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Title: Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: drgreenlove on October 28, 2004, 05:21:59 pm
I know these have been here before but I searched and couldnt find them

How do I make a smartlist for:
1) Random Album
2) One Hit Wonders
3) Random Artist with only 3 star + songs displayed?

thanks!
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: NoCodeUK on October 29, 2004, 07:13:47 am
Hi there,

Random Album: [Media Type]=[Audio] ~n=1 ~a (This basically picks a random track from audio and then chooses the whole album that the track is linked to.)

One Hit Wonders: I would just add onehit as a keyword to those tracks.  Can't see anyway to auto choose them...

Random Artist...: ot sure on this one...I'll have a think
might need a smartlist to randomly pick an artist then one to pick the tracks based on that
this would give one track by a random artist: ~sort=[Random] ~n=1. not sure how to use this to pick the tracks though

Hope this helps

Adam
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: Matt on October 29, 2004, 11:30:09 am
Here's a clean way to do limits:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=19829
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: TimB on October 29, 2004, 11:38:37 am
Always pushin' your latest wares Matt. :)

-=Tim=-
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: Matt on October 29, 2004, 11:55:30 am
Always pushin' your latest wares Matt. :)

Yeah, the trick is to get 'em hooked early  ;D
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: Deivit on October 29, 2004, 12:41:32 pm
3) Random Artist with only 3 star + songs displayed?

I think this one will work:

~limit=1,-1,[Artist] [Rating]=>=3 ~sort=[random] [Media Type]=[Audio]

Every time you perform this smartlist, it will chose one random artist from the library and show only the songs rated 3 or above.

I got it from a post here in the forum but unfortunately I don't recall the poster.

Hope it helps.

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Listening to: 'Too Much Monkey Business (Live)' from 'The Blues Years' by 'Eric Clapton with the Yardbirds' on Media Center 10
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: NoCodeUK on October 29, 2004, 01:15:39 pm
gah beat me to it... I just had one too: ~limit=1,-1,[Artist] [Rating]=>=3

cheers for the pointer matt, i knw about limits but had forgotten the syntax :)

Adam
Title: Re:Smartlist ?s for experts
Post by: drgreenlove on October 29, 2004, 01:38:03 pm
Thanks!!!!!