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[Neville]

Hi everyone!
I'm new to this forum; just recently purchased Media Center 10, and I have one question about Best of random artist smartlist I'm trying to create.
This is the smartlist:

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[Media Type]=[Audio] ~limit=1,-1,[Artist] [Rating]=4-5 ~sort=[random]I wonder if there is a posibility to limit the number of tracks to have at least 8 songs from random artist?
I have many artists that have less then 8 songs and I dont want them to appear in this smartlist.
Thanks

[kaiynne]

Hi neville welcome to the forum.  I think this should do what you are looking for.

[Media Type]=[Audio] ~limit=1,-1,[Artist] ~n=8 [Rating]=>4 ~sort=[Random]

If not then post again and I will have another look.

[Neville]

Thanks for reply, but this doesn't work for me. It just limits maximum number of songs to 8, but I would like to exlude artists that have less then 8 songs in library to appear in this smartlist and include those who have 8 or more songs.
Something like: Limit to (minimum) 8 tracks by artist.

[kaiynne]

Ok I get what you are trying to do now.

I don't think this is possible though as you can't use statistics in smartlists as far as I know.  And I think that is the only place where that sort of info is available.  Because you would have to know the number of tracks for every artist and have that associated with a new field for every track, because every track is a single entity as far as smartlists are concerned.

I will keep looking at it though there may be some type of work around.

[Neville]

Thanks for info! It would be nice to have this functionality but it's not very important.