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[sekim]

Still debating about smartlists and what to do with them. It just occured to me that you don't actually need to add artist to them, do you? Just fields, what I mean by that is fields that fit your query.

Example: If I wanted one smartlist that plays genre > Indie from year > 1998 those fields would be all I needed in this particular smartlist. Then if I selected this smartlist to play, only those songs with that genre and year would be played. Am I correct, or is there something else I would need to do?

Anyone willing to add their two cents would be appreciated. I'd rather be pointed in the right direction before starting on this mission.

[Severian]

That's right. It would come out ordered by whatever view scheme you've currently got happening.  Note that if you put other limiters in there, like say limit it to 650mb for burn to disc, that effectively gives you a random selection of tracks. Which is nice, but what currently blows (IMHO) is that if you have a choice selection of tracks that it comes up with, you've got to send them first to playing now and then send them to your burner or other playlist first, because if you send them straight to the burner or playlist, it re-rolls the list and the random selection you thought you liked is now gone.

[sekim]

Severian

I see that happens with the ordering of tracks. Just tried a little list to start out with and test. It does muck it up some. Seems like you have to jump thru to many hoops to get what you want. I guess I'll have to update some of my tags also. Many of the fields from cddb were left blank. This is really a great feature though. Easier then clicking your way to a playlist. Well, got a new lesson in the power of MJ again. Thanks for the tips.

As an aside, didn't you have the something like that on the wish list? The arranging thing I mean.

[Ilmar]

Hi

Severian: Can't you send the selection to a playlist instead of playing now?

In that way, if the burn goes bad, you don't lose your selection?

Ilmar

[Severian]

Yes, you can, but it does the same thing: re-rolls the list and then saves THAT as the playlist. If you want a playlist of the particular tracks you saw in the smartlist window, you have to send it to playing now if you want it to be preserved as you saw. Otherwise you'll just get another random selection of tracks (assuming you have a parameter on your smartlist which forces a random selection, such as limiting it to total time or megabytes--obviously this would not apply or matter when you have a smartlist that just takes everything of a genre or year, and stuff like that).

[sekim]

Next question... Can you set my example from above to play only songs from that genre that are, say < two and a half minutes but > five minutes in length? I'm having problems getting my modifiers to give me what I want. How would that entered in the search string command? Brackets or something else is what I'm getting at.

[sekim]

Never mind. It's in the help file. I was trying to enter minutes instead of seconds.

[Severian]

Cha-ching!

[sekim]

This is probably more of a search question than a smartlist one. If I want to search for all files that are not year complete, ( ie, 0 ), I enter that. No problem, but, it also returns years 2000, 2001. I can remove those years with keyword exclusions. What I'm wondering, is there a way to do this without having to add the additional keywords? The way I entered it in the search window is:  year=[0]

[Severian]

Dunno for sure, but that looks like they're using pattern matching rather than an exact value. Am unaware of keywords or switches to avoid that at this time.

Personally I hit those files not in the smartlists, but by just sorting on year in the massive media library view, and all the stuff that isn't complete bubbles to the top.

[Doof]

Try "0"

[sekim]

Severian

I think that's what I'm looking for. An absolute value. Well, for now I can make it work like the above example.

[sekim]

Doof

With quotation marks?

[Doof]

Well, actually... it looks like MJ isn't honoring the ""[] pieces of the search for years correctly. Must be a bug.

[sekim]

Got it : year=[=0] This brings up only years that are zero. Boolean = icky  

[Severian]

Love the Boolean. Embrace the Boolean. Let the Boolean flow through you, and do not give in to your anger and frustration.

[sekim]

Boolean side cloudy it is. Reminds of a three foot tall puppet with bad green complexion and ears like a donkey.

[Matt]

Just wanted to note that you don't need the brackets there.

i.e:

year==0

or

year==0,=1,=2,>1997

-Matt