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[eharry]

Hi,

is it possible to create a view like the "Recent Albums"  view but with the last n imported albums (for example n = 100)?
So, whenever I add a new album the oldest should be removed.

Thanks for help!

Cheers!

[MrC]

Try this (which you can paste into Search):

   ~sort=[Date Imported]-d ~limit=100,1,[Album] ~a

[eharry]

Hi MrC,

thanks for the fast reply.
I've pasted the expression in the search field right on top, but it does nothing...

[Scolex]

You can create a smartlist sorted by import date and limit the number of files.
[Media Type]=[Audio] ~sort=[Date Imported]-d ~n=100

I see MrC beat me to the punch but this works too he is the expression master so his may work better.

[Alex B]

[Media Type]=[Audio] [Track #]=1 ~sort=[Date Imported]-d ~n=100 ~a

[Scolex]

I pasted it also and it removed some albums but the removal was in the album pane not the file list.
If you paste it into a smartlist it will give you all of the songs for your last 100 albums imported.
Small revision to limit it to audio.
[Media Type]=[Audio] ~sort=[Date Imported]-d ~limit=100,1,[Album] ~a

[MrC]

Are you in a view that contains the files you want filtered, such as Albums, Artist, etc.?

It works - you can see in the attached image that I'm showing the last 10 albums imported using the rule (you see 11 images here, because Lungs is a 2-disc album, which I have broken out by disc, but it is one album).

[Scolex]

I take that back MrC's exp worked fine I just need to reduce the 100 to 10 to make it more apparent.

[eharry]

Thanks for the help!!!

@ MrC
Tried it again and it worked. But how can I get this expression in the view?

[MrC]

Each of the search filters here does a slightly different thing (and the diversity is nice!), and you may want to adjust to use the one that meets your needs.  AlexB's trick to use Track #1 as the basis of defining an album is good.  Note that sometimes you might have a partial album that has no track 1, so rules based on this will miss.  I use a random-select approach, so that exactly one track from each album is chosen, and then the album is expanded fully.

The [Media Type]=Audio is of course necessary in a smartlist not located under Audio.  You might need to adjust or limit the results additionally if you want to ignore certain types of files, locations, etc.  For example, I didn't show that I also filtered out some test audio files...  sneaky.

[MrC]

Tried it again and it worked. But how can I get this expression in the view?

Edit a smartlist, and paste it into the Import/Export area.

Also add the [Media Type]=Audio portion to the beginning.

[eharry]

Ok - so far so good. Now I have a smartlist with the correct albums.
But how do I get a view?

[Alex B]

See the attached screenshot. (The view is for five recent albums.)


Log in to the forum if you can't see the attachment.

[eharry]

That's it!!!!

Thank you so much!

[Alex B]

You're welcome.

You may also need to adjust the sorting options to see the file list in the correct order. See the screenshots in my reply here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=72058.msg487961#msg487961

[eharry]

Sorting is just right. Thank you!