August 30, 2011

New feature in v5.0: Add/remove individual songs (exceptions)

SmartPlaylist is rule-based, i.e. you get a set of songs according to the selection criteria (rules) you specify.

Well, now you can also add exceptions to the rules by adding or removing individual songs from one or multiple smart playlists:


In the playback control for the now playing title you can open an extra dialog where you can add ⊕ the now playing song to one or more lists (A, B, C, ...) or remove ⊖ the now playing song from one or more lists. Each list button cycles from "no exception" to "include" and "exclude", e.g. "A"→ "A⊕" → "A⊖" → "A".

In the above example the song "To Kutsavaki" is set to be excluded from list C and included in list F. When list F is reloaded, the selected song will be added to the result set and marked with "⊕":


These exceptions (includes /excludes) are only applied when the corresponding list is reloaded (with ⏎).
They appear as a new "rule" which can be edited:


So, whenever you are listening to a special song you like, you can now simply add it to a playlist of your choice without having to adapt the rules of this list. Likewise, if you dislike a song, you can quickly mark it for delete and with the next reload it will be removed.

Any questions or suggestion? Please write to Support.SmartPlaylist@gmail.com

June 23, 2011

New feature in v4.12: Fusion of different smart playlists into one

Until now you could only add / subtract / intersect the previous results with the new results within the same playlist.
Now you can add / subtract / intersect any of the existing smart playlists. You can have a smart playlist just to mix different lists into one (just fusion rules, no other rules), or you can mix the results of some rules with the results of other lists.

By simply tapping on "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" or "F" you cycle through the set operations "+" (union), "-" (minus) or "=" (intersection).
Adding is done first, then all subtractions are done, finally all intersections are executed.
In the above example for smart playlist "E", all songs with BPM < 160 are selected in the iPod music library, then these results are joined with the current results in list "B" and "D" and then this result set is intersected with list "A".

New feature in v4.12: Search/sort by BPM

You can now filter by BPM (beats per minute) to get only slow or only fast songs. Of course, this only works for songs that have a BPM value.

May 26, 2011

Empty list in "Limits"?

If the list of selection options on the "Limits" page is empty


then you need to restart SmartPlaylist. Please shut down SmartPlaylist in the Multitask bar:

If you know how to reproduce this problem, please report it to Support.SmartPlaylist@gmail.com.

Remember: After syncing it is always best to restart SmartPlaylist.

May 11, 2011

Sorting of playlist very slow with iOS 4.3

The sorting of playlists with iOS 4.3.3 on an iPhone 3GS is now 5 times slower than on an iPod 2 with iOS 4.1! And there is nothing I can do about it in SmartPlaylist.