by crath » Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:21 pm
I've got 8,256 tracks in my main playlist. In general, I like to just random play from that list. As others have already recounted here, MM plays the same set of tracks over and over if left to its own devices. Android MM suffers from the same trouble.
Early in this thread, someone suggested adding additional criteria to a playlist in order to force MM to play un-played songs. Before researching this issue last week, that hadn't occurred to me; so, I gave it a try and it has been an unbridled success.
To establish what time threshold I needed to establish, I first created an AutoPlaylist set to "Last Played < (days) 15" and then looked at the length of the list. After fiddling with different durations, I finally settled on 31 days. I then created a second playlist that captures songs played only songs not played in the last 30 days (since there is no >= filter). Now when I play songs on my desktop (from "Last Played < (days) 30") the two AutoPlaylists keep themselves current and I'm hearing tracks that haven't played in many years.
These two playlists sync to my Android phone (I sync all 8,256 tracks) and the phone picks up where my PC left off. The only complication is that I need to sync more regularly than I had been; but that's easy.
I've got 8,256 tracks in my main playlist. In general, I like to just random play from that list. As others have already recounted here, MM plays the same set of tracks over and over if left to its own devices. Android MM suffers from the same trouble.
Early in this thread, someone suggested adding additional criteria to a playlist in order to force MM to play un-played songs. Before researching this issue last week, that hadn't occurred to me; so, I gave it a try and it has been an unbridled success.
To establish what time threshold I needed to establish, I first created an AutoPlaylist set to "Last Played < (days) 15" and then looked at the length of the list. After fiddling with different durations, I finally settled on 31 days. I then created a second playlist that captures songs played only songs not played in the last 30 days (since there is no >= filter). Now when I play songs on my desktop (from "Last Played < (days) 30") the two AutoPlaylists keep themselves current and I'm hearing tracks that haven't played in many years.
These two playlists sync to my Android phone (I sync all 8,256 tracks) and the phone picks up where my PC left off. The only complication is that I need to sync more regularly than I had been; but that's easy.
