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Title: Question:  Use of the ~% Modifier
Post by: Kurt Young on November 09, 2002, 09:26:24 am

What exactly does this modifier do?  Could you give some examples of usage?

My instincts tell me that it's for limiting smarlist results from individual artists or albums, so your smartlist isn't too heavy from one artist, genre, whatever.  However, I can't figure out how to tie it to other fields; it just limits the smartlist's length as a whole.

Here's an example of a smartlist that I'd like to limit:

genre=[Pop] rating=3,4,5 ~t=120 ~sort=random

This produces 2 hours of pop music.  Most of my pop music is from "Various Artists" albums, which makes this smartlist very much like listening to the radio.  However, I have two albums from Christina Aguilera, and so this smartlist always ends up very heavily populated with her songs.  I figure that I could use the ~% modifier to limit the artists that populate the smartlist, so that I get a better spread, but I don't know how.  Now that I've dragged the question on way way too long, I'll await y'all's input.

Cheers!

Title: Re: Question:  Use of the ~% Modifier
Post by: Matt on November 11, 2002, 04:40:19 am

It gives you a certain percentage of the total hits, so "rock ~%=50" would list a random half of your rock music.

Don't ask why you'd want to do that  :P

Title: Re: Question:  Use of the ~% Modifier
Post by: Kurt Young on November 15, 2002, 02:32:33 pm

Hrmm... gotcha.  Not quite what I had thought it was.  So, I'll turn this into a request for a modifier, :D

It would be cool to have a modifier that could be used to ensure variety in smartlists... so that a smartlist doesn't get too heavy in one area or another.

Check it out (using "~booya" as the modifier, since I dunno what it'd actually be called, hehe):

~t=120 ~sort=random ~booya=10,"Artist"

What do you think?

So that smartlist would give 2 hours of music, sorted by random.  No more than 10% of the songs on this list would be from any one artist.

~n=100 ~%=5,"Genre"

That'd give 100 tracks, but no more than 5% of these tracks will be from any one genre.

Title: Re: Question:  Use of the ~% Modifier
Post by: TimB on November 23, 2002, 11:56:58 am

I'd vote for this one, I need this for this exact reason. :)

-=Tim=-

Title: Re: Question:  Use of the ~% Modifier
Post by: Bob W on December 21, 2002, 02:33:05 pm

I have looked through the posts since this one, and I don't see anything. Was anything ever made of this? I, personally, would LOVE it.

My $.02 :).
Bob