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al1947:
Matt,

Thank you so much. Much appreciated.

Could you explain how the feature might work in certain circumstances?

I put a lot of emphasis on using ratings to sort out wheat from chaff. It is pretty common in classical records that an album will contain a work that I want to listen to plus another that I dislike (or there is filler). To deal with this, I create smart playlists that are limited to tracks with, for example, a rating of 4 or 5.

My concern is that if you set the Play Shuffled Album feature to expand to full albums, the excluded tracks would be added back into what gets played. Is there a way to avoid that?

Matt:
You could just create a user account that filters out the bad files.  Switch to that user when you want to do playback (probably always leave that user active).

al1947:

--- Quote ---You could just create a user account that filters out the bad files.  Switch to that user when you want to do playback (probably always leave that user active).
--- End quote ---

When you say "user account" you mean a new library, correct? So basically, I would clone my main library, and then remove all the low-rated files from it? Would there be any problem if, in doing so, track #1 is missing from an album?

The other thought I had would be to go through my classical albums and split off the "undesirable" tracks as separate albums. Would that work?

Matt:

--- Quote from: al1947 on July 24, 2017, 11:38:51 am ---When you say "user account" you mean a new library, correct? So basically, I would clone my main library, and then remove all the low-rated files from it? Would there be any problem if, in doing so, track #1 is missing from an album?

The other thought I had would be to go through my classical albums and split off the "undesirable" tracks as separate albums. Would that work?

--- End quote ---

No.  A user is a Media Center thing that can have filters (like filtering out poorly rated tracks).

Explore View > User in the menu.

al1947:
Thanks!

Didn't know about the "user" feature. (Then, again, I would consider myself lucky if I understand 10% of the things MC can do.)

Way cool. Solves a lot of problems for me.

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