Trimming Music Playlist - Suggestions/Tips?

[Dreakon13 143]

So something that I've been doing, is using the "Frequently Played" area of my Music library to select "Play all from here" to

 

From there, I'll save a playlist from that play queue.  If I do this maybe once every few weeks, I kinda get a playlist mixing old stuff and more recent stuff I've obsessed over.  Then I shuffle that playlist and get kind of a fresh new mix of songs I like with relatively minimal effort.

The only problem is, that Frequently Played list goes out like 1000+ songs... which goes way out beyond anything I've listened to all that much or recently, kinda defeating the point.

 

So I go into the playlist afterwards and remove a bunch of songs off the end until it's more like 100-200 songs or so.  But this manual process of trimming down the playlist hundreds of items is a big ol' pain in the butt, even with some of the recent improvements to multi-select.

 

Just wondering if, knowing my process, anyone has any suggestions to make trimming the playlist or what I'm trying to accomplish a little easier?

Or in a perfect world, somewhere down the road maybe I can choose how many items/songs from the play queue to save to playlist and not have to trim anything.

Edited November 29, 2022 by Dreakon13

[Luke 42082]

Hi, yes this is something that needs to be improved. That function adds to the playlist, but sometimes you just want to overwrite it instead.

[Dreakon13 143]

13 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, yes this is something that needs to be improved. That function adds to the playlist, but sometimes you just want to overwrite it instead.

I wouldn't say that's necessarily my issue.  If I select "Play All From Here" from the Frequently Played list, I get a play queue (and subsequently a playlist) that's like 1000+ items long.

Since I'm basically trying to use that to occasionally generate new playlists of my favorite songs (based on what I play most frequently), that 1000 number is a bit excessive and trimming it down to my 100 or so most frequently played is a bit of a process.

 

EDIT: The easiest solution in my mind, is when I click Save Play Queue to Playlist, it asks me how many items to save (maybe blank or all by default like it currently does).  I enter 100 and problem solved, I have a playlist of my 100 most frequently played songs starting from the top.  But I wouldn't want to impose a new feature like that just for these hoops I jump through in a process that's probably pretty unique to me... so any other suggestions are appreciated.

Edited November 29, 2022 by Dreakon13

[Luke 42082]

OK yes being able to multiselect delete from the play queue would probably be helpful.