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Title: Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: c1c9k72 on April 06, 2004, 11:25:55 am

I've started using Styles and Tones to catalog my MP3s lately, and have come across something I'm unable to execute.  I'd like to set up a smartlist to pick a certain style (from the delimited list of available options) and then play songs of that style only.  I'm pretty sure it can be done with a series of smartlists, but I'd love to be able to pull it off with just one.

Anybody got any suggestions ?

Title: Re:Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: pipsqueak on April 06, 2004, 02:34:19 pm

you would need a series of smartlists, each would contain the tone you want, eg.

[Tones]=Wry [Media Type]=[Audio]
[Tones]=Nocturnal [Media Type]=[Audio]

you could narrow it down by using multiple tones for each or just choosing a few select tones (theres a lot of overlap)

Title: Re:Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: Matt on April 06, 2004, 02:40:43 pm

Create a view scheme with Tones as one of the visible fields.  Then each tone is only a click (or double-click to play) away in the panes.

Title: Re:Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: pipsqueak on April 06, 2004, 03:24:03 pm

but matt, if its a comma deliminated field you get things like:

wry; nocturnal; angry; bittersweet

its hard to find all the bittersweet ones immediately so thats why i suggested the smartlists

Title: Re:Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: c1c9k72 on April 06, 2004, 03:33:57 pm

Quote from: Matt on April 06, 2004, 02:40:43 pm

Create a view scheme with Tones as one of the visible fields.  Then each tone is only a click (or double-click to play) away in the panes.

Matt,

I've got a view scheme with both the Styles and Tones visible, but what I'm really looking for is something that picks a style for me, then populates the smartlist with songs of that type.  I've gotten close with the following

Media Type: Audio, Not Album Styles: <empty>, ~limit=1,-1,[Album Styles], Limit: 120 Minutes.

There are two problems with this I can't seem to work out, though.  First, the ~limit command doesn't seem to be pulling a single style.  It's finding songs that have the same series of styles (i.e. Alt Pop/Rock; Pop/Rock; Urban) instead of any single component.

Secondly, I can't seem to work out exactly how the ~limit command works.  I've gotten this far by trial and error.

Title: Re:Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: Matt on April 06, 2004, 04:02:39 pm

Quote from: pipsqueak on April 06, 2004, 03:24:03 pm

but matt, if its a comma deliminated field you get things like:

wry; nocturnal; angry; bittersweet

its hard to find all the bittersweet ones immediately so thats why i suggested the smartlists

You can create list-type fields that handle this really nicely.  People, Places, Events, and Keywords are examples of stock fields that do this.  Play around with it (and tagging mode) -- it's pretty slick.

Title: Re:Smartlist for a single random style ?
Post by: pipsqueak on April 06, 2004, 05:00:00 pm

duh - using the tag pane, of course...

cant believe i didnt think of that