The capabilites for creating own view schemes really got more and more user-friendly within release 12. Unfortunately, the queries still work unreliable.
I am talking about the functions under edit view scheme - Step 4: Pick files to show - Edit included files...
I give you an example: my target is a mix view scheme in which I want to include files rated with 4 and 5 and preference must be between 6 and 10.
The songs not should have been played recently and I want a mix for my custom field "situation", in which I want to hear 20% assigned to "Radio", 30% assigned to "General" and 50% assigned to "Home".
What I did:
Rules: I set up the rules for the first two fields
- rating and
- preference
Modifiers: I set up
- "Sort by" Last Played (a-z), then
- "Limit percentage to" 50% - with this I want to exclude recently played songs from the mix and finally
- Mix 100,20%,{[Scene]="Radio"},30%,{[Scene]="General",50%,{[Scene]="Home"}
Error 1: the resulting list contains duplicates of identical files!
So, I added another modifier "remove duplicates of" and checked the fields artist and name.
Error 2: This modifier is not considered
Now, I jump back to the editor view.
Error 3: Under modifiers, now I find that the remove duplicate modifier entry disappeared. Instead,
in the mix expression I find an addition "~nodup=[Artist],[Name]"
Error 4:
In order to see if there I duplicates I pressed the column header for Last Played. Jumping back into the edit screen,
the mix expression now also contains ~sort=[Last Played] - for each pressing of the column header one entry (!)
In my opinion, the mix expression is one of the great features for advanced lazy DJs. Shouldn't there also be a more user-friendly input assistance for this field? At least, you could think about presets or examples that can be changed.