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[Deivit]

Hi,

I have several smartlists, by genre, that I've named Top 20... Top 20 Rock, Top 20 Jazz, Top 20 Blues, etc.

Such smartlists show the top 20 songs for each genre, according to the following criteria, in order:

1.- Rating.
2.- Number plays. For same rating, the most played ones go up the list.
3.- Date imported. For same rating and same number plays, the most recent goes up in the list, since it has been played the same number of times in a lesser (most recent) period of time.

Those smartlists work great and are shown in a nice thumbnail view, docked in my "navigation" toolbar shortcut for easy access, which makes a "wow" when showed to friends.

Now, I'm thinking of having a new smartlist that would show the 5 candidates to enter the Top 20 for each cathegory.  A play of those candidates would obviously make them go up in the list and enter the Top 20.

My first thinking is that if I could use the same criteria that it's used in the relative "Top 20" smartlist but, instead of limiting it to 20 tracks I would need to filter it down to just show Seq. 21 to Seq. 25... but I don't see how I can use the "seq" field of a playlist as a filter in a second one.

Can this be done? Am I missing an easy or obvious way to do it?

Thanks for any help.

[PollyQ]

I haven't tried this, but it ought to work:

Create a new smartlist exactly like your Top 20 SL, but with the following changes:

1)  Limit results to 5 tracks
2)  Exclude all tracks that are on your Top 20 list

BTW, exactly how do you get the logic of your Top 20 to work?

[marko]

sounds good PollyQ.

deivit, remember to do the exclusion before the limit...

in fact, do the exclusion before anything else.

[Deivit]

Thanks very much PollyQ and Marko, it sounds really great and should work as expected. Can't wait to get home tonight and try it. Will keep you posted.

PollyQ, regarding the logic of the SL, sorry I'm not sure if I understand correctly your question... do you mean what are the rules used or why did I chose the criteria?

[PollyQ]

My question was, how do you get the "top" 20?  I can see how to pick 20 of the highest-rated, most-recently played, etc., but not how to actually create a single ranking value & pick the highest rated ones.

TIA,

[Deivit]

Well, actually it's not a single ranking value but just a few sorting criteria,

This is the syntax:

Genre=[Your genre(s) here] ~sort=[Rating]-d,[Number Plays]-d,[Date Imported]-d ~n=20

It picks the songs of the given genre(s), sorts them first by rating (descending), secondly by number plays and then by date imported and finally limits the list to 20 songs, which happen to be the first 20 of the list.

Hope it helps.

[Deivit]

Already tried your suggestion, PollyQ, and it's works as expected. Thank you very much and thanks to Marko too for advising to do the exclusion first.

[PollyQ]

Genre=[Your genre(s) here] ~sort=[Rating]-d,[Number Plays]-d,[Date Imported]-d ~n=20

Ah, sort first, then limit!  Got it.

Thanks, and glad I could help.