Playlist Filter: Playlist

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olewen
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Playlist Filter: Playlist

Post by olewen »

The possibility to add another playlist as a filter for a new playlist, so you can have a playlist made of several playlist
tamalet
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Post by tamalet »

What do you mean by filter? The Allow and Deny filters can be dynamic or static playlists.
If what you mean is to be able define dynamic playlist with a rule saying that the song is in another (static or dynamic) playlist, I suggested that some time ago, but anonbeat said that it would bring performance problems. And you also would need to check for circularities in definitions, which makes things more complicated.
olewen
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Post by olewen »

I meant the second option
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Post by tamalet »

I also think it would be a nice feature, but I'm willing to give it up if it will hurt performance.
With that feature you would need to do a query of a query (of a query ....), which can be problematic on large databases.
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Post by olewen »

And what about adding multiple filter to the player filter like "allow X and Y Deny Z and W" instead of only one?
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Post by tamalet »

I don't know about that. Another restriction is that you can join all the rules by AND (default) or by OR (ticking on any criteria). I don't know if it just because it simplifies the interface or it is also for efficiency reasons (I guess it's a bit of both).

With your suggestion you would be able to overcome the restriction, but maybe that's not wanted.
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