PlayDJ Playlist Designer

On the left side of the screen you will find the Playlist Designer, this is where you decide how you want to use the songs in the Raw Playlist section in your Scheduled Playlist.  There are three controls in this section:  Tempo, Artist Separation and Rating.  These three controls determin how the patented PlayDJ scheduler uses the music in your Raw Playlist.

One note here, if you haven't assigned stars (ratings) or BPM (tempo) to your songs, those controls will have no effect on your schedule.  Since all of your songs will have an Artist name assigned to them this control will have an effect on your Scheduled Playlist.  Artist Separation works like this.  When you move the slider to the minimum setting it will reduce the length of time between plays of the same artist, likewise when it is set to maximum it will increase the length of time between plays of the same artist.  If the slider remains in the middle the schedule will default to the natural amount of time between plays of the same artist.

Here's how that works.  Let's say that you have 1,000 songs on your iPod and that 100 of them are from The Beatles.  PlayDJ will basically play one Beatles song every 10 songs.  Moving the Artist Separation slider to the Max position will increase that to perhaps one of every 15 songs, moving it to the Min position will reduce it to perhaps one of every 5 songs.

Now all you have to do is create a Scheduled Playlist.  A really cool feature of this is that you can have a raw playlist with a thousand songs and you only want to create a one hour Scheduled Playlist for your workout today and another for tomorrow and so on.  PlayDJ remembers what songs it used on Monday so when you go back to that raw playlist to create a Scheduled Playlist for Tuesday you will get different songs, same thing for Wednesday, Thursday and so on.

There's a lot mor to talk about and we'll be posting more on a regular basis.