SMart Playlist by Location

[DeadPoet]

Hi There!

I am sorting my music in different folders – one for heard, one for unheared. So I can, even when I need to reinstall my operating system, tell wether I have already checked the quality of songs or not.

Now, would it be possible, to create a Smart Playlist based on the location of the file?

[rpedde]

@DeadPoet wrote:

Hi There!

I am sorting my music in different folders – one for heard, one for unheared. So I can, even when I need to reinstall my operating system, tell wether I have already checked the quality of songs or not.

Now, would it be possible, to create a Smart Playlist based on the location of the file?

Yes. I’m assuming you are using nightlies. If so, the details on the playlists are on the developer wiki, but the short answer is a playlist like this might work:

path includes "/incoming/"

and you can use any path fragment to split up physical locations however you want.

— Ron

[DeadPoet]

Thanks for your quick response!
Yes, I am using dailies, and am eagerly waiting for the next stable windows release 😉

Could you detail the attribute (path) a little bit more for me? Does it only save the subfolders, or the complete path? So, could I wirte e.g. startswith “S:MusicOST” ? And: Do I have to use unix-path-delimiters on my windows machine? So far, it seems to ignore the delimeters (windows or unix style) – so when I type path includes “OST” it would also give me a title named gurkenrost.

Thnx a lot for your help 🙂

– Sven

[rpedde]

@DeadPoet wrote:

Thanks for your quick response!
Yes, I am using dailies, and am eagerly waiting for the next stable windows release 😉

Could you detail the attribute (path) a little bit more for me? Does it only save the subfolders, or the complete path? So, could I wirte e.g. startswith “S:MusicOST” ? And: Do I have to use unix-path-delimiters on my windows machine? So far, it seems to ignore the delimeters (windows or unix style) – so when I type path includes “OST” it would also give me a title named gurkenrost.

Thnx a lot for your help 🙂

– Sven

It *should* be windows slashes, and case insensitive. So “ost” or “OST” should both work, and shouldn’t pick up that title.

Let me play with that query for a while, though, and see what I find.

[DeadPoet]

I just played a little bit with the smart playlists again. Apparently there seems to be a little problem with the backslahes. When I use “OST” I get an error: Error 500: Parse error: Offset 23: Expecting end of statement. So it seems the verifier is seeing them as escape-characters – at least I think so 😉 Perhaps this is why I also have the title gurkenrost (which by the way means something like rust on your thingie) in it.

[rpedde]

@DeadPoet wrote:

I just played a little bit with the smart playlists again. Apparently there seems to be a little problem with the backslahes. When I use “OST” I get an error: Error 500: Parse error: Offset 23: Expecting end of statement. So it seems the verifier is seeing them as escape-characters – at least I think so 😉 Perhaps this is why I also have the title gurkenrost (which by the way means something like rust on your thingie) in it.

try “\OST”

— Ron

[DeadPoet]

Hey Ron,

sure, tried this the first time 🙂 But this does not work either – I still get thing slike gurkenrost or lost dogs or such things. So, it completely ignores the :/

[DeadPoet]

Have you had time to look into this, Ron? Even with the newest Snapshot “\OST\” does not work (ignores the slashes :/ ).

[rpedde]

@DeadPoet wrote:

Have you had time to look into this, Ron? Even with the newest Snapshot “\OST” does not work (ignores the slashes :/ ).

Forgot. Doh.

But it’s fixed in 1353. You’ll see it next nightly. (and yeah, it’s \OST\ now).

— ron

[DeadPoet]

It works now – thanks a lot for your efforts 🙂
Hadn’t had time to test it yet… the holiday-season 😉

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