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Songs "Selected By...?" - - How to Remember?

Have a lot of different playlists in iTunes and need to remember how they choose songs (random; least often played; least recently played, etc.)?

Add an appropriate abbreviation to the end of each playlist's title: (R) for "random"; (LRP) for "least recently played"; (LOP) for "least often played", etc...

Then, you'll quickly know in iTunes which of your playlists will need occasional "refreshing" and which will refresh on their own. . . . .

by Scott on Aug 14 | 8:00 am

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Anyone for Cocktails?

Good varietal playlist:

Add all songs that have anything to do with booze:

start with Alcohol:

Vodak, Burbon, whiskey, Rum, Scotch, Beer etc.

Add:

Bartender, Drunk, Drinks, Bottle, wasted, 007

Or specific drink names:

Martini, old-fashioned, cosmopolitan, screwdriver etc.

Mix and serve!

by xman on Aug 14 | 8:00 am

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The Excluded playlist

I've created several unique playlists to cater to my own interests. For example, Short Punk made up of Punk songs under 1:30, Soundtracks, 5 Star songs not recently played, Longer songs, etc. To fill the gap I created a playlist which included songs which were not on any other play list, with the exception of my "star" lists.


Match all -> Playlist -> is not -> Favs
Playlists -> is not -> Recently Played
Playlists -> is not -> Long music
Playlists -> is not -> Short Punk

etc. etc. Cater to any limit you like and I chose only checked songs and live updating.

My list has about 1000 songs from a 2600 song library.

Enjoy,

-d

by darw1n on Aug 13 | 8:00 am

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iPod Personal Radio Station

Weighted play by ratings is absolutely the key to making your iPod a true personal radio station.

This is also not a perfect solution, but here's what I do:

Create the following smart playlists:


5 star songs that have not been played in the 
   last 7 days

4 star songs that have not been played in the
   last month

3 star songs not played in the last 90 days

2 stars not played in 6 months

1 star songs not played in a year

Finally, I have what I call a weighted random playlist of songs that are in any of those 5 smartplaylists.

It's taken a while for me to figure out the right length between plays to set for the different ratings, but I think what I've described above is working pretty well.

The problem with this system is that automatic update doesn't work for playlists that reference other playlists on the iPod. It works in iTunes, so I would hope this is a bug they'll eventually fix on the iPod.

by davepmiller on Aug 05 | 11:09 am

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Website: TunesTracker

TunesTracker is a website for iTunes Music Store addicts. The tool searches the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists, and will send you an e-mail when new songs are available.

http://www.tunestracker.com/

by dfbills on Jul 23 | 10:04 am

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