Last Played in Smart Playlists

In version 11, when a track has been played inside a Smart Playlist, the Last Played does not update. This has broken my Smart Playlists!! I have groups of them inside playlist folders, set to pick one song from a certain category based on when the song was last played. When a song plays, the Live Updating feature should recognize that it just did, delete that song, and pick another from the same category. THIS DOES NOT WORK when Last Played DOES NOT UPDATE!!

Good idea. Post it on this page so the Apple people will see it: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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How to play several Smart Playlists sequentially?

How can I set several Smart Playlists to play sequentially? For instance, if I want to play all the songs in Smart Playlist "A", followed by all the songs in Smart Playlist "B", can I queue them up to do so? Maybe with a master playlist?
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I know, but that doesn't answer the question. I don't want to mix songs from several playlists; I want several playlists to play sequentially without having to go back to the iPod. In other words, play all the songs from one playlist before any of the next playlist's songs play.
What I'm really trying to accomplish is to shuffle play all the 4 and 5 star rated songs from a genre, then shuffle play all the 2 and 3 star rated songs. I can create a playlist to shuffle play the 4-5s, and a playlist to shuffle play the 2-3s, but I can't figure out how to make the two playlists play sequentially.

Can a TV show play in smart playlists on iPod?

I have a 80G iPod Classic. Apple released a free song video from Ryan Adams as a TV show. I like the song and would like it to play in my smart list music rotation. The TV show syncs to the iPod, and I can play it manually (I do have sync settings to transfer 'all' TV shows).
When I look through the iPod content on my Mac, the song shows in the playlist, but it does not show up in those exact same playlists on the iPod, only in the TV show list. It will come up in the normal rotation on the Mac.
This is a very minor annoyance, but am wondering if I have missed something in the settings or if this is just something that the iPod sees differently than the Mac and is not possible to accomplish.

Duh, just change the format to music video. Just found out this was unanswered while checking out another post.

Smart Playlists on iOS

Still not working properly for me. How about anyone else? It's an improvement - I see a few songs in them now, but in some I am only seeing one or two where there should be hundreds.
Haven't been able to check the play count / last played yet but will experiment further with it tomorrow.

iOS 5.1 did not fix all the problems related to smart playlist in the iPad 2 with iTunes Match subscription.
Smart Playlists based on dates are not syncing across all devices and Macs/PCs. For example, Recently Played.
Smart Playlists based on play counts are not syncing across all devices and Macs/PCs.
Sorting of songs in iPad2 is out of whack. iPad2 music app seems to ignore the sort order in smart playlists. this is very annoying since I have a lot of classical music in my library in which track arrangement is very important. I'm not having this problem with my iPod Touch though, just in the iPad2.
iOS 5.1 did fix one of my problems: the Smart Playlists in the iPad2 that are based on the "Comments" field. My smart playlists are now correctly populated with songs.
These are my observations, so far.

Is there a way to create a smart playlist that lists my top 25 plays from a specific time period (i.e. - top plays from the last 90 days)?

Is it possible to create an itunes smart playlist that lists my top 25 most played songs in a specific time period (i.e. - the last 90 days)? It seems that any "most played" list I create counts every spin a track has had in it's history of being in my library.

The challenge is is not to determine which of the tracks that have been played in the last X days has been played most since the beginning of time, but which have been played most in the last X days. iTunes can do the first one but it simply doesn't have the power to do the second.
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ITunes (11 I think) in smart playlists and folders won't apply the "Last Played" search criteria in real time. Please fix!!!

The major iTunes recent makeover, generally *****.
It's ugly to look at; it's grey and blue-grey and more grey. god, how drab can you get. You know how in the Finder we can assign colors to files, folders & applications. It would be fantastic to be able to do that to playlists and the folders of playlists within iTunes. Please add some color! And/Or let us choose the color format for our personal copy of iTunes, like some browsers do.
But more importantly I have some rather sophisticated smart playlists; many of which source other (smart) playlists & folders of playlists in my collection. With this current iTunes makeover (iTunes version 11 I think), they screwed something up. None of my smart playlists will apply in real time the "Last Played" search criteria. This is very annoying. Please, please fix it.
And how about the ability to duplicate a playlist, to make new playlist. Not to have two of the same playlists, but so the second one can then be edited to something similar to the first (as opposed to having to build a new similar sophisticated playlist from scratch). This would save a lot of time in some cases.

The major iTunes recent makeover, generally *****.
It's ugly to look at; it's grey and blue-grey and more grey. god, how drab can you get. You know how in the Finder we can assign colors to files, folders & applications. It would be fantastic to be able to do that to playlists and the folders of playlists within iTunes. Please add some color! And/Or let us choose the color format for our personal copy of iTunes, like some browsers do.
But more importantly I have some rather sophisticated smart playlists; many of which source other (smart) playlists & folders of playlists in my collection. With this current iTunes makeover (iTunes version 11 I think), they screwed something up. None of my smart playlists will apply in real time the "Last Played" search criteria. This is very annoying. Please, please fix it.
And how about the ability to duplicate a playlist, to make new playlist. Not to have two of the same playlists, but so the second one can then be edited to something similar to the first (as opposed to having to build a new similar sophisticated playlist from scratch). This would save a lot of time in some cases.

Smart playlists and last played time

If I have a smart playlist, I noticed the last played time of an item does not update if I have launched and played the item from the main area it appears in (like podcasts).
Any solution for this?
Thanks.

Normally the Last Played time updates when the song reaches the end. That should be true no matter where it is launched from. Are you seeing something different?

Smart Playlists, Last Played, and Playcounts (and some other stuff)

Well, so here's my contribution to piling on with iTunes Match annoyances...
* Artwork doesn't show up during playback on iPhone until I tap <- button and then tap on Now Playing > button.
* Not Played in a year smart playlist shows 3x more songs than the source computer's iTunes library shows. I consider the source computer that synched its library to iCloud to be authoritative.
* Furthermore, the Not Played in a Year smart playlist on iPhone doesn't match what is on my iPad. 300 additional songs on the iPad.
* Repeated attempts to copy 4 songs up to iCloud fail, even though they should've been added. Can other devices see them? Yes, but they're grayed out because the track isn't copied into the cloud.
* Battery is getting chewed through on my iPhone 4. I haven't tracked it too closely, but it does seem like there's something consuming more power, and I can feel that the phone is warmer to the touch.
* Playcounts are not updated when I listen to songs on iOS or even Mac OS X-based devices. This is an absolute dealbreaker for me. While it's great to get song upgrades, I can't use iTunes Match as part of my "playflow" until playcounts and smartplaylists that incorporate last played criteria are fully supported.
It's just sooo close to being great, but without Smart Playlist support and support for playcounts, there's no point for me. I have to revert to no iTunes Match on my iOS devices for now.
C'mon Apple, get this stuff fixed. PLEASE!

Well, the good news is that I sent these list of problems to someone a little bit higher up at Apple and was very pleasantly surprised to get a call from one of the support guys within the iTunes store today.
We went over the smart playlists issue and I've hopefully given him enough detail to help him reproduce the problem internally. He's going to look to get that issue reported to the iOS team. Regardless, I think Apple knows there's work that needs to be done to fix some of these bugs/oddness we're all seeing with Match.

What the h*** happened to Live Updating of smart playlists in iT 11? I have several smart lists that pull from larger lists based on how recently a song has played. Not happening now. The whole library only updates "last played"

What the h*** happened to Live Updating of smart playlists in iT 11? I have several smart lists that pull from larger lists based on how recently a song has played. Not happening now. The whole library only updates "last played" for about 1 in 20 songs. This is really screwing up my lists that I use as backgrounds for a lot of activities in my classroom at school.

FYI, I've found that Live Updating can SORT OF work. It seems if you only have two rules, live upating works (IE, I have one that is a Rating must be 3-5*'s and last played cannot be within the last 8 weeks). Once the song is played it disapears off the playlist. BUT, as soon as I try to add a third rule, it doesn't work anymore! This is unfortunate because two rules really limits the ability of the playlist...
Cheers,

I am using iPhone 5. I have a smart playlist that shows the 25 most play songs within the last 3 months. However, the list on my phone got completely messed up. Please help me.

I am using iPhone 5. I have a smart playlist that shows the 25 most play songs within the last 3 months. However, the list on my phone got completely messed up. Please help me.

First thought: Have you used the same Apple ID for all the purchases you're talking about? If not, that could cause an issue.
Assuming you've used the same Apple ID all the way through everything you're talking about, here's the second set of questions:
When you say you can't play the songs from the iPhone playlist, can you see the playlist on the iPhone? Is the song visible in the playlist? Is it visible under "Songs" in iTunes on your iPhone? Is it visible in "Albums" on your iPhone? Is the song in iCloud?

IPod Shuffle 2 no longer updating playlist play count and last played date

I use my shuffle 2 in the gym. When I'm done working out I sync and the most recently played songs are rotated off using a smart play list. This is no longer working. I reset the shuffle 2, I've forced sync and auto filled many times. My latest workout it still lists all the songs I just listened to in the order I listened to them and has their last played date as many months ago.
This seems to be affecting my other iPod too, but it is tougher to diagnose. I signed up to iTunes Match and after several days that is still running but I noticed this problem long before iTunes Match became available in Canada. Both my iPod Shuffle and iTunes are up to date but my music is on an older but upgraded Mac. It has a G4 so no Lion upgrade, I just checked it is 10.5.8

All my tracks should be MP3s or AAC. I ripped them myselfs with iTunes. I may have bought some songs directly off of record labels or some other online music store, but I own my music legally whether I bought it on CD or got given it by magazines or record labels.
I went to the gym today. I set the shuffle to random. Some songs were synched back to iTunes but they weren't the songs I listened to, at least not all of them. Some of them may have been the songs I listened to last workout, at least one or two of the songs updated I did listen to today.
I listened to some other songs last night on my main Mac so it is easy to determine which songs iTunes updated this morning.
I haven't had much time to play with Match. It is still updating and uploading, it has 6000 songs to go. That means in a half month of trying it has managed to find and/or upload a little over 1000 songs actually close to 2000 now. It is something, but it isn't the service I was sold. All my songs and playlists were supposed to be available in the cloud. That hasn't happened and in the case of my smart playlists will never happen.
I'll read you link, but I wrote a blog posting how I was disappointed with the service so far.
Thanks!

Smart Playlists and Automatically Increasing a Track's Play Count

Any one know if there is a way to increase the play count of a track once it has been selected and included in a Smart Play List. Why? I have 92 GBs of music or 16, 665 songs on an external hard drive and I have an 8 GB mp3 player that I fill up every couple of weeks with music and I'd rather not hear repeated tracks. What I would like to do is include the rule in a Smart Play List that any track that has a play count of "0" is added to the Smart Play List without the risk that a track had already been added to that Smart Play List in the past. Any suggestions?

Haven't seen this myself, but then again I don't have any rated songs with no Last Played date. A couple of suggestions:
1- Try a Reset or Restore of the iPhone.
2- In your smart playlist criteria, add "Media Kind is Music". Strange, but sometimes this nudges a smart playlist into behaving.
3- Modify your criteria as follows:
Match All:
- Media Kind Is Music
- Rating > 3
(indent) ----> Match Any:
.....................- Last Played Not in the Last 8 weeks
.....................- Playcount is 0
That will "OR" the zero playcounts with songs that have not been played in the last 8 weeks, and "AND" all those with the required criteria of 4 or 5 stars as well as Media Kind being Music. If you don't know how to "indent" the criteria, click on the elipses (...) to the right of the last criteria you entered, and be sure to change the overall criteria to Match Any for the indented portion.

Using Smart-Playlists to create a Recently Played Chart

Here's a challenge for you:
Can you tell me how to make a Smart Playlist that will make a chart, let's say a top 20, of the songs I've played the most in the last week or month?
I can do songs I've played in the last week, organised by number of times played, but this is, of course, the number of times I've played them since I've had them.
I want to know what are the song 20 songs I've listened to the most in the last week or month.
It must be possible for some of you geniuses to answer! Obviously running most recent copy of iTunes!
Thanks!
G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

OK...would this work?
Rule is: Last Played IS in the Range (plug in the week or monthly period you want.)
Limit to 20 items selected by Most Often Played
Diane Wordsmith
iBook G4 (& an iMac running OS 9) Mac OS X (10.3.9) iPod Video

10.2.1 Recently Played smart playlist (bug)

Like most users, I often skip around from song to song before the song is finished. These songs used to be added automatically to the "Recently Played" smart playlist (set to Last played in the last 30 days, live updating).
I have noticed since 10.2.1 update, that a song must be fully played before being added to said playlist.
It is very time consuming to scrub through the entire song of each song you play to get it added to the recently played smart playlist.
Has anyone else noticed this?

Vicki:
You might like to have a quick gander at our discussion of the Smart Playlist issues...?
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1514307#1514307
Kind regards,
Gopha.

Smart Playlist does not play new songs. Any clue?

I created a Smart Playlist that referes to another Smart Playlist. This other playlist selects randomly songs that were last played before a certain date. (So if a song from that playlist is played, it is automatically replaced by another one). The newly added songs do not seem to be played at all. I need to restart iTunes to do so. Any clue?

In principal, putting a Smart Playlist into another Smart Playlist will work. However, if the rules of the Playlists are conflicting, that may be why you have an issue. First of all, can we be clear on exactly which Playlists are doing what?
Are you saying that songs recently added to your iTunes Library are:
not in the first Playlist,
not in the second Playlist but are in the first one, or
that they are in the second list, but simply don't play.
or that songs, newly added to the second Playlist are there, but don't get played? In this case, how many songs are in the list?
Can you take screenshots of the two playlists, or list them here. In this screenshot for example;
...this Playtlist refers to five other Smart Playlists. The resulting Playlist is usually over 300 songs. So I don't always know if a song in the list ever gets played, simply because there are so many. I do know however, that the list plays a random selection of my songs and gets updated successfully when I sync the iPod with iTunes.
If you list the Playlists here (rather than screenshot them), can you also mention the top left tick-box section; "match any/all of the following rules". It changes according to the fields below it.

Last Played in Smart Playlists

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