rodt;574702 Wrote:
> Thanks for your comment. I am using the Squeeze Server on my Mac,
> alongside iTunes.
>
> Yes, I know how to play an individual album by going to "Albums". But
> I have about 1000 albums on my Mac and it is a real pain in the
> backside having to search through all 1000 of these albums on my Touch
> every time I want to listen to some music. Have you ever tried to
> scroll through 1000 albums? It is very very tedious!
>
> iTunes is more sophisticated and user-friendly than squeezebox because
> its "smart playlists" enable me to set up multiple playlists with
> different sub-sets of my 1000-odd albums. For example, I have one
> iTunes playlist containing about 300 "modern classical" albums and
> another playlist containing about 100 "baroque" albums, another
> playlist with about 50 "newly purchased albums, and so on. iTunes is
> beautifully set up for this kind of flexibility. I realy like it
> because if I feel like some "morern classical" music, I can just go to
> that playlist and look for the album that suits my fancy. It saves me
> from having to hunt through all 1000 of my albums every time I want to
> listen to some music. If you have a lot of albums, this makes a real
> difference.
>
> I tried moving my iTunes "smart playlists" onto Squeeze Centre, but all
> information about the albums is lost on the Touch screen.
yes, I have probably 6,000 albums ;-)
I recommend installing erland's plugins DYNAMIC PLAYLISTS, SQL
PLAYLISTS, etc. You can create playlists based on custom criteria.
Sounds like that's what you do with smart playlists based on genres or
subgenres.
Also, it seems that if you have your genres set the way you want,
clicking on one of these genres in the left window ("modern classical"
or whatever) would then give you a shorter list of albums to choose
from. This should be equivalent to a smart playlist based on genre.
So to be clear, you've set SbS to integrate with ITUNES but it doesn't
pull over the smart playlists? Does it pull over "regular" itunes
playlists?
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