Add lightning to list-building with PlayDJ’s Filter Builder

The Filter Builder inside PlayDJ takes the blank page in the center of your PlayDJ screen and easily fills it with the songs you want for your Raw Playlist. 

Remember, it’s the songs in your Raw Playlist from which you’ll create a balanced, Scheduled Playlist, the very heart of PlayDJ.

A blank page becomes a Raw Playlist

Here’s the quickest way to easily build a Raw Playlist:

Use the tabs in the Filter Builder to choose the artists, years, genres (or other attributes) you wish to include in your Raw Playlist.

1. Click the filter icon and see the songs you’ve selected appear in the center of the screen.  Notice the top of the PlayDJ screen shows the number of songs you’ve added so far. To add more songs to this list, repeat step 1 
2. When you’ve created a large Raw Playlist containing songs you want for a certain situation (for example, fast songs for the drive to work, your daily commute, or this Saturday’s party), you’ve arrived at the point where PlayDJ is ready to work its magic. 
3. Save this Raw Playlist into iTunes for later use then go ahead and create any number of balanced, Scheduled Playlists.  The songs in your Raw Playlist become a “pool” from which PlayDJ selects songs to go into your next Scheduled Playlist.

Then, you can call up your Raw Playlist instantly whenever you want to create more completely different, balanced, Scheduled Playlists whenever you need them.  And, of course, you can create as many Raw Playlists as you wish.  For example, you may have a Raw Playlist with a mix of rock and hip-hop songs, another one containing only songs before 1980, and another with soft, romantic music.  In each case you can use these Raw Playlists to create an unlimited number of Scheduled Playlists for either playing directly from PlayDJ, or for importing to your iPod for your Scheduled Playlists on the go.  

Hot tip:  avoid doing this in reverse.  Some PlayDJ users try to select all songs, then uncheck at few attributes and wonder why the list doesn’t change. 

Here’s why:  When you check all songs you naturally get all attributes of everything in your iTunes library. If you then uncheck a few artists, years or genres, most songs you want to remove from your Raw Playlist will not disappear because they will probably contain one or more other attributes keeping them visible (like one of your playlists, for example).  Although you can’t do this yet, this feature will be activated in a future version of PlayDJ.  Read on.   

Create new “workout playlists” every day, filled with your favorites

Let’s say you workout every morning for an hour.  Use the Filter Builder inside PlayDJ to quickly create an unscheduled, Raw Playlist of 250 songs you love to workout to, then save it to your iTunes. 

Then, whenever you’re ready, bring up only that saved Raw Playlist and create five, 1-hour Scheduled Playlists for each weekday next week.  Save each of those Scheduled Playlists to iTunes and sync with your iPod.  Then you can play one each morning, and each one will be completely different, but still filled only with your favorite songs. 

FUTURE FEATURE:  Instead of starting with a blank page and building the Raw Playlist, a large number of PlayDJ users have requested that we add the ability to do that in reverse:  to check any specific artist, genre or other attribute, then unselect those you want to remove from this list. 

Consider it done!  This cool feature will appear in the next version of PlayDJ. 

Thanks for your suggestions…keep’em coming.  Email any other ideas to Support@PlayDJ.com.