, live albums (Tom Waits), etc. have their own genre: Intro / Interlude. That way, when I shuffle through Ganre: Rap songs, I don't have to endure 45 seconds of Eminem on the phone to Steve Berman.
2. All French songs have the correct accents. Japanese singers have their names in Japanese (although I don't even know how to read Japanese). If you're using a Windows which doesn't display those characters, just go to Google, do the Advanced Search to search for pages in the relevant language, find a page with the song details, and copy and paste into iTunes.
3. All songs sung by "Blah Blah featuring Guest Singer" are listed under the Artist "Blah Blah" and the "featuring Guest Singer" bit is inserted after the song name. That way, I don't have a whole load of different Blah-Blahs. My iPod screen doesn't even show the whole thing in the menu anyway.
4. You know how the On-The-Go playlist has those hypens? Well, for consistency, all my playlist names have hypens. Some examples: "Idio-Syncs" (strange songs), "Radio-Heads" (best of Radiohead), "Senti-Mental" (sad songs that drive me crazy) and "Back-To-Mine" (romantic songs for seduction).
ANYWAY... Here's my new Smart Playlist.
It's called "Forget-Me-Nots" following the tradition of naming playlists with hyphens.
It's a playlist of songs that don't belong on any album, so I might forget I even own these songs (some of them are one-hit-wonders or one-offs). All these songs have their album name erased because I don't want a gigantic list of albums in my list when I don't even own them. The titles in my album list are only for those I own completely.
- Album Name is [none]
- Genre is not Classical [and others, like Jazz]
- Last Played is not in the last 6 months
- Song Name does not contain iTrip
(iTrip owners will understand what I mean)
- Song Name does not contain Mix
(don't want long techno remixes in my list)
A n y c o m m e n t s ?
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by daeshin on Feb 12 | 8:00 am
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I used to also have all my non-album tracks have a completely blank album field. This then posed a problem when i was on my iPod however. If you have many albums by a particular artist as well as some singles, when you look at their songs on the iPod by (album > all) you will see them in order by album and track, not alphebetically. I then decided to replace all my actually blank album tags to the word "[blank]". This made it possible to only view the singles i have by a particular artist, as well as the bringing the singles to the top of the list.