Advanced playlist creation in WMP or iTunes

[Kieran]

I would like to create an auto playlist that has only tracks from artists that have less than X tracks in the library.

This is because I normally listen via artist or album, or random. Therefore, there are quite a lot of individual tracks that I tend to not play, but would like a playlist which will play all of those.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Kieran

[MS Bob 11]

For WMP auto playlists, some criteria you can use are: The artist you want or no artist AND Play count: Total overall and then set "Greater than x" or "Less than x" or you can create one by Date Last Played.

[spikey_richie]

Winamp's media library management is pretty nice too, as long as you tell it which folders to watch.

[Kieran]

Thanks for the replies.

The WMP one is not really what I want. That would give me songs that have not been played much by specific artists. I want songs in my collection that are one off's, that is the ones in my collection that only have 1 (or a few) songs in any artist folder.

I may check out winamp, it will be lie taking a trip back to the 90's though!

The option I think I am most likely to side with is writing my own playlist generator as nothing appears to work out of the box (that I already have installed). If I get chance I will do this tonight and will release it on neowin for others to use too.

Thanks again for the replies.

[deactivated_]

How is your music tagged as far as Track Number? Only thing I could think of is in iTunes, you have a Smart Playlist option of Track Number and can choose 'is less than' and say... choose 3 for the number.

So this would play any song that has a track number of only 1 or 2, but nothing higher.

[Kieran]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it's still not exactly what I want.

I started coding it up, but got sidetracked last night upgrading to Visual Studio 2010. I may finish it tonight if I don't get sidetracked again!