Spark limitations

[Confused]

This is a genuine question BTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to do this.

Same here.

I actually have a number of playlists with over 1000 tracks.  This stems from my long term obsession with track ratings.  So if I have a playlist of tracks rated 5, this has many thousands, if you then subdivide by genre, you could still be over 1000.   I am quite insane though.....

[canyelles]

Having queried why anyone would want to have such a large playlist I have realised that I do exactly this, but for different reasons.

I am a big user of iTunes dynamic playlists, usually involving play statistics. e.g. "Albums not yet played" or "Duke Ellington albums not played recently"

These playlists are displayed by album, not by track, and I usually just play an album from them. Never play randomly.

iTunes dynamic playlists are the main reason I have never considered ROON. If ROON ever supports them I will give it a try.

Incidentally my "Albums Not Yet Played" is currently 223 days long. They have actually all been played but a lot of them haven't played for a while. They were played back when I used a squeezebox which does not update the statistics.

[Hifi_swlon]

iTunes dynamic playlists are the main reason I have never considered ROON. If ROON ever supports them I will give it a try.

Roon has a similar functionality by way of 'Focus' filters, which can then be bookmarked and recalled - all are dynamic. Not sure if it has all the options you need, but the feature's been there a while.

A bit out of date, but a forum topic about it here: https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-do-...focus/5651

[canyelles]

iTunes dynamic playlists are the main reason I have never considered ROON. If ROON ever supports them I will give it a try.

Roon has a similar functionality by way of 'Focus' filters, which can then be bookmarked and recalled - all are dynamic.  Not sure if it has all the options you need, but the feature's been there a while.  

A bit out of date, but a forum topic about it here: https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-do-...focus/5651

Thanks for this but I should have said that I would also need ROON to be able to import from iTunes the dynamic playlists AND the play statistics (time of last play and play count)

[wcallen]

Could you explain why anyone would need such a large playlist?

Is it so that you can randomly play your entire music collection?

Otherwise I don't see the point. 

This is a genuine question BTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to do this.

What if I want to play entire collection randomly? Feels like we should have the option for that. (Actually this limitation drove me to spotify, and now? Screw Spark haha)

[Confused]

Having queried why anyone would want to have such a large playlist I have realised that I do exactly this, but for different reasons.

I am a big user of iTunes dynamic playlists, usually involving play statistics. e.g. "Albums not yet played" or "Duke Ellington albums not played recently"

These playlists are displayed by album, not by track, and I usually just play an album from them. Never play randomly.

iTunes dynamic playlists are the main reason I have never considered ROON. If ROON ever supports them I will give it a try.

Incidentally my "Albums Not Yet Played" is currently 223 days long. They have actually all been played but a lot of them haven't played for a while. They were played back when I used a squeezebox which does not update the statistics.

Not a popular view in audiophile circles I know, but in many ways, I think iTunes is very underrated.