building playlists from a library of 1000s of songs

[mikentmp]

OK, lets say you've got 1000s of songs and more are
added every now and then. Now you want to build a
new playlist and consider every song for it.

You can go through each song and add it - but in a large library
this can take days. Plus adding new songs makes it
even harder to track what you've already considered and
rejected.

Ideally, it would be nice to have a tool track what songs
you already considered but rejected for that playlist.
Any new songs that havent been considered would be obvious and easily
evaluated.

After lots of searching, I been unable to find a way of doing this in winamp.
Have I just missed something?

[siebe83]

You could rate your songs, so you could easily find the songs that have not been rated yet (i.e. not been 'considered').

[peaceofcake]

custom fields

[shepard]

I don't know if this is the best way, but I have my own ratting system that I enter in the comments field. I use comments so the info is saved with the files. Takes a long time to rate everything the first time, but then it stays with the file backups so it should be safe.

[mikentmp]

seibe83, thats a fine idea and would work, but only for one
playlist. I will have multiple playlists that can see each song in a different state ("included in playlist", "rejected", and "not evaluated")

mistergecko, have any more info? searching winamp forums for custom fields doesnt get me very far. Neither does poking around ML in WinAmp 5.111
Sounds like that may do the trick, but I need more info

thanks all