iTunes’ Smart Playlists provide lots of great ways to listen to music. Here’s one I’ve been toying with recently. There are two criteria:
- My Rating is 5 stars,
- Last Played is not in the last day.
You’ll get a handy list of all your favorite songs that you haven’t listened to today. Put it on shuffle and you have your own radio station playing only A-List jams. I call it “The Hits.”
This works well with a discovery I made today: on 3G iPods (and Minis), you can rate songs on the fly. While a track is playing, click the wheel button twice and use the scroll wheel to add a rating. Next time you sync to your computer all those ratings will show up in iTunes, too.