Alongside Presets we also expanded on Smart Mixes with the launch of Sense 3.3.
When creating a new Smart Mix you will be presented with two options:
- Album Mix based on a choice of album filters
- Artist Mix based on a choice of artists
The mixes that could be generated out of the Albums view by applying filters (resolution, tags, source type etc) can now be permanently saved as shortcuts into the Smart Mixes section found in the MUSIC tab. This fulfils another frequently requested feature of having shortcuts to pre-filtered views or ‘bookmarks’ of your library. The fact that these can then be assigned to a Preset on the HOME tab make these now even quicker to reach and start playing from.
We have also expanded Artists Mixes, meaning you can now select multiple artists to compile into a Smart Mix, and permanently save that mix to the library and have it accessible from Presets for quick access.
This makes it easy to now create more themed and personalised subsections and categorisations of your library and rapidly begin playing a selection of music from here.
These mixes also may serve as a much more efficient solution to have themed groupings of artists/albums compared to manually compiling lengthy playlists that can go on for many hundreds (or thousands!) of tracks.
Combined with SmartQ, this feature now makes it significantly easier to just press ‘Play’ and let Sense do the rest.