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Does your iTunes randomizer have favorite songs? I have over 3000 songs in mine, and this one has come up at least once a day over the past week.

Date: 16 Sep 2004 08:50 pm (UTC)
ckd: small blue foam shark (Default)
From: [personal profile] ckd
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.)

Date: 17 Sep 2004 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] epi-lj.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 17 Sep 2004 10:57 am (UTC)
ckd: small blue foam shark (Default)
From: [personal profile] ckd
I don't think you can do it with a daap setup, unfortunately; that doesn't update the last played info, in particular.

Date: 17 Sep 2004 08:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackfyr.livejournal.com
How do you do that?

Date: 17 Sep 2004 11:09 am (UTC)
ckd: small blue foam shark (Default)
From: [personal profile] ckd
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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