Tutorial: How to create a rolodex-style index using Smart playlists in Mezzmo

[Paul]

Mezzmo is very flexible in the way it allows you to organize your media files. It comes with some pre-created playlists, but you can add your own to make it truly yours.

I will show you how to make a rolodex-style index out of your music artists. This is just a sample of what Mezzmo can do.

1) start Mezzmo
2) right-click on the Music playlist and select Create Playlist -> Playlist to create a normal playlist that will be a placeholder (root) for your index
3) in the dialog that comes up, name your placelist some list "Artist Index" and click OK
4) now right-click on the newly created playlist and select Create Playlist -> Smart Playlist
5) in the dialog that comes up, type in "A" as the playlist name, then make sure that "Match" is check and is set to "all"
6) in the combo boxes select: "Artist", "starts with" and type "a" (no quotes) in the edit box, click the "+" button to add another condition
7) in the new condition, select "File Type", "music" to limit your playlist to music items only and click OK to save
8) repeat steps 4-7 for all the letters and you've got a working, dynamic index of your music files by artist name

Enjoy!

Dennis

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Update (April, 2013): Whilst this tutorial works fine, we recommend using "Group By First Letter" in Active Playlists to create "Rolodex"-style (A..Z) playlists. See http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...2720#post22720 for an explanation and examples.