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Tag Cloud, Filter List & metrics rolled into one to create Smart playlists: Smarter than iTunes

OK so this basically is a features reco / suggestion. I've had Songbird for about 48 hours now and I am originally a Mac user exclusively on iTunes. LOVE the webcontent integration and fast pace of plug in development! Couple of things I was hoping for based on the copen source approach where itunes is just tooo slow materialized others fell a bit short. But hey this is not even release 1.0 right. Now what would make this a killerap for me: Of course we need smart playlists and I am glad the community is working on this. With 15K+ songs I need to be able to have dynamic stations. However 2 suggestions. Why not integrate this feature with a tag cloud application that weighs and visualizes the underlying metrics of a library/playlist (like the tag cloud app before the divided tag cloud which isn't available for 0.6.1) and integrate a boolean search. You'd need to integrate an and/or type button functions and look at tags in a smart way (a track tagged alternative Rock would add to the alternative and the rock cloud if "contains" instead of "is" is selected & offer fields beyond genre/artist/album as many users insert tags into comments field) This way you could export the resulting track list tag cloud into a smart playlist that updates based on these criteria and presto. Additionally you would de facto roll the metrics, filter pane and tag cloud view into one. I could go into more detail about tthe possibilities of visualization if you look at a cloud with multiple criteria (or added content such as suggestions/related artists not in list, etc.) and maybe you are already thinking into this direction, but for me this would give it a real leg up on iTunes in regard to managing and playing one's library.

Oh yeah Import all tags from iTunes please ;-) but I know you are working on that too
 
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