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RE: robg's comment
Authored by: jolinwarren on May 14, '03 11:48:54AM

The problem with this method is that you can't have a smart playlist that includes multiple artists. For instance, if I want the following criteria:

Artist contains "Eric Clapton"
Artist contains "Derek and the Dominos"
Playcount is less than "1"

Choose "2" hours selected by "random"

there's no way to combine this. I have to either have songs matching _all_ the criteria (impossible, since no song has an artist containing both "Clapton" and "Derek and the Dominos") or I have to have songs matching _any_ of the criteria (which will have any non-Clapton and non-Derek and the Dominos songs that have a playcount less than one).

What I really want is nested criteria:

(Artist contains "Eric Clapton"
OR
Artist contains "Derek and the Dominos")
AND
Playcount is less than "1"

Choose "2" hours selected by "random"

but, alas, this is not possible. So thanks for the hint! I had not noticed the "Least recently played" limit, and this, combined with shuffle, achieves the goal described above.

Cheers,
Jolin



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RE: robg's comment
Authored by: DanFrakes on May 27, '03 10:47:47PM

This comment is two weeks after the original thread, so jolinwarren may never see it ;) but at least it will be in the archives...


Instead of "nested" criteria, you can solve your particular dilemma by adding "clapton" to the comments field for anything by Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos, Cream, etc. Then create a playlist that contains any song with "Clapton" in the comments field.

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