Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-19 Thread netchord
Hi Erland, appreciate your help, but the solution was a bit more effort than made sense. I've gone back to iTunes for this particular type of playlisting- doesn't sound as good as my TP, but it's far more straightforward to create a simple smart playlist. cheers/netchord --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-19 Thread erland
netchord wrote: > so, this worked for a while, until it didn't, and suddenly most of my > playlists, SQL or otherwise (created in iTunes) disappeared. full > rescan, didn't comeback. uninstalled Dynamic, SQL playlists, and > trackstat, rescan, all is back to normal. > Can you reproduce it ? Di

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-18 Thread netchord
so, this worked for a while, until it didn't, and suddenly most of my playlists, SQL or otherwise (created in iTunes) disappeared. full rescan, didn't comeback. uninstalled Dynamic, SQL playlists, and trackstat, rescan, all is back to normal. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread netchord
thanks- will test it out. adding these 3 plugins (TS, DP, SQL) seems to slow down my server significantly, and i hear a fair amount of activity on the external drive (Drobo) where my music is stored. is this to be expected? -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread erland
netchord wrote: > ok, that seems to work. and the "limit 10" in the last line specifies > the number of tracks in the playlist? will it update dynamically to > include additional tracks if i let it play? any harm in increasing the > number of tracks? > It's just how many tracks it adds each t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread netchord
ok, that seems to work. and the "limit 10" in the last line specifies the number of tracks in the playlist? will it update dynamically to include additional tracks if i let it play? any harm in increasing the number of tracks? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread erland
You can't put the extra statements at the end, they need to be inserted in the right places, so you need to put them as I specified in the sample, in your case it would be: Code: -- PlaylistName:SQL Jazz -- PlaylistGroups: select tracks.url from tracks join

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread netchord
ok, tried your example in your first post above, and received the following error: Error: near "join": syntax error Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: near "join": syntax error [for Statement "join track_statistics on tracks.url=track_statistics.url and track_s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread erland
netchord wrote: > Thanks Erland- i'll take a look- my preference is to do this with as few > resources as possible, and without having to edit SQL by hand. would > appreciate the template you mentioned, but for now it looks like i can > uninstall Trackstat and DynamicPlaylist, since the latter i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread netchord
Thanks Erland- i'll take a look- my preference is to do this with as few resources as possible, and without having to edit SQL by hand. would appreciate the template you mentioned, but for now it looks like i can uninstall Trackstat and DynamicPlaylist, since the latter is not necessary, and the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread erland
You will need SQL Playlist plugin also to accomplish something like this. At the moment I don't think there is a template for play counts, but I can add that later this week and publish a new SQL Playlist version. If you want to try it before then, you can create a customized version with raw SQL

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plugins and play count based playlists

2012-07-10 Thread netchord
So, I'm trying to accomplish something in LMS that is extremely straightforward in iTunes and most other PC media managers: build a smart playlist based on a predefined set of criteria, in this case genre & play count. these are not "more like this" or Genius style playlists, where the playlist i