tunequest

Ever wonder what you were listening to three, four, five or even ten years ago? Or maybe you want to look back and wonder "have I really been listening to this album for that long?". Enter The Anniversary Playlist. By setting two simple Date Added parameters in a Smart Playlist, you can make a self-updating playlist of all the music you were listening to a given number ...

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This is an iTunes Smart Playlist idea that I came up with last month and I am having so much fun with it I've just got to share it. The basic premise is to relive my entire musical history in rough chronological segments. The goal is to slowly drift and gradually segue through the highlights of the various eras of my musical life so that contemporaneous ...

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This is a fun little playlist. In my last Smart Playlist example, I showed how to create a list of the most recently added songs that had not reached a certain play count. Today's list takes the opposite tack: what are the oldest songs in the library that haven't been played a certain number of times. I call it "Eldest Tunes" and it is a great ...

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With more than 16,000 songs to manage, there is no more essential a tool in my library than iTunes' Smart Playlists. From building simple playlists for listening to creating complex queries for examination, Smart Playlists turn what would be a tedious burden into a trivial task. At the moment, I have more than 50 of them slicing, organizing and corralling my expansive collection of tunes into ...

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