I want to create a Best albums smart playlist containing a somewhat reasonable number of songs :
- the rule
Album rating
is greater than
★★★
result in a 221 songs playlist. - wheareas the rule
Album rating
is greater than
★★
result in a 4000+ songs playlist.
I understand why those numbers, but still I would prefer that the resulting playlist contains ~1000 songs : hence my need to have access to the smart playlist file definition so I can overwrite the ratings representation inside.
Other approach tried : activate half star ratings (to create a 'greater than 3.5 stars' rule), but if half star is activated for song rating in the main window, it is not the case for the smart playlist dialog.
~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml
(big file, search for the name of the smart list). The playlist definition seems to be stored as binary data though... – nohillside♦ Aug 17 '13 at 11:07