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jt

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JT Random Rating Sorting
« on: May 03, 2004, 07:57:40 pm »

I've posted this a while back, but I thought I'd mention it one more time.

Would you guys be able to make smartlists handle sorting a little better with the [Random] keyword?

I would like to sort my playlist by [Rating], then [Random]. But it don't work. It appears that [Random] currently only works when on it's own.
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Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2004, 12:00:41 pm »

You must have missed my old response.

You can get just what you want by adding two sort commands to the playlist so it shuffles before the rating sort:

~sort=[Random] ~sort=[Rating]

Hope that helps :)
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Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2004, 03:23:15 pm »

Oh okay. Sorry, yes I did miss this the first time around.

To this is a different mechanism to the normal sort command "[Rating],[Random]" ?


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Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2004, 03:25:56 pm »

This is a special case where you need two separate sort commands.  Since [Random] isn't really a sort command, it's treated differently and can't be combined with other commands.
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Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2004, 04:19:13 pm »

okay I understand. Thanks very much for you help. It's a very good product, and had no hesitation spending the money to purchase it.

Jason.
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Re:JT Random Rating Sorting
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2004, 04:25:08 pm »

awesome matt thanks very much

I have been looking for a way to do this for a while I missedthe original post as well.

speaking of which, is there any way using the search function to only find topics.  what I mean is that instead of finding every post which references your keyword, simply get a list of topics in which is mentioned?

thanks again
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