"unheard" - least played track.

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one hit wonder:
- rating is greater than 3 stars
- playcount is 1

forgotten:
- rating is greater than 3 stars
- last played > 8 weeks

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I used to have one for Podcast but then iTunes fixed that when they added it to the program. Now the only one I have is for recently added songs. Since I've got 25+ gigs of music on my iBook and only a 20 gig iPod I have to manually add songs to the iPod. So with this smart playlist I have all the new songs in one place and just drag them to the iPod when I remember to. And once the songs are updated I just change the date in the playlist and any new songs that are added are there for me the next time I want to add songs.

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My one big smart playlist is a recnetly added one, so when I add songs to my library en-mass and can't find them to edit them, I go there and can do all my work on them.

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Oh yeah. I live by smart lists.

I have a 4GB iPod mini, but a 30+ GB library, so management for the iPod is key. Note that one star is my rating for songs I don't want included in playlists. Here's what I have:

Mini **:
No WAV, No AIF
Rating = 2 stars
Max = 400MB
Sorted by least recently heard.

Same thing for *** and **** and *****

Mini Recently Added:
No WAV, No AIF
Rating does not = 1 star
Max = 400MB
Date added is in the last month.

Etc....

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As a music reviewer for progressive electronic music, I have a few varying playlists dependent on a few artists. One is really a guy named Mic Burns, but he operates under a series of aliases that do both original work and remixes. So my fields span both artist and song name each for six different accounting names (a total of twelve fields) while parsing out similiarly named stuff based on both composer name (some are similar) and genre. It took over the course of about three months to seriously nail down all the names he was using and to figure out the best way to sort it. Now I can just drop in one of his current tracks and it appears automatically into my smart playlist designed for him.

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I have created smart playlist for each of the differnt genders and I have no promblem managing more than 10,000 songs.

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I have one called "Last 2 weeks" that I keep all the music I added in the, you guessed it, last 2 weeks. That way the new stuff gets some attention before I forget what the hell it is.

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Not Recently Played:
last played > 2 months

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Miy Hit Smart playlist..

Good Songs Not played at all!

Rating = 5
Playcount < 2

Somewhat Like Jay

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I have quite a few, but one that I think others will like is:
Underated?
My Rating is less than ***
Genre does not contain Children
Limit to 20 songs selected by most often played

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I listen to a lot of new stuff, so here's a few of my favorites:

Fresh Material:
Added in the last 7 days (occasionally bumped out to 14 if I have an album or track I really like in the mix)
Genre is not Podcast
Kind does not contain MPEG-4 video file

Unlistened Podcasts:
Podcast is true
Play count is zero
Kind does not contain video

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Oddly enough my favorite Smart Playlists are my "excludes" playlists which I create master versions of, and then duplicate using a script from Doug's AppleScripts fo iTunes, and customize for the situation. Helps to sort out stuff that I want to keep in the library, but don't usually want to listen to.

Nested playlists (Smart Playlist based off of other Smart Playlists) are great as well, but you have to be very particular in creating them so they will play nice with the auto-update feature on the iPod. For example, if I create an excludes lists for Classical music, and tell another Smart Playlist to look for songs not in the "Classical exclude" list, the iPod gives me the "!" in the iTunes source list - basically iPod says the playlist contains songs not on the iPod, even though that's exactly what it's supposed to do!

Basically I use the master excluding playlists for iPod playlists, and nested Smart Playlists for use just in iTunes.

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"Top 25 LEAST Played" - 25 songs with the lowest play counts.

That way I can make sure I cycle through all my music evenly without forgetting anyone.

The only problem with this is that iTunes seems to think I've never played some songs that I KNOW I've played. Go figure...

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i use smart playlist to feed my party shuffle.

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I set up a few theme playlists.

Song Contains: Fire

So any song with Fire in the title.

Or Song Contains: Death etc.

I listen to a lot of thrash so the playlists work.

I also have a lot of clasical. So I have playlists set up that sort by Composer and genre (Chamber music, Symphony, Solo Keyboard works, Concerto). It makes it a lot eaiser to find a specific composers work when I want to listen to Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto.

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One for Audio-Streams - so I can click on play at any radiostation listed @ www.liveradio.de and they are "bookmarked" automatically.

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hum, just spent 20 minutes writing a passionate article about my smart playlists and the first line is the only one to have been posted in my previous comment. feeling too lazy to start again the detailed explanation so i will summarize to:

combination of:
200 most played songs in the last year
+
songs added in the last 3 months
+
flavor of the month
-
songs commented 'skip'
-
songs played in the past 6 hours
+
songs rated **** and *****
+
songs played less than 4 times
+
play higher rated songs more often

gives me a balanced playlist that allows me discover/rediscover old/new tunes mixed with my favorite tunes.

but i think that Party Shuffle should make this much more simple, with filter like:
x% from playlist X
y% from playlist Y
z% from playlist Z
100%-x%-y%-z% from my entire library
don't play songs that have been played in the x hours

and i don't want to see twice songs in the upcoming songs list. or a song that is playing right now being added to this upcoming list.

remember when we had 2 major iTunes upgrades in less than one month?

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Mostly, I just have a few I use to manage conversions, imports, and such. "To be converted" is anything that's not an AAC (or a stream), "to be bookmarked" is anything in "Books & Spoken" that's not "AAC Protected" (which is iTunes mistaken way of interpreting the bookmarkable .m4b format). "Unheard" is the obvious. Otherwise, I mostly break out certain favorite artists, exclude endless "best of" albums, that sort of thing.

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Do it yourself Smart Radio Station via Codepoetry
http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2005/01/15/doityourself_smart_radio_station.php

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