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Title: Help w/ Smart List
Post by: JoeCotellese on October 20, 2006, 06:19:15 am

I need some help with my smart list.

I've setup a playlist called Commute which has a mix of podcasts and songs. I am trying to limit the duration of the podcasts to 6 minutes or under. I tried adding both t and [duration] inside the {} braces but it doesn't make a difference.

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?

~mix=15,50%,{g="Podcast",numberplays=0,~limit=-1,2,[Artist]},50%,{[Rating]==5}

I wish I could just use SQL!!

Title: Re: Help w/ Smart List
Post by: marko on October 21, 2006, 05:32:27 am

~mix=15,50%,{g="Podcast",numberplays=0,~limit=-1,2,[Artist]},50%,{[Rating]==5}

numberplays has commas either side of it that shouldn't be there. typos?
t affects the overall duration of the resulting list, not individual files, [duration] should work. When working with the duration field like this, you should use seconds only. Did you?

~mix=15,50%,{g="Podcast" [duration]=<=360 numberplays=0 ~limit=-1,2,[artist]},50%,{r=5}

Does that work for you?
If not, do you definately have enough files for the rules specified to work with?

EDIT: Messed up on my 6x table  :-[

Title: Re: Help w/ Smart List
Post by: JoeCotellese on October 21, 2006, 07:41:44 am

Quote from: marko on October 21, 2006, 05:32:27 am

~mix=15,50%,{g="Podcast",numberplays=0,~limit=-1,2,[Artist]},50%,{[Rating]==5}

numberplays has commas either side of it that shouldn't be there. typos?

t affects the overall duration of the resulting list, not individual files, [duration] should work. When working with the duration field like this, you should use seconds only. Did you?

~mix=15,50%,{g="Podcast" [duration]=<=360 numberplays=0 ~limit=-1,2,[artist]},50%,{r=5}

Does that work for you?
If not, do you definately have enough files for the rules specified to work with?

EDIT: Messed up on my 6x table  :-[

No, if the commas are not between the fields in {} then I don't see any podcasts
If I only have this [Duration]=<=420 g="Podcast" it works without spaces. I think my problem is interaction between that statement and mix

Title: Re: Help w/ Smart List
Post by: JoeCotellese on October 21, 2006, 07:55:52 am

Quote from: JoeCotellese on October 21, 2006, 07:41:44 am

No, if the commas are not between the fields in {} then I don't see any podcasts
If I only have this [Duration]=<=420 g="Podcast" it works without spaces. I think my problem is interaction between that statement and mix

Ok, I think I solved my own problem here is what I came up with
~mix=15,40%,{[Duration]=<=320 g="Podcast" [Number Plays]==0},60%,{[Rating]==5}
The artist limit seemed to be causing me problems.