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[zirum]

Is it possible to combine smartlist expressions somehow?

Prefferably in a single smarlist like:
( (Select some 50 tracks) + (Select some 50 other even cooler tracks) ) remove duplicates

Alternatively by combining existing smartlist with the seperate expressions.

Thanks in advance!

[benn600]

I think you can do what you are interested in.  Here is the criteria I use for syncing my portable device.  Look at the OR part.  You can say select items from playlist A or playlist B and it should get both at once.  Parenthesis are helpful and I recommend enclosing the OR statement in them to keep it cleaner.

([Rating]=>=3 or [Number Plays]=>5) -[Genre]=[Children],[Christmas],[Classical],[Comedy],[Halloween],[Meditation],[Nature],[Poetry] ~nodup=[Artist],[Name] ~sort=[Rating]-d,[Number Plays]-d

[zirum]

I would like to create a expression wich selects 500 songs at random, but with higher density of higher rating.

I thought maybe to use something like this:
(select 100 with rating >1) +
(select 200 with rating >2) +
(select 200 with rating >3)
and then randomize the whole rigamole.

This way i should get a nice playlist with more hits of higher rated songs (and eliminating 1 starred). Is the maybe a better way to do this?

[zirum]

Forgot to discuss the or operator, before posting...

If i in this case use or, i will only allow it to also select from less rated tracks. The problem is that i want to select diffrently from the same tag, as you probaly see I didn't clearify this in my first post.

But appretiate your willingness to help 

[marko]

you will be wanting to use the ~mix modifier

something along the lines of:

[media type]=audio ~mix=500,100,r=2,200,r=3-4,200,r=5

~mix is random by nature. You could also pop a last played rule in there if you wanted to filter out recently played tracks...

[media type]=audio -[last played]=<=7d ~mix=500,100,r=2,200,r=3-4,200,r=5

would cut out tracks played during the past seven days.

[zirum]

Ahh. Superneat!

Thank you

[marko]

it is indeed.
One of the neatest (and most complex) examples of ~mix usage I've seen posted here is this example from seviien.

You will need to tweak it a little (a text editor is strongly advised) to suit your individual needs, but if you stick to the basic foundations, you'll wind up with a great smartlist.

The other thing to be a bit wary of with the ~mix modifier are dupes.
It tries really hard to satisfy the 'number of tracks' requirements, so, if there are not 100 2-star tracks available, it has a tendancy to pad the list with dupes untill the 100 tracks has been satisfied. You can beat that by adding ~nodup=[artist],[name] to the end of the string, but obviously, that will reduce the list from 500 tracks.

[zirum]

I made some alterations, and the "equation" works sweetly. Ended up with a 600 char line, and still it takes just about 2 secs to query.

Whetever a playlist is 500 or 470 doesn't bother me much, as long as I can easily start music i enjoy listening to