konkrypton
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Not a Smart Playlist…
My smartest playlist isn't a playlist, it's an Applescript! Seriously, I use Ascript a lot and realized that I couldn't get a smart playlist to pull entire albums based on "least recently played." So I created a smart playlist that just listed all my album tracks (comment does not contain "single") sorted by "last played date".
Then I wrote a script that looks at the top few tracks and, based on those tracks, grabs each track's "brothers" from the same album and dumps them into a standard playlist.
The upshot of this mess is that I can now pull entire albums that have tracks that haven't been listened to recently and I can listen to the whole album at once instead of a track here and another there.
I'm an old geek from the 70's that believes that some albums were designed to be listened to as a complete work. Examples are the Moody Blues' "Days of Future Past" and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
My smartest playlist isn't a playlist, it's an Applescript! Seriously, I use Ascript a lot and realized that I couldn't get a smart playlist to pull entire albums based on "least recently played." So I created a smart playlist that just listed all my album tracks (comment does not contain "single") sorted by "last played date".
Then I wrote a script that looks at the top few tracks and, based on those tracks, grabs each track's "brothers" from the same album and dumps them into a standard playlist.
The upshot of this mess is that I can now pull entire albums that have tracks that haven't been listened to recently and I can listen to the whole album at once instead of a track here and another there.
I'm an old geek from the 70's that believes that some albums were designed to be listened to as a complete work. Examples are the Moody Blues' "Days of Future Past" and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
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