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Author Topic: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field  (Read 2706 times)

djfalstaff

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I'd like to get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field.
Is it possible?
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Matt

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Re: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2017, 12:29:20 pm »

I'm not aware of any way to do this.

Honestly checking if a file is in any playlist is pretty expensive, so I'm not sure it's a good candidate for addition.
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djfalstaff

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Re: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2017, 01:29:15 pm »

No problem. At least I know now.
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Re: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2017, 03:46:28 pm »

Hmm, maybe I'm missing something but...

[Playlists] is a field you can show in any view.  It gives a semicolon delimited list of the playlists that a file is in.

I'm having no success getting ListCount() to operate on it, but the field itself certainly seems to be accessible.

Brian.
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djfalstaff

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Re: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2017, 04:07:21 pm »

It's not a field I can use in a smartlist expression column. I just don't see it.
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Re: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2017, 08:41:45 pm »

In standard view, if I hover over the track with the pointer, it lists all the playlists the track is in.
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djfalstaff

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Re: Get the count of how many playlists a track is in as an expression field
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2017, 09:45:51 pm »

Right, but I'm not trying just look up the info.
There's a couple of places to look at it.
I'm trying to add it to an expression column in a smartlist and use the value for some calculations.
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