If, like myself, you have many different genres of music on itunes, but are sick or hearing only 1 or 2 of ur largest genres all the time, this playlist creates an even mix of all your genres
1st, create one playlist for each genre which would look something as follows:
genre -> is -> rock
last played -> is not in the last -> 8 weeks
my rating -> is greater than -> 2 stars
limit to 20 songs
live updating
i name all of these Z-G-Rock; the Z to bring it to the bottom, the G to signify which master playlist this relates to (genre) and rock to tell me more info.
after making one of these for each genre, sumtimes with slight modifications depending on the number of songs you may have for that genre, i created the master playlist from all of these like this:
Match Any of the following conditions
Playlist -> is -> Z-G-Rock
Playlist -> is -> Z-G-Techno
Playlist -> is -> Acid Jazz
Playlist -> is -> Funk
On a recent road trip a friend asked if I had any music by women. I realized I had no easy way to access any of it without drilling down into individual artists or albums.
So I created this...
I put a "@+" in the Comments field of all the music I had featuring a woman/women artists or that was composed by a woman/women.
The "@+" resembles the symbol for "female" on its side and yet is unlikely to be in the Comments field otherwise.
I now have several SPLs built around this idea.
Such as:
Women Rock
Match all:
Comment contains @+
Genre is Rock
or
101.5 KWOM
Playlist is 101.5 KPOD
(see the great SPL by that name here
on SmartPlaylists.com)
Comment contains @+
(In fact I have more than 1400 songs by women, _not_ counting women who fronted great bands like Blondie, The Pretenders or Jefferson Airplane! Do I have any music by women? Indeed!)
I don't have an AUX input on my car stereo for the iPod, so I have to burn CD's to listen to in the car.
Here is my Playlist to do that:
Match all:
Last Played is in the last 1 days
-- This makes sure something new is in the playlist
every day.
My Rating is greater than 3 stars
Play Count is greater than 1
-- Make sure the rating wasn't a spur of the
moment thing
Time is greater than 1:20
-- Get rid of those annoying filler tracks
Genre is not Comedy
-- I want music only
Genre is not Classical
-- And I want to rock out while on the road
Limit to 79 minutes selected by random
-- Length of a CD
Match only checked songs
Live updating
Now, I can burn a new CD every day and have it be different than the day before and offer a good random selection.
Note: The random aspect of this will break down if you just listen to an album, so you need another good randomizer playlist to listen to with iTunes/iPod. I find a modified version of the "iPod Personal Radio Station" playlist to be an excellent way to do this.
so, I've rated most of my library, but some of the songs either I rated too long ago and my opinion has changed, or they were mis-rated in the first place, so I have 2 spl's for this
1: too high?
rating is more than 3
last played is not in the last month
play count less than 2
2: too low?
rating is less than 4
playlist is top 100 most played
Song name > contains > Red
Song name > contains > Orange
Song name > contains > Yellow
Song name > contains > Green
Song name > contains > Indigo
Song name > contains > Purple
Song name > contains > Gold
Song name > contains > Autumn
Song name > contains > Leaves
An interesting playlist for those Fall walks and drives. . . .
