{"id":17,"date":"2006-11-09T19:55:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T00:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielroop.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-11-09T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T00:55:45","slug":"itunes-radio-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielroop.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/itunes-radio-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Radio Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to MacBreak Weekly<\/a> tonight and one of the hosts, Alex Lindsay, was asking if there was any way to create a radio like playlist. I wasn’t sure why he would want to do such a thing but he went on to explain how most radio stations use this type of playlist to decide what should be played next on the radio.<\/p>\n

With the charge placed I decided to see if I could make such a playlist. I am not sure if I got it exactly correct, but I think I got it close.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Decide the number of songs you want in your final playlist. For my example I wanted 10.
\nStep 2: Decide the categories. I went with Hot, Fade, and Classic.
\nStep 3: Create a normal playlist for each category and add the songs into those categories. My categories looked like this:<\/p>\n

Hot:
\n -Apathetic Way To Be
\n -Fergalicious
\n -White & Nerdy
\n -My Love<\/p>\n

Fade
\n -London Bridge
\n -SexyBack
\n -About Us
\n -Hips Don’t Lie
\n -Rock Star
\n -Snap Yo Fingers
\n -Too Little, Too Late
\n -Show Stopper<\/p>\n

Classic
\n -All Relient K Albums
\n -All Blindside Albums
\n -All Skillet Albums
\n -All Caedmon’s Call Albums<\/p>\n

Step 4: You will need to create wrapper smart playlists for each category playlist. Hot_filter, Fade_filter, Classic_filter. This is where half of the magic occurs. Your rules should be the following:
\n -Match the following rule: Playlist is xxxx, where xxxx is which ever filter you are defining.
\n -Limt to 1, 2, 7 items for Hot_filter, Fade_filter, and Classic_filter respectfully
\n -Live updating
\n -I set mine to selected by “random” but I would imagine if you played with this option you could get better results. For instance if you had random for classics, but least recently played for hot.<\/p>\n

Step 5: Now you should have 6 new playlists, 3 category, and 3 filter. Now you can make your Radio_edit playlist. This should also be a smart playlist and the filters shoudl look like this:
\n -Maty ANY of the following rules
\n – then add a Playlist is xxxx rule for each filter playlist
\n -set no limit because the limiting is done by the filters.
\n -check live updating<\/p>\n

Step 6: You should have a radio edit. I am not sure if it will do exactly what Alex was asking for but it is closer than just defining categories and randomly selecting a song from those playlists. Atleast now your odds are greater to get a song from the hot than from the fade than from the not.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I just wanted to post that little piece of playlist fun I came up with incase any on was looking for a way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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