SmartPlaylist App Reviews

I have a lot of time and checked out a few playlist programs not one is perfect. So close with this one so close. I cant delete songs from list 2. I import songs to iPod not in iTunes libary. I would love to have these songs included .The first to incorporate this will have a good sell feature at least I think so

New release is out. It is much better with more features. First thing first: This is my defacto playlist creator as well as player and here is why. After trying out multiple apps to create playlists on-the-go from within iPod Touch/iPhone over many months, I think this playlist leapfrogs ahead of all, if you want to spend less time in creating playlists and more time listening to music. If you love Smart Playlists in iTunes – as opposed to static ones, this perhaps is the ONLY app that comes close to what iTunes could do. Of course, no playlist app could replicate iTunes’ playlist creating prowess because the rich track information available in iTunes is not transferred to iPhone during the sync process. Key phrases for this app: More time for music, less time for playlist creation, greatest flexibility to search and listen by rating, playcount, playlength, composer, comment, iTunes playlists, other than the usual artist, album, genre, title etc., great for large music library, great for casual music listener too. 1.This app is a smart playlist creator based on rules that you define, which means you could refresh the playlist at any time if you choose to just like in iTunes. 2.The fields available to search are most extensive of any playlist app. It allows to search by title, composer, comments, rating, track length, playcounts, last played on, other than the usual album, artist, genre, and iTunes playlist that most other apps provide. 3.Not only you could search, you could also sort the playlist by all of the above excepting comment and iTunes playlist. 4.You could also shuffle the list by album or title even though iPod player itself could shuffle by title only. 5.The most powerful feature of this app is “contains” clause with use of AND and OR. For example, find all music where album contains “victory” OR “march”; comment contains “2010” AND “love”; iTunes playlist contains “fast” OR “beat” OR “truth” etc. 6.This app displays the most track info compared to others, in the list (title, artist, rating, playcount, last played days, playlength, genre, composer, album cover), but also much more for the track playing (album cover, skip count, last played date, disk, track, compilation, release date, comments). The only downside is that the album cover somehow appears always grainy. 7.With this new version, now you could shrink rules page to just display entered parameters instead of all blank ones. 8.This app is not a static playlist creator to add songs one by one to a static playlists like iPlayList, which has a beautiful UI but fails to provide rule based smart playlist creation.

So far this is the best playlist maker Ive seen in app store. It does what it says - allows you to make much better customized playlists by adding different kinds of rules and filters. Some cons for which I took one star off: - interface is somewhat cluttered, its elements arent well placed or organized. Specifically: buttons at the bottom of rules menu dont look descriptive enough of what they do. Sometimes different buttons seem to do the same thing, so its confusing for a first-time user. Now playing and list menu look very cluttered because of poor use of spacing and contrast. Also not liking the different font sizes on each button in rules menu, but this is a minor problem. - occasional crashes. - only 6 playlists maximum, which you cant even rename or export into playlist menu (the latter might just not be possible on current iOS right now, I think.. But at least the first 2 things could be fixed). - rule grouping is a little iffy. For example, if I wanted to make this kind of playlist: (genre is A and artist is B) OR (genre is C and artist is D) - I dont want genre A to have artist D, or genre C to have artist B. Its POSSIBLE to make such a playlist, but the process of that is rather tedious, and you cant really save such playlist so each time youd want to listen to it - youd have to create parts of it from scratch. I suggest just making the rules menu similar to one in iTunes. iTunes way of making smart playlist is very well designed, so why reinvent the wheel? Overall despite those annoying drawbacks its a nice app. Its not the most neat and pretty one, but it does what its supposed to do, and does it much better than other apps I know of. I just hope its creators will soon address the issues I mentioned. With those issues solved it would truly become superior to other playlist makers in every way.

Smart Playlist is now my default music player in my iPod Touch. Its a must-have app for those of us who have thousands of tracks in their Library.

For some reason it doesnt have a lot of the fields iTunes has, like "date added" and "grouping". Also, it doesnt have iTunes ability to create sub-rule sets. You can get around it by making many smaller playlists and combining them, but thats still bothersome because it doesnt let you have more than 6 playlists at a time. Its nice that it works on the go, but this has way too many flaws to be the default player of anyone who knows how to use iTunes smart playlists properly. Unless youre going somewhere where you wont have easy access to iTunes, it just isnt worth the money.

This app changed my music lifestyle.

Keep in mind one reason, and then ypu will see other ones... When ypu need play your artiss 5 star collection, but you want to listen fresh music (like added 1 week ago), also you need to listen only some moods like comfort, happy, etc... And you have some lists, maybe like 90s, but when you walking you just think about i just need listen 90s but genre must be only rock, plays must be 5 or greater, and etc. etc. ... This app doing this and hundreds of stuff like this, amazing. Yolda giderken 90 lar listenizi dinlemeye koyuldunuz ama birdenbire icinden cikan agir parcalar modunuzu mu bozdu, evet yapmaniz gereken 90 lar listesi icinden muzik turune gore ayrim yapmak, ama bunu iphone ile yapmanizin imkani yok, her seferinde itunes ile liste olusturup o listelerin icinde kaybolmadan, istediginiz anda istediginiz kadar filtre, sanatci, sarki sozu, yildiz derecesi, eklendigi tarih, kac kez dinlendigi ve itunes da yapamayacaginiz daha fazlasi !!!

UPDATE 06/2016 Extra playlist slots added? App keeps getting better and better. All of my prior review comments still stand and Im still using it almost daily. Dont hesitate to buy!!

I am so surprised that NO ONE HAS WRITTEN A REVIEW!! For all you iPod 2nd Gen users, you may have the same problem as I do....... All your smart playlists are funky righ? Well this app solved it all!!! Look no further for a great application. I use this all the time! GET THIS APP!!

I used to create smartplaylists in iTunes and transfer them to my iPod. Particularly, I like having playlist of songs rated 3 stars and up by artist. That was many smartplaylist to sync on my iPod. With this app, I can create these and other types of playlists on the fly on my iPod. This is great! Also allows to create playlist based on keywords in song titles. I had been looking for an app for that. It also allows to shuffle the playlist created by this apps - although it took me a while to figure out how to do this... I would give it 5 stars if the save settings would allow to save multiple, and if the performance using conditional operators was better. But definitely an app worth the $$$ if you are looking for a smart playlist like feature accessible on your iPod.

What sets this app apart from all of the recent lookalike apps is that it is easy to use but also highly flexible. It also has minimal load and launch times. Anyone who wants to be able to generate thier own smart playlists on the go needs this and no other app.

For any of you who ever owned a Rio Karma, think of this as RioDJ on steroids. Ive bought virtually every playlist manager available, but this is easily the most dynamic and fun to use. Allows you to run live queries against your music library without having to refresh on iTunes. Now that theyve added the ability to save multiple queries, I give it a 5. I highly recommend if youre looking for an app that will give you fresh mixes and a fun interface on the fly.

This app does just it says it will... its almost just like making smart playlists in iTunes, except on-the-fly, so you can hear what you want to hear WHEN you want to hear it! Pros: Functions VERY well, and usually generates the playlists pretty fast. If I use a broad search it can take a minute or 2, but I also have over 7,000 songs so it understandable. Startup time is instant! Love all the details you get about your songs... Ive been looking for a way to view things like play count and last played on my ipod and this is the first Ive seen that does that! Being able to sort yout playlist is also key! Very nice icon... had no problem putting it next to my music app on the front page! Cons: The app can feel a bit clunky as scrolling the screen isnt very smooth. Also, the visual appearance of the app itself isnt the best. Id prefer a more slick interface with dark/grey background like apples music app. Also, while the detailed info page is packed with info... its kinda ugly. These are small things, though... the core functionality of the app is solid! Suggestions: Id really like to see Year and Date Added fields added to the app. Year so I can make playlists involving songs that were released during a particular year and Date Added so I can, for example, play all my 5 star songs that I bought in 2009. Keep up the good work... I hope to see many updates to this fantastic app!

Creates some great playlists that I never would have created because its a real pain to do it in iTunes then sync everytime!!! On-the-fly is good. I only wish I could save the currently playing tracks as an actual playlist with a unique name. And also have a way to save playlists and access them in the iPod app.

iPhone wouldnt be the same without it. I wish I had option to save my playlists to iPod app. Loaded with options. Must buy in my book. Please add option to shuffle.

I hate this app its ridiculous. Never spend your money on it! It makes no sense. I put in the composer and nothing comes up! I have over 800 songs and this stupid app doesnt recognize any!

I really like this app. I use it all the time. It would be nice if you can sort songs by "Grouping" since I have many songs in iTunes grouped under this colum. Other than that is great.

Yes, it creates a good playlist similar to iTunes smartplaylist, but it lacks the option to save the playlist, which kind of defeats the purpose for me. I like the option of deleting songs from a playlist and the lack of this feature, as well as the confusing interface makes it almost useless for my intent.

I absolutely DETEST how Apple ripped so much functionality out of the Music app for the iPad in IOS 5. I did a lot of searching for a suitable replacement and ended up buying this app. SmartPlaylist lets me generate lists by Star ratings again!! I cant figure out how to use this app to actually Rate a song though, which is why I give this app a 4 star rating instead of 5.

Honestly, I cant believe how lame the iPad music app is. After all of these years of great iTunes and iPod software, Apple really dropped the ball on the iPads music app. Just how unsophisticated do they think iPad users are anyway? Ranting aside, I spent a considerable amount of time (and even a little money), searching for and trying out music apps. None of them were much better, until I found this one. I dont think I could create a more powerful playlist creation tool (than this one) if I wrote the program myself. This is a first-class, and extremely useful, app that I will recommend to everyone and continue to use for many years to come. Thank you (to the developer) for creating such a great music player!