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iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies
Authored by: seven5 on Mar 12, '03 01:53:12PM

i just wish my music would get rated magically! I have over 450 albums, and have only managed to rate a couple of them. It will take me forever to rate them all.

At first i didn't see the need for it, untill i rated all the albums of one artist. And realized how easy it would be to create a best of album after doing it! man its sweet....



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iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies
Authored by: stillm on Mar 12, '03 02:58:23PM

I created a smart playlist called "unrated" which simply showed every song I had that didn't have a rating. Sometimes while I'm working I just put that playlist on and rate the songs as I go. As soon as they are rated, they slip off the playlist, so eventually everything will be rated and the list will be empty.



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iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies
Authored by: mahood on Mar 13, '03 07:31:28AM

I did something similar when I was ripping all my CDs...

I created smart playlists for 'No Rating', 'No Year', 'No artist' and so on... Even some quite clever ones to find missing genre info, or compilation albums without the real Artist stored. (I keep them as Artist:Various Artists, but put the real artist int he composer field, to avoid filling the browse window with thousands of artists, each with one song).

I can post a complete list if people want, it means all my tracks are tagged, and if I ever download any I can quickly see what's missing.

It meant that anything missing from the tags could be easily flagged and corrected before I archived the MP3s to CD/DVD.

I also have smartlists for each decade, stuff I've not heard... I love this feature!



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iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies
Authored by: tferey on Mar 14, '03 04:38:19AM

Yeah ! Please send you list... Your suggestion was really helpful...Now I have a iTunes library that starts looking good and the Not Rated category list is melting...



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iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies
Authored by: arru on Apr 04, '03 05:13:52AM
The "no rating","no genre" etc. is an excellent idea! If you have motivational issues in dealing with your 370 unrated songs I suggest an additional clause to these lists: Ceck limit to 10 (or whatever) songs selected by most played Also uncheck Live updating. This way you can rate only so many songs (the most played would be those in most need of rating?) and be content with that. The next time you launch iTunes a new 10-song list will show up!

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