Automatic or Smart playlists

[kayvee]

One nice feature that would at least make my day would be the ability to create an automatic/smart playlist in Subsonic. For example, in a simple case I would create a playlist that contains all tracks by a particular artist and it gets updated periodically (perhaps once every day like podcasts). That way, when a new album by the same artist is added to the library, those tracks will be automatically added to the playlist.

[sigel]

I would like this feature as well..

So I can create a playlist with rules such as.
Genre
Year Range
Artist
Track Length

Stuff like that..

[lpr]

+1 for that. And if those "smart" playlists could be used in Sonos, now that would be amazing!

[JSBerg]

Hell yes to smart playlist!!!

[beninho]

would love to have some posibility to create 'itelligent playlistst' based on the gerne. Like I-tunes did with Genius and Plex now does with their "moods" in premium plex music. Or like what happens in Spotify.

Could this be possible?

Like this? http://www.spicefly.com/article.php?pag ... is-musicip

[nantokakantoka]

Hi everybody,
this is my first post on this forum as I am not a user of Subsonic yet. And it is the lack of a "smart playlist" that keeps me from switching to what seems an otherwise great piece of software.
In my family business we are all very much into music and have a vast, shared library that we listen to every day. But it is impossible to organize and classify that kind of library without the use of tags and the creation of smart playlists. That's why, right now, we are still using Itunes and Musicbee to access our music.

Are there any plans to introduce smart playlists or is this something that is not going to happen in the foreseeable future? Is there a roadmap?

Thanks
N

[kayvee]

I don't know if this feature will ever be implemented but I decided not to wait...
I wrote a short script in python that fetches a list of all starred tracks, picks 50 of them at random and puts them in a playlist. I have set up this script to run every night so I have a refreshed playlist for my day. Since I am not a seasoned programmer it is fairly rudimentary and, perhaps, anyone with some basic coding skills can do it on their own. However, if you are interested just let me know and I can post the script here.

[nantokakantoka]

Thanks for your reply and your offer to share your script, though I am not sure if this method would work for our needs.
I make our library (2400+ albums) accessible through smart playlists, by filtering the view based on a tag, usually one or several genre-tags.
Most files are tagged with multiple genres, separated by a semicolon. In Itunes/Musicbee we are using around 100 of those genre-based smart playlists right now.
Running a python script routinely to achieve something like that does not sound scalable.

[btram]

This is really needed. It would be a game changer.

[richardap1]

Yeah, i agree. More discovery feature would be great. smart playlists, ability to create recommendations based on previous listening etc would be really good.

[acroyear]

I'm working on a webpage (yes, it'll have HTTPS/SSL support) to create a smart-playlist idea.

Basically, it will allow you to create "generators" based on the API calls (random songs from a music directory, top songs from an artist, similar songs from an artist, random songs from a genre, etc), with browsing and searching features to find them so you don't need to know the IDs it stores, and will store the generators as JSON in the playlist comment. On the page you can "refresh" the station which will wipe the playlist content and regenerate a shuffle from that.

On SubFire, it will be able just run the generators directly on demand, so every experience is unique.

I hope to finish by the end of march, if not sooner.

[acroyear]

A common request has been 'smart' playlists. While I can't provide the full-feature (every tag is available) smart playlists of iTunes, I did write an application that will create pseudo stations and all you to re-visit and re-shuffle the stations on demand.

Each Station is a public/shared playlist (with a specific JSON syntax in its comment), with a list of generators, like "top songs", "album", "random songs", each based on the core fetching methods from the Subsonic API. Any number of generators can be added to a station*, and generators can be limited on how many songs it contributes to the shuffle.

Visit http://subfireplayer.net/radio/ to try it, or go to http://subfireplayer.net/subfire-radio/ to read more. Like SubFire, the radio generator app does not use a proxy or store your data on any cloud server other than your own Subsonic instance or as local storage on your browser. HTTPS *should* work (even when you have a cert exception for an unsigned cert in your browser), but I can not test it.

* or at least, I haven't found a length limit on the comment of a playlist yet.

Feedback can be left here, or in the support page specified on the documentation page.

[kayvee]

I keep getting Login Failed message irrespective of what I try: personal hostname, xyz.subsonic.org or just the IP address, all with or without the port number. I am interested in trying it out though...

[acroyear]

Discovered that IE and Safari are still missing some of the newer browser standards (fetch and promises). It will only work with Firefox, Chrome, and Opera until I install some polyfills.

[acroyear]

Updated with polyfills that have it working on IE 11 and Safari (and Firefox older than 40). Chrome and current Firefox should be unaffected.