Smart Playlist Stategy for My New iPhone

How did I solve my new but welcome challenge of going from a 30GB iPod to an 8GB iPhone? The answer, smart playlists, of course. Below is a break down of my playlist strategery:

1. Best Alt - This playlist grabs only songs whose genre contains 'alt' and has a rating greater than three stars. The playlist is limited to 100 songs by "least recently played"
2. Best Indie - This playlist is the same as number 1 but for 'indie'.
3. Best Punk - Again, I just changed the genre text.
4. Best Rock - My genre condition for this playlist is changed to "genre is rock". This change is to avoid grabbing songs of the Classic Rock genre.
5. Alt/Indie/Rock/Punk - I then merge playlists 1-4 into this playlist so that I can use the match all condition in playlist number 6.
6. Best Indie/Alt Mix - This is the playlist I actually listen to. I use the condition "playlist is Alt/Indie/Rock/Punk" and a pair of conditions to play songs that haven't been skipped or listened to in the last 7 days.

You can limit this playlist however you like. I enabled automatic syncing for my iPhone. Under the music tab I put a check next to the playlists I want to sync. Note, if you have a playlist built from another playlist, both playlists need to be included. If auto syncing freaks you out, I have a trick for the control-freak in all of us. I have one static playlist (checked) that I use like a manually managed iPod. You can change the genres to match your music listening taste and make this strategy your own.