garym wrote: 
> 
> 11. Playlist functions (preferably some sort of smart playlist ability)
> 
If you want smart playlists you also need to add handling of statistic
data such as play counts, last played time and ratings to the list,
smart playlists without this is more or less useless IMHO. Often you
want to filter or limit the smart playlist to things like:
- Only include music you don't listen to very often
- Only include music you haven't listen to for a long time
- Only include music which you love (top rated tracks)
- Exclude music you hate (low rated tracks)
- Only include music you listen to often.

Neither Sonos nor Logitech seems to understand this need, which is why I
decided to provide support for all of it through third party plugins
instead.

It could be that smart playlists is something that would only used by a
small subset of the users and that this is the main thing that makes it
less interesting for them to include support for it, but then it's
strange that both Apple (iTunes/iPod) and Microsoft (WMP) has decided to
include it in their products because especially Apple is usually pretty
restrictive regarding including features which is only used by a few
users. Possibly it might be that both Apple and Microsoft is focused at
local music while Logitech is more focused at streaming from online
services.


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