I'm doing the last bit of testing for my first contribution to the Zune community: a playlist generator.
Since the others at my workplace have iPods, one thing I hear about is "smart playlists", where you can build a playlist on any number of criteria. It seemed like it could be easily done, so I set out to make a Zune playlist utility.
Using this application, you can (essentially) create a multi-criteria search and save the results to a zune playlist file. You can search in 13 fields (artist, genre, title, play count, etc) using 7 different operations (is, is not, contains, etc).
There is also a small function to un-exclude files from the library. If you've ever deleted items from the library- but not from the hard drive - and wondered how to get Zune to scan them back in, this function should resolve that problem.
I should have it in release form by Monday, June 25th, but sometime Sunday is possible.
Since the others at my workplace have iPods, one thing I hear about is "smart playlists", where you can build a playlist on any number of criteria. It seemed like it could be easily done, so I set out to make a Zune playlist utility.
Sorry but this already exists. It's called an auto-playlist and it is already implemented inside of the zune program. You select the criteria and it automatically creates the playlist for you.
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Now I'm a little annoyed about how that feature is so hidden. I never would've thought about right-clicking the playlist menu. Microsoft is so hell-bent on getting rid of the File/Edit/View menus and they're not seeing that it's making basic functionality less visible to beginning users.
I didn't know it was still wanted, since it was already in the Zune program. I've been expanding the code to do more with the library anyway, so it's back in a development state. We'll have to see how far I can take it.
I don't think he has been working on this, since it isn't really necessary. But since the Zune Device can only play audio playlists, I doubt he would bother add video functionality, since it wouldn't work on the Zune
Sorry but this already exists. It's called an auto-playlist and it is already implemented inside of the zune program. You select the criteria and it automatically creates the playlist for you.
i have never heard of this feature.
is it one on the newer zunes, or on all?
I had my music set up in folders structures (Rock --> Classic Rock etc) on my machine based on my interests but could not find easy way to create similar zune playlists based on folder structure so I wrote a quick tool which would do this... I made it available to be downloaded for free at vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2008/12/kritzu-zune-playlist-generator-based-on.html)
Zune Playlist Generator
