Apple has released a new version of iTunes. Version 4.2 includes the ability to sign in and buy music from the iTunes Music Store using either an AOL or Apple Account, view the iTunes Music Store in a separate window, and offers a number of performance improvements.
A new tag was introduced with this update, called grouping. It is a user-defined tag which enables better categorization. Usage possibilities range from sub categories of genres to classical movements. This should make for more flexibility with both smart playlists and general sorting.
Please contribute to the development of iTunes and the iPod by bookmarking these sites and sending Apple a form whenever you think of an enhancement or find a bug:
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.
Tonight, we completed some important revisions to Smart Playlists.com.
- A Questions category has been added to discuss Q&A's
- Archive listings were added to quickly browse our entire collection of smart playlists
- The recently added Archive and Questions categories have been added to the slightly redesigned top navbar
- A bug in the "popular" sidebar was fixed
Tonight, we completed some minor revisions to the site.
- An archive of "All Entries" is now available on the sidebar
- A "try this" Smart Playlist feature has been added to the sidebar
- The welcome message was changed
- The overall sidebar navigation has been revised slightly
DougAdams: Regarding the original question, just increase the played count of the song while its playing with this: tell application "iTunes" if player ...
