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Smart Playlist Idea: Eldest Tunes (that need attention)

August 8th, 2008

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 way to give ...

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Cumulative lifetime play counts

July 31st, 2008

A rambling, self-indulgent, inconsequential post about habits, statistics, speculations, accumulation and missing data. :: I can't help but be disappointed that I can't see lifetime stats for my music listening habits. In these days of play count-tracking programs and websites like iTunes and Last.fm, it's easy to get caught up in the musical trends of your life. It's especially interesting when you look at the numbers and discover that you perhaps ...

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