Instead of having a static list of playlists only, we should have a second type of playlist that allows you to "query" the database of music to display. So you can do something like:



This would effectively let you make playlists with certain genre's and artists. Allowing some realllllly cool possibilities. We're smart enough to do this sorta stuff arnt we?

Unfortunately I'm not a coder...

You'd also have to code a SQL front-end for the database, as it's not SQL-based.

Doesn't Extended Playlist Generator effectively do this?

Steve

As Paranoia said, foo_playlistgen_ext is just the thing you want.


Is the string you want to achieve your example.

Ahh, so this will update when I make the playlist active? I want to be able to have this playlist always current with as much "led zeppelin, mp3, 128+" if you get my drift. Not just a playlist generator.

You need to re-generate it, automatic updating isn't availible at this time.

Steve

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This is simpler than I made it sound. Preset can be made, so re-entering the code isn't necessary.

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And it really isn't that hard to manually recreating the playlists. Just set up a keyboard shortcut for "Generate Playlist" (mine's ctrl+g) and you're 4 keypresses away from updating the playlist. Ctrl+g -> ctrl+a -> enter and all my playlists are up to date again.

That SQL query isn't gonna even work unless you, for some weird reason, have a column for every format that's labled as a star, a period, and the extension (which is stupid and useless). The only thing SQL queries for the databases can help wth that you can't do with the playlist generator is simply statistics and whatnot which isn't really needed. SQL queries do sound like a fun toy for foobar, but when it comes down to it, you don't really need it.