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[mmlevin]

I'm trying to create smartlists which will include, say, all VIDEO where the NAME begins with the letters A-F, and have found that if I set up something like "Media Type = Video AND Name STARTS WITH A or Name STARTS WITH B. . ." what happens is the A's all are media type video, but the B's include JPEGS and audio.  I find I have to do something like "Media Type = Video AND Name STARTS WITH A or Media Type = Video AND Name STARTS WITH B. . ." which gets very long.  In fact, I found that I ran out of room on my screen, and there is no scroll bar that allows me to get to the "Apply" button.  MY QUESTION IS: is there a way to set up a RANGE, like "a-f".  Alternatively, is there some way to "parenthsize" so that a paramter is ANDed with everything that follows, such as "Media Type = Video AND (Name Starts With A or Name Starts With B...)"

Sorry for the awkward phrasing of my question.

[marko]

using the smartlist wizard:

media type=video
name contains a-f
sort=name

will give you what you want.

Alternatively, click on the import/export button and paste the following into the space provided:
[media type]=video [name]=a-f ~sort=[name]

[mmlevin]

THANK YOU.

When I saw your post, I figured I would try it although I fully expected to get every title that (literally) contains the letters a-f.  Instead, it WORKED exactly as you suggested.

The thing that threw me is I was trying to do it using "starts with" instead of "contains", which does NOT work.  But this does.  Again, thank you.