MillmoorRon;195785 Wrote: > I have some classical CD's which I have not yet integrated into my music > library as I don't want long quiet tracks to pop up in random playlists > of my (mostly) rock collection. However I would like to be able to > listen to these occasionally when the mood takes me. > > I already have a few SQL playlists that I use for randomly playing > unplayed or unrated songs. Would I be best just modifying these to skip > classical tracks (by genre) or would one of the the other plugins be > more suitable for achieving this? As I see it you have the following alternatives:
Alternative 1: - Change the SQL playlists you have to exclude tracks with genre=Classical. - This alternative is good if you just have a few playlists that can be easily changed or if you have a lot of classical tracks that you like to exclude Alternative 2: - Setup a filter in Custom Skip that is configured to skip all tracks with genre=Classical. By doing this all playlists played through the Dynamic Playlist plugin will be skipping the tracks, you will still be able to browse/search the classical albums/tracks and choose to play them. - This alternative is useful if you have a lot of SQL playlist or if the tracks you want to skip is pretty few. - If you like to skip 20% or more of the tracks in your library this is not the best alternative. - If you like the Custom Skip filter to only be active on some of the playlists this is also possible. You can look at the default playlists and the "Custom Skip filter" parameter to see how to do this. Alternative 3: - Use the Multi Library plugin to configure a library that contains all tracks but those with genre=Classical. - Configure each SQL Playlist to only play tracks that are part of the library defined in Multi Library. You will get a new option in all the default SQL Playlists that you can look at to see the exact SQL statements if you have customized the SQL in your own playlists. - The only reason to choose this alternative is if you also want the tracks to be excluded from some browse menus which is configured with Custom Browse. My feeling is that alternative 2 is probably the best in your setup since it sounds like the classical tracks are quite few in comparison to your whole library. -- 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=34565 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
