by Lowlander » Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:19 pm
I want to be able to search for a specific artist in a specific genre, then add another search with another artist in maybe another genre and so on. My idea is that when you add a condition you can add a subcondition to that with of course the normal search parameters as (AND, OR and NOT). Then when you add a second condition it is probably okay that it's added as an AND condition, but maybe other options need to be available to.
In other words, my point of view is creating autoplaylists. I would like to be able to get the following on one autoplaylist:
Genre "Rock en Espanol" NOT Artist "Mana" +
Genre "Classic Rock" +
Genre "Rock" ONLY Artist "Pearl Jam"
As you can see NOT Artist "Mana" and ONLY Artist "Pearl Jam" are subconditions for the main condition Genre. In the condition Genre "Classic Rock" there is no subcondition. I could even see people wanting more than one subcondition ie. Genre "Classic Rock" ONLY Artist "Santana" ONLY Album "Supernatural". Also the same main condition should be allowed multiple times to allow for different subconditions on them ie.
Genre "Classic Rock" ONLY Artist "Santana" ONLY Album "Supernatural"
Genre "Classic Rock" ONLY Artist "Nirvana" ONLY SongLength "<3:00".
With all this I would like to see an option to filter out double entries in the search results, just an option as you sometimes want doubles.
Currently when I add to conditions like (artist - equals - artistname) twice with a different artistname nothing shows up in the search results, same for genre. This seems to be a bug as I read from the help file that it should be possible (or only with ratings as mentioned in helpfile???)
This for me has an importance for creating auto playlist as that feature is just so great! Except that you can't add much to it at this point.
PS. I know much has been written about this and it's on the to-do list. I just had some thoughts about this topic I wanted to share. Please let us know where the new search development is currently.
I want to be able to search for a specific artist in a specific genre, then add another search with another artist in maybe another genre and so on. My idea is that when you add a condition you can add a subcondition to that with of course the normal search parameters as (AND, OR and NOT). Then when you add a second condition it is probably okay that it's added as an AND condition, but maybe other options need to be available to.
In other words, my point of view is creating autoplaylists. I would like to be able to get the following on one autoplaylist:
[b]Genre "Rock en Espanol" NOT Artist "Mana" +
Genre "Classic Rock" +
Genre "Rock" ONLY Artist "Pearl Jam"[/b]
As you can see [b]NOT Artist "Mana"[/b] and [b]ONLY Artist "Pearl Jam"[/b] are subconditions for the main condition [i]Genre[/i]. In the condition [b]Genre "Classic Rock"[/b] there is no subcondition. I could even see people wanting more than one subcondition ie. [b]Genre "Classic Rock" ONLY Artist "Santana" ONLY Album "Supernatural"[/b]. Also the same main condition should be allowed multiple times to allow for different subconditions on them ie.
[b]Genre "Classic Rock" ONLY Artist "Santana" ONLY Album "Supernatural"
Genre "Classic Rock" ONLY Artist "Nirvana" ONLY SongLength "<3:00"[/b].
With all this I would like to see an option to filter out double entries in the search results, just an option as you sometimes want doubles.
Currently when I add to conditions like (artist - equals - artistname) twice with a different artistname nothing shows up in the search results, same for genre. This seems to be a bug as I read from the help file that it should be possible (or only with ratings as mentioned in helpfile???)
This for me has an importance for creating auto playlist as that feature is just so great! Except that you can't add much to it at this point.
[size=75]PS. I know much has been written about this and it's on the to-do list. I just had some thoughts about this topic I wanted to share. Please let us know where the new search development is currently.[/size]