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A good way to rotate all your music

I set a smart playlist:


Last played - not in the last - 1 - month

That way every month my playlist clears out every month and I end up listening to ALL my music instead of just some of it.

Also, for all you iTrippers - don't forget to exclude the iTrip tracks.

by nathansmart on Jan 09 | 10:34 am

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Limiting to 2 or 3 genres

I use a set of Smart Playlists that spans a decade of pop/rock/r&b music, so I can "jukebox" a decade of music if I wish. The problem in iTunes (at least up through v4.2) is that it does not allow for certain boolean combinations. What I would LIKE to do is:


year is in the range 1970 to 1979
genre contains Rock
genre contains R&B
genre contains Pop

iTunes SHOULD allow me to specify "AND" and "OR' operators between entries in the Smart Playlists, but does not. As a result, the above returns an empty playlist, since I have no songs that are Rock AND R&B AND Pop. (I would like it to match if "genre contains Rock" OR "genre contains R&B" OR "genre contains Pop").

So how do I get this to work? My 1970's list reads this way:


Year is in the range 1970 to 1970
Album does not contain RM-
Album does not contain JM-
Genre is not Chrisitan
Genre does not contain Jazz
Genre is not Aircheck
Genre is not Christmas
Genre is not Comedy

The list has to specificly EXCLUDE any genre from the specified timespan that I don't want to show up in the list. (The "Album does not contain" is for a series of cassettes dated from this same era which I have recorded into MP3's, and which I are labelled as as Albums called "RM-01", "JM-26", etc).

If I were to add music to my library that was, for example, classical music dated 1976, I would have to add a line to this Smart Playlist that says


Genre is not Classical

This makes for a long Smart Playlist definition, but it works until Apple gives us better boolean logic between entries for these lists.

by Steven Weyhrich on Dec 22 | 7:33 pm

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Clean Holiday Music

I'm using the new Grouping tag to create a clean holiday music smart playlist. I've added my sub categories of Christmas music to the grouping tag (comedy, jazz, rap, classic, country, etc.)

Create a smart playlist:


Match all conditions
Genre is Christmas
Grouping does not contain Comedy
Grouping does not contain Rap

by dfbills on Dec 20 | 3:04 pm

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Artist(s) of the day

I recently added a lot of new songs.. over 2000 songs from about 120 albums. The problem is that listen to and rate all those songs - while keeping one's sanity - becomes an almost impossible task. I found a trick that really helped me out along the way.

My 'Artist of the day' list contains usually one artist or one of their albums (If they have a lot of songs) and that’s it. I don't even know if I should call this a smart play list because it is so basic :)


Artist is Who_Ever

or

Album is What_Ever

I manually change the artist/album about once a day or put 2 artists/albums if I find out I am running out of songs a lot. This step could be avoided but the results aren’t as nice (suggestions welcomed). By changing the play list to:


My Rating – is - • • • • •   (no stars)

Limit to 80 minutes selected by Album

The Downside is

1) You always will get more that one album/artist
2) Can’t select what album or artist you’ll listen too (it does it alphabetically)
3) You have to rank a song for it to get off the list (though you could make it Play count based)

Which ever way you choose, this helps take small chunks out of those new songs without you becoming overwhelmed. I’m sure this has other applications but it has made listening to and rating a more enjoyable task for me :)

by noname on Dec 13 | 9:00 am

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Forgotten Gems

a great smart playlist to quickly find your favourite hits which you haven't heard in a long time


my rating is 5 stars
limit to 25 songs 
selected by least recently played

live updating on

Dave adds: There is another similar smart playlist called "Old Favorites" which might be of interest.

by DAZZA on Dec 11 | 8:15 am

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