DJanGo wrote: > In Theorie you build a library only with Tracks that have eg. Country. > Whenever you now search for eg. Instrumental you're shure its country > AND Instrumental. > But you didnt need the plugin, with advanced search you can build your > own virt. library by mouse klicking... > > \edit > NOT only in Theorie - its a little bit tricky but works > /edit
I had completely overlooked the capabilities of Library Views. I was vaguely aware that the feature offered the ability to restrict access to parts of the library for some users. It hadn't occurred to me that this is exactly what I want to do: temporarily restrict MY OWN access to parts of the library. I see now that it is possible to do something very much like what I have in mind, just using library views. It's not just tricky; it's convoluted. But it works. Using my earlier examples, I could do an advanced search for all Country tracks, create a library view from that, switch to that view, then do an advanced search in that view for all Instrumental tracks, the save that search as a Country Instrumental library view. Then I could do the same for Jazz --> Vocal. And create a Rock view from the full library. At that point, I've got three library views that, together, contain all the tracks I want to use in building my Random Mix. If there were a way to merge library views, this would be perfect. But there is no way to do that, is there? Instead, what I've done is create Random Mix from each of those library views, then save each mix as a playlist, then finally load those three playlists together and select shuffle mode. It's not exactly a direct path to where I want to go, but it gets me there, eventually. For now, I can use this method, but I till want to learn to use SQL. I can see that I shouldn't expect to be proficient with it anytime soon, though. This method also provides a feature I haven't asked about yet: weighted random playlists. By varying the size of the playlists made from different library views, I can control the percentage of the final shuffled playlist that will come from each of the library views. Unfortunately, Random Mix seems not to create playlists longer than 100 tracks. I do not know yet if the same limitation applies to SQL Playlist, but I have found that it will only add ten tracks at a time. These are minor frustrations, but I'm happy to have found something that works. Thanks for leading me to that solution! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109818 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
