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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: Mysticeti on July 31, 2002, 01:20:55 pm

Title: Smartlist Rules
Post by: Mysticeti on July 31, 2002, 01:20:55 pm

I'm thinking it would be useful if the rules in smartlists allowed for more than simple binary inclusion or exclusion.  For example, it would be slick if I could have a "Rock" Smartlist that contained songs whos Genre was prefixed with "Rock". e.g. Rock: Oldies, Rock: Classics, Rock: 70's, etc.  In addition to 'Prefixed' it would be nice to have 'Contains' so that "General Rock" or "Southern Rock" would also be picked up (some might argue these should be "Rock: General" and "Rock: Southern" but why go down that path again?).

Taking this a step further it would be slick if relational operators were allowed for numeric tags (e.g. Year, Rating) so that one could do "Rock: 80's" smartlist with (Year>79 AND Year<90) type rules.

By the way, can anyone tell me why the "Advanced<<" button is grayed out when I'm working on smartlist rules?

Title: RE:Smartlist Rules
Post by: Matt on July 31, 2002, 01:22:48 pm

You can do pretty much all of that stuff now.  Dig through the help file for some examples...

Title: RE:Smartlist Rules
Post by: Mysticeti on July 31, 2002, 07:06:59 pm

Thanks Matt,

You're quite right.  I haven't tried but from the looks of the 'Search Modifiers' help topic it's all in there.

Typing in 'year=>1979' and seeing Year: >1979 takes a bit of getting used to.