I searched for this in forums, but I did not find a solution (I could be search term impaired though, so take that with a grain of salt).
Here is my issue-- I currently have 11,987 audio files of different formats stored in my library. I create smart playlists to play songs of select genres that have not been played in the last x number of days. My library intentionally contains the same songs in different bit rates. For example, I have NIN's Hesitation Marks release in both 16-bit 44.1kHz format and 24-bit 48kHz format. The same songs exist in two different sets of files. I want my smart play list to only select the higher bit rate set of files, but I do not know of a way MC19 can do this on its own.
What I can do right now is create a tag for every file that I want selected in my smart play list. "Encoded By" is a good one for this purpose. The smart play list can only select files where Encoded By is set to my name, for example. This just means I must manually set all files I want my smart play list to choose by valuing the Encoded By tag.
I know of no other way that MC can do this, but if anyone has idea, please post.
Thanks.
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Topic: Can A Smart Playlist Choose Highest Bitrate of The Same Song? (Read 1977 times)