caldvd;175696 Wrote: > Can you explain how the "Not" works? > > I mistakenly thought if "Not" is selected, it would be given a > different value (instead of just 0 or 1). "Not Artist" in Custom Skip means > skip all artists besides the artist you have selected.
caldvd;175696 Wrote: > I see the Advanced Playlist and it seems like it may be my ticket to > creating Moods. However, I notice it also has "include", "exclude", > and so on. Does it work differently from custom skip in that I can > "Include Genre: Classic Rock", but "Exclude Artist: Led Zepplin" (or > one song from Led Zepplin)?If you want to include "Classical Rock" without > also including "Led Zepplin" it works as you want. However, if you like to include artists in excluded genres I don't think the "Advanced Playlist" will work. For example excluding "Classical Rock" but still include "Led Zepplin". It should still be possible to do with SQL but not with the existing predefined playlist templates. caldvd;175696 Wrote: > On Advanced Playlist, Do I have to include values for EVERY field (i.e. > Groups, not sure what to put here, Min Track Length, Max Track Length, > etc.)?No you just enter values in those you want to affect. So if you dont enter any "Included genres" as an example this means that all genres will be included besides those marked in "Excluded genres". In the same way if you dont enter any "Min Track Length" no filtering will be done on track length. caldvd;175696 Wrote: > I'm not at all familiar with SQL, but all this talk makes me want to > learn how to write these playlists. I think it should not be too hard > to learn, but I know it is a beast. Any pointers on where to start > learning would be great. Also, can I see what one of these more > advanced SQL playlists looks like so I can dissect it?If you select the > "Customize SQL" option when editing a playlist the raw SQL will be shown. If you save the customized SQL you will have to delete and recreate the playlist if you want it to use the simplier user interface. caldvd;175704 Wrote: > My filters would only be changed once in a while, as I mostly listen > when I'm getting going in the morning, and my wife likes the mellower > stuff, so I would be listening to one filter (Morning Mood) for the > most part all week. If some friends came over I might have a different > Mood, i.e. DinnerParty or something. But I understand that you want to > leave the custom skip on one setting for most of the time and change it > infrequently, so that no matter what PLAYLIST you choose, it is going > to skip those songs.It still sounds like you would be better off with a > playlist using SQL Playlist plugin for this instead of a skip filter in Custom Skip. caldvd;175704 Wrote: > What effect will my CustomSkip filters have on the SQLPlaylists I > create?It will skip songs as usual, so if a song is part of a SQL Playlist and matches a skip filter in Custom Skip it will be skipped. caldvd;175704 Wrote: > Are you saying I should have a SQLPlaylist that includes ClassicRock, > and have a Custom Skip that excludes Led Zepplin? If you never want to listen > to "Led Zepplin" thats a good idea, but if you just don't want to listen to "Led Zepplin" when playing a specific playlist its better to add "Led Zepplin" to "Excluded artists" in the SQL Playlist. caldvd;175704 Wrote: > How would you set up an SQL playlist to create a Morning(mellow)Mood, > including genres, but excluding certain artists w/in the genre?Select the > "Advanced playlist", mark the genres you like to include in "Included genres" and mark the artist you want to exclude in the "Exclude tracks for selected artists" field. caldvd;175704 Wrote: > In selecting genres, what is the difference if I do Not put a check in > the check box on Include (genre x) and do not put a checkbox on Exclude > (genre x), will genre x be included? By that I mean, do I HAVE to > exclude something? I thought by definition, if it is not CHECKED in the > Include section, it is EXCLUDED... If you don't mark any "Excluded genres", > no genre will be excluded. If you mark an "Included genre" only those genres marked will be included. If you neither mark "Included genres" nor mark "Excluded genres" this means that no filtering will be done on genres and all genres will be included. As I said above, you should just enter the parameters which you like to do some filtering on, leave the rest empty. caldvd;175817 Wrote: > My enhancement request for SQL Playlist (another thread, perhaps?) would > be that if you selected a genre, say, Jazz, that the include/exclude > artist list updated to reflect that change and only displayed artists > tagged as Jazz. Put another way, only artists in selected genres are > visible. > I'll add it to the wish list, however it is a bit different than it works today so I can't promise it will be implemented. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31381 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
