Article:		Macworld Wish List for Steve
Subject:		Gracefully Stopping The Music...
Date:		2003-12-30 22:04:10
From:		jonblock
I'd like an iTunes button (or menu item) for "stop after this song." Or, expanding on the notion, "stop after x songs." I'd like to be able to listen to the end of a song, or perhaps a couple of songs, during that "fading out" period before sleep finally comes. But I don't want to let the playlist run all night, and I'd rather not have to create a custom playlist just for the occasion. Just play to a resolve, and stop. I also tend to leave my iTunes preference set to a long cross-fade between songs. For most of my playlists, that works well. But again, when I'd like to stop listening and move on, I'd rather be able to end at the end of a song, without hearing the next one fade in ("well, I can wait for just one more song..."). Not a priority, but it would be nice to have.

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• Gracefully Stopping The Music...
  2004-01-02 13:35:50  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I haven't done it, so I can't weigh in with certainty, but this sounds a LOT like something you should be able to do with AppleScript. iTunes is pretty scriptable.

• Gracefully Stopping The Music...
  2003-12-31 13:34:05  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  "Stop after x songs" isn't too hard to do: Create a smart playlist, select "Time is greater than 0:00" and set the playlist to a limit of "x" songs. Unfortunately, since there is no way to make smart playlists "refresh" (i.e., select new songs), you would have to make a new playlist each time you do this.
  
  Still, the "Refresh Smart Playlist(s)" feature is the one I'd like to see in an iTunes refresh; I'm apathetic regarding "Stop after x songs".