Virgin In The Use Of Smart Playlist And Enjoying My Music

[mwheelerk]

Thinking of myself as a fairly knowledgeable iTunes user I think it is probably quite amazing that until a few days ago I never used Smart Playlists before. I have now created quite a few and abandoned the Playlist I had created and maintained manually. All this leads to a simple comment in how much really good music I have to enjoy and how much really good music I haven't listened too in so long.

[Musicophile]

My Iphone for example only get's fed with Music I havent listened to in the last 3 months, thanks to a smart playlist, ensuring some rotation there.

[mwheelerk]

My Iphone for example only get's fed with Music I havent listened to in the last 3 months, thanks to a smart playlist, ensuring some rotation there.

 

That is basically one of the Smart Playlist I have used

[Musicophile]

The other major use of smart playlists for me is with ratings. For my Jazz collection I'm on the way to rate every single track (about 50% done). I'm much less album focused with Jazz than with some other genres, so I use playlists like:

 

Keith Jarrett Piano Trio tracks with >4stars rating

Contemporary Jazz later than 1990 with 5stars rating

Hard Bop 1955-1965 with >4stars rating

[wgscott]

I use a "genre" and "composer" set of smart playlists to recover the album grid view, which I especially require for classical music.

[mwheelerk]

I can see the possibility are endless. Really don't know why I never looked at them before. Currently I have some fairly easy lists set up for music released in various decades, albums released by audiophile labels such as MFSL, DCC etc, a zero play list which by it set up and the way these functions automatically pairs a track from the list when played, genres, and one based on dynamic range (DR14 and above - which took a little retagging to accomplish but it wasn't too bad)