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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: Jamil on December 30, 2013, 10:47:53 am

Title: Can A Smart Playlist Choose Highest Bitrate of The Same Song?
Post by: Jamil on December 30, 2013, 10:47:53 am

I searched for this in forums, but I did not find a solution (I could be search term impaired though, so take that with a grain of salt).

Here is my issue-- I currently have 11,987 audio files of different formats stored in my library.  I create smart playlists to play songs of select genres that have not been played in the last x number of days.  My library intentionally contains the same songs in different bit rates.  For example, I have NIN's Hesitation Marks release in both 16-bit 44.1kHz format and 24-bit 48kHz format.  The same songs exist in two different sets of files.  I want my smart play list to only select the higher bit rate set of files, but I do not know of a way MC19 can do this on its own.

What I can do right now is create a tag for every file that I want selected in my smart play list.  "Encoded By" is a good one for this purpose.  The smart play list can only select files where Encoded By is set to my name, for example.  This just means I must manually set all files I want my smart play list to choose by valuing the Encoded By tag. 

I know of no other way that MC can do this, but if anyone has idea, please post.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Can A Smart Playlist Choose Highest Bitrate of The Same Song?
Post by: JimH on December 30, 2013, 11:24:34 am

You might try using Stacks.
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Stacks