What's Your Longest Smart Playlist?

BigD-Bluez

This errant question arose because of a casual comment I left regarding Neferrid's post on a Mozart comp on the 7dig thread to the effect of it being hard to have too much Mozart. It made me wonder later, Well, how much is in my Mozart Smart Playlist? I realize this may be impossible to answer if one is not using iTunes, and Smart Playlists are a little quirky since you can't specify multiple parameters but here goes: I have 40 something Smart Playlists going now-
1. Number one and I had no idea until I looked - Jazz, coming in at 28 days (sounds like a virus). Yikes. I guess I used to think of Jazz as a smaller category - I wouldn't think of having a Rock playlist - but it seems little brother's been growing up fast.
2. Classical Music, which doesn't really surprise me as that genre casts a pretty wide net - 12.2 days. This is an undercount though because technically all the Opera which I make sure to reclassify as Opera for its own list should be included - another 8.2 days. Jazz still takes it.
3. Blues - 11.8 days. No surprise there.
4. Latin - 5.9 days, I think some of those outrageously cheap collections from the 7dig and eMu threads weighed in here.


Oh, and back to what started this - Mozart - 3.2 days, which, gosh, is a fair amount. So, how's about you?
Edit - Thanks to Nefferid's string quartet rec, Wulfie's put on a little weight and gone up to 3.5 days.

Dr. Mutex

never played 72 days. Goes back to 2006.

greg

MY jazz smart list is certainly not as long - it comes in at 11.2 days, so still a long way to go. Typically most of my smart lists I limit to 25 or 50 items that are automatically updated. But just looking now I did discover one at 42 days! This is Unticked. When I moved itunes to a new computer 18 months ago, I set this up to make it easier for me to carry those forward onto the new computer, as my ipod only holds 30GB of music and I currently have 120GB, growing by the day. However, I don't think this should count, and I'll probably scrap it now I have 'discovered' it. My unplayed is 'only' 27 days, but I reset that on January 1st this year

Germanprof

Well, my smartlists were designed to limit their own size because I am using them to cycle things on and off my iPod touch, so they are each subsets of their categories. "5 Star Albums" (= things I want available to listen to at all times) is actually the largest at 6.8 days (not because most of my music is 5 stars but because I want proportionally more of that music with me)

Making a couple just to see, I find that "Ambient" would be 10.5 days, "Electronic" 14.3 days. Rock/Progressive Rock combined are 9.3 days. Post-rock I could get through in a working week, and classical an extended weekend (if I didn't sleep). Jazz is still less than a day, though growing slowly under present influences. Should say also a chunk of my CD collection is still not on here.

Unplayed is 16.7 but that only dates back to last spring when I started systematically listening to everything from scratch.

choiceweb0pen0

@GP: I like the five star move. I replaced an iPod Classic with an iPod Touch and started letting it sync automatically, though I have a lot that I tell it must be be on though the iTunes settings when it's docked. Still find I'm missing an album here or that that I forget to add to the keep list.

Germanprof

@cw00 - it's part of a larger system I set up a while back. I have a smart playlist for 5 star albums with no size limitation; another for 4 star albums limited to 12GB and with criteria regarding play count so that it gradually rotates through all my 4* albums; another for 3* albums (I started off limiting this to a few GB and using play count to cycle through; recently I've found it more fun to work through the alphabet by band name, manually changing the smartlist criteria when I exhaust each letter). (I use two star ratings for certain things I want to keep but don't want on the iPod, and one star to flag for deletion). There's also a smart list for items added in the last 2 months but not on the 4* or 3* albums list, so that recent additions are allowed a few more plays before they cycle off. When I add a new album to iTunes I usually give it 4 stars and then promote or demote after the first few listens. It's working quite effectively to keep the stuff I like best on there all the time and cycle through the rest at varying speeds depending on how much I like it. I review the ratings every now and then, and that's easier to get an overview of with the lists too - just involves scanning e.g. the 5* list to see if there's anything that doesn't call to me so much any more.

Dr. Mutex

Interesting, GP. I also use 1 star for delete. I've thought about starting albums with 3 or 4 stars, but so far I prefer to have rated tracks be ones I've actually rated. I also have a playlist of music with 3 or more plays that isn't rated. I suppose not changing the rating off the default is a type of rating too.

Germanprof

You can distinguish between track ratings and the overall album rating in the criteria, so it's possible to both use an album rating system and rate individual tracks. I basically decided that a 5 star system for a large number of tracks was too crude to be other than a basic sorting device. I've played a little with groupings, but half-heartedly.

Katrina

"=all unplayed" is sitting at 44.4 days
It's a really simple smart playlist where

Plays is 0
Kind does not contain video
Genre is not podcast

I'm not sure it's correct, though. There are some older albums in there that I know I've listened to since I ripped them into iTunes. But, I am using my library database that I started in 2004. Had I known then what I know now about iTunes, I would not have set everything up using Date Added, because that info gets lost if you ever rebuild the ITL file. There have been a lot of hiccups with ipod syncing along the way.

I use 1 star to note tracks that need re-ripping. iTunes 6 something was a very bad version - they seem to come up the most.