I have a playlist for my favorite stuff in each genre (pop, classical, jazz, etc).
Then I have a smart playlist for each genre that picks things by the oldest "last played" date. So that's a list of the things I haven't listened to in a while. Every time something is played, it disappears from the list (live updating) and the next oldest thing pops on.
Then I have another live-updating smart playlist for each genre that combines the first two. THAT'S the one I listen to. Put it on random and I get to hear my favorite tunes with enough churn to keep my library fresh.
If you are a mac user, there's a program called autorate that can automatically rate your library every night based on the playcount, skipcount, and last played info -- and you can control how much influence each number has on the rating. If you use that to make your "favorites" list, the whole apparatus runs itself. There's probably a similar script for windows users.
This is how I manage my library of 50+ days of classical music. It's fantastic, and allows me to hear music that I haven't thought about in a long time.
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Last edited by ubertuber; 03-12-2008 at 11:16 PM..
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