Leave a Review SmartPlaylist
It’s pretty bad
Very user unfriendlyMicisbrown
Essential if you have to listen to a big music collection
Thanks for the app!
It replicates the functioning of smart play lists on desktop 's iTunes. The way I use it most:
- I use play counts to keep track of what I've listened from the music on iPhone. So if I transfer 100 tracks to iPhone with a play count of 0, I create a smart play list that only includes tracks with 0 play count. Which means that each time I listen to a song, it will exit the list. With the normal random you end up listening several times to the same song and never know which are the tracks that never come up.
- on certain playlists I limit to 3 songs from same album. It gives more variety and at the time you have a better feel of the album than with the normal random that switches album after playing only one track.
- finally you can rate the song, which means that when listening to new music I can separate within the app what I am going to keep from what I will delete.
Conclusion: SmartPlayList helps me listen to a growing collection of more than 35000 songs, all of which I listen over a period of 4 years.Show lessD_or 2000
Smart playlists on your iDevice
I have been using this through several releases. This is a great app if you like to create smart playlists based upon things such as star rating or last played date (as I do). You can also tell a smart playlist to also include or exclude the contents of another smart playlist. This is very hand for creating complex queries to generate mixes based upon many conditions. With iTunes deprecating the star rating, this is a must have for me.Show lessTim the Rx operator
PERFECT
UPDATE 05/2017
I still use this app almost daily. Recently got a new car that supports Apple CarPlay and this app once again shines. Apple still cannot seem to get its shuffle function in the Music app to act like a true shuffle that doesn't repeat songs ever other day. That's where Smart Playlist and it's brilliant query capability comes in! Get in the car, hit my filter that removes all songs that have been played in the past couple days and voila! Perfect fix.
UPDATE 06/2016
Extra playlist slots added? App keeps getting better and better. All of my prior review comments still stand and I'm still using it almost daily. Don't hesitate to buy!! 👍🏻
UPDATE 04/2016
Another great update! I still use this app just about every day to listen to music at work and in the car. Powerful query tools make it really simple to quickly generate playlists based on just about any criteria. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
UPDATE 10/2015
Just updated to a new iPhone 6S+ and Smart Playlist updated along with it. Thanks for the iOS9 support! I still use this app almost daily to help manage playing my huge on-device library. Love being able to run queries against my collection to build playlists on the fly. I don't ever want to be without this app!
Original review:
This is something I've been looking for for YEARS. I wish I had found it sooner. For anyone who has a large music library and uses the shuffle feature has probably noticed that your I-device seems to avoid large chunks of your collection. With this app you can easily tell the music app to play songs that haven't been played for a month.. 2 months.. for example. Include or exclude artists, genres.. limit by number of plays.. number of skips.. it's almost endless.
Warning, though, this app is very advanced feature-wise so if you're not familiar with querying be sure to look at the documentation for help.Show lessWarpFactorJeff
Excellent app, although needs a little polish
I really love how much granular control Smart Playlist give you over creation of playlists. I've got a pretty extensive library and the ability to define playlists on the fly using pretty much any bit of metadata stored about any song in my iTunes library as a criterion has been great for parties. Having said that, the user interface is a little overwhelming and cryptic and could use a little polish (although I am not sure what I would recommend). But in general, if you like to create playlists on any criteria without having to go into iTunes, Smart Playlist is a great app to consider!Show lessJose' J.
Fantastic!
...in every way possible, other than being able to quickly indicate a favorite song (such as with Apple's restricted Love rating). Explore how you can use this app for a week, and you'll come to love how you can manipulate your music library on the go.TheRatman27
Great app for displaying metadata of songs
This is a fantastic app. The playlist features are very nice, but this app sets itself apart from other similar utilities in the way that it extracts and displays metadata for songs in my library (play count, skip count, etc).
By listing individual play counts for every song (and allowing me to sort on it), it allows me to easily see which songs I am playing the most, which songs within a given album get played the most, etc.
There are a LOT of features within the app that allow you to customize how the songs get displayed and sorted. The developer has given the user a great deal of control here. The amount of customizability can seem a little overwhelming at first, but the default settings allow it to work right out of the box. And then playing with the settings and rules, you can do so much.
One thing that is particularly cool is the ability to do multi-level sorts. For example, you can sort the songs by artist, and then within each artist sort by album, and within each album sort by play count! So great!
Well done.Show lessTriangle Exception
The features Apple Music should have
It's ridiculous that Apple Music on iOS is so neutered. And that smart playlists in iTunes are so limited. This app completely solves these problems. Essential.ojnab
Simply the Best
This is the best playlist generator out there for iPhone. If you have a large library of music this is a must have.JMLinTX
Attention to detail.
I'm amazed by how powerful it is and how efficiently it operates. I love it but I think it skipped leg day. Every part of the interface feels like an afterthought. If someone in interface development wants to see where they can take it, please let them.BII 7YM
