how to search for multiple artist in a smarter smart playlist?

[osfight.de]

Very simple thing:

I want to create a smart list which searches for

artist contains "artist 1"

OR

artist contains "artist 2"

AND rating at least "three stars"

where the AND connects with the first and second statement. As far as I understand the smart playlist, the OR refers to "match of the following >any<" and the AND to ">all<". But what I need is to have both separate. The idea would be to have another field for each criteria with the wanted connection (OR, AND).

I also tried to separate the artists in the criteria "artist contains artist1, artist2" as banshee accepts this kind of search in the search field. But the smart list does not support this kind of connection.

Any idea, is this wanted behavior?

Thanks in advance,

osfight.de

[Jeff Wheeler-2]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:15 PM, osfight.de <linux@...> wrote:

> where the AND connects with the first and second statement. As far as I
> understand the smart playlist, the OR refers to "match of the following
>>any<" and the AND to ">all<". But what I need is to have both separate. The
> idea would be to have another field for each criteria with the wanted
> connection (OR, AND).

As far as I know, Banshee doesn't support these nested boolean
expressions. An alternative solution, which is certainly ugly, is to
have a separate smart playlist for the OR expression, and then have
the final expression require that it be in the first playlist AND
whatever other expressions you want.

(By the way, iTunes 9 added support for nested boolean expressions.)

Jeff Wheeler
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[osfight.de]

Thanks for the reply,

any idea how to request such a feature? Just sendind a message in the mailing list?

[Alexander Kojevnikov]

2009/9/16 osfight.de <linux@...>:
>
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> any idea how to request such a feature? Just sendind a message in the
> mailing list?

It's already in BGO, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571105
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[osfight.de]

Got it, thanks!

[Alexander Kojevnikov]

2009/9/11 osfight.de <linux@...>:

>
> Very simple thing:
>
> I want to create a smart list which searches for
>
> artist contains "artist 1"
>
> OR
>
> artist contains "artist 2"
>
> AND rating at least "three stars"
>
> where the AND connects with the first and second statement. As far as I
> understand the smart playlist, the OR refers to "match of the following
>>any<" and the AND to ">all<". But what I need is to have both separate. The
> idea would be to have another field for each criteria with the wanted
> connection (OR, AND).
>
> I also tried to separate the artists in the criteria "artist contains
> artist1, artist2" as banshee accepts this kind of search in the search
> field. But the smart list does not support this kind of connection.
>
> Any idea, is this wanted behavior?

Banshee doesn't support this at the moment:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571105
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