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[Marty3d]

Hi!

I saw a discussion about the favorites system earlier, and thought I make a smartlist with 100 toprated songs and a playlist with my current favorites in a playlist. Observe, this has NOTHING to do with the favorites system, it only made me think of this smartlist
Right now, in the search string, I have:
(playlistid==42672344) AND ([Media Type]=[Audio] G:\Musik [Rating]==4,5 ~n=100 ~sort=[Random] [Last Played]=>30d)

But this only result in a few songs that are present in both (). I want all songs in the playlist and 100 songs from the other string, so the total amount should be about 150 songs, depending on the number of songs in the playlist.

How to go about this?
Thanks!
/Martin

[EpF]

(playlistid==42672344) AND ([Media Type]=[Audio] G:\Musik [Rating]==4,5 ~n=100 ~sort=[Random] [Last Played]=>30d)

But this only result in a few songs that are present in both

I think that, by default, smartlists only return files that match all criteria - i.e., you don't need to put the AND there, because MC automatically puts it there for you. However, it means something different to MC than it does to you; to MC, it means that everything in the list must match "playlistid==42672344" and "[Media Type]=[Audio] G:\Musik [Rating]==4,5 ~n=100 ~sort=[Random] [Last Played]=>30d", so you only get tracks that are in both.

If you put 'OR' in the list instead of 'AND', it should work... Keep us posted!

[Marty3d]

Sorry for not mentioning it; I tried OR but it only returned 100 results. So it seems MC interpretated the query as:
"take files from the playlist OR the query, but only return 100 pieces."

Which it shouldn't since the "~n=100" is within parenthesis no.2.

But isn't there another limit modifier other than "~n="? It rings a distant bell somewhere...

[Marty3d]

But isn't there another limit modifier other than "~n="? It rings a distant bell somewhere...

Hm. I thought of ~limit, but it doesn't do what I want...

[Marty3d]

Even if it seems that I'm talking to myself, I do have a workaround for this.

If I create a new smartlist, "[media type]=[audio] playlistid==924548154,=42672344", then it works.
Playlist 1 is a smartlist, "Get 100 tracks from criteria" and playlist 2 is my current favorites. It returns 145 tracks.

But you shouldn't have to do this, would you?

[marko]

(playlistid==42672344) AND ([Media Type]=[Audio] G:\Musik [Rating]==4,5 ~n=100 ~sort=[Random] [Last Played]=>30d)

You must pay attention to the order of your modifiers.

in your example here, you have [last played]=>30d after ~n=100
if ~n=100 returned 100 files that had all been played within the past 30 days, [Last Played]=>30d would remove them all, resulting in an empty list.

in the quick tests I did here, the number of tracks limiter is applied globally regardless of where it appears in the string.

r=5 or playlistid==xxxxxxxxxx returns all 5 rated tracks plus the playlist contents. (r=5 ~n=100) or playlistid==xxxxxxxxx returns only 100 tracks

if that is by design, your workaround isn't a workaround, it's the solution to your problem.

-marko.

[Marty3d]

Thanks marko!
Well, if it's by design, it's weird. Someone (JRiver, hint hint) should put up an extensive list of modifiers with info like "Limit is a GLOBAL modifier"...

But I'll put it up as a bug, since modifiers should work alike
/Martin