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[johnnyboy]

Just wanted to say, the new smartlist is awesome.
Makes it so much simpler for everyone to do it and is alot faster than having to go through one by one selecting each item to add to the search one by one.

Cant wait to see it integrated into everywhere in the program (search bar, VS's, etc).

One idea would be to do this wizard like the 'mp3 encoder options' in that as you setup the search using the wizard, its creating it below in a big text box so that you can then manually go in and edit and tweak it.
This would allow everyone to see the syntax and the pro's to easily edit the syntax right there and then.


One thing that I think would REALLY help me (and I presume everyone else), is having some way of creating some GUI or soame way to help us with 'if(x=y)' type searches. I always have my VS's only show fields that are needed - I can never remember how to do this.
It really is like learning a programming language to be able to do this in MC and, just like a programming language, if you dont use it for a while, u forget the syntax.

Its an extremely powerful feature but not at all obvious or easy to use.

An idea might be to include it into some of the default views - only showing fields that exist makes sense.
My Default for my album views for eg is:

[Album] - (if exists, year)
[Artist Album (Auto)]

[ChrisRainman]

I don't get it. What is new with smarlists?

[lalittle]

I don't get it. What is new with smarlists?

The smartlist editor is different.  Note that it's not "done" yet, so it's still missing some things.  According to JR, these issues will be addressed starting next week.

Larry

[ChrisRainman]

Now I've found it. Looks great. I will play around with it...

[marko]

Remember, this is not finished yet, heed the warnings given if your smartlist are precious to you

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NOTE: Please backup your library before editing any smartlists with the new smartlist wizard.

12.0.189 (03/09/07)

1. NEW: New smartlist editing system.
2. Fixed: Theater View wouldn't update nicely when building thumbnails. (introduced in build 188)

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10. Fixed: Viewing some playlists could cause a Theater View crash. (introduced in build 188)
11. Changed: Many Theater View plugin architecture improvements.

NOTE: Please backup your library before editing any smartlists with the new smartlist wizard.

[johnnyboy]

marko - just the man.
Whats the syntax again if I want to do   if my albums years do not = "" then display year.
I cant remember it and searching for 'if' in the forum or help just is pointless as i found out

[marko]

if(isempty([date]),,[date]) ought to do it.

[johnnyboy]

now thats what I call a fast reply - cheers

[Fred1]

Advanced expressions don't work!

For example "~limit=-1,3,[artist]" ist not stored correctly and doesn't work.

Works in build .185

[marko]

works fine for me here:


is stored like so:


Returns tracks imported in the past 90 days and limits the results to no more than 3 tracks by any artist.

[Fred1]

I tried it the other way and that didn't work.

Entered the expression in "Modify results" - "Limit (advanced)".
Afterwards the "Rules" section was corrupted and the expression was not stored correctly.

[JONCAT]

How do we now edit smartlists? Doesn't seem to be lying anywhere intuitive......I want to make a Missing Cover Art smartlist for albums, not racks like the default.

thanks
DC

[lalittle]

How do we now edit smartlists? Doesn't seem to be lying anywhere intuitive......

Once a smartlist is created, there is an "edit" button at the top of the main window.  While I do think that this is a good place for an edit button, I agree that there ought to be at least one other way to edit smartlists -- namely, an "edit smartlist" item in the right-click menu so that you can directly click on a smartlist and edit it.

Larry