this is not simple, is there any way to have a playlist with the 2 highest rated songs for each artist?

Try this:



This will return every song that has a rating of 2, and displayed as
Artist>(Date) Album>Tracknumber - Song.

You can modify the format as you wish, i.e. just to display the artist subfolder.

i think i am just plainly stupid, cause whatever I try I do not get this thing to work. I won't even succeed to make it appear as column in foobar. I must be doing something wrong, but I really don't know what.
I read in the .txt file that came with it that you should do something with "panels" but there the fun starts...where can i find that???

i am improving...found what was wrong...i thought all the time i had the right colums, but i didn't. Now I have it...up to the next thing...

mmm maybe i didn't eplained well, i wanted just 2 tracks for EACH artist, the 2 highest rated

in your code i think there is a "]" that shouldn't be there

AFAIK, there's no way to limit the number of items in a subfolder (in this case the artist subfolder).

What you could do is to use the provided code and use as query this
NOT %rating% MISSING

and sort by %rating%

This will put the highest rated songs for every artist in the top of the artist subfolder. It's the closes t thing you could possibly do. You could always request to cwbowron to implement this.


Where? It works here

After I added songs into the playlist tree, how do I play them ?
I double-click the songs in playlist tree, nothing happened, no sound.

I am trying this plugin and I think it is great by the way.

I want to add a query that shows me which albums and artists have been added to my database. I want the tree to display only the artist and album once (something like [%artist%] [%album%]).
I managed to display all recently added tracks using a simple query, but I do not want to display all tracks from one album, just the album and artist once:

This is what I managed to get so far in the tree view:

Artist#1 - Album #1 - Track #1
Artist#1 - Album #1 - Track #2
Artist#1 - Album #1 - Track #3 and so on
Artist#2 - Album #1 - Track #1
Artist#2 - Album #1 - Track #2 and so on

This is what I want:
Artist#1 - Album #1
Artist#1 - Album #2
Artist#1 - Album #1 and so on

I am not so script savvy I guess If anyone could help I would appreciate.

Thanks

Query is: tracknumber IS 1 OR tracknumber IS 01

Format is: %album%|%title%

This is the best you'll do I think.

Thank you. It worked perfectly.

I have finally spent some time with this component....and I love it!

Would it be possible to allow for TAGZ use in the Library Playlist field of the preferences? I would like to preserve the name of the node that I select, as it will allow me to use either Album or Single mode in Navigator (Column UI).

Basically, instead of using a generic term like "Playlist Tree" for my playlist name, I would like it to be %name%, which would then use the selected folder in the Playlist Tree as the name of the playlist created when I select that node.

I can do this in a round-about way by right-clicking my folder, choosing "playlist > new". But I would have to do that each time new songs are added.

Just a thought....if it can be done, I thank you in advance!

kockroach that's implemented in the latest version (1.6.3)

I'm using the 1.4.17, which is the one listed as the latest stable version. I'll have to check out 1.6.3.

Edit: Thanks for pointing that out dano.....works like a charm!

Edit2: Two other questions.

1. Is it possible to use $if statements in the Label of a Folder/Query? I have a couple of folders that are used to display total number of artists, albums, tracks, etc. Instead of specifically adding in either %foldercount% or %itemcount% to the Label, I would like to have it do something like this:

If %foldercount% greater than 1, then show %foldercount%; if %foldercount% is less than 1 (that is 0), then show %itemcount%.

I have tried using the $if commands, but it always shows the whole string, so you actually see $if in the Label.

2. If a Folder/Query is set to No Browse, can you prevent it from being automatically being sent to the Libray Playlist? The folders listed above are only intended on showing stats of my database, so I don't want to create a playlist if I select that line. However, I would still like to automatically create playlists when selecting my dynamic queries.

Not a huge deal, but it would help clean up my Playlist Tree and the playlists that are generated. I've looked through the tutorial and through the preferences, and I can't seem to be able to do these two things.

Edit3: Figured out question #1. Didn't have $format($if.....

I'm sorry to quote such an old reply of you, but can you tell me how it's possible? (assuming that it will show no duplicates)

Just hide leafs nodes. It'll hide the tracks in the tree browser. I'm not sure if this is what you're asking

No. I thought with tree browser he meant the actual browser, and not the playlist tree with the queries.
I wanted to use the browser for some kind of winamp media library emulation, but it's impossible I gues.

Not sure if this is more pertinent to database manipulation, but is there a way to link artists together to use in a query (without specifically creating a tag)? What I want to do is modify my "current artist" query to include results by artists which are related (user-created relations) but don't have the same %artist% tag.

You could do that but only for the now playing track via $playing(). But I don't think it's possible to do that for non playing tracks. you coudl however request it to developper in the official forum.

Hello, I am insuccessfully trying to have a format like that :
$cut($if(%album artist%,#album artist#,#artist#),1)|
$if(%album artist%,#album artist#,#artist#)|
'('%date%') '%album%|[%disc%.]$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%

What i want, is a "First Letter/Artist/(date) - Album/Track - Title" display

Is it possible?
And if it is, please, what is the good syntax?

Why do you use this character # ?
Replace it by % and it should work

It'd for multiple tags, i.e. %artist%=Snoop and %artist%=N.E.R.D., calling #artist# will return both as 'Snoop' and 'N.E.R.D." under a different subtree, calling %artist% will return a subtree 'Snoop N.E.R.D'.

Yes, that feature is very usefull, but i can't use it inside of if functions...

$cut(#artist#,1)|#artist#|'('%date%') '%album%|[%disc%.]$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%

works well!

Oh thanks for the info i didn t know about that

Sorry Soulman for the wrong info

No pb Hamallainen, so, someone knows if what i'm trying to do is possible?
And so, how to do that?

thank you.

for those albums with more than 1 CD, is it possibe to display like below

Just add a tag with the number of discs

What do you mean ? I'm using dynamic folder and how it can create CD1, CD2 dynamically

What's the query for "never played"? Right now, I have...



Which returns nothing. I suspect the songs that has never been played don't actually have PLAYCOUNT = 0 meta.

Also, what's the sort criteria for sort by artist, album, track number? I think default sorts it by artist, album, track title (0, A, B, C, D, etc.)

Try this.




And this should work...

Sweet. Thanks, dude. Those work well.

Hello, I have some questions about format problems :

- I've tryed to use :
"$cut(#artist#,1)|#artist#|'('%date%') '%album%|[%disc%.]$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%"
The problem is that format don't work with artists with an ' in the name. What can I do?
These entryes are displayed as "[SYNTAX ERROR IN FORMATING TREE]"

- I've tryed to use :
"$if(%album artist%,$cut(#album artist#,1),$cut(#artist#,1))|$if(%album artist%,#album artist#,#artist#)|'('%date%') '%album%|[%disc%.]$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%"
But with this format I have just file having %artist% AND %album artist% tags in the result... i don't understand!

i've had the same problem and i solved it by changing sign ' to $char(8217) - in all pieces with ' in the artist name - first find all artists with ' and then use this script in masstager - "format value from other fields":

Thank you a lot for this help, that work well.

And, for my other problem, the next foobar version, with tags associations : %artist% = $if3(%album artist%,%artist%...) my problem will be resolved.

So i have just to white to playlisttree ported on foobar 0.9

I'm sorry for you (and for me too as I am a PLT dependent) but I think it will take a year or more:

1) the SDK is not out yet

2) the author of PLT is taken by other interests by now. I don't event think he is following the threads here or in his forum.


It would be nice instead if the album list authors would consider implementing some of the smarter devices PLT has in their own plugin.
But I'm afraid PLT has not many frieds among programmer because it eats up many resources; the opposite of the philosophy of FB itself.

Unfortunately, I built up so nice queries with PLT that I can't go back to Albumlist. Having a lot of multiple values fields (with jazz and classical I can't do without them) I'm forced (and quite happy) to stay with it even if the development and bug fixing stopped abruptly with the release of FB 0.9.

Hope I'm wrong.

Maybe autoplaylist can at least help a bit

Playlist Tree *will* be updated as soon as the .9 SDK is released.

I read every post on the official playlist tree forum, as well as every post in this thread. I was working on another project (pspChess) which has reached a mature point and does not require much of my time. At this point however, it does not seem the most advantageous to add new features to PT when some of those features might be addressed in the finalized version of 0.9 or might make porting to 0.9 SDK more difficult when it is released.

Sorry to tease you... but it worked.

I'm glad to hear your other project is going on well.

And about PLTree, while waiting to the events, would you consider making a little bug fixing and a little adjustement too ? (if it really is little - I'm no programmer so I don't really know):

Bug fixing - when I drag a selection from the tree to a playlist, the scroll bar of the tree panel go down very fast when the pointer is passin on it;

Adjustement - can we have the option "Add to playlist" in the "double click action" list?
And can we have the options "Ctrl + doubleclick action" and "Shft + doubleclick action" too? (And the Add to playlist option in them too?).

Thanks.


P.S:

With all the queries I put on my tree panel, Foobar takes 40 secs to start. When you'll port the thing to 0.9, would you consider looking for a way to make the loading in the background with FB soon opened and playing?

Thanks for your time and work.

Bye, Fabio.

Add to Playlist should be equivalent to setting the action to "Send to Active" and turning off "Double Click Replace". Is there something I am missing?

ot: cwbowron, nice to hear from you! i love your component, great work ... can't wait for new versions.

When I'm selecting songs, building a playlist, I start with a doubleclick and I need "doubleclick replace" on to avoid having to clear or delete the active playlist. As I want to add further selections to the playlist, the only thing I have is "add to playlist" from the (second level) right click menu. You will agree with me that is quite inconvenient having to go to the config to uncheck the "double click replace" and then go back and make a doubleclick.

In fact, what I am missing most is a "Ctrl + double click" action whose list would include an "Add to playlist" option. As we have already been told many times, the tree view does not support multiple selections and this (action = send; ctrl + action = add; shft + action = anything else, maybe remove) could be a nice way to make the playlist building a quicker affair, I think.

Thanks.

Change of subject.

Is there a way to filter out things only when the content of two different fields matches (or when it doesn't)?

It seems that I can't achieve that in the playlist generator language so I wrote the format string below but that makes me carry with me the unwanted things too (the else value of the $if)



Don't you know a better way to do that?

Thanks again for your attention.

There is a hackish way to do multiple selections with the tree view. Control Click on something and it will become bold. (C-Click again and it will become unbold). You can do multiple selections by making stuff bold then selecting Bold... From the context menu and there are a few things you can do with the bolded items. (add to playlist, create new playlist, etc)



I believe you could use "$stricmp(%__tempo%,%tempo%)" as your query, and leave the foo_playlistgen_ex button unchecked for your query.

It's been a while since I've done a non-playlist gen syntax query though.

He's alive! Alive!

Good to see you back dude.

After using Playlist Tree for awhile now.. I've come to live with any of the initial gripes that I had using it at first.

Except one...

Column Sorting in the Playlist Tree Browser..... would be really nice

...oh... and the ability to take away the embedded shortcuts ("M" to bring up menu, etc.)

I know you've probably heard these before CBOWRON... But I'm so picky.

Seriously though, such a good plugin. Thanks a lot for developing (and choosing to continue developing) it.

I think that the way I suggested (Ctrl + double click) is the most straightforward way to add to a playlist, as the plain doubleclick is to send to it.

With the way you mentioned I can't see the playlist content progress as I select nodes or leaves but I will see what I selected only when I trigger the final action.

But well, if you feel it's a waste of time adding it to the 0.8, at least consider to add this and the "shft + doubleclick = remove selected if present" when you'll port to 0.9, if possible.

For now, I can keep on without it.


P.S.

jkwarras, I was sure you would turn up here too!

RELEASE 1.6.4

option: CONFIG:process local shortcut keys

changed expansion level code to not need to refresh whole tree = faster

changed functionality of root/collapse to set_expansion(0)

I.Love.You.

How do I create more top-level nodes? I can't drag anything above the one I have now.

Hi Folks, thinking about the following problem:

some Albums I have encoded lossy and lossless. I would like to list all Albums, and if MP3 and Flac exists, I would like to see only the Flac files.

Any idea before I reinvent the wheel ? I saw somewhere a discussion around this, but don't exactely remember....

Thx Tom

I think you should put "__codec IS flac" in the query window.

nope, this just lists than the flac files only... thx anyway...