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my smart playlist
Authored by: mazatty on May 14, '03 11:49:54PM

the limit to so many songs selected by least recently played just doesn't cut it. if i set the limit low i get songs from the end of my library. if i set the limit high i get songs that i've listened to again already.

what i want is all my music that i have listened to only 2 or fewer times. so, what i did was create a smart playlist with the following critera.

play count is less than "3"
last played is not in the last "2" weeks
kind does not contain "stream"
live updating

i turn on shuffeling for this playlist and sort by number, don't really know what the column is called, it's the one with no title, the first one.

- i get all the music i have listened to less than 3 times, so i can listen to all my music.
- i don't hear a song more than once every 2 weeks, at the most. this is nice for when the play count is updated in the smart playlist and for tracks that have been recently added to my library.
- none of the streaming stations in my library are added
- live updating adds new tracks as they are added to my library and removes tracks that are removed from my library.

it's true that i have to change the smart playlist once i've listened to everything 3 times. i don't really see a problem, because i only have to change the smart playlist every 8 days, if i was listening all the time, but it usually takes a few months.

another nice thing that happens with this smart playlist is that if i always skip a track i don't want to listen to it will be left on the list once i've listened to everything else and i can decide if i want to remove it or not.

not a perfect solution, but it works for me.



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