iTunes tip: Forgotten Favourites

I like the Party Shuffle feature. There’s a Smart Playlist I always shuffle through. I call it ‘Forgotten Favourites’. It consists of the top 100 songs that haven’t been played in the last six weeks (or whatever), but ranked by play count. Here’s a screen shot of the set up.

As you Party Shuffle through the playlist, you notice a few things:

1) At first, it’s all the most played songs (and therefore probably your favourites).
2) After you’ve worked your way through the most played, you start hearing less-played songs that you haven’t heard for a while.
3) Every day, the six-week ban on some songs expires, and if they have a high play count, they get dumped into ‘Forgotten Favourites’ where they may get picked up by Party Shuffle.

So every day, a refreshed playlist full of favourites. But you still get to hear songs you haven’t heard for a while. It’s great.

And since there’s a random iTunes meme going around, here’s the next ten — really.

60 Miles an Hour — New Order — Get Ready
Secrets — The Cure — Happily Ever After
Create and Melt — Dali’s Car — The Waking Hour
Autobahn (People’s Car Mix) — Kraftwerk — Ultra Rare Trax
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here — Weezer — Weezer
World Exclusive — The Devils — Dark Circles
Eight Days a Week — The Beatles — 1
World in My Eyes (Razormaid Mix) — Depeche Mode —
Schubert: Gott Ist Mein Hirt — The Choir of New College Oxford — Agnus Dei II: Music to Soothe the Soul