Playlists are for overhaul in the next release and are asking for input.
In the meantime if you focus in the album screen on a particular genre then choose, most played or rating whichever you want (or both) and bookmark the resulting screen this will be updated as your ratings / plays change.
In the album view, you can select ratings and most played by clicking Focus and those items are on the far left of the window. If you want Ratings in a Genre, just select the Rating and then Genre. Something like this:
As the other guys mentioned, just save these Focuses as a Bookmark, in the top right of the screen. These Bookmarks are “smart” in that they will change as your library changes.
In the attached screenshot, I have already tagged the selections with my custom tag 5*
In a Focus view, you can filter by that and other tags. For example, the second screenshot is a Focus for
Performer: Radiohead
Tags: 4* or 5*
Year: after 2000
Looks like a reasonable workaround, but what a PITA !
All my FLAC files are tagged from 1 to 5 stars, in half-star steps, by using MediaMonkey.
I understand that this is actually shown in the FLAC file by a % figure.
Isn’t there a way, with Focus, to read that % figure / tag from the file and build a playlist on that ?
I think that’d suit most people’s requests - and then we’re done !