So, here's the situation: I've just come back from the used CD store with a stack full of new discs. I rip them in, tag them, etc... and then spend the next few days listening to them, rating tracks, etc...
But it's sometimes a pain to search through all my artists/albums looking for the new CDs that I ripped in, and the "recently ripped" playlist disappears after I restart MC. Even if it didn't, a view scheme is really the right way to do this.
So, here's the rule for my view scheme, but I wonder if anybody can help me make it better. What I want is a list of all of the albums that I ripped "recently" and haven't listened to yet.
~a [Number Plays]==0 ~sort=[date imported]-d [Media Type]=audio ~n=100 -[Filename]="D:\My Music\Cuts"
To summarize the rules: Return full albums of any album that has a track with Number Plays = 0, reverse sort by date imported (most recent files first), limit to 100 tracks.
Problems I've got with this view scheme:
1. It's been mentioned before, but there's no way to "limit" by albums, only tracks. I wish there were a way to say, "return full albums, limit to 5 albums".
2. Sorting by date imported means that the tracks are always in reverse order. Wish there were a way to say, "sort albums by date imported (for the purpose of what gets past the limit), but sort by track number within an album". Maybe there is if I think about it a bit more. The "Top Hits" playlist does an interesting trick with "~seq = [num plays]", but view schemes don't seem to have "Sequence" per se, just sort order. If they did, then perhaps I could do: "~seq = [date imported], sort=[~seq-d,album,track#]". Hmm....
3. No way to sort albums in the view scheme--only tracks. I think this is addressed in 9.1--isn't it? Ideally, I'd like the albums in the view scheme sorted most-recently-imported first.
I'd really like any suggestions for ways to improve this.