Magic Nodes 4.2 w/ 380 masks & real GUI (2011-07-01)[MM2+]

[surfer]

how to create a node with the whole section of the "location" node from the last but one folder (and the tracks in the track list)?

I have tho follwing folder structure:

:\music\genres\latin\salsa\pop-salsa\artists\albums\tracks.mp3

I need a magic node "pop-salsa" directly under the "library" node showing the structure of the folders/tracks exactly the same way like in the "location node".

[RobertSmith]

Edit:
I will try Track Redirection & Synchronization...

[ZvezdanD]

I need a magic node "pop-salsa" directly under the "library" node showing the structure of the folders/tracks exactly the same way like in the "location node".

Well, you could try with the Split by qualifier, but it is very slow, especially if you want to show some folder which is very deep in the structure. Here is a mask for your example:

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Pop-Salsa|Child of:Library|Filter:<Path> LIKE ':\music\genres\latin\salsa\pop-salsa\%'\<Path|Split by:\\|Split part:6>\<Path|Split by:\\|Split part:7>\<Path|Split by:\\|Split part:8>

This qualifier needs some optimization. I will try to improve it for the next version.

[ZvezdanD]

Edit:
I will try Track Redirection & Synchronization...

Please, would you stop to edit your posts so frequently?

As an answer to the deleted part, you could take a look at my suggestion here: Creating a Playlist without Duplicates.

[emalvick]

I am curious if there is a way to set up an album node so that "The, A, etc" are ignored for sorting.

Magic Nodes does this (seemingly by default) with Artists based nodes, e.g. The Beatles are sorted as Beatles. Can this somehow be done with Albums? Right now all my albums that start with The (e.g. The Joshua Tree) sort as if they start with a T.

[ZvezdanD]

I am curious if there is a way to set up an album node so that "The, A, etc" are ignored for sorting.

Yes, there is a way, but you need to modify the script file by yourself. There is the IgnoreArticleDict collection from 744 till 746 lines and you should add the next line:

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.Add "ALBUM", True

[emalvick]

I am curious if there is a way to set up an album node so that "The, A, etc" are ignored for sorting.

Yes, there is a way, but you need to modify the script file by yourself. There is the IgnoreArticleDict collection from 744 till 746 lines and you should add the next line:

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.Add "ALBUM", True

Perfect... That's all I needed.

By the way, this script has become fantastic. I just recently upgraded to the 2.X versions (as a long time user of the 1.x versions you were working on earlier, and the GUI is great, although I'll admit that I'd gotten so used to typing the mask that I still tend to start that way.

[RobertSmith]

Edit:
I will try Track Redirection & Synchronization...

Please, would you stop to edit your posts so frequently?

I'm so sry, I only try to reduce your incredible work. The reason for edit my question was that I understood I was going in wrong direction.

As an answer to the deleted part, you could take a look at my suggestion here: Creating a Playlist without Duplicates.

There is no way that I know of, to accomplish your objective with regular auto-playlist functionality. And anything script related will not be referencable by auto-playlists.

As a work around, you could use a field(s) to identify dupes and exclude them from auto-playlists.

And I'm so pleased for your answers in Track Redirection & Synchronization

[surfer]

@ZvezdanD: Thanks a lot for your help!

the tracks in the track list are there: this works. but the folder structure (splitting) on the left won't work, i get an error when i want to expand it.

[ZvezdanD]

the tracks in the track list are there: this works. but the folder structure (splitting) on the left won't work, i get an error
when i want to expand it.

Well, this a consequence of too many nested levels and as I said the Split by qualifier is not very efficient with this in regard. You could wait for the next version if I manage somehow to optimize mentioned qualifier. However, even if it would work without an error, it could not replace the Location (sub-)node because they have totally different behavior.

[ZvezdanD]

The reason for edit my question was that I understood I was going in wrong direction.

Deleted part of your post contained some very interesting suggestions about criteria for duplicates. Currently the Track Redirection & Synchronization script has only bitrate as a criteria, but maybe I should consider others as well.

As an answer to the deleted part, you could take a look at my suggestion here: Creating a Playlist without Duplicates.

There is no way that I know of, to accomplish your objective with regular auto-playlist functionality. And anything script related will not be referencable by auto-playlists.

As a work around, you could use a field(s) to identify dupes and exclude them from auto-playlists.

And I'm so pleased for your answers in Track Redirection & Synchronization

Well, I don't know what you want to say with that Teknojnky's comment. As I explained, you could create Magic Node to get unique tracks without duplicates, then you could copy them to some static playlist and you could create auto-playlist with a criteria Playlist is that_static_playlist. So, there is a way for scripts related tracks to be referencable by auto-playlists.

By the way, I think that the next version of Magic Nodes would be even more close to such thing.

[nynaevelan]

Can someone tell me how to modify my masks to be limited by the file extension? I tried adding AND Extension = 'mp3' but that didn't work.

Nyn

[ZvezdanD]

Can someone tell me how to modify my masks to be limited by the file extension? I tried adding AND Extension = 'mp3' but that didn't work.

There are several solutions. If you are looking only for one specific extension, then you could write SubStr(Songs.SongPath, -3, 3) = 'mp3'. Here is a more general way which works with any number of characters in extension (3 for mp3, 4 for flac): <Format> = 'mp3'.

[onenonymous]

Can someone tell me how to modify my masks to be limited by the file extension? I tried adding AND Extension = 'mp3' but that didn't work.

Nyn

try <Format> = 'mp3'

edit: drat = Z beat me... and a better answer

[nynaevelan]

Thank you both that worked perfectly.

Nyn