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Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
i have a different solution for my Car CD's and Clié (sorry, can't afford an iPod…)
i have a Smart playlist to be the following:
All 5 star songs
format is not AAC (i should probably change it to format is MP3, since thats the only format that both my players support)
i then set the limit to X MB (how ever many MiB i need, if it is my car it's 700) sorted by most often played. this gives me the best of the best, in my eyes - i like it enough to be 5 stars, and i listen to it enough to be in my top... 143. :)
the next step is to burn a new "Personal Countdown" CD on the 1st of every month (reverse sorted before i click burn) - and then play that at random.
some times i'll make a dumb playlist based on this smart playlist and stick freshly ripped albums at the top (ensuring that they get burned, and cutting off the last few songs from the disk)
the only place that my system breaks down is that i usually listen to my library at random and iTunes seems to like only about 300 of my 6000 songs. my work around to that problem is that if i am listening on random, i am listening to a playlist of all the songs i haven't played in the last 21 days. (about half my library, maybe i should reduce that to 14?) although this does remove some of the randomness from my car CDs, but it also insures my sanity when listening at home.
when (if!) i get an iPod, i'll use a similar system, but i'll probably only need to weed out the 1, 2, and 3 star songs...
there is also the matter of rating my songs....
i have a KeySpan DMR and a JVC Remote with my 1-5 keys bind to a variation of this apple script:
property userRating : 5 -- enter the number of stars you want to rate the current song here
tell application "iTunes"
set currVolume to sound volume
if currVolume > 50 then
set sound volume to currVolume / 3
else
set sound volume to currVolume / 2
end if
say "now setting " & name of current track & " to a rating of " & userRating & " stars."
set the rating of the current track to userRating * 20
set sound volume to currVolume
end tell
and to make things complete i also have the following buttons so that i can listen to my music in bed or while i sleep:
Stop:
tell application "iTunes"
try
set thename to (name of current track)
set theartist to (artist of current track)
if theartist = "" then
else
set theartist to ", by " & theartist
end if
on error
set thename to ""
end try
if thename is not "" then
set currVolume to sound volume
if currVolume > 50 then
set sound volume to currVolume / 3
else
set sound volume to currVolume / 2
end if
say "This is " & thename & theartist
set sound volume to currVolume
end if
end tell
pause: (bonus!)
tell application "iTunes"
set theRating to (rating of the current track) / 20
set currVolume to sound volume
if currVolume > 50 then
set sound volume to currVolume / 3
else
set sound volume to currVolume / 2
end if
if theRating = 1 then
say "this is " & name of current track & ", and you rated it " & theRating & " star."
else if theRating = 0 then
say "this is " & name of current track & ", and you haven't rated it"
else
say "this is " & name of current track & ", and you rated it " & theRating & " stars."
end if
set sound volume to currVolume
end tell
channel up: (the DMR ignores the volume buttons...)
tell application "iTunes"
set currVolume to sound volume
set newVolume to currVolume + 5
set sound volume to newVolume
end telltell application "iTunes"
set currVolume to sound volume
if currVolume ? 14 then -- we don't want it to be TOOO quiet :)
set newVolume to currVolume - 5
else
set newVolume to 10
end if
set sound volume to newVolume
end tell
and my simple ones -
Play:
tell application "iTunes"
playpause
end tell
FF:
tell application "iTunes"
next track
end tell
REW:
tell application "iTunes"
previous track
end tell---
Smart iTunes Playlist use for small iPods
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let me make that more readable (what happened to HTML formatted being formatted not literal?! >_<) i have a different solution for my Car CD's and Clié (sorry, can't afford an iPod…) i have a Smart playlist to be the following: All 5 star songs format is not AAC (i should probably change it to format is MP3, since thats the only format that both my players support) i then set the limit to X MB (how ever many MiB i need, if it is my car it's 700) sorted by most often played. this gives me the best of the best, in my eyes - i like it enough to be 5 stars, and i listen to it enough to be in my top... 143. :) the next step is to burn a new "Personal Countdown" CD on the 1st of every month (reverse sorted before i click burn) - and then play that at random. some times i'll make a dumb playlist based on this smart playlist and stick freshly ripped albums at the top (ensuring that they get burned, and cutting off the last few songs from the disk) the only place that my system breaks down is that i usually listen to my library at random and iTunes seems to like only about 300 of my 6000 songs. my work around to that problem is that if i am listening on random, i am listening to a playlist of all the songs i haven't played in the last 21 days. (about half my library, maybe i should reduce that to 14?) although this does remove some of the randomness from my car CDs, but it also insures my sanity when listening at home. when (if!) i get an iPod, i'll use a similar system, but i'll probably only need to weed out the 1, 2, and 3 star songs... there is also the matter of rating my songs.... i have a KeySpan DMR and a JVC Remote with my 1-5 keys bind to a variation of this apple script: property userRating : 5 -- enter the number of stars you want to rate the current song hereand to make things complete i also have the following buttons so that i can listen to my music in bed or while i sleep: Stop: tell application "iTunes"pause: (bonus!) tell application "iTunes"channel up: (the DMR ignores the volume buttons...) tell application "iTunes" |
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