ChipMonk wrote: > > So, for example, all my popular music is in Music/Pop, how can I set up > a dynamic playlist which selects random tracks only from the stuff in > the Pop folder and ignores the other folders containing classical? The > tags is the Pop/rock category are good enough to work OK via SQL for my > needs but need to be partitioned from the rest. > As far as I can see there are two solutions:
Solution 1: - Install Multi Library plugin. With Multi Library plugin you can create a virtual library that consists of everything inside a specific folder, for example C:\Music\Pop where you might have all Pop music. After defining the library, you can set the "Library" parameter in the playlists provided by SQL Playlist plugin through Dynamic Playlist plugin and by doing this be able to restrict the playlist to the tracks which are inside that virtual library defined in Multi Library plugin, for example all files inside a specific main folder. When defining the library it's a good idea to uncheck all checkboxes in the "Included internal menus" and "Included Custom Browse menus" sections unless you also want to provide browse menus through Custom Browse for the virtual library. Solution 2: - Use the "Customize SQL" option at the bottom of the playlist definition and adjust the SQL to also filter by folder. This can be a bit frustrating if you change the playlists often or if you don't know anything about SQL, but it is a possible solution if you don't want to install Multi Library plugin. You would basically add a like directive with the tracks.url column. Just note, that by doing this you will always have to reconfigure this playlist by using raw SQL, so it's not a good idea to use this solution if you want to change the playlists often. It's also not something I would recommend unless you are somewhat familiar with SQL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95581 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
