I thought you were typing something like "dylan ~a" in the main Play Doctor box.
But I now realize you're talking about the advanced 'Set Rules For Files That Can Be Included' dialog. In general you should rarely, if ever, have to edit those rules. I never have.
Matt
The Set Rules menu is what I was referring to. It appears the Rules part of the menu functions.
And I can definitely confirm Modifiers like time, percent, and number spawn very strange results.
I do use Play Doctor quite abit but with the addition in MC18 of the radio buttons I thought I would try limiting
the song list to 25. I didn't realize a Play Doctor lists are dynamic not static. Songs are being added after each song
finishes. I can see where modifers would be a problem in that case.
Honestly I have no idea what would be involved in hiding the modifier part of the set rules page to avoid
confusion for new people. When I see an available item in a menu I assume that it is useable.
I can surely understand how little things can get missed by a programmer with a program that has so many
different things that it can do.
The problem with Media Center is that it can do so much that it inspires people to experiment with the different menus.
Now that I understand better what Play Doctor is doing I can see how modifiers would be hard to incorporate.
I'll leave that for smartlists I create.
Thanks Matt and Jim for the great program. Everytime I have to use Itunes for my IPad I cringe. You have me
spoiled.