Some more afterthoughts ...

Thought I could improve (change, anyway) a few things in SmartPlaylist for the next version 9.4:

Now there are 26 smart playlists (SmartPlaylist A-Z) at your disposition:

• Open list overview with all 26 SmartPlaylists to pick from ("≔")
• Jump back to the now playing SmartPlaylist ("▷")
• Scroll up/down to previous/next SmartPlaylist ("^" / "v")

All 26 smart playlists can be used in the list operations Add / Subtract / Intersect (Was called "Fusion" before - Please re-define your operations with the new pick-list)

There is now a play button in the Detail view (long press for play/pause still works). "Add./Rem." and "Same" now appear in the info list.

New in v9.3: Backup/Restore to/from iCloud

SmartPlaylist v9.3 will offer the following new commands:

• Save settings to iCloud
• Restore settings from iCloud
• Save search rules to iCloud (per list A, B, C, ...)
• Restore search rules from iCloud (per list A, B, C, ...)

The settings/rules are first stored locally on the device (that is why those new commands work so quickly) and then later synced to iCloud. So, even if you are not online or not logged in to iCloud you can backup/retore your settings/rules (on the current device only).

  

You can use this feature e.g. to

• Save the rules of a list before changing them, so that you can restore them later
• Save the settings before experimenting with new settings - you can always restore the previous settings if something goes wrong
• Move your settings/rules to another device

New in v9.3: Support for iPad split view

With the next release you can use SmartPlaylist side-by-side with other apps on iPad in split view (drag panel from the right and select app, e.g. SmartPlayList).

Notes:

• Older iPad models do not support split view
• Tested (only) on iPad Air 2

Some problems with Apple Music

Users have reported some problems when using Apple Music songs in SmartPlaylist:

• Songs are synced to the device even though they are not ticked (i.e. they should be excluded from syncing)
• Some songs appear as blank lines in the smart playlist and cannot be played / viewed

At the moment I have no remedy for those problems. Let's hope Apple fixes them soon.

Some new features in the next version

UPDATE: Released with v9.2

In the next few weeks I plan to deliver some new features for SmartPlaylist:

• Add a title / name / description for each smart playlist. It is stored together with the rules when you load the list. You can show or hide this in Menu > Settings, General Options.
• Search for media type: All (music and music videos), only music or only music videos. You can show or hide this rule in Menu > Settings, Show / hide rules
• Order the playlist by album artist
• Select only x titles per album artist