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mark_h

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Smartlist Modifier: Only Multiples Of
« on: January 11, 2009, 06:17:03 am »

I'm attempting to build a smartlist that shows all artists who have inconsistent genres, expanding the results to full albums for tag editing.

My current attempt:

[Media Type]=[Audio] -[Album Artist (auto)]=[/(Multiple Artists/)] ~sort=[Artist] ~nodup=[Genre],[Artist] ~dup=[Artist] ~a

Displays at most two albums by an artist with inconsistent genres due to the restrictions of 'Only Duplicates' returning two results at most.

What I really need is something like a modifier 'Only Multiples' (eg Only Multiples of [artist]) which strips out all single entries, leaving all entries with more than one of the specified field.

I could then expand that list to full album and do all my retagging in one swoop for a given artist rather than continually refreshing the results after each edit.

Anybody?

Cheers,

Mark

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Re: Smartlist Modifier: Only Multiples Of
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2009, 06:58:12 am »

Don't know how this could be achieved in MC, maybe one of the "Smartlist Wizards" here can help.

For this kind of stuff, i'm importing a MC XML library export into Access (or MySQL, SQLite), and do some magic with SQL commands. With some simple scripting (i'm using VBScript, because i'm too stupid for any scripting/programming language other than BASIC-variants (; ) it's quite easy to identify data inconsistencies, and either fix them manually in MC, or by XML/MPL import.
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Re: Smartlist Modifier: Only Multiples Of
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2009, 07:46:09 am »

I may have solved it myself:

[Media Type]=[Audio] -[Album Artist (auto)]=[/(Multiple Artists/)] -[Genre]=[Podcast] ~sort=[Artist] ~nodup=[Album],[Artist],[Genre] ~dup=[Album],[Artist] ~a

Seems to do what I want!

Just needed to approach the dup/nodup stuff from a different angle.

[edit]Actually the above only works within an album, not across and artists albums.  Still work to do then[/edit]

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Re: Smartlist Modifier: Only Multiples Of
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2009, 07:57:32 am »

OK:

[Media Type]=[Audio] -[Album Artist (auto)]=[/(Multiple Artists/)] ~sort=[Artist] ~nodup=[Artist],[Genre] ~dup=[Artist] ~a

Does what I want.  I think!  ;D

Mark
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