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Building Smart Playlists In iTunes

July 8th, 2009 at 3:08 PM

The most powerful feature of Smart Playlists is that you can base them on other playlists (Smart or otherwise) to provide even more advanced filtering.

I use a combination of Smart Playlists to construct a constantly changing playlist of about 50 songs for my commute that:

- exclude any songs in my iTunes I never want to hear (eg, stuff I bought for my kids)
- ignore tracks that are really short, classical, spoken, podcasts, or have fewer than 2 stars
- present me with up to 5 unrated or unplayed tracks (so I can rate them)
- play me the 10 3-star songs I listened to least recently
- play me a mix of 4-star songs that I haven’t heard in ages and randomly selected ones I haven’t heard in the last week
- play me the 5-star songs I haven’t heard in ages
- play me the songs I’ve tagged “ATF” (all time favourites) in the Comments field I haven’t heard in ages
- play me the 5-6 songs I’ve manually put on my “High Rotation” playlist as songs I can currently listen to over and over.

Works a charm! My own personal radio station without Kyle Sandilands.