Dynamic Playlist niftiness

Tuesday, January 8. 2008

Dynamic Playlist niftiness

One of my most loved Amarok features are dynamic playlists. For those who don´t know how they work a little guide is availible.

I use a tweaked random for my dynamic playlist. Amarok is told to play music from a smart playlist which contains all the songs I rated with more than 3 stars or did not rate at all. I don´t want to listen to music I have listened to within the last month. So I exclude that as well. This makes my smart playlist. In Amarok it looks like this:

And now I use that as a seed for a dynamic playlist to make Amarok add and remove songs from my actual playlist and by doing this keeping it tidy, small and going on playing music for weeks if I want it to without me ever having to add or remove songs from the playlist (great for parties btw). If I feel like playing a certain song I can of course always just drag it into the playlist and play it. In Amarok my dynamic playlist looks like this:

And this is the result

I am pretty sure others out there use even cooler and more useful dynamic playlists. Please share. What do you tell Amarok to play for you?

Posted by Lydia Pintscher in Nightrose at 11:59 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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I use a similar setup, maybe e little less efficient, since I have 2 distinct playlist (one for songs older than x days and one for tracks that have never been played). I find the resulting playlist quite unbalanced between the 2 sources, but I should probably change this since I rarely have unheard tracks in my collection.

What I am also missing is something to tell amarok that I want to hear tracks I rated higher more often than others: I use sort by random/rating, but I don't really notice its effect.

Last thing would be to have a way to be sure that amarok will sooner or later go through all my music collection instead of playing songs with a very high playcount (songs older than x days helps, but x should vary depending on collection size and listening time).

#1 valz on 2008-01-08 13:15 (Reply)

I was about to email and ask about this. Why can't I create a Smart Playlist with songs that I've added in the last month? I can do first played in the last month and I can do modified in the last month but not added in the last month.

The collection shows me artists added within the last month, why isn't there an option to make this a playlist?

#2 Jack Hynes on 2008-01-08 13:56 (Reply)

i use different smart playlist for syncing my ipod: one that contains the whole collection with some stuff excluded (e.g. my collection of audiobooks)
one that contains everything that has changed in the last week and one that shows every track containing words like remix or so to get all my remixes shown

this way i can easyly sync my ipod by just adding the latest songs so i dont have to add the whole collection again

btw. a real sync function for ipods woulb be nice for amarok2...

#3 kilian on 2008-01-08 16:39 (Reply)

You have a filter named: "Added [today|within one week|within one month|three months|year] which is very useful when syncing the ipod. I dont think the sync function is useful for people who have collections bigger than the ipod...

#3.1 Enric Caussa Morales (Homepage) on 2008-01-09 12:29 (Reply)

My music is stored in genre directories, which was the only way to go in the days of Winamp 1.0. My Winamp (and windows!) days are long gone, but the genre directories are still there. In Amorok I use the File Path filter to select only certain genres such as classical or rock. One of my favorite playlists is an "unplayed electronica" list. I doubt I'll ever get through it!

#4 James on 2008-01-09 19:25 (Reply)

Playing higher rated songs more often would be a great feature.

Syncing an ipod smaller than your collection makes sense for having good statistics or for rating my music on the road.
I do this in itunes by only Syncing specific playlists.

#5 Anonymous on 2008-01-13 04:08 (Reply)

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