RobbH wrote: > Using the Advanced Search feature (which is available in the default web > interface when hovering over "Search" in the dropdown menu under "My > Music", to avoid misunderstanding) I have entered a comma-separated list > of genres in the genre field, after selecting the option, "- not in text > search". My expectation is that the resulting list will not include any > tracks containing any of the listed tags. Instead, I find many tracks > that contain one of the excluded tags. > > It is possible that there is a problem with the formatting of my list of > genres. However, when I use the same search string with the "-text > search" option, the results appear to be exactly as expected: every > track containing any of the listed tags. > > I use multiple genre tags (using double backslashes as separator), and > in many cases, the genres I am trying to exclude will not be found in > the files' first genre tag. Could this be the issue? Does the "not in > text search" option handle multiple genre tags as it should? > > And if that's not the issue, any suggestions for possibilities I might > explore? > > > (LMS 8, X86_64 LInux)
I obviously did not explain this well the first time, so trying again. Background: I have a relatively large music collection (75102 tracks), tagged with very broad genre descriptions (i.e.: "Jazz," "Country," "Folk," etc.). There are some tracks in each genre that I may choose to play occasionally, but I do not want them included in random mixes. For that reason, I have added another genre tag to those files: "Surplus." Multiple genre tags are separated by double backslashes ( \\ ), and that's the designated separator in the "My Music" tab under Settings. When I use Erland's Dynamic Playlists plugin, it's easy to exclude files tagged "Surplus" from the playlists that plugin generates. Unfortunately, the Dynamic Playlists plugin does not seem to work with Online Music Library Integration. So I have attempted to switch to the built-in Random Mix plugin, using Library Views to exclude the unwanted tracks. That's where my problem begins. Since there's been confusion about this in the past, I want to be clear that I'm using the Advance Search option, which is available here: 30310 If I search for all files tagged with the Surplus genre, I get a list of 790 files. Of course, what I want is the opposite: all files NOT tagged Surplus. So I've used the "not in text search" option and specified Surplus, like so: 30311 My expectation is that this would give me a list of 75102 - 790 = 74312 files. Instead, the result of the search is a list of 74661 files. I have saved that list as a library view and then used that library view. When I search within that library view for files with the genre tag "Surplus," I get the same list of 790 files that I got when searching the entire library. So, although something seems to have been excluded by the search, it must have been something I did not intend to exclude, while everything I wanted to exclude is still included! The most obvious explanation would be that I do not understand what the "not in text search" is supposed to do. If that's the issue, I hope someone will be willing to explain it to me. But if that's not the problem, it appears to me that something is not working as it should. Incidentally, I am using LMS 8 on Linux X86_64. I have also tested this on an older version (7.9.1, I think) with the same results. Thanks for any help! +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: not-surplus.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=30311| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezelite players connected by powerline ethernet; 5 wireless players connected via Airplay Bridge; 1 SqueezeAmp player no high-end or esoteric audio gear 1 Squeezebox Radio (upgraded UE Smart Radio) now mostly retired ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112151 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
