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Title: Smartlist of random albums
Post by: chm8v on July 16, 2003, 06:31:43 pm

I'm trying to create a smartlist of a random selection of albums limited to 10gbs.  This is what I have

[media type]=[audio] ~a ~sort=random ~s=10000

But it appears that I'm just getting a random list of mp3's.  How should I put together the above so it will work?

Title: Re: Smartlist of random albums
Post by: loraan on July 16, 2003, 08:04:01 pm

~a always returns a full album's worth of tracks. When you then say sort=random, it randomly sorts the tracks. Ergo, no full albums.

There is currently no easy way of 1) keeping the tracks of an album together in a sort, while randomizing, and 2) limiting a sort by number of albums vs. number of tracks, GB, or minutes.

Title: Re: Smartlist of random albums
Post by: rocketsauce on July 16, 2003, 09:31:11 pm

You can do something similar, but you have to use two smartlists.

First, create a smartlist called Random 1 with the following criteria:

Limit: 10 Tracks
Track #: =1

(This will choose track 1 from 10 different albums. You can change the Limit amount to any number you want.)

Then create a second smartlist called Random Album with these criteria:

Modifier: Full Albums
Playlist: Random 1

(This list will then select all the tracks on the 10 albums selected in the first list.)

Possibly you can alter these parameters to meet your 10GB criteria. You won't be able to randomly sort while keeping all tracks on an album grouped together. AFAIK, this isn't possible in MC yet.

Rob

Title: Re: Smartlist of random albums
Post by: Cmagic on July 16, 2003, 09:35:51 pm

Hi,

You  might get some help from this thread : http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=MediaCenter;action=display;num=1052332509;start=9#9

Quite similar to the one rocketsauce just proposed,

Have a nice day,

Christian

Title: Re: Annoying 'Playing Now' feature of 9.0 &amp
Post by: rocketsauce on July 17, 2003, 12:02:03 am

Actually, my example was from Cmagic's post in the thread he linked to in his post above, so don't give me the credit. I would have never figured it out own my own. Certainly, he is one of the resident smartlist experts on this forum.  ;D

Rob

Title: Re: Smartlist of random albums
Post by: Cmagic on July 17, 2003, 12:50:49 am

Hey Rob,

Thanks but...  no problem with credits here ! :D
We're just a bunch of people trying to make the most out of some piece of software we really love. This was another example of the result we get after exchanging views, tips'n tricks and experiences among the folks here.

So the credit really goes to the whole Interact gang.

Christian

Title: Re: Smartlist of random albums
Post by: chm8v on July 17, 2003, 04:44:12 am

Basically, what I'm trying to do is get a random selection of albums onto my ipod.  I've got over 80 gigs of music, that's why I'm limiting it to 10 gigs.  The reason I added the random is otherwise I just ended up with the first 10 gigs worth of albums.  I'll try the two smartlist solution and see if that works.