I have a trick to solve that; I use a smart playlist with a setting of "Last played not in the past X days". That way, no song will be played too often.
(I actually have a bunch of playlists that combine based on rating/time pairs, so 5 star songs not in the past 14 days, 4 star songs not in the past 70 days, etc.)
Do you know if you can do that with shared iTunes libraries? I have a fileserver which shares out all of my mp3s via rendezvous and daap. I connect to that from my Mac to listen to music.
In iTunes, choose New Smart Playlist... from the File menu. You'll get a dialog box with "Match the following condition:" and a few other choices. To add additional conditions, press the "(+)" button at the right. This changes the box to let you require "any" or "all" of the listed conditions; most of my playlists use "all".
In my case, my "5 @14" playlist has two conditions: - rating is ***** - last played is not within the last 14 days
I also have "live updating" and "only checked songs" turned on. (I uncheck songs to remove duplicates of the same cut of the same song.)
I then have other playlists "4 @70", "3 @1yr", etc. The final step is a smart playlist which uses "Match any of the following" and simply lists "Playlist is 5@14", "Playlist is 4 @70", and so on. This puts them all together into one mega playlist.
One trick that works well with this and "live updating" is to turn on crossfade playback with a one or two second delay. This keeps iTunes from removing the song from the playlist before starting the next song, which would interrupt your listening....
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Date: 16 Sep 2004 08:50 pm (UTC)(I actually have a bunch of playlists that combine based on rating/time pairs, so 5 star songs not in the past 14 days, 4 star songs not in the past 70 days, etc.)
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Date: 16 Sep 2004 10:31 pm (UTC)I don't know that I want to solve it, but it's good to know I can...
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Date: 17 Sep 2004 11:09 am (UTC)In my case, my "5 @14" playlist has two conditions:
- rating is *****
- last played is not within the last 14 days
I also have "live updating" and "only checked songs" turned on. (I uncheck songs to remove duplicates of the same cut of the same song.)
I then have other playlists "4 @70", "3 @1yr", etc. The final step is a smart playlist which uses "Match any of the following" and simply lists "Playlist is 5@14", "Playlist is 4 @70", and so on. This puts them all together into one mega playlist.
One trick that works well with this and "live updating" is to turn on crossfade playback with a one or two second delay. This keeps iTunes from removing the song from the playlist before starting the next song, which would interrupt your listening....