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[ckaz]

Smart Lists
As someone wo prefers Smart Lists, I'd greatly appreciate a little more complexity in the list options such as rule packages which bundle rules and can be applied separately, e.g.:
 
All/or any must be true switch:

• Artist contains: "Band Name 1"
  
• Artist does not contain: "Musician Name 2"
  
• Comment contains "..."
  

+ All/or any must be true switch:

• Channels is smaller than: "..."
  
• Channels is equal to/larger than: "..."
  

and so forth.

Watched Folders
When compiling Smart Lists I repeatedly noticed, that the lists failed to update. Files from deleted folders got listed, Ratings did not update ... I would therefore find it a great improvement if I could set a "Watch this folder" flag on certain folders so any lists would mirror potential changes made there.

[zybex]

Smart Lists

Rules can be joined together to form OR / AND groups, like "(rule1 OR rule2) AND (rule3 OR rule4)":
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,96799.msg794391.html#msg794391
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=126139.0

You can use the mouse to set the grouping (adding the side parenthesis), or you can also use the Import/Export button to edit an expression an add the AND/OR/parenthesis grouping that you want.

Watched Folders

Files shown in Smartlists always reflect your library info - the smartlist itself is just an expression to query your database and show the results, and is re-computed each time you open it. So if it's showing you stale info that means your library has that same stale info in it. MC can monitor your media folders for external changes (such as you deleting a file or changing its tags with a different app), but this doesn't work well for NAS/Network volumes due to protocol limitations. Instead, you can just run Auto-Import again so that MC scans the folders and detects the changes.

[ckaz]

Sorry for my ignorance! Many thanks!