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[firedog]

Trying to create a smartlist that will contain only my hi-res files, exclude certain genres, and playback individual songs (files) from those hi-res albums randomly.

This is what I've got:

[b[Sample Rate]=>44100 -[Genre]="classical" -[Genre]="orchestral"  -[Genre]="world" [Bit Depth]=>=1 -[Genre]="test" -[Genre]="vocal" -[Genre]="Concerto" ~sort=Random[/b]

the Problem: the resulting playlist lists albums at random that fit the above definitions, but it lists all the songs in each album sequentially:in other words, it randomly selects albums, but lists as follows:

all songs in album order, random hi-res album 1; followed by
all songs in album order, random hi-res album3; followed by
all songs in album order, random hi-res album 2
and so on

I want the smartlist created to randomly mix the songs, not just the whole albums. In other words to ignore the albums and just randomly choose the songs that fit the other definitions of the smartlist

How do I edit the above syntax to get it to do this?

Thanks

[MrC]

Do you have Group By set?

[firedog]

no, no grouping set

[MrC]

What happens when you do a Refresh?

Do you have any Sorting options set for the smartlist view?  You can try the Random sort order and Refresh.

When I use your smartlist, the results returned are randomly ordered each time I refresh.  Of course Grouping and Sorting options will affect the list.

[firedog]

Thanks.
Well, I solved it by making rules for limiting artist or album; but I still don't understand why it worked that way.

[MrC]

That shouldn't be necessary.  Where is the smart list located (in the tree)?

[MrC]

Never mind.  Add ~seq to the end of the search:

[Sample Rate]=>44100 -[Genre]="classical" -[Genre]="orchestral"  -[Genre]="world" [Bit Depth]=>=1 -[Genre]="test" -[Genre]="vocal" -[Genre]="Concerto" ~sort=Random ~seq

[firedog]

Interesting...
Your definition
[Sample Rate]=>44100 -[Genre]="classical" -[Genre]="orchestral"  -[Genre]="world" [Bit Depth]=>=1 -[Genre]="test" -[Genre]="vocal" -[Genre]="Concerto" ~sort=Random ~seq

I still got all the songs of each random album grouped together before the next whole album of songs in the playlist.

 but this one does:

[Sample Rate]=>44100 -[Genre]="classical" -[Genre]="orchestral"  -[Genre]="world" [Bit Depth]=>=1 -[Genre]="test" -[Genre]="vocal" -[Genre]="Concerto" ~nodup=[Album]

the second one gave me one selection from each randomly listed album.

I'd like to understand why one works and not the other, but for now I'll just be happy I'm getting a result that fits what I want.

[MrC]

The only way I'm able to reproduce what you see, with either MC17 or MC18, is when the Sort By is set to Sequence and not Random.

By adding the ~seq modifier, you get a Seq(uence) column.  This is the list order of the returned items up to that point in the search query.  If you click on the Seq column header, you'll see the order the items were returned.