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 Smarter Genre Playlists

Smart Playlists
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OK, this is my strategy for creating Genre-based playlists.

What I do is enter multiple Genres in the Genre field, seperated by commas. For instance, Blondie's "Heart Of Glass (Live)" from the "Blondie Live" album has the following Genre:

New Wave, Live, Disco

So let's say I want to hear only Disco songs. I create a new Smart Playlist:

Genre - contains - Disco
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and label it "Genre: Disco"

And I can get my groove on to my heart's content.

Why not just label it "Disco" and use the built-in Genre picker list? Because songs, like people, cannot be easily summed up in a one word description. However, several words usually works (for songs anyway). This makes Genres much more accurate and useful. Songs can now cross over different Genres and appear in multiple Genre playlists.

You can also create more complex and interesting playlists this way. Say I only want to listen to live New Wave stuff today. I just use the "Genre: Live, New Wave" Smart Playlist:

Match - all
Genre - contains - Live
Genre - contains - New Wave
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Not only do I get Blondie's Heart Of Glass (Live)", I also get:

"New Religion (Live)" - Duran Duran
"Doctor Doctor (Live)" - Thompson Twins
"Loveland (Live)" - B-52's

You get the idea. There's no end to the interesting Smart Playlists you can create!

I am hoping that in the future Apple will change the built-in genre browser to identify the genre strings separated by commas as multiple genres, and not just one string run together. That way the Smart Playlists won't be needed. Instead you could just highlight "Live" and "New Wave" and get the same playlist. Until then, Multiple Genres and Smart Playlists are the perfect combination.


by Louis A Bustamante on Nov 30 | 12:24 am
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 Songs about her

Smart Playlists
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To easily make a collection of love songs, use these rules:

....

Match ANY of the following conditions:

Song name - contains - baby
Song name - contains - girl
Song name - contains - woman
Song name - contains - women
Song name - contains - kiss
Song name - contains - love


....

Etc, etc... Use your imagination and change the sex to your preference.

Unfortunately you can't mix "My rating" with this, because the condition is ANY...


by dogma00 on Nov 27 | 10:06 am
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 Live Music

Smart Playlists
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Ever wanted to create your ultimate live music set? Well try this for size, create a playlist with:


Song contains (Live or [Live
or
Album contains (Live or [Live


Adjust to suit, only 4 Stars+ etc. If you come across any live tracks it misses just stick a (Live) tag in the comments and add this to the conditions.


by jimothy on Nov 24 | 12:18 am
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 Website for hosting playlists - Musicmobs

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If anyone is interested, we have launched a new website which hosts your playlists and connects you to other users based on your music interests (from the iTunes song data). We are now looking for people to join as beta testers.

The URL is http://www.musicmobs.com

It's absolutely free and anonymous and all you have to do is upload an iTunes playlist XML file, which of course can be a smart playlist. We're looking for suggestions and comments on how to make it better.

For example: Right now you can click on an artist in your list and Musicmobs will return other users who also have songs by that artist. You could then click on that user and see what else they have. The information is sorted in a few different ways including: artist play count, song play count, and user rating (the 1-5 stars rating).

Please let me know what you think! I really appreciate any feedback.

Regards,
Bryan


by Bryan on Nov 20 | 10:57 pm
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 Regular Backups of Music

Smart Playlists
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Apple has posted a document: "iTunes: How to Use a Smart Playlist to Make Regular Backups of Your Music."

Discussion:

If you have an optical drive that can burn a CD or DVD, you can make regular backups of your music files.

To make an initial backup of all of your music files, follow the steps outlined in technical document 93033, "iTunes 4: How to Back Up Music".

Once you have backed up all of your existing music, take note of the date and time you completed the backup and then continue with the following steps.

Create a playlist of music you've added since your last backup:

1. Open iTunes.

2. From the File menu, choose New Smart Playlist.

3. Configure the Smart Playlist so that it includes all songs with a Date Added that is after the date of your last backup.

4. Click OK.

5. Name the Smart Playlist something like "Backup Playlist".


Burn a backup disc of all the files you have added since your last backup


1. Open iTunes.

2. Open iTunes Preferences.

-Mac OS X: From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
-Windows: From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.

3. Click Burning.

4. Click Data CD or DVD

5. Click OK.

6. Select Backup Playlist in the Source list.

7. Click Burn Disc.

8. Insert a blank disc. If you have added more songs since your last backup than can fit on one disc, iTunes can burn them onto two or more discs.

9. When iTunes finishes burning the disc, eject it and write the current date on it.


Next time you do a backup

1. Open iTunes

2. Select the "Backup Playlist" in the Source list.

3. From the Edit menu, choose Edit Smart Playlist.

4. Change the date to the date you wrote on your last backup disc and repeat steps 1 through 9 above.


by dfbills on Nov 20 | 12:23 am
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