We all know the little handicap of the handhelds ... no real smart playlists (yet), and only limited number of categories availabe (Artist, Album, Genre), missing items like Custom1, Custom2 or Artist-Album.
So you have to create playlists yourself for each of them and mostly manual!
My reqeuest: A way to
automatically create playlists in Media Center so it can be used for example on your handheld!
It would create different playlists with the Media Center fields you define. For example, you could define a list of playlists for all the good trance and list it by Artist (Additionally you could also limit the songs with rules, e.g. Genre=Trance AND Rating>3)
and specify the pattern how the playlist would be created: Playlist:[Counter]. [Genre] - [Artist]
So the playlists created could look like
1. Trance - Paul Oakenfold
2. Trance - Paul Van Dyk
3. Trance - DJ Quicksilver
etc.
So the Wizard would take two inputs:
- Rule to limit the songs (including sorting), using the same expression parser as it is used for smartlists.
- Format of how the Playlist name will be generated, using the same expression builder as the file renamer tool used to create filenames from tags.
And of course the wizard would create fix playlists (or maybe even smartlists with the criteria used to generate the playlists).
How does that sound? Any other people that would be interested in such a thing?
Thanks
Dom