[quote="yarguy"]What's not "clean" about the Linked Tracks extension? I've been using it for several years for classical music where you normally want to play all the movements of a piece each of which is usually a separate track. Linked tracks allows me to randomize classical pieces and have the whole piece play rather than just a track. I've found it a particularly elegant approach to multi-track pieces; it's one of the main reasons I use MM.[/quote]

Say two tracks are linked...track 7 and track 8 off album X.
In my random auto playlist, if track 7 comes up before track 8 it works perfectly.
Track 7 plays then track 8 plays regardless of where track 8 was in the playlist.
Just what I want.

However, if track 8 comes up first, it plays track 8 for about two or three seconds, then stops and moves onto the next track.
When track 7 eventually comes around, that track plays then track 8 plays as stated above.

That is what I meant by not "clean".
But I can live with it.

What's not "clean" about the Linked Tracks extension? I've been using it for several years for classical music where you normally want to play all the movements of a piece each of which is usually a separate track. Linked tracks allows me to randomize classical pieces and have the whole piece play rather than just a track. I've found it a particularly elegant approach to multi-track pieces; it's one of the main reasons I use MM.

[quote="mwg47x"]Thanks guys.
Lowlander, the script in that thread seems to work.
I have been farting around with it and while it isn't the cleanest solution, it IS a solution.
Much better than nothing, which is what I had.

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Thanks guys.
Lowlander, the script in that thread seems to work.
I have been farting around with it and while it isn't the cleanest solution, it IS a solution.
Much better than nothing, which is what I had.

Sullydks, that is a good idea when dealing with concept albums.
I may have to rerip some of these and do what you suggest.

Thanks again to both of you. :D

One approach is to rip the tracks as ONE track in the first place. As well as the individual Floyd tracks, I also rip into ONE FILE, all of "side 1" into a single file, then side 2 and also the whole album. I've done this for most bands with those full 'concept albums', side1/side2 / all etc. You can then choose which to use in playlists.
For AUTO playlists, I've used one of the custom fields to place an identifier that I can use as an exclusion criteria. eg. an X1 or whatever.

Try: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8464&hilit=linked+tracks

I use auto playlists quite a bit.
I also like to randomize them.
I have them set up by rating and times played.
That way I get to hear all the songs over time without repeats.
When all songs drop out of the list due to the number of times played being incremented, I just set that number one higher in the playlist conditions and start over.
Not a big deal as I have several thousand songs in this list and it takes me months to listen to all of it.
My question is this:

Is there a way to treat two songs as one in a playlist?
Here's an example:

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Tracks 1 and 2 really need to treated as one song.
The way my playlists work now, track 2 could play and several days/weeks later track 1 will play.
I would like to "bind" them together so they are treated as one song.
Is that possible?