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Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
Authored by: iGav on Aug 15, '03 02:43:31PM

I had a similar situation to the hint above, except that I have so many songs that I tend to forget to listen to most of them.

I have set up a series of smart playlists, such as <em>rarely listened to </em>, which checks for songs that I haven't listened to for more than a week and selects 200 songs at random.

I also do the same sort of thing for artists that I have a lot of albums for so that I have a constantly updating compilation list.

there are though lots of albums I want with me all the time - I set up a manual playlist and just dragged them all in there - tht way any album I am likely to want on a semi-regular basis is likely to be there.

One thing that would be good though would be if Apple included an OR function in the smart list criteria so that one could create a smart playlist for one artist or another, for instance



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Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
Authored by: jakacmar on Aug 15, '03 03:49:40PM

You can already do this. In the dialog box that let's you set up a new Smart Playlist. Add an additional Artist field to the conditions and a pull down menu will appear in the top line of the dialog which says "Match 'all' the following conditions:" Change the 'all' to 'any' and then you can have a smart playlist with 2 (or more) Artists.



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Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
Authored by: kyngchaos on Aug 15, '03 04:08:04PM

except that it's either ALL OR or ALL AND. You can't do something like:

rating at least 3 stars AND (one artist OR other artist)



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Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
Authored by: jakacmar on Aug 15, '03 04:11:26PM

True, but in the "Limit" section you can have songs selected based on highest rating, as opposed to at random. Not a full solution but usable.



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Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
Authored by: ianmead on Aug 15, '03 06:17:11PM

Another, not entirely satisfactory, solution would be to combine the idea suggested by lavar78. Add a common keyword to an unused field for both the artists you want, then create a smart playlist that looks for 3star AND keyword to achieve 'at least 3 stars AND (one artist OR other artist)'



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