I listen to music all day long as a work. The beat keeps me moving like a caller keeping rowers synchronized.
While I pay for Apple Music streaming but also have a big mp3 library which is aging. When I removed the mp3s leaving only streamed tracks, my Playlist lost many of my favorite Artists. That lead me to creating a Smart Playlists of Artists.
Just like when I write code for Web Apps, I broke the problem down to individual steps...
Step 1: Copy all the tracks in the playlist to the clipboard. Paste into a text file, open in Excel, copy the Artist column, paste into another text file and save as Artists.txt.
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