16 May 2007 by Chris     No Comments    Posted under: Gadgetry and IT

Smarter smart playlists

OK, I think I’ve got my best ever smart playlist worked out for general day-to-day listening. What I want is to hear stuff I haven’t listened to for a long time, or stuff I’ve recently added, but not podcasts or really long tracks. So I’ve set up two smart playlists: “Unplayed for ages” features anything under 15 minutes long which hasn’t been played for six months; and “New” features anything (except podcasts) added in the last month and listened to 5 times or less. Then I’ve set up a third smart playlist – the one I listen to – which selects songs either in “Unplayed for ages” or “New”. So I get a varied choice of 2100 songs out of 7700 in my library, and rarely find myself wanting to “skip” a track because I’m thinking “oh not this again”.

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