Rediscover your old music with iTunes Smart Playlists

Jul 22, 2010 - 1 Comment

itunes logo icon iTunes Smart Playlists are a widely underused feature in iTunes, which is a shame because it’s a powerful way to create custom playlists based on a variety of parameters, including artists, genres, dates, ratings, play counts, and more.

I’m often guilty of only listening to whatever is newest in my iTunes playlist since I’m usually pulling music from various new music blogs. But what about all the music that I was listening to a few months ago? Sure you can select shuffle, but why not take it a step further… create a smart playlist! Go to the File menu and down to “New Smart Playlist” and set your parameters and off you go.

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I got the idea for this a while ago after reading a nice article on The Apple Blog which walks us through the process of creating a smart playlist based on music age and skip count, allowing you to build a music playlist based on what you used to listen to and liked. Definitely a nice way to rediscover your older, and still enjoyable music.

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Posted by: Paul Horowitz in iTunes

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  1. maximilian says:

    I have created a smart playlists based system to weight the playing of songs by rating and also to automatically learn ratings over time. It’s free, so check it out!

    https://sites.google.com/site/wspmusicsystem/

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