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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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