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Title: play doctor - how does it work? (playlist help!)
Post by: ferday on August 14, 2014, 11:34:03 am
i'm trying to figure out how play doctor works, and also ~mix

i've got everything into very broad genres (about 15) and then minutely sub-categorized by using keywords.  it makes it easy to search, of course...but i'm trying to make playlists, so:

1.  what fields does play doctor read from to make it's fancy lists?  I DO NOT use ratings, never will.  i have a lot of tags filled out but not ratings....does it match keywords?  if so, does it look for [keywords] contains, or just the first one? 

2.  ~mix...i've got good % genres, artists, etc. playlists working but i can't figure out the expression language for keywords....how can i write a mix expression using [keywords] contains?  some of my stuff has many keywords and i'd like to be able to ~mix % based on one or two of them

3.  if neither of the above is probable, is there a better way? 

thanks for any hints here
Title: Re: play doctor - how does it work? (playlist help!)
Post by: Matt on August 14, 2014, 11:44:36 am
1.  what fields does play doctor read from to make it's fancy lists?  I DO NOT use ratings, never will.  i have a lot of tags filled out but not ratings....does it match keywords?  if so, does it look for [keywords] contains, or just the first one? 

Play Doctor uses genre, artist, last played, rating, and several other fields.  It looks online for similar artists.
Title: Re: play doctor - how does it work? (playlist help!)
Post by: ferday on August 14, 2014, 11:46:14 am
thanks  Matt

any hints as to the "several other fields"?  i would be happy to do some extra tagging to make play doctor a tiny bit more useful for me...

Title: Re: Re: play doctor - how does it work? (playlist help!)
Post by: kamimeguro on August 14, 2014, 05:18:49 pm
+1!  and if we can select the list of fields used, that would be awesome, in 20 may be?
Kami