[schwa]

I personally love the play counts feature in iTunes and my iPod. But I'm wondering how well they'll work 6 months from now?

For example, the "Most Played" playlist is a handy "what I'm into now" feature. But since play counts keep aggregating, the same songs will stay there in 6 months, even though I'm actually listening to a new round of albums and singles.

Does anyone know if/how Apple plans to address this? Wholesale wiping of play counts won't work. The only option I could see would be to literally datestamp each playcount and expire based on that, but it seems awfully inefficient.

[jimsmac]

Could you acheive this by adding a new rule to the 'most played' playlist so it only includes songs played in the last x number of days?

[schwa]

Possibly, but I think that doesn't solve it 100%. If I had a song I listened to endlessly six months ago, but not now, the rule would prevent it from showing up. But if I played it just once the other night, it would pop to the top of my list.

[Metzen]

Originally posted by schwa:
Possibly, but I think that doesn't solve it 100%. If I had a song I listened to endlessly six months ago, but not now, the rule would prevent it from showing up. But if I played it just once the other night, it would pop to the top of my list.

Don't sort your list by playcount. Sort it by last played (your most popular songs are always going to be on top) or something else. You could also set the song not to be added after it passes a certain "range" (like any song between 50 and 100 counts").

[schwa]

Hmmm... clever, clever boy you are...

Thanks for the tips