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"Music Only" for your iTunes playlists

43folders.com — iTunes smart playlists 101.

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  • innabar, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4my biggest frustration with iTunes solved! a tip on how to separate podcasts, audio books and other pests from the iTunes music library.
  • kodoTM, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2Interesting, but smart playlists are so low tech!

    It's all about http://www.thefilter.com
    • AdverseE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I tried using 'the filter' for about 2 weeks and never could get it to work right. It wouldn't recognize my ipod, and it slowed iTunes down about 300%. Have they made any improvements?
  • displaynone, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I love these iTunes playlist posts. There needs to be more of these. Or a site that has all these cool playlists.
  • bantamw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I've never used ratings, but I can now see the light as to why they would be useful.
    • bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6heh, i actually had the same reaction after hearing some of merlin's playlists on the Macbreak.
  • chrisgeleven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Smart Playlists kick butt.

    I don't understand people that claim drag/drop songs onto their mp3 player is quicker and easier. Smart Playlists are so much better.
    • aitzim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know right. Wouldn't it be great if a DAP did that on the fly? Oh wait...
    • ArmchairAthlete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Helps a lot with artists that are listed under various names.

      Their name may only appear in the title (Ferry Corsten Remix), or the artist may be their name with "feat. So and So" at the end. So if you want to hear all music by them smart playlists are the way to go.

      Then you can add all the aliases they go by.
    • afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rockbox can do most smart playlist functions on the fly.
    • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the case it wasn't obvious enough, the iPod can use all the powers of the iTunes smart playlists without installing RockBox.

      And, let's remember everyone that the Zune doesn't support smart playlists on the fly.
  • Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Thanks for an interesting link to http://www.thefilter.com/
    Sounds like FireFly - remember that?
    • AdverseE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There's also the site http://www.ilike.com/, its from the people who used to run garageband.com.
    • burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1haha, I had software kind of theFilter that for my old RCA "brick" mp3 player -- Lyra DJ. It was pretty cool. I wonder if there's anything like that for amaroK.
  • Blizaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I wish Apple would enhanced the Smart Playlist feature. It would have "AND/OR" statements between each rule rather than a global "ALL/ANY" statement.
    • bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1umm... i'm missing how that would be different. "match all rules" means this and this and this... and "match any rules" means "this or this this or this...."
    • hulk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hell yeah. They could do a lot more w/ booleans than they do. One kinda workaround is to create a smart playlist that contains other smart playlists & link them with "or" statements.
    • aitzim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3sometimes one wants "(this and this) or (this and this)"

      So far WinAmp does this the best (AFAIK), with and easy mode similar to iTunes and an adavanced mode.
    • MrManFitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1iTunes gives you the tools to accomplish this. Create Playlist1 with "this AND that", create Playlist2 with "this AND that", then create Playlist3 with "Playlist1 OR Playlist2".
    • nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MrManFitz: sure it's possible, but no one actually wants useless interim playlists cluttering up their iTunes list or their iPod.
  • BlackPearl72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here are more playlists:

    http://www.smartplaylists.com/
  • yakk0dotorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since at least iTunes 7 it's had a "podcast is true/false" option in smart playlists. if you use iTunes to manage your podcasts then that should knock out a large number of them. I use about 7 or 8 different smart playlists to aggregate my music so I have a good mix of favorites and not so favorite songs in my playlists.
  • timmalvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is the ultimate online playlist builder with entire downloads http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/09/seeqpod_realtim.html?entry_id=1559171
  • chrisklapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am so freakin' excited about this one!
    all the crap that floods your playlists, and tedious to edit when your on your ipod!
  • bouche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I am guilty of not taking the time to use the smart list feature. I realize how stupid I am when my iPod HiFi is blaring on shuffle while I've got a hot tub party going on, and then all of a sudden an episode of TwiT comes on. So embarrassing ;)
    • spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh pa-shaw, that happened to me last week.
    • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well if you did get your TWIT episodes via iTunes, this shouldn't happen.

      Actually, any podcast you get directly with iTunes have the option "Skip when shuffling" automatically checked. This script is only useful if you get your podcasts from other sources.
  • chix0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for the first one:
    does this mean I have to go through and put genres on my 2000+ songs or at least make sure the ones that actually do have a genre are accurate? I personally hate genres.
    I'll pass...
  • zirth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A tip for those who want their non audible or itunes audiobooks to work in itunes audiobook-section. Convert your files to aac, rename to m4b (protected bookmarkable) using something like extension changer (or manually). No more books polluting your musiclibrary.
  • spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1smart playlists have been in itunes since v4. you guys are noobs.

    and please if you are on a pc, get a proper audio player.
    *for the record i am a mac guy.
  • BuffalOBisoN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4itunes blows goats.
  • afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2winamp, Mediamonkey, and foobar2k are all better than iTunes.
    • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They don't have advanced smart playlists like that, so why are they better again? Because they have all these "cool" skins?
  • DCMacHead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I highly recommend that people clean up their tags (you can select multiple songs by holding the shift key down and selecting a range, right click, get info). If you get your years cleaned up, you can make playlists that go by decades or ranges of years--I've got cool ones from college, high school, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. Rating your songs is awesome, but you can also set the smart playlists not to play songs that have been played in the past X days.
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