Make a Best of 2004 iTunes Smart Playlist

Screenshot of a playlist in iTunes called 'best of 2004'

With all the top 10 lists around, it only seems appropriate that iTunes should make a personal one for you.

How to Make a ‘Best of the Year’ Smart Playlist

Screenshot of the best of 2004 Smart Playlist settings

  1. In iTunes, choose File, New Smart Playlist…
  2. Under Match the following condition choose “Last Played” “is in the range” “1/1/04″ to “12/31/04″
  3. Limit to 10 songs, or whatever your preference, selected by “most often played”
  4. Uncheck “Live Updating” as you more than likely won’t be playing songs in 2004 any more.

There you go. Now relish at how you’ve squandered your free time.

This playlist isn’t perfect as what you really want to do is sort by play count totals only added during the course of the year, but unfortunately there isn’t meta-data on the songs to do so. As a result, this seemed like a reasonable solution.

My 2004 Smart Playlist?

Song Artist Count
1. Kissing the Lipless The Shins 111
2. Young Pilgrams The Shins 108
3. So Says I The Shins 92
4. Mine’s Not a High Horse The Shins 89
5. Saint Simon The Shins 89
6. Pink Bullets The Shins 88
7. Fighting in a Sack The Shins 86
8. Turn a Square The Shins 78
9. Gone for Good The Shins 73
10. 12:51 The Strokes 66

Hmm. Looks like a banner year for The Shins in the Gloddy household.

Happy New Year everyone.

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