Yannzola;229655 Wrote: 
> Erland, I don't quite understand what you mean by the "Playlist  Group"
> parameter? Honestly, the only Dynamic Playlists I use regularly are
> three variations of Lastfm Similiar Artists (plain/top rated/not rated)
> My SQL "skills" are limited to best-guess hacking of existing playlist
> code by trial and error. Regardless... no worries. 
> 
When you create a new playlist with SQL Playlist, there is a parameter
called "Playlist group". By default this field is empty which means
that the playlist will be shown directly in "Dynamic Playlists", if you
set the playlist group to "Top Rated" your playlist will instead be
shown in "Dynamic Playlists/Top Rated".

Yannzola Wrote: 
> 
> In the future, might it be possible for users to define global
> parameters like "Top Rated" themselves? Just curious.
What did you mean with this, have I answered it or ?

Yannzola;229655 Wrote: 
> P.S. Did you ever give any more thought to the idea of a More like this
> Artist/Less like this Artist" function? Similiar to Pandora. Using a
> combination of Lastfm data from Custom Scan and your Artist play
> percentage set via the Custom Filter?
This was one of the reasons I implemented the Custom Skip plugin and
the percentage based skipping. The problem I realized on the way was
that Custom Skip is good for skipping a few tracks, but if you start to
skip a lot of tracks you will get in trouble. The reason you will get in
trouble is that it will take a lot longer to retrieve new tracks for a
dynamic playlist which results in that the sound from the SB stops for
a while in worst case.

Now when I think about it this could actually be the case with your
sound skipping problem if you have a Custom Skip filter setup that
skips a lot of track, is this the case ?

To implement a good "More like/Less like" functionality it needs to
base the selection on this, so it get the right tracks directly.
Currently for example "Random Songs" will get tracks from the whole
library and then start skipping most of them to comply with the "More
like/Less like" settings (the percentages in Custom Skip). It would
work a lot better if the situation was reversed so the "More like/Less
like" settings (precentages) were taken into account directly when
"Random Songs" retrieved more songs.

However, this isn't possible today. I still have this on my wish list,
but it can get pretty complicated to do this directly when retrieving
the tracks.


-- 
erland

Erland Isaksson
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(Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse,
Custom Scan,  Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins'
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