So far - best of its kind
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.
-loner- about
SmartPlaylist, v4.8