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Title: JT Random Rating Sorting
Post by: jt on May 03, 2004, 07:57:40 pm

I've posted this a while back, but I thought I'd mention it one more time.

Would you guys be able to make smartlists handle sorting a little better with the [Random] keyword?

I would like to sort my playlist by [Rating], then [Random]. But it don't work. It appears that [Random] currently only works when on it's own.

Title: Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
Post by: Matt on May 04, 2004, 12:00:41 pm

You must have missed my old response.

You can get just what you want by adding two sort commands to the playlist so it shuffles before the rating sort:

~sort=[Random] ~sort=[Rating]

Hope that helps :)

Title: Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
Post by: jt on May 04, 2004, 03:23:15 pm

Oh okay. Sorry, yes I did miss this the first time around.

To this is a different mechanism to the normal sort command "[Rating],[Random]" ?

Title: Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
Post by: Matt on May 04, 2004, 03:25:56 pm

This is a special case where you need two separate sort commands.  Since [Random] isn't really a sort command, it's treated differently and can't be combined with other commands.

Title: Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
Post by: jt on May 04, 2004, 04:19:13 pm

okay I understand. Thanks very much for you help. It's a very good product, and had no hesitation spending the money to purchase it.

Jason.

Title: Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
Post by: kaiynne on May 04, 2004, 04:25:08 pm

awesome matt thanks very much

I have been looking for a way to do this for a while I missedthe original post as well.

speaking of which, is there any way using the search function to only find topics.  what I mean is that instead of finding every post which references your keyword, simply get a list of topics in which is mentioned?

thanks again