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[benrad]

How do I create a Smartlist that plays random full albums (much like the album shuffle on the iPod)?

I've tried a few different things but none seem to work.

[LonWar]

[media type]=[audio] ~sort=[Random] [Complete Album]=1

[benrad]

That's what I did, but that's not really how I wanted it to work...

Here's what I'd like it to look like:


Artist1 - Song1 - Album1
Artist1 - Song2 - Album1
Artist1 - Song3 - Album1
Artist2 - Song1 - Album1
Artist2 - Song2 - Album1

I'd like it to list them sorted as albums but randomly ordered each time.

[nel]

[media type]=[audio] ~sort=[Random] ~n=5 ~a ~sort=[Random] ~sort=[Album]

That seems to do the trick.  

[LonWar]

yEP...

[benrad]

That's kick-ass, thanks.

[GRAYDOG]

Hey I like it to

[hyperchik77]

i wuz gonna ask this myself until i stumbled onto this

[antolod]

Posted by: nel  Posted on: May 27, 2004, 12:02:57 PM  
[media type]=[audio] ~sort=[Random] ~n=5 ~a ~sort=[Random] ~sort=[Album]

That seems to do the trick.  
 

When I tried this it did not sort the albums in track order which I wanted, so I modified it to this:

 [media type]=[audio] Genre=[rock] ~sort=[Random] ~nodup=Artist ~n=10 ~a ~sort=[Album]

 and produced the result I was looking for.  I get 10 random artist full album playlists of around 7 to 8 hours.  I added the Genre modifier to limit which genre I'm playing.   YMMV

[GHammer]

Doesn't work here.
Selections that the Calculated field Complete Album=0 are included.

The list criteria is not incorrect, the logic is not working to exclude non-full album selections.

[antolod]

If I understand correctly, ~a selects full albums whether or not the album is complete.  Perhaps a better name for this would be whole album.

The complete album flag is set 1 when the track numbering is sequencial with no gaps.  I'n not sure at what point this is done, but importing an album with gaps will cause MC to see it as an incomplete album.  Unfortunately several of the albums in my collection have gaps in the numbering, so I have several complete albums that are incomplete.

[GRAYDOG]

I tried it and I keep getting Dup's  ? any reasons ?

[antolod]

Graydog, which search string are you using?

I modified mine to:
 [media type]=[audio] [Genre]=[Rock] ~sort=[Random] ~nodup=Artist ~n=500 ~a ~sort=[Album]

which results in a huge list of around 2500 tracks, and I am not seeing the same album twice.  The only dups I can see is where an artist is on a compilation cd and also included with an album.  I normally leave the ~n=10 for shorter lists.

[GRAYDOG]

antollod, This is the one I was playin around with first  [media type]=[audio] Genre=[rock] ~sort=[Random] ~nodup=Artist ~n=10 ~a ~sort=[Album] Then I tried this one  [media type]=[audio] [Genre]=[Rock] ~sort=[Random] ~nodup=track~n=500 ~a ~sort=[Album] and I'm still not able to get rid of duplicates I like the Idea but I hate duplicates in a list  

[dedidio]

This works perfect for me (if I've understood correctly anyway)!

[media type]=[audio] ~sort=[Random] ~n=5 ~a ~sort=[Random] ~sort=[Album] ~a -[Album]=[]

[antolod]

Graydog, could you give me an example of one of your dups?  In my meager 683 albums, I have not gotten any dups using the search string in my last post.  I am a relative newb at playlist logic, but that string produces random album lists, (limited by the ~n for the number of artists) so when set to 10, I get 10 different albums, none of which are by the same artist.

Dedidio's string produces similar results, however, artists are duplicated with it, but I never got the same album twice.

Nel's string also produces a randomized list with possible artist dups, but the track ordering is random.

[GRAYDOG]

I feel so stupid  the dups where ape and mp3 files  of the same tracks .

[Magicland]

Having just had some smartlist questions myself (and finding the whole concept fascinating), I was thinking it would be a great idea if there were a smartlist "library", consisting of the smartlist code and a brief description of what it does, perhaps culled from the forums. It would be a lot easier having just one place to search, and would save a lot of people from "reinventing the wheel" if what they want to do has already been done.

[JimH]

Having just had some smartlist questions myself (and finding the whole concept fascinating), I was thinking it would be a great idea if there were a smartlist "library", consisting of the smartlist code and a brief description of what it does, perhaps culled from the forums. It would be a lot easier having just one place to search, and would save a lot of people from "reinventing the wheel" if what they want to do has already been done.

Here's a good thread:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=9765

I've also added it to the FAQ in a thread near the top of this board.