Topic: Post your favorite smartlists (Read 3424 times)

kartracer · « **on:** January 27, 2003, 09:36:49 am »

Since getting a 10G WiPod for Christmas and ripping about 45 hours worth of my CD collection so far, I've got enough songs loaded to start wanting to come up with creative playlists, but the creative juices haven't started flowing yet.

How about posting some of your favorite smartlists and what properties you added/modified (beyond the base tag info from YADB, e.g., ratings, comments, custom fields, etc.) to make them work? I'm sure other newbies like me would like to see some examples.

TIA,
MikeB.

KingSparta · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2003, 09:55:59 am »

[Rating]==5 [media type]=[audio] ~s=650 ~nodup=[name],[artist] [Number Plays]==0

rocketsauce · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2003, 12:08:03 pm »

I added a new field under Extended Info called "Original By" and if a song is a remake/cover version I enter the name of the original artist.

The Smartlist rule is Add Rule/Extended/Original By, then in the dialog window choose <empty> and for Do what with the selections choose Exclude. This will exclude any track that does not have something entered in the "Original By" field.

The cool thing is that even if you don't know who did the original version, you can just enter a ? or something and it will still be added to the Smartlist.

Rob

Tolga · « **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2003, 07:34:55 pm »

My favorite smart lists implement an elobrate genre scheme.

I give the songs very specific genres:
i.e. Regional - French or Classical - Flute, on top of that, I have built a SUPER GENRE smart list that contains items such as classical, regional. Each song have a single classical genre but they may have multiple super genres. i.e.

ROCK
metal
pop-rock
rock
folk-rock
...

POP
pop
pop-rock
...

CLASSICAL
film-classical
classical-flute
classical -> this is for not specified classical music
...

Of course I have an associated view scheme
SUPER GENRE / Genre / Artist / Album ...

In thumbnail view, if you click on ROCK, you see all rock albums. You can go down to see more detail, if you feel you know more what you want to listen.

The cool part is that I let the SUPER GENRES evaluated automatically from specific genres.

I have a Playlist Genre group: SUPER GENRE, in that, playlists such as:

(empty Genre) : [Genre]=[]
CLASSICAL: [Genre]=[Classical],[Classical - Film],...
....
(undescribed Genre): exclude list of the above: CLASSICAL, etc

If a unknown specific Genre is added, it goes to empty Genre, it goes to (undescribed Genre). In that case I just updated the related SUPER GENRE playlists to contain this genre. If I add a new super genre, I have to update the smartlist (undescribed Genre) (occurs rarely). If a song is added that has no Genre, it goes to empty genre, when I add a specific genre it goes either to (undescribed genre) or to the relevant playlists.

graham131 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2003, 07:20:16 am »

I am trying to get a better understanding of Smartlists. Is there a set of instructions anywhere?

Failing that please keep posting your lists, they are a great help.

Cheers

Graham

rocketsauce · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2003, 10:11:24 am »

Start MJ, hit F1 (for Help), go to the Index tab and type in smartlist. Also, just make a new smartlist under your playlist group and start playing around with it to see what kind of things it can do. Once you start seeing how they work, you'll start coming up with ideas. Also look at the predefined auto-smartlists to see how they work.

Rob

kartracer · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2003, 03:25:47 pm »

Come on guys, are you keeping all your smartlists and tagging/commenting methods a secret ?

KingSparta · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2003, 04:15:45 pm »

[Rating]==5 [media type]=[audio] ~s=650 ~nodup=[artist] Burnedtocd=[]

If "Burnedtocd" field is blank then this song has not been burned to a cd.

if it was burned to cd then I enter the cd name in "Burnedtocd" field Like "Disk 1"

Only 1 song for an artist will be on the list

Max of 650 megs

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dragyn · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2003, 04:21:42 pm »

This shows you what files have cover art and if it's externaly linked or inside the file.

Playlist group: Cover Art
-Smartlist (All): -[image file]=""
-Smartlist (External): -[Image File]="" [Image File]=.,\
-Smartlist (Internal): -[Image File]=.,\,""
-Smartlist (None): [Image File]=""

This shows if an album is complete/incomplete only if the tag has the album field filled in.

Playlist Group: Album Type
Smartlist: Single artist (complete): -albumtype=incomplete -autoalbumartist=multiple
Smartlist: Single artist (incomplete): albumtype=incomplete -autoalbumartist=multiple -album=""
Smartlist: Multiple artists (complete): -albumtype=incomplete autoalbumartist=multiple
Smartlist: Multiple artists (incomplete): albumtype=incomplete autoalbumartist=multiple

Kurt Young · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2003, 08:11:11 pm »

I've got one called "The Deck". Named that cause I listen to it during the commute, and that's often spent on the stern deck of the ferry.

It gives you 3 hours of random music, which was imported within the last month, and is rated 3 or higher.

I put the rating in there because I don't want everything that I import to be included in the daily rotation. Like that Sesame Street CD.

[media type]=[audio] [date imported]=<80640 ~sort=random ~t=120 [Rating]=>=3

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2003, 09:50:19 am »

I want to create a smartlist that plays random tunes for an hour but does not play more than one track by each artist...any ideas?? I have tried using the nodup feature set to artist but this then only picks tracks from the multiple artists / incomplete album fields...

HELP!!!

Adam

Xstatic · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2003, 09:52:40 am »

What does this mean?? (pasted from Kings smartlist):

~s=650 ~nodup=[name],[artist] [Number Plays]==0

KingSparta · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2003, 10:38:36 am »

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What does this mean?? (pasted from Kings smartlist):

the wizard helps but it is missing allot. I never read the help file but some info may be in there.

~s=650 ~nodup=[name],[artist] [Number Plays]==0

1. ~s=650

Size = 650 Megs

2. ~nodup=[name],[artist]

Do not Include Any Dups Where The Artist And The Song Name Match. this is good if you have many versions of the same song.

~nodup=[artist] will get you a list where the an artist is only on the list once.

3. [Number Plays]==0

Include in the list songs that have not been played before

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2003, 02:03:35 pm »

So if no dups cannot be used to ensure there are no duplicates of the same artist in a smart list is there any way to do this?? And if not could there be??

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2003, 02:12:20 pm »

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So if no dups cannot be used to ensure there are no duplicates of the same artist in a smart list is there any way to do this?? And if not could there be??

Adam

I don't understand the question?

> So if no dups cannot be used
why?

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #15 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:07:51 pm »

Sorry King

What I was trying to do was create a smartlist that pulled a random 60 inutes of rock tunes from my library, however I only want one track from each artist. I thought the nodups command would do this but it doeesn't. Is there any way I can do this??

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #16 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:09:59 pm »

~nodup=[artist]

should work

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #17 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:12:22 pm »

Like you said ~nodup=artist just shows all the instances in the library where an artist only has one track. I want it to randomly pick tracks from any artist but once it has picked a track to not pick another one. I have about 50 separate artists yet more often than not a 60 minute "random" smartlist usually picks at least three sets of dup artists inside about twenty tracks...

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #18 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:16:55 pm »

really, hummm

i would think it will only include one song from each artist

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #19 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:34:17 pm »

Thats what I thought but when I tried it it was only showing up artists that I only had one track for. This was mostly various artists albums or singles. No good for my random list. Here is the list I tried...

[Media Type]=[Audio] ~t=60 ~nodup=artist [Genre]=[Rock]

The result is that I don't have the same artist duped but I only have it choosing tracks where that artist is in the library exclusively for that track. Could you try and see if it does the same thing for you??

Cheers in advance,

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:48:30 pm »

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you try and see if it does the same thing for you??

Yes but i did not notice untill you said somthing

Could This Be A Bug?

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #21 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:58:12 pm »

Dunno...do you think I should report it??

I don't want to upset Uncle Jim twice in one day

Adam

KingSparta · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:59:54 pm »

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Dunno...do you think I should report it?? I don't want to upset Uncle Jim twice in one day

Adam

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NoCodeUK · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2003, 04:09:28 pm »

K, its posted.

BTW That window shaker is very theraputic. could be a great stress reliever

Adam

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