# Smart Playlist Like Functionality, and File Streaming.

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/smart-playlist-like-functionality-and-file-streaming/115241>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smart-playlist-like-functionality-and-file-streaming/115241 "2015-09-10T04:18:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![critter1227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@critter1227](https://forums.plex.tv/u/critter1227)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smart-playlist-like-functionality-and-file-streaming/115241/1 "2015-09-10T04:18:02Z")

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I did a little looking around and some websites mention smart playlists. I use two smart playlists in Media, one being all music being 5 stars and one being all music that is 3 stars out of the slandered 5 star rating system. Is there any way I can do this or something similar natively in Plex, using third party software or another program to make a playlist folder of it and upload that to plex?

Also, I’m sure this has been answered before, when a file is streamed, can you change the bitrate of it in the app’s settings. As I have a lot of losless flac files, but if I can convert them to mp3 for streaming, it would be easier. Is this also possible with downloading a playlist with the subscription? Can I convert them all to 320 kb/s files?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smart-playlist-like-functionality-and-file-streaming/115241/2 "2015-09-10T17:02:10Z")

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- go into your music library.
- don’t click on any individual track with your mouse now!
- change the viewmode to tracks (1.)  
 ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/uploads/default/original/3X/7/2/728bc3e329b214c85b920cf610a7c1bcb89b45f2.png)
- open the lefthand action bar (2.)
- click on ‘New Filter’
- click on ‘Rating’
- check ‘3 stars’, ‘4 stars’ and ‘5 stars’  
 ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/uploads/default/original/3X/a/8/a8a4415bc2adc9e6784f2a558501bc1651158e9e.png)
- click on ‘Add to playlist’ (encircled)
- name the playlist “Music - 3 stars” or similar

This method works only if the star rating has been applied to the individual tracks, not the artist nor the album.

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**Author:** ![zachrogers1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/zachrogers1/32/20448_2.png) [@zachrogers1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zachrogers1)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smart-playlist-like-functionality-and-file-streaming/115241/3 "2016-08-20T15:48:47Z")

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Thanks for the quick help and the screenshots, really make a difference.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smart-playlist-like-functionality-and-file-streaming/115241/4 "2020-01-07T20:17:04Z")

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