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More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: rossp on October 13, 2010, 05:42:57 am

Title: Expression help
Post by: rossp on October 13, 2010, 05:42:57 am

OK here is what I want to do. Create a smartlist that lists albums that have songs in them with different genres.
I have some albums which have the genre different within the album which is wrong.

Ross

Title: Re: Expression help
Post by: vagskal on October 13, 2010, 06:37:31 am

Quote from: rossp on October 13, 2010, 05:42:57 am

OK here is what I want to do. Create a smartlist that lists albums that have songs in them with different genres.
I have some albums which have the genre different within the album which is wrong.

Ross

For that I use this expression:

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[Media Type]="audio" ~nodup=[album],[genre],[album artist /(auto/)] ~sort=[Album] ~dup=[album],[Album Artist],[Year] ~a ~sort=[Track #]

Title: Re: Expression help
Post by: rossp on October 14, 2010, 04:33:37 am

Thank You

Title: Re: Expression help
Post by: MrC on October 15, 2010, 06:48:38 pm

This is a useful expression.  But I'm finding some very random behavior with it.

The number of items matched is quite random.  If I enter the expression in the search field, I get, say 16 Artists.  If I hit enter in the search field to leave that box, the number of artists changes to 15.  If I click "All Artists" in my Artists pane, I get 12.

Each time I use the expression, some random selection of items is returned.

And this causes some selections, or say, some artist, to return no results in the file list.

Perhaps you wanted Album Artist (auto) instead of Album Artist in the ~dup modifier?