Mac 101: Stars and Smart Playlists – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Mac 101: Stars and Smart Playlists
Posted Jul 28th 2008 9:00AM by Robert Palmer
Mac 101: Stars and Smart Playlists – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Filed under: iPod Family, iTunes, Mac 101
If you’re anything like me — and I sincerely hope you’re not, for your sake — you have a large iTunes music library, but the music that you like right now is only a small fraction of that total. (Yeah, that embarrassing ‘96 Dave Matthews Band album is getting pretty dusty.)
Since my musical tastes vary from day to day, and songs quickly fall in and out of my fickle favor, I love assigning ratings to the music I like this minute. I have a five-star rating for la crème de la crème, and a four-star rating for stuff that’s pretty good. Three-star items are sadly relegated to history.
Next, I combine ratings with smart playlists: Now I can add and remove songs from my current rotation just by changing their star rating. I can do this on-the-go, too: Change a rating on my iPod, and the playlists are updated immediately, and eventually synced back to the computer.
Mac 101: Stars and Smart Playlists – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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