Many users have asked to include "Year" and "Date added" as search rules.
Unfortunately, these information are not available on the iPhone/iPod Touch, they simply do not exist in the programming interface. There is no way to include them in SmartPlaylist :-(
Workaround for "Year": UPDATE: With v5.2 Year can be used to search and sort
Add the year in brackets to all your titles (e.g. "Hell Hound On My Trail [1937]"), then you can use it as a search rule on Title (e.g. Title contains "hell AND [1937]"). Or create a playlist in iTunes for every year ...
Workaround for "Date added": UPDATE: With v7.1 (iOS 7) you can search and sort by date added.
Create smart playlists in iTunes according to the date added, e.g. "Added last 7 days", "Added last 30 days", and so on, then you can use a search rule on Playlist containing e.g. "7".
The workarounds are a pain, of course, but there is nothing we can do about it at the moment. We have reported a feature request to Apple.
In an upcoming version (v4.1) it will be possible to search in the song comments - so you could put the year into the songs' comments and then use the comments to search by year (rule = "comments contain 1974")
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