I love them. Every so often I have enough effort to craft a masterful playlist with every song and its placement hand-picked, but then it's a hassle to update them with new music.
My favorite formula is
Genre contains [any one genre]
Rating is 5 stars (I only use star ratings to give things 5 stars to facilitate smart playlists)
Last Played is in the last 4 months
Say I did it for hip-hop, it creates a nice (and huge) playlist that automatically adds all my favorites of hip-hop I've listened to in the last few months. Put it on shuffle and it's instant party shuffle for a specific genre except better.
The only one that I ever use is for music with 0 plays, so I can give everything that I download a listen. Otherwise I just make the playlists myself.
Quote from: GUOB on August 29, 2009, 02:23:30 PM
The only one that I ever use is for music with 0 plays, so I can give everything that I download a listen. Otherwise I just make the playlists myself.
That's a good idea, I usually just use Recently Added though
Quote from: GUOB on August 29, 2009, 02:23:30 PM
The only one that I ever use is for music with 0 plays, so I can give everything that I download a listen. Otherwise I just make the playlists myself.
I do that too, alongside "Recently Added."
Quote from: wziard on August 29, 2009, 02:37:02 PM
That's a good idea, I usually just use Recently Added though
Zune doesn't have recently added ;-;
Quote from: GUOB on August 29, 2009, 02:55:38 PM
Zune doesn't have recently added ;-;
You can sort by date added though akudood;
I wish play counts and last listen to were like stored in an account that you could use throughout different computers.
Quote from: reefer on August 29, 2009, 03:22:13 PM
I wish play counts and last listen to were like stored in an account that you could use throughout different computers.
What program are you using.
iTunes can just use library files for it.
Also, I use:
(http://i31.tinypic.com/1087g3d.png)
I have them for genres, artists, and date added
I use them to share my iTunes library with my sisters.
I share everything besides Eminem, for obvious reasons.
I never even figured out how to make them doodhuh;
I use them to figure out how many songs I have by a particular artist.
I have about 300 r.e.m. songs
190-ish Depeche Mode songs
300 by David Byrne/Talking Heads
and 99 by Radiohead.
107 by TMBG.
Quote from: NautSyd on September 01, 2009, 12:16:05 PM
I use them to figure out how many songs I have by a particular artist.
I have about 300 r.e.m. songs
190-ish Depeche Mode songs
300 by David Byrne/Talking Heads
and 99 by Radiohead.
107 by TMBG.
Of course, alternatively, you could just type in a band's name in the search bar to narrow your entire list down to that band if you need to see how many you have. You don't need to make a playlist.
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 12:30:29 PM
Of course, alternatively, you could just type in a band's name in the search bar to narrow your entire list down to that band if you need to see how many you have. You don't need to make a playlist.
maybe he doesn't have a keyboard goonish
Quote from: Bassir on September 01, 2009, 12:43:16 PM
maybe he doesn't have a keyboard goonish
Then he wouldn't be able to type in "Radiohead" when making a smart playlist in order for it to work. goonish
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 12:50:53 PM
Then he wouldn't be able to type in "Radiohead" when making a smart playlist in order for it to work. goonish
maybe he had to borrow a keyboard to create the playlists so that when he gave it back he could always check again without using a keyboard goonish
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 12:30:29 PM
Of course, alternatively, you could just type in a band's name in the search bar to narrow your entire list down to that band if you need to see how many you have. You don't need to make a playlist.
That doesn't always work:
(http://imgur.com/pAzkJ.png)
Quote from: JMV on September 01, 2009, 02:09:35 PM
That doesn't always work:
Well no, it doesn't
always work, but it works for all the bands Notsid mentioned. And even if you get a couple extra things, it's not exactly hard to do a little bit of quick subtraction.
But yeah Queen is not an ideal choice to use the search bar for.
Are you saying you can't sort by artist in iTunes? doodhuh;
Quote from: Hïro on September 01, 2009, 03:28:43 PM
Are you saying you can't sort by artist in iTunes? doodhuh;
...what?
Have you never even used iTunes before? By default, unless you change it, it sorts by artist.
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 03:38:53 PM
...what?
Have you never even used iTunes before? By default, unless you change it, it sorts by artist.
I think this just proves that Hiro hates iTunes without ever using it. giggle;
And it wouldn't count the number of songs by the artist, Hiro.
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 03:38:53 PM
...what?
Have you never even used iTunes before? By default, unless you change it, it sorts by artist.
I've used iTunes, just not often. If figured as much, so why is it a problem? Just play that artist.
Quote from: JMV on September 01, 2009, 03:41:57 PM
I think this just proves that Hiro hates iTunes without ever using it. giggle;
When in hell did I ever say I hated iTunes? doodhuh;
Quote from: JMV on September 01, 2009, 03:41:57 PM
And it wouldn't count the number of songs by the artist, Hiro.
Uhhh...... what?
Quote from: Hïro on September 01, 2009, 03:55:49 PM
I've used iTunes, just not often. If figured as much, so why is it a problem? Just play that artist.
Because you can't shuffle your overall library, but you can shuffle a playlist. That's much of the point of putting them into a playlist, really. Plus, if you only want to play that artist but you aren't near your computer (in other words, you're lazy), a playlist keeps iTunes from going into the next artist on the list.
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 08:52:41 PM
Because you can't shuffle your overall library, but you can shuffle a playlist. That's much of the point of putting them into a playlist, really. Plus, if you only want to play that artist but you aren't near your computer (in other words, you're lazy), a playlist keeps iTunes from going into the next artist on the list.
On the Zune thing when you can just shuffle an artist's songs baddood;
Quote from: Hïro on September 01, 2009, 08:57:16 PM
On the Zune thing when you can just shuffle an artist's songs baddood;
In iTunes it takes about 5 seconds to drag an artist's songs into a playlist. baddood;
So no real loss.
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 08:59:16 PM
In iTunes it takes about 5 seconds to drag an artist's songs into a playlist. baddood;
So no real loss.
Same with Zune baddood;
Idk I was just curious was all, not bashing itunes or trying to offend jimv or anything
(although I do think the zune app seems more functional akudood;)
Quote from: Kaz on September 01, 2009, 08:52:41 PM
Because you can't shuffle your overall library
what? I've always got my library on shuffle.
Quote from: NautSyd on September 02, 2009, 10:23:03 AM
what? I've always got my library on shuffle.
...okay, I always just assumed shuffling didn't work on the main library because you don't see its effects immediately. I'm retarded.
You can just play the artist by changing the view in iTunes... The view where it's a grid allows you to play just one artist's songs and you can shuffle from there