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[Bryan]

I've got a Playlist Group called Categories that is subgrouped into characteristics that I choose for each song.  For instance I've got a subgroup called "Mood" that within has several playlists under it.  Many songs are members of more than one of these playlists within the subgroup.

I'm having trouble with tagging new songs.  I used to be able to have a separate action window open for both library tag and playlists simultaneously that permitted me to quickly switch between the two and to assign tags and/or place a song (or selection of songs) into appropriate playlists.   All this goes back to the days when MJ used "categories".

Now with MC 12 I can't have these two action windows open at the same time which makes tagging new songs substantially more difficult as I have to keep scrolling up and down the TAG action window and drilling down and back up between the library tag and the playlists..

So......   

I figured I might be able to solve this problem by using the Tagging Mode and have all my category playlist groups across the top to simply click onto the appropriate playlist.   Well this doesn't work for new songs since they're not members of any playlists yet.  The playlists only show up if any of the songs are members of them

Moving on..

I thought I would try creating User library fields with list-type fields and duplicate the playlist groups and simply highlight all members of a particular playlist and assign it to the appropriate item in the list-type field..    The problem I am seeing here is that you can't assign a song to 2 or more of the items in a list-type field .  It simply doesn't save it. 

Example..

Playlist Group - "Mood" that contains playlists "Jammin, Nutty, Relaxed, Upbeat...etc".   
Library list-type field with identical items.

1) I select all the songs in playlist "Jammin" and click on the corresponding List-type library field item Mood/Jammin and it assigns that item to those songs..   

2)  I then click on playlist Nutty and assign all those songs to it's corresponding List-type library field item Mood/Nutty and it assigns that item to those songs.. 

EXCEPT for songs that are both Jammin AND Nutty... in which it replaces the Mood item "Jammin" with "Nutty"  instead of just appending it as I had expected with a semicolon..

It seems that the list-type library fields can only hold one item.

When I search on songs that are in both playlists and try to assign them to both library list items..  it doesn't save that at all and blanks out the list-type field Mood altogether..

Any ideas how to replicate my playlist groups/playlists into library fields of list-types ? 

OR is there a better way to tag new songs with this data without having to flip-flop between tag and playlists and all that drilling down and up within a single Action pane window ?

Thanks

MC 12.0.189
File type is FLAC
FLAC input plugin 2.1.3
FLAC encoder plugin 2.1.1

[marko]

This should work quite well if you use playlist group type panes in your viewscheme.

The idea being that you use the tag window for tagging, and the tagging mode checkboxes to add or remove tracks from your playlists as required.

In this post I describe setting up a view scheme with a single playlist group pane for ipod management. I'm sure you should be able to adapt it for your needs by adding multiple playlist group panes, one for each characteristic group.

Where I describe adding the "files not in sync list" smartlist, you would adapt that so that it brings in any tracks that have not been categorised.
Post back if that's not clear enough.

-marko.