{"id":3046,"date":"2006-10-19T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:32:05","slug":"itunes-7-skip-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/10\/19\/itunes-7-skip-count\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes 7 Skip Count"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new feature appeared in iTunes7 that I’ve been wanting for a long time. Just as it tracks your play count, it now also counts the number if times you’ve started a song, and then skipped on to the next one. Of course, it’s just started building that information, so it won’t be really useful for a while, but eventually, I’ll be able to build really great smart playlists.<\/p>\n

The whole goal, for me, is to create an automated playlist that will genuinely reflect the songs I want to hear, out of the 2600+ songs in my library. Currently, I have elaborate playlists that use my rating, my playcount, and the length of time the song has been loaded into my library to calculate Best and Best Guess collections. These I rotate by least recently played and it does a good job. But I’m really looking forward to being able to calculate the ratio of play count verses skip count as an additional measure of how much I really like a song.<\/p>\n

I guess I could also use skip count to locate those songs I really never listen to as well and just remove them from the library — but hard disk capacity just keeps getting cheaper, so maybe I won’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new feature appeared in iTunes7 that I’ve been wanting for a long time. Just as it tracks your play count, it now also counts the number if times you’ve started a song, and then skipped on to the next one. Of course, it’s just started building that information, so it won’t be really useful… Continue reading iTunes 7 Skip Count<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-N8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}