by F1nchy » Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:05 am
Hi Ian
That won't really work for me. I'd have to re-import my MM5 DB into MM4 each time. My playlists do not stay static, they change all the time. They are smart playlists and all update with the oldest played tracks, so whenever tracks are played they should drop off playlists.
When I listen via MediaMonkey Audio my plays scrobble to Last.fm via Simple Lastfm.
When I listen via Sonos I scrobble via Barrys 3rd party app, AlbumPlays (as it gives me complete control over what I want and what I don't scrobbled to my LFM account - I have a 4 year old daughter!)
When I listen to Radio Six Music I use Universal Scrobbler to scrobble songs I've listened to
If I'm listening to a radio station that does not work with Universal Scrobbler I use Finale on my Android Phone - this can be set to just listen and scrobble all tracks it hears.
So that gets pretty much everything I listen to and want listing into Last.fm. From there, AlbumPlays pulls all new scrobbles back into MM5, so all of those plays go back into MM5 (assuming they are in my MM5 DB, otherwise they are ignored by AlbumPlays). Doing that updates all those playlists and removes the tracks I've just listened to with fresh ones. That's why I want to be able to easily and regularly export those playlists, as they change everytime I sync it all up, which can be daily or a number of times a day - I also regularly rate tracks in MMA to help manage my smart playlists so like to sync those up regularly if I'm rating a lot that day. I've rated tracks since I had a Gen 3 iPod probably 18 years ago and it lets me create some very flexible and useful smart playlists!
As I mentioned, I really dislike hearing the same track regularly, and this method works for me. A track can be on my running playlist, a general genre playlist, etc, but once it's played on any playlist it'll still drop off the others because they're set to the oldest unplayed tracks.
It might sound complicated/convoluted but it works really well for me. I have Spotify but it drives me crazy that even on playlists with hundreds of tracks it still seems to always play the same ones much more - it's pretty rubbish for that!
Hi Ian
That won't really work for me. I'd have to re-import my MM5 DB into MM4 each time. My playlists do not stay static, they change all the time. They are smart playlists and all update with the oldest played tracks, so whenever tracks are played they should drop off playlists.
When I listen via MediaMonkey Audio my plays scrobble to Last.fm via Simple Lastfm.
When I listen via Sonos I scrobble via Barrys 3rd party app, AlbumPlays (as it gives me complete control over what I want and what I don't scrobbled to my LFM account - I have a 4 year old daughter!)
When I listen to Radio Six Music I use Universal Scrobbler to scrobble songs I've listened to
If I'm listening to a radio station that does not work with Universal Scrobbler I use Finale on my Android Phone - this can be set to just listen and scrobble all tracks it hears.
So that gets pretty much everything I listen to and want listing into Last.fm. From there, AlbumPlays pulls all new scrobbles back into MM5, so all of those plays go back into MM5 (assuming they are in my MM5 DB, otherwise they are ignored by AlbumPlays). Doing that updates all those playlists and removes the tracks I've just listened to with fresh ones. That's why I want to be able to easily and regularly export those playlists, as they change everytime I sync it all up, which can be daily or a number of times a day - I also regularly rate tracks in MMA to help manage my smart playlists so like to sync those up regularly if I'm rating a lot that day. I've rated tracks since I had a Gen 3 iPod probably 18 years ago and it lets me create some very flexible and useful smart playlists!
As I mentioned, I really dislike hearing the same track regularly, and this method works for me. A track can be on my running playlist, a general genre playlist, etc, but once it's played on any playlist it'll still drop off the others because they're set to the oldest unplayed tracks.
It might sound complicated/convoluted but it works really well for me. I have Spotify but it drives me crazy that even on playlists with hundreds of tracks it still seems to always play the same ones much more - it's pretty rubbish for that!