AutoDJ Feature

cadnukes · Post by **cadnukes** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:49 am

Maybe this has been mentioned before, if so please advise. My wish for AutoDJ is...

I would like to be able to "refine" the AutoDJ selection of music. Example would be to play:

Only songs that have a rating of 5, (and be able to select the rating level)
Genre equals: Rock, Blues, etc. (and be able to select one or multiple Genres)

I hate to mention their name but Musicmatch had a good AutoDJ feature along this line, when it worked!

Let me know if I didn't explain this well enough.

Bex · Post by **Bex** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:32 am

Simply point Auto-DJ to an Auto-Playlists (Gold Feature) where you set the criteria you like to have.

cadnukes · Post by **cadnukes** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:07 pm

That solution isn’t quite what I’m looking for. Playlist are just static list with song that you put in there, correct? I would like something that is completely random every time I use it. By random, I mean once I set the “sort” criteria MM would then fetch songs matching that.

Example, say I want 4 hours of some mix of music. I would want to be able to specify the following criteria:

How long, 4 hours for this example or number of tracks say 200.
Which Genres to select from, Rock, Blues whatever I have.
Select Occasion, Party.
Rating level, say songs with at least 4 stars and above.

Bex · Post by **Bex** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:24 pm

Ordinary playlists are static, but Auto-Playlists are populated every time you run them (i.e. call them from Auto-DJ).

Everything you list can be set as criteria in an Auto-playlist. So simply create one and tell Auto-DJ to use it and you'll get what you want.

Note,
Auto-DJ randomly adds max 10 tracks from the location you specify when "Now Playing" is running out of tracks. It does this repeatedly until you either stop it or the Auto-playlist runs out of tracks. (Such Auto-Playlist could be created with criteria limit on Last Played and/or Played#).

I've created a Auto-Playlist named "Auto-DJ" which Auto-DJ get its tracks from. When I want to change something in the criteria I simply do it in the Auto-playlist.

To create Auto-playlists (you must have MM-Gold!)
1. Right click on the playlist node and choose New Auto-playlist
2. Name it, hit OK. (Can be renamed later)
3. Click on the advanced tab and set up your criteria
4. If you perform a search you can also right click on the search node and save it as an Auto-Playlist.

/Bex

cadnukes · Post by **cadnukes** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:16 am

Thank You, Bex! That's exactly what I was looking for.

This program just keeps getting better and better and I think it's because of the support one can get from its users.

Once again thanks for taking the time to explain it.

Bex · Post by **Bex** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:16 am

Thanks, glad to help!