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Title: "Recent Albums" expressions
Post by: cornishpirate on September 25, 2006, 11:26:49 am

Struggling on this: I want to view the titles of the last 50 albums imported, together with the artist name or the word 'compilation' as appropriate.

Idea?

Title: Re: "Recent Albums" expressions
Post by: marko on September 25, 2006, 03:26:44 pm

there's too many different ways to achieve this, and so more detail regarding your goal is needed for any help to be definitive. One way to get at what you describe above would be:

create a smartlist using the following search rule:

[media type]=audio ~sort=[date imported]-d ~limit=50,-1,[album]

Set the list to display as 'album thumbnails', then go to 'customise current view' and enter the following in the thumbnail text area:

if(isequal([mix album],1,2),compilation,[artist])

This should give you a list of album covers, sorted by import date, with the most recent first, with either the artists name, or compilation, written beneath each thumbnail.

-marko.