I have finally, after studiously ignoring them for so long based on the reasoning that no smart playlist could ever be as smart as ME, started making some smart playlists. Just to get some more things rated, to start with; I made a playlist for anything that has been played more than four times but isn't rated. That seemed to work, so I made several more:
4 and 4s: Rated 4, played 4 times.
Faves: everything rated 4 or 5
Faves Medium Played: Rated 4/5 and played 4-10 times.
Faves Rarely Played: Rated 4/5 and played 0-3 times.
Faves Well Played: Rated 4/5 and playes 10+ times.
NonRecent Plays: Hasn't been played in the past 6 months.
Unrated Unplayed: Surprises!
But apparently I am not creative and can't think of anything better. I wish my release date info was better for the music I have, because I would certainly use that.
So anyone else out there have really cool smart playlist ideas?
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Some of my Smart List:
Top 100 Rap (By play count)
Top 100 Rock (By play count)
Top 100 Soundtracks (By play count)
Music Videos (Kind = music video)
I have a bunch of smart lists by Artist with stars of 2+
Unrated (0 star songs)
Recently Played
Recently Added
ALL (All songs with stars of 2+)
I have some complex ones but I can't remember their filters from work.
There's a whole site dedicated to crazy smart playlists: http://smartplaylists.com/
Oh, this also is probably old news to you, but I am just catching up with my podcasts, and This American Life had a good episode called "#339 The Break-Up" with extensive and surprisingly candid interviews with Phil Collins. If you haven't already, definitely check out the podcast.
I looked at that site, but some of the ones where the playlist feeds into another playlist were hard for me to follow.
I did not know about that podcast, and will get it ASAP!
The problem with using "Grouping", is that if you edit multiple tracks at once, the previous value gets overwritten. It's high time Apple implemented real tags.
YES#@$!#@%! i have been pissy about this for a good long time.
As an aside, I regularly use 1-3 star ratings to flag things for later attention: one star to be removed, two stars to have something easily fixed (reimport and try to get it without skips, fix a typo in the title, etc.), three stars to have some actual editing done... (remove silence, split into two tracks, etc.)
I'm planning to do another smart playlist sometime soon, focusing on stuff Julie tends to like to hear when we're in the car together -- I'm still debating whether to do this with its own dedicated star rating (basically only using stars for special categorisation from that point on, rather than quality ranking) so I can edit tracks in and out of it on the fly, or whether to use keywords.
Also, yeah, 80 gigs is a megaton of space. I've had mine for six months and am only just about to cross 30 gigs of stuff on it. If I used it for video with any regularity, of course, that would be different.
I was so relieved to find that if you put TV shows on it, as you watch them, when you sync again it takes them back off. But I don't see myself using it for video much if at all. There isn't a terrific selection of music videos last time I checked!