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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Thanks, glad to help!