Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Smartmix Hits, Misses and Foibles

2016-03-19 Thread doctor_big
If only there were a way to exorcise a particular instrument. Much jazz, and a whole bunch of classical seeds seem to invoke the hated soprano saxophone. Oregon is a particular offender, and some Keith Jarrett seem infused with this screeching, soft-jazz instrument. I know Coltrane did some marve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Smartmix Hits, Misses and Foibles

2016-03-14 Thread callesoroe
mherger wrote: > > First off, I have deleted every Chris De Burgh song from my library. > It > > was harder than I thought. Despite removing every album under Album > > Artist, there were still some versions of Lady in Red that remained > in > > Billboard top 100 and Various Artists that Smartm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Smartmix Hits, Misses and Foibles

2016-03-14 Thread Michael Herger
You could put give these their own Genre (i,e, DNP) , then in the Smartmix options, exclude DNP Not sure if this would work, but try "-John Williams" in the Artist Field in the Smartmix recipe. 7.9 would allow you to create "library views", filtered views of your music collection. Create one wh

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Smartmix Hits, Misses and Foibles

2016-03-14 Thread Michael Herger
First off, I have deleted every Chris De Burgh song from my library. It was harder than I thought. Despite removing every album under Album Artist, there were still some versions of Lady in Red that remained in Billboard top 100 and Various Artists that Smartmix would dredge up at the most inopp

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Smartmix Hits, Misses and Foibles

2016-03-13 Thread Tony T
doctor_big wrote: > > Next, I'm working on finding some way to exclude John Williams and James > Horner albums, as Titanic and Gladiator soundtracks seem to weasel their > ways in to any mix that starts off with Classical music. > > What do you guys have? > > Jason You could put give these t

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Smartmix Hits, Misses and Foibles

2016-03-12 Thread doctor_big
Hey all, First off, I want to make it clear that I love, -love-, LOVE smartmix. it's helped me discover the depths of my 9k album library, use it in a manner that would be impossible in any other manner. But that said, living with Smartmix is like living with another person who acts as a disc