iTunes buggerage
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At midnight, I discovered a fantastic bug in iTunes. I have a smart playlist for “new music”, which contains all the music I’ve put on the computer in the last two weeks.
At midnight, it recalculated this list and discovered that the piece of music that I was listening to was no-longer “new”. So it disappears from the list. It also stops playing, rather abruptly. That probably shouldn’t happen.
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The same thing happens when I’m using a playlist for the music I haven’t given a rating to yet: if I rate the track I’m currently playing, it stops.
I’m not entirely sure it counts as a bug: it’s an entirely logical behaviour, and quite possibly to be expected. Questionable design decision, quite possibly.
In the case of my “Unrated” playlist, I get around this by using the dubiously-named Party Shuffle. This keeps playing a track even if it gets kicked out of the current playlist, just doesn’t nominate it for playing in future.