I found a new way (I am certain I am not the first) to use the new 2.0 and 2.1 playlists and I thought I would share it. I think there's other ways to do it (a card playlist with only a few clips enabled in each card probably works) but I thought it was cool that you could do this the other way around with the clips.

So, say you wanted a playlist of certain clips (pole clips, for example) from a number of different models but you want to keep the clips from each card together but have the whole thing still be playable in random order. This was surprisingly easy to do:

1. Select one of your target clips from a card and add it to a playlist (you can create a new playlist right here if you want).

2. Open that entry in the playlist by right clicking and picking "edit clips". Since this is a clip playlist, you will see only the original clip selected. You can now select any additional clips you want to be played from this card. It is easy to play the clips here to see if it's the one you want.

3. Do the same thing with additional cards. Your playlist will show as a clip playlist (the "cards" in the list have that little puzzle mark in the lower left corner) but if you edit clips on the playlist entries you will see that they have multiple clips enabled.

As an aside the feature where if you attempt to add something to a playlist where it already exists in that playlist destination will be grayed out is very nice. VERY nice! Thanks for that.

4. Now if you play this playlist even in a random order the clips you have selected from each card will play together one after another, and only then will iStripper move on to the next entry in the playlist. Which is exactly what I wanted it to do.

You can see that the new playlist interface is more powerful than you might have thought. Now if only the Totem developers would add my two requested features I would be quite happy....

a) A way to sort the playlist entries. The current interface is very attractive and works fine for small playlists but making and maintaining larger playlists isn't all that pleasant. If you could add clips or cards without worrying where they would go and hit sort it would help a lot. I have a number of playlists where they have content from each model in my collection so they are both large and constantly changing. Sorting (and my next request) would make things a lot easier.

2) A way to see the collection screen and a playlist at the same time. Maybe two side by side windows with the entries in each a bit smaller? That would be a HUGE help in maintaining playlists as new models and cards are released.

So, that wasn't exciting enough? You can also make playlists in an even easier way!

1. Add the whole card to a playlist

2. Right click on the card and select "edit clips"

3. Click on "All" under the Quick Selection choices. This will deselect all the clips

4. You can then manually select the clips you want or use the Quick Selection buttons to get all the clips of a type.

This takes about 10 seconds.

And there's still more in my little series on Why 2.0 is Awesome!

Suppose you want to create a playlist of cards with a particular tag. Nothing could be easier now. You go to your collection screen, select the tag or tags you want, and the collection display shifts to only those cards you own with those tag(s). Right click on one, select "add to" and either "create a new playlist" or an existing playlist. And you're done! All the displayed cards are added to your playlist.

4. Now if you play this playlist even in a random order the clips you have selected from each card will play together one after another, and only then will iStripper move on to the next entry in the playlist. Which is exactly what I wanted it to do.

In the Settings, the Show Duration needs to be set Higher than the duration of all of the combined Clips,
or just set it to max Play entire card.

this duration setting is also a good way to Just see a Single random Clip from each card on the Playlist.

In the Queue view
turn on Looping
then you clip Playlist will Play a single random clip from each card and loop around.

The Combination of Filters to make Playlists, clip edits from within the Playlist, Show duration, and Progressive Hotness
Give you a Lot of flexibility

Experiment with them all and you might be Surprised at what kind of custom show you can create for yourself.

and Don't forget
Your Playlist and Queue, can Be used with the Full Screen Scenes
New to 2.0 is that ALL girl slots in a Scene, are now pulled from the Queue
Unlike the previous version, where only the Main Girl slot came from the Playlist, and the Rest were random from the Enabled collection.