An alternative is to use "File name" and "contains" as your smart playlist criteria, which includes the path.
This is probably the easiest option as it requires no extra work to be done from your perspective. Peter. On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 09:52, Peter Tipping <pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1. Clementine uses a library database. With nothing in the database, > you obviously can't create a smart playlist, which only references the > database. > 2. You can add multiple folders to the library, but the music found is > all added to a single library. > 3. Clementine doesn't have a concept of files or folders. It has > music in a library. If you would like to reference the music to a specific > folder, as Garthhh has already indicated, you will need to add a tag to > each song to indicate which folder it belongs to. That sounds like you > didn't do this step. It sounds like you loaded a folder from your OS into > Clementine as a playlist. For each of these playlists, you will need to > add a tag to each song that can then be referenced in a smart playlist. > > Peter > > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 09:21, Poldi <llfbook1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm missing something here. >> I cannot create a smart playlist without songs in the library >> I cannot keep the folders separated when I add them into the Library >> I cannot find a way to create a smart playlist based on files >> >> Thanks >> >> On Monday, March 9, 2020 at 5:33:40 PM UTC+11, Poldi wrote: >>> >>> We have two collections; my partners music & my music >>> >>> I have created the directory structure accordingly >>> >>> /home/ourmusic/his >>> /home/ourmusic/hers >>> >>> Ideally we'd like three playlistists: >>> his >>> hers >>> both >>> >>> There doesn't seem to be a selection criteria for filepath that allows >>> me to do this. >>> Thanks, >>> Leo >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clementine Music Player" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/d47e9639-5464-45a4-98fa-addf239f168f%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/d47e9639-5464-45a4-98fa-addf239f168f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/CACcGRP9SnFzV15tQupMdojAyU%2Bi5BCqvdjbEEcGzgNCGwBVxtQ%40mail.gmail.com.
