SmartPlaylist v13 dark mode

Soon SmartPlaylist v13 for iOS 13(.1) will be ready. Here is how it will look in dark mode:

Search criteria and rules (active rules are marked in purple):



Note here:

• The music browser/navigator Genre>Composer>Artist>Title ... (remember: navigation levels can be configured) is now opened by tapping the text/row and no longer with "(i)".
• Rating is now a "normal" numeric field, so you can enter e.g. "<3", "=2-4", "=4,3,0", ">2".

The result list (songs with 5 stars are marked in purple, according to the quick search):




The detail view:




The settings page:

Have to remove cover artwork from App Store screenshots, again

This year is SmartPlaylist's tenth year in the App Store!

If you search for "SmartPlaylist" in the App Store, will SmartPlaylist appear on top of the list? No, it is buried under tons of other better selling apps with completely different names.

And now, just like four years ago, they ask me to remove cover artwork from my App Store screenshots, for copyright reasons. Pfff ...

See some screenshots on this blog.

SmartPlaylist 7.3

Additional features in "Search" (quick search):

• "❲Filter❳": Apply the quick search to the current list. Only the matching titles remain in the list. The results are loaded into the playback queue of the Music player (playback is very briefly interrupted).
• "Mark": The matching titles are marked in yellow. The list and the playback queue remain the same, the playback is not interrupted.
• "Search next ⇣": Scrolls to the next matching title. Back in the list you can jump to the next directly using "Next".
• "Reset": Back to the original, unfiltered list (also removes highlights)

(Here shown without the keyboard, which usually is always displayed)

Additional quick search criteria:

• Quick search by play count: Add for example „>10x“ (= played more than 10 times).
• Quick search by last played: Use for example „<10d“ (= played less than 10 days ago). „d“ = days, „w“ = weeks, „m“ = months, „y“ = years. [1]
• Quick search by rating: Instead of minimum number of *, use for example „=4*“ („***“ is the same as „>2*“).

Example:

1. Load list "A" without any search rules. Now you have all titles in the list.
2. Filter "A" with quick search "class". Now you only see your Classical titles (depends on your titles, of course)
3. Filter "❲A❳" with "bach". Now you only have Classical titles by Bach. You could use "C:bach" to only search by Composer, instead of searching all tags (artist, title, etc.)
4. Enter quick search "****" and tap "Mark". Now all Classical titles by Bach with 4 stars or more are marked in yellow.
5. "Search next ⇣  for "sarab" will scroll to the next "Sarabande" in your list (highlighted in orange). Titles with 4 or 5 stars are still marked in yellow. Now you can use "Next" to jump to the next and so on.

[1] Auf Deutsch: „T“ = Tage, „W“ = Wochen, „M“ = Monaten, „J“ = Jahre.

      En français: „j“ = jours, „s“ = semaines, „m“ = mois, „a“ = ans.

New feature: Quick Search in list

The next version of SmartPlaylist (v7.1) will feature a quick search in the list view similar to the one in iTunes:

SmartPlaylist searches the following text fields: genre, composer, grouping, artist album-artist, album-name, title and comments.
It also uses the given amount of "*" to filter by minimum rating.
In the above example the original list W was filtered with "alasd ***", leaving 44 songs (out of the complete list) with at least 3 stars and with "alasd" in one of the text fields.

Another example: "boar key" will find songs with "Keyboard" in the title or album-name, etc.

In SmartPlaylist's help (Menu > Help) you can learn about some additional features:
If only 1 specific text field should be used for the search, prefix "G:" (genre), „C:“ (composer), „GR:“ (grouping), „A:“ (artist), "AA:“ (album-artist), "AT:" (album-title), "T:" (title) or „CM:" (comments).
Example: "G:jaz ***" gets all items with a rating of at least 3, whose genre contains "jaz".


By the way: You can now load all your songs with "Load" without entering any rules (before there was a message "Please enter search rules").