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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: IanG on January 20, 2006, 07:08:29 am
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I'm trying to use "Limit" in Smartlists to select n minutes worth of mp3s. Problem is that I often end up a long way short of what I want, e.g. I ask for 60 mins and get 45. Any idea how I can fix this? If it makes any difference, I've got mp3s ranging from a few seconds to over 30 min, so it should be possible to get very close to n every time.
Ian G.
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I tried one of the predefined smartlists (Random -- one hour):
[media type]=[audio] ~t=60 ~sort=random
Most of the time it results 55-60 minutes. But sometimes the list has only a couple of short tracks or it is empty. This happens because MC just excludes the last track that goes over the limit. It doesn't make additional searches for shorter replacements. I have audio tracks that are over an hour.
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I tried one of the predefined smartlists (Random -- one hour):
[media type]=[audio] ~t=60 ~sort=random
Most of the time it results 55-60 minutes. But sometimes the list has only a couple of short tracks or it is empty. This happens because MC just excludes the last track that goes over the limit. It doesn't make additional searches for shorter replacements. I have audio tracks that are over an hour.
Thanks for that - I suspected as much! I guess I'll have to add some extra selection criteria, though it would be nice if MC had a lower bound on the limit as well.
Ian G.
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I tried one of the predefined smartlists (Random -- one hour):
[media type]=[audio] ~t=60 ~sort=random
Most of the time it results 55-60 minutes. But sometimes the list has only a couple of short tracks or it is empty. This happens because MC just excludes the last track that goes over the limit. It doesn't make additional searches for shorter replacements. I have audio tracks that are over an hour.
Ahhhh!!! (Ding, light goes on.) That's why it acts that way. I could never figure out why occasionally, randomly those lists would be empty. Now it all makes sense...