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[zeltak]

hi everyone!

been away on holiday for a month, lots of changes to explore now  . i have a bit of an impossible qustion i want to ask and maybe ill get lucky and get a surprise answer  . i was wondering if there was anyway to ask a smartlist to do this:

take a look at my 4+5 star tracks in my Lib. and play a random playlist (with sorting,genere pick etc etc etc..) but when i play that smartlist again next time that it will remember the songs in the last smartlist and not play them again (i.e take them out of the 4+5 star pool) this will go on for each time i play that smartlist untill all my 4+5 tracks in my library are played!

this means i will hear each time my full 4+5 tracks untill the loop begins again...maybe its a crappy explanation   or maybe it isnt possible but i would love to know if such a option is possible

thx alot

zeltak

[hit_ny]

You might want to include the "Last played" option in your smartlist.

Maybe only play tracks that you have have not been played for over a week, month, (any arbitrary time period you want) etc.

This should avoid recently played tracks while still keeping your other preferences for rating, genre etc.

[dedidio]

I would order by 'last played' and impose a limit of say 50 tracks.  This will achieve pretty much what you're after.

[zeltak]

hi guys and thx for the replys!

how exactly do i "order by 'last played' and impose a limit of say 50 tracks" , what is the command i need to use in the smartlist window and in which order relating to the other presets and configs (geners,fav,etc)

thx alot again

zeltak
 

[antolod]

Here is a simple one I use:

playlistid==803145375 [Genre]=[Rock] -[Rating]=<=3 ~sort=[Random] [Last Played]=>7200

The playlistid==802145375 is my iPod files master playlist.  The last played is in minutes, so 7200 is 5 days  (120 hours).  Making that number sufficiently large will exclude songs after you listen to all of them.  The more songs you have, the larger it will need to be to ensure you don't "skip" any before starting over.  I guess you could calculate how long it needs to be by the following:

   (total number of songs/avg songs per day) * 24 * 60 = number of minutes.

My 1200 favorites songs at 20 songs per day is 60 days or 86400 for last played.

(hope i got that math error fixed before anybody saw it)
And to think I hated math in school.

[EpF]

The last played is in seconds, so 7200 is only 2 hours.  

According to the MC help file, the 'last played' is in minutes...

[antolod]

Thanks EpF, my bad, edited and corrected.  But it USED to be in seconds?  I don't know where I got that from, must have been something from Mr. Barret's 7th grade math class.