I am trying to create a smartlist using Rating and a locally defined tag called Rating-sub (which has values of 1, 2 or 3). I want it to choose all songs with Rating of 4 or 5, or a Rating of 3 and Rating-sub of 2 or 3. After some anguish, I finally found out I can choose Custom in the first drop down for a rule, then type what I want. However, once you do this and click Ok then go back to edit it, it has converted it to the Form boxes, and it doesn't do the conversion properly (assuming I wrote the custom rule properly). If you mouse-over the margin of a rule in the Form view, it says use "(" for -OR-. I tried that - doesn't work. Also, does that mean "(" is both for grouping and -OR-? Confusing. Anyways, here is what I put in the Custom field:
Rating=>3 or (Rating=3 and Rating-sub=>1)
As I said above, this doesn't work right, and it doesn't convert into the Form view right. So, I figured, I'll outsmart it - I'll write the rule so there are no -OR-'s involved. So I tried the custom rule
Rating=>2 -Rating-sub=1
That didn't work either! Is the smartlist functionality in MJ 14 full of bugs, or am I missing something?
I have Music Jukebox 14.0.166. I did a very similar smartlist years ago in an earlier version of MJ, and I don't remember these difficulties. Have they removed some features in v.14? When I edit this older version, it pulls up a Form view of the rules, and there is no -OR- indication shown, yet it must be using an -OR- function internally, since it is working right.
Also, is there any online support for MJ (other than this forum!)? All I can see is Media Center support.
Thanks for your help,
Bill
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Topic: smartlists in Music Jukebox - how do you do an -OR-? (Read 1714 times)