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 My Playlist System

Smart Playlists
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For what it's worth, here's how I organize my playlists:

1) Current playlists include the following. (Many of these gleaned from SmartPlaylists.com!) The ":" in the first few SPLs brings these playlists to the top of the display, so I can find them quickly - -

: iPod Shuffle
: Kid's Playlist (comment contains 'Kid's Name')
: New Music Store
: (New Album(s)) - makes new purchases / loads easy to find.
: Current Favorite Group

Other playlists:

Acoustic (comment contains 'Acoustic')
Acoustic-Slow (BPM < 3; I use a BPM 1-5 scale, 1 = very slow, 5 = very fast)
Acoustic-Faves (4 or 5 stars)
Acoustic-Slow (BPM=1,2)
Acoustic-Medium (BPM=3)
All '70's (comment contains '70's)
All '80's (comment contains '80's)
Alternative (I like to have Genre playlists -- makes music easier to find)
Beatles '62-'66
Beatles '67-'70
Beatles-Acoustic
Bedspins (my former band. Any songs on our play set get flagged with comment = 'Bedspins')
Classical
Costello-Acoustic
Costello-Albums
Costello-B-sides (all the 'bonus disc' stuff from the Rhino re-releases)
Costello-Live
Country
Dance
Folk
Forgotten Faves
Hip-Hop/Rap
Jazz-All
Jazz-Fast
Jazz-Instrumental (comment does not contain 'vocal')
Jazz-Medium
Jazz-Slow
Jazz-Vocal
Live
Love - Pop
Love - Rock
Mellow Mix (BPM is <= 2)
R&B
Ray Charles - Slow (BPM = 2)
Ray Charles - Med / Fast (BPM >= 3)
Recent Faves
Recently Added
Rock-Fast
Rock-Medium
Soul-Fast
Soul-Mellow
Swing
Top 25
Women in Rock (comment contains '@+')
@ Needs BPM (no BPM)
@ Rate / Delete (no rating or just 1-star)

2) Comments field can be very useful in further defining your music. I use '70's', '80's', 'Live', 'Vocal', 'Acoustic', and '@+' (female lead singer and / or band)

3) BPM is very helpful to segment your music into slow, medium, fast. I use a 1-5 scale, 1=very slow, 3=medium, 5=very fast / intense

4) Finally, I tried "Radio Station" playlists (SPLs that reference other SPLs) but was frustrated by the lack of auto-refreshing on the iPod. To get around this, most of my playlists above are constructed as one-hour long with "Not Played in the Last ___ Days / Weeks Months". So, each of these SPLs auto-refresh on the iPod.

I dump these one-hour long SPLs together in On-The-Go to suit my mood. (For example, I might combine "All '80's" with "Recently Added" with "Forgotten Faves"). Advantage is, if I change my mind during the day when I can't synch to iTunes, I simply clear the On-The-Go and start again.


by Scott on Aug 05 | 8:00 am
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Can you explain in more detail your "on-the-go" playlist tip. I can't get my head around how these work. I have several on-the-go playlists but I don't really understand how new ones are created and I only know how to delete them in iTunes.


by chris on Aug 09 | 6:14 am

The On The Go (OTG) feature allows you to build playlists on your iPod.

To create an OTG playlist on your iPod, select a song / album / playlist and hold the 'select' key on your iPod until the chosen song / album / playlist 'blinks' - - it's then been added to your OTG playlist.

I think many folks use OTG to build playlists song-by-song. My post above was simply to highlight that OTG can be used to build a 'radio station,' if you will, by making an OTG playlist out of other *playlists*. . . .


by Scott on Aug 09 | 10:25 am

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