Membranophonist’s Ramblings

Smart Playlists are great, but there is substantial room for improvement in the automatic naming of them.

Example 1

Rather than it being called , how about labeling it with the criteria I generated it from:

Example 2

Automatically generated name:

More informative:

Problems

• Longer than names based on one criterion.
• Would not work well for playlists generated from more than two or three criterion.

Keeping the above in mind, if iTunes is going to put the playlist into rename mode immediately after it is generated anyway, why not provide a more useful, descriptive name to begin with?