Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

Grok Headline matches for Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

Add logic to smart playlists in iTunes
4.5

Add logic to smart playlists in iTunes
4.5 04/30/2004 12:17 PM
I've been thinking hard about how to bypass what I think is a limitation in iTunes' smart playlist capabilities, that is to create a list with a combination of logical operands. You can create lists with only AND or only OR ...

Refresh Smart Playlists in iTunes using
AppleScript

Refresh Smart Playlists in iTunes using
AppleScript 05/25/2004 10:14 AM
A healthy discussion on smart playlists over at the Apple iTunes forum has yielded this tidy little piece of AppleScript, which refreshes a specific list of smart playlists (as long as they have "live updating" checked): set...

iTunes Smart Playlists can cause slow
app loading

iTunes Smart Playlists can cause slow
app loading 07/07/2004 09:23 AM
I recently reinstalled Panther on my shiny new 300GB hard drive. iTunes used to load all my songs (about 1,700 total) with one bounce. Soon after, it would take about seven to eight bounces to launch, with nothing else going ...

Manage iTunes audio streams with smart
playlists

Manage iTunes audio streams with smart
playlists 12/19/2004 02:59 PM
This is a very basic tip on how to match audio streams such as the ones broadcasted with nicecast or shoutcast etc. Basically, all you have to do is create a smart playlist with kind contains "Stream," and you will have a s...

Smart playlists can cause slow iTunes
launch times

Smart playlists can cause slow iTunes
launch times 07/06/2004 09:58 AM
I recently re-installed Panther on my shiny new 300GB hard drive. iTunes used to load all my songs ( about 1700 or so) with one bounce. Soon after, it would take about seven to eight bounces to launch, with nothing else going...

Smart playlists that truly follow your
mood

Smart playlists that truly follow your
mood 05/06/2004 10:14 AM
With thousands of tunes in your iTunes library or in your iPod, it's high time to consider using it as the radio you've always looked for: the one that delivers only tunes you like, and that fit your mood in a unheard of way....

Man smart, voter smarter

Man smart, voter smarter 05/15/2004 06:56 PM
Mid-Day Mumbai,India-3 hours ago ... They can just do a Google search right there in their own villages. ... They’re all too busy doing Google searches for Infosys results. ...

Smart Cell Phones Become Smarter

Smart Cell Phones Become Smarter 04/16/2004 04:55 AM
Hankooki Apr 16 2004 9:07AM GMT

Import playlists and songs into iTunes

Import playlists and songs into iTunes 04/29/2004 10:44 AM
I've not seen this hint anywhere else, but maybe I've just missed it. If you have an iTunes folder at home, and another at work, and you want to merge the two you can do the following: Copy the work iTunes folder onto your ...

Publish iTunes 4.5 library and playlists
to the web

Publish iTunes 4.5 library and playlists
to the web 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
I just had one of those Eureka moments. Instead of futzing around with iTunes and Excel to make music lists, I just need to use the new iTunes 4.5. I don't know how Apple does it, but it just keeps getting better. Of course t...

iTunes Celebrity Playlists: Anything But
Ordinary, Please

iTunes Celebrity Playlists: Anything But
Ordinary, Please 05/27/2004 12:16 PM
Writer Dan Kois profiles the pitfalls and rare successes of iTunes Music Store's celebrity playlists. Turns out, most famous people like the same crappy music as the rest of us.I can't think of a better summation of Avril Lavigne than...

Rename iTunes playlists to control order

Rename iTunes playlists to control order 12/15/2003 11:44 AM
iTunes does a nice job of organizing your playlists by type (i.e. Smart Playlists and custom playlists). However, when you transfer those playlists to your iPod, the playlists get re-ordered in alphabetical order. In order t...

Organize in-progress iTunes playlists
via renaming

Organize in-progress iTunes playlists
via renaming 05/11/2004 10:51 AM
I've got a ton of playlists in iTunes and until Apple lets us have folders in the iTunes sidebar, I'll use this method for creating a new playlist. Right after creating the empty playlist, I'll re-name it " " (just...

The perils of iTunes Music Store
celebrity playlists

The perils of iTunes Music Store
celebrity playlists 05/27/2004 02:08 PM
Slate's Dan Kois takes a humorous look at the celebrity playlists featured on Apple's iTunes Music Store...

Move iTunes playlists and songs via file
export

Move iTunes playlists and songs via file
export 07/06/2004 09:58 AM
Say you have a Smart Playlist of songs you want to copy to iTunes on another machine. Usually, you can mount the other machine's drive on your Desktop, and drag all the songs from the playlist to the folder you want, then go...

Beyonc©, Your Mix Tape Sucks - The
perils of iTunes celebrity playlists. By
Dan Kois

Beyonc©, Your Mix Tape Sucks - The
perils of iTunes celebrity playlists. By
Dan Kois 05/29/2004 04:53 PM
Beyonce, Your Mix Sucks .. Slate

slate.msn.com/id/2101245
track this site | 2 links

I have a dream that my children will one
day be judged not by the color of their
skin but by the content of their iTunes
playlists

I have a dream that my children will one
day be judged not by the color of their
skin but by the content of their iTunes
playlists 11/13/2003 05:26 AM
“ITunes Undermines Social Security” .. playlistism .. Wired

wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61177,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
track this site | 11 links

iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies

iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
iTunes has one play-tracking limitation that, if fixed, would yield some very cool playlists: the ability to see how many times a song has been played recently. But there's no timestamp saved for each play; it just incremen...

Create an iTunes 'work safe' smart
playlist

Create an iTunes 'work safe' smart
playlist 06/28/2004 11:23 AM
This came while doing some work in a place where we couldn't use headphones, but could listen to music, every now and then we'd run across a song that wasn't... appropriate. First I added a rule to my Smart Playlist I was usi...

Playlists of Web-available music

Playlists of Web-available music 06/10/2004 01:22 PM
Webjay is a project to host and share listener-created playlists of songs that are freely downloadable from the Web. Link

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents 09/13/2004 12:34 PM
Smart Box Design announces the release of Farkle, a Palm OS version of the classic dice rolling game. Farkle offers players an opportunity to challenge friends or compete against a variety of “intelligent” computer opponents with a wide range of personalities—from cautious to daring—that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing to take when deciding just how far to push their luck. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Playlists as media integration

Playlists as media integration 06/09/2004 02:11 PM
RSS and weblogs tag team mano a mano vs. syndication and broadcatching.

RSS and weblogs tag team mano a mano vs. syndication and broadcatching

the weblog of Lucas Gonze: RSS and weblogs tag team mano a mano vs. syndication and broadcatching. "The reason for the awkwardness is that RSS is about content from the creator of the RSS feed, while playlists are about deep linking to resources not owned by the linker. (Thanks to Alf Eaton for this insight)."

The funny thing is I was thinking about emailing Lucas about his thoughts on RSS 2.0 and the proper integration of audio posts and playlists integration into it when I saw this post. 

I don't know if I totally agree that RSS is always about content from the creator and never and can't be about deep linking to resources not owned by the linker.  I think that is what Lucas is trying to say above.  When CNET uses RSS maybe but not when webloggers and blog software outputs it.

Lucas points to some good links about the integration of RSS 1.0 and playlists.  It looks likes he's spent some time thinking about this.  I just don't know if I missed a whole online conversation around the subject and how he came to his conclusions.

When I try to think about this area's awkwardness, I keep thinking something is missing.  Maybe we need to study the best practices of mixing the two.  Should there be more then one "best" way in RSS of refering to playlist as a whole and others for deriving playlists out of RSS?

One thing I noticed it that when the big pubs starting using RSS they made RSS work for them. 

[Audio/Mobile Blogging News]

The nature and location of the payload is crucial to the success of all this.

Enclosures don't have meta-data - so they're worthless.  What ever happened to OpenMedia?

Oh yah, I dropped the ball on that - too.

Seb's getting into music playlists now

Seb's getting into music playlists now 04/23/2004 01:26 AM
Seb's musiclog goes live. I've begun rolling music selections in my sidebar using Alan Levine's handy RSS via Javascript tool. Pretty easy. You can see the musiclog on my blog's main page, just below the search boxes. (The RSS feed is here.) [Seb's Open Research]

Playlist: Brilliant Playlists

Playlist: Brilliant Playlists 02/05/2005 09:19 PM
As our music libraries swell to gargantuan proportions it can become increasingly difficult to manage the music we listen to (or would like to listen to if we could just find half the tunes we possess). Thankfully iTunes offers a leg up with Smart Playlists -- a tool for automatically creating playlists that contain exactly the kind of music you want in iTunes and on your iPod.

Are Playlists Factual Information?

Are Playlists Factual Information? 09/17/2004 11:55 AM
When Microsoft launched their new music service, one of the "features" was that they tried to mimic a number of radio stations by offering streaming versions of their playlists, minus all the DJ chatter, commercials and songs that weren't licensed for online usage. This raised a bit of a stink and then quieted down. Now, Wired News is taking a look at the legal issues here and wondering if radio stations have a case against Microsoft? First, they admit that it's a little amusing that Microsoft, who is a strong believer in intellectual property laws, suddenly finds themselves on the other side of this issue. However, it does seem pretty clear that, just like real- time sports data, playlists are protected as being factual information. What the article doesn't say is whether or not the radio stations could claim intellectual property protection over the way they organize those songs -- something that has received some protection in the past, and which may get more protection soon. The other, perhaps stronger case for radio stations is trademark violations. Microsoft is claiming their streaming versions are "like 100.3 FM KSFI FM 100 Continuous Soft Hits," or whatever station they're imitating. The radio stations might make a case that this could confuse users into believing the stream is somehow from that radio station or sponsored by them. Microsoft, of course, will counter that the "like" clearly distinguishes their streams as separate. Either way, there is the question of whether or not this fight is worth it for the radio industry. They don't see internet radio as that big of a threat (yet), and a lawsuit could give Microsoft extra publicity for the service (which might be just what they intended).

P2P to influence radio playlists

P2P to influence radio playlists 03/14/2003 01:08 PM

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Once a week, createdigitalmusic's Peter Kirn highlights drool-worthy music and audio creation equipment, from essential to oddball. This week's computer audio control surface, invented by a former magician and priced like a yacht, hits the oddball end.

Footlights organizes video with
playlists

Footlights organizes video with
playlists 09/23/2004 06:06 PM
Radical Breeze on Thursday released Footlights 1.0. The video playing application arranges movie files into playlists, lets you view them in full screen or compact views, and can loop, shuffle, change speed and more. Movies can also be exported to QuickTime-supported formats and codecs as well. Footlights requires Mac OS X v10.3 or higher and costs US$15; it's free to registered users of DiscBlaze 4.0 and higher.

Make M3U playlists play in Safari

Make M3U playlists play in Safari 05/11/2004 10:51 AM
I bet you hate it when you go to a website that offers free music downloads and/or previews (like Broadjam) with Safari, and instead of playing the M3U link, Safari just downloads it to disk. I bet you think "those poor Wind...

Share playlists of videos to Xbox

Share playlists of videos to Xbox 03/25/2005 11:25 AM
This tip follows a previous tip on how to share your files from your Mac via Samba to Xbox Media Center. As some of you may or may not know, you can create a .m3u playlist (of videos or music) using VideoLan Client (VLC) by l...

Building Playlists Of Free MP3s

Building Playlists Of Free MP3s 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Despite what the recording industry would have you believe, there actually are a lot of bands who release tracks as MP3s for free online, as a way of promoting their music. A while back Lucas Gonze came up with the idea of helping people create web-based playlists for such free MP3s and ended up creating Webjay. I had played around with it a couple months ago when he launched it, but haven't had much time since. It looks like many others, though, have started populating it with some interesting playlists. The idea is not to include unauthorized MP3s (and, in fact, those lists get taken down), but as a way to help promote bands who realize the benefit of offering free MP3s online.

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more 04/27/2004 05:36 PM
Mireth Technology unveiled iVCD 2.0 on Tuesday, a new version of their application for authoring Video CDs and Super Video CDs. The update adds the ability to include menus and playlists in Video CDs, a preview mode for encoded MPEG and more.

Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby
Blogs

Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby
Blogs 04/22/2004 01:13 AM
Webjay.org lets people create music playlists; Microsoft has a site that lets lurkers follow the hottest newsgroups; Trixie Update, a `baby blog' with detailed charts.

MSN Music hijacking radio station
playlists?

MSN Music hijacking radio station
playlists? 09/07/2004 07:53 PM
So far, feedback for Microsoft's newly launched MSN Music has been pretty positive. Until now. SFGate.com is reporting that more than 900 radio stations have complained after Microsoft nabbed effective copies of their playlists.

Although some members might remember the old adage that to be copied means one is admired, Radio station owners don't seem to be seeing it this way. When they broadcast on-air, they have adverts; Microsoft are broadcasting online without the adverts, and without the stations DJs. Rob Bennett, senior director for MSN Entertainment commented "It results in a more pleasant experience because you don't have the ads or the DJs." How kind.

Not surprisingly, radio stations across the nation see this as Microsoft piggy-backing their hard work, and an unfair way to compete in the market. MSN Radio is part of MSN Music, and was largely over looked when MSN Music launched. One of it's features is the 'localised radio', offering content from 1,200 radio stations.

The current situation is arguably quite confusing. Microsoft label sites with "like XY.Z FM" and then list what Microsoft describe as a factual piece of information - the name - rather than a trademark. One can't but wonder, if the tables were turned, would there be trademark cease and desist letters being sealed?

View: SFGate Article
View: MSN Music | MSN Radio

Read full story...

How smart is Microsoft's smart phone?

How smart is Microsoft's smart phone? 04/13/2004 08:56 PM
ZDNet Apr 14 2004 0:41AM GMT

"One of us is smarter than all of us"

"One of us is smarter than all of us" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Why MSN is smarter than AOL

Why MSN is smarter than AOL 01/11/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Jan 11 2004 9:16PM ET

Smarter Than Me

Smarter Than Me 12/29/2003 11:44 PM
Sometimes I'm accused of being "smart," which bothers me since I don't know what it means. It's a comparative label: if this one is smart, then others are equally smart, smarter, or less smart. Yet all generalizations are false, all comparisons fail. There's no way to measure these things, not really. It's a bogus idea. That's not exactly right. I quickly identify folks smarter than me, but it's not empirical, just a cocktail party chat I have with myself. Probably...

Smarter Than the CEO

Smarter Than the CEO 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.
Grok Description matches for Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists
GrokA matches for Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: