No Christmas Songs in Summer Shuffle Play

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No Christmas Songs in Summer Shuffle Play

Absolutly nobody wants to hear Wham's Last Christmas on a bright summer day. And it makes you even more depressed listening to Kate Yanai's Summer Feeling playing on a cold winter's day with snow falling outside. But exactly this happens when you press the shuffle button and put iTunes on the DJ's position with your whole libary as it's music pool. My IDEA is to give the user the POSSIBILITY to make SHUFFLE know in which time of the year SOME SONGS are not to play!
A simple option (checkbox + date selector) like: (X) Don't use this song for shuffle / from: 3rd of March / till: 1st of July

What do you think about it. Wouldn't this be a great feature of iTunes 6.0?
Greetz from Bavaria (sorry for my grammar)
Bertram

Posted on Sep 15, 2005 12:42 PM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

Level 10

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Sep 15, 2005 2:37 PM in response to Bertram Heininger

Or make sure that all your Christmas songs are set to the same genre, then set up a smart playlist that excludes that Genre. Then just use the playlist rather than playing from your library. No, it won't work automatically by date, but it's easier than checking and unchecking boxes for each track.

Regards.

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Answer 2

Nick Holmes

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30,018 points

Sep 15, 2005 1:55 PM in response to Bertram Heininger

Until that great feature comes, you could always uncheck the little blue box to the left of the song title. This will turn the song off. Check it back on again when the time to hear it is right for you.

"Absolutly nobody wants to hear Wham's Last Christmas on a bright summer day"

Agreed. But I don't want to hear it on December 25 either.

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Answer 3

Sep 15, 2005 2:47 PM in response to Bertram Heininger

I do what Dave has suggested... all xmas music is "Holiday" genre. I have created two smart playlists, one called "only xmas music" which is genre="holiday", and another called "no xmas music" which is genre "holiday. I shuffle the "no xmas music" playlist all year, and I'll use the other one in December.

Agreed also on Wham's Last Christmas - LOL

Chris

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Answer 4

Liz

Level 1

125 points

Sep 15, 2005 3:24 PM in response to Bertram Heininger

I also have all of my Xmas music as "holiday" genre. I too have a smart play list that finds all of these songs. What I do different though, is that I uncheck the Christmas songs when it is unseasonable.

I suppose you could do the same for songs that you consider to be more summery, or related to any other time of the year.

Un-checking them keeps them off of my iPod, saving the precious space for the other songs I want to hear!

One problem with building it into iTunes 6.0 --> how is a computer song supposed to know that a certain song should only be played at Christmas? Sure, if it includes Santa in the title, that would be a dead giveaway, unless there are songs out there that talk about Santa but arent really holiday songs:
Example: The Christmas Song by Dave Matthews - sure, it talks about Christmas, but isn't really a Christmas song that can't be played the rest of the year... smart play lists can only be so smart before they are downright scary!!

(still a cool idea though!) :-P

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