INTERACT FORUM

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: SmartList Creation Question  (Read 539 times)

margolbe

  • Regular Member
  • Junior Woodchuck
  • **
  • Posts: 55
  • nothing more to say...
SmartList Creation Question
« on: March 27, 2024, 03:08:21 pm »

I am trying to create a smartlist that mimics an upcoming box settle by Simon Rattle.  I have almost all the individual albums on the box set, but I want to create a smartlist that will recreate this box.  I plan to use this as a template to mimic other box sets that I don't have, even though I have the individual albums.  For the Simon Rattle Complete Warner Berlin Box Set, it would need to incorporate the following:

Album Artist: Simon Rattle

Artist: Berlin Philharmonic or Berlin Philharmoniker or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Label: Warner Classics or EMI Classics.

Any advise on how to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Bruce
Logged

zybex

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 2616
Re: SmartList Creation Question
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2024, 03:41:34 pm »

Why not create a normal playlist and just drag&drop the files/albums you want?

For a Smartlist, just add those items as rules, selecting all the values you want:
Album Artist      is        Simon Rattle
Artist            is Any    Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmoniker, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Label             is Any    Warner Classics, EMI Classics


Then add a Sort order, perhaps by Album > Disc# > Track#
Logged

margolbe

  • Regular Member
  • Junior Woodchuck
  • **
  • Posts: 55
  • nothing more to say...
Re: SmartList Creation Question
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2024, 05:05:13 pm »

Thanks,

Tried your smartlist code suggestion and it worked.  However, for label, after choosing "is An" for Artist, did not give me another is Any choice.  However, for the "is" choice, I was able to check the two labels of interest.  All works well.  Thanks.
Logged

Striker

  • World Citizen
  • ***
  • Posts: 176
Re: SmartList Creation Question
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2024, 05:30:22 pm »

One feature I've asked for before... is for "virtual albums"... yes we can do that with playlists... but that involves a different user process for playback of actual albums and virtual albums.

Imagine creating a virtual album that shows up just like a regular album in the panes and can be selected for PlayingNow the same as any normal album.

Logged

EnglishTiger

  • Regular Member
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 1084
Re: SmartList Creation Question
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2024, 07:36:15 pm »

Alternatively by making use of the "Conductor" and "Orchestra" Fields/Tags the smartlist rules become

Conductor      is any       Simon Rattle
Orchestra       is             Berlin Philharmonic; Berlin Philharmoniker; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Label             is             Warner Classics; EMI Classics

I don't have any classical music works where Simon Rattle is conducting so I used Claudio Abbado in the attached example

Logged
Apple Mac Mini Desktop Computer with M4 Pro chip with 12 core CPU and 16 core GPU: 24GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD Storage, Gigabit Ethernet, 3 Thunderbolt5 + 2USBC ports.
Pages: [1]   Go Up