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Intergalactic Llama Fighter
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: san francisco
Posts: 28
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Send us your Media Library View Presets!!!
We're on the lookout for cool Media Library View Presets to be included in a future release of Winamp. Here's an example of what we're looking for:
name="50's songs that don't suck" query="year >= "1950" AND year < "1960" AND rating >= "3" If you don't know what I'm talking about, Go into the Media Library and click "Library->Add New View" and check out the query builder and the Advanced editor tab. Thanks, Nullsoft |
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#2 |
Major Dude
Join Date: May 2001
Location: somewhere else
Posts: 1,270
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Not on my main computer, but this is close to one I use:
Good Songs I Haven't Heard in a While (((playcount >= 10) OR (rating >= 3)) ) AND (lastplay < [2 weeks ago]) powered by C₈H₁₀N₄O₂ |
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#3 |
not fucked, not quite.
(Forum King) |
I use these two a lot.
Long song filter LENGTH <= 00:01:00 AND TYPE == 0 and Short song filter LENGTH >= 00:01:00 AND TYPE == 0 Simple, but useful (to me atleast) |
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#4 |
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My collection too massive to bother with ratings so I just have views for genres and particular bands I like. When I come to a song I don't like I utilize the "next" function in order to skip it.
Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn. |
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#5 |
Junior Member
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<A> Most Played
playcount > "10" AND type = "0" <A> Recently Added lastupd > [10 days ago] AND type = "0" <A> Recently Played lastplay > [2 years ago] AND type = "0" <A> Less Played playcount <= "3" AND type = "0" <V> Most Played playcount > "10" AND type = "1" <V> Recently Added lastupd > [10 days ago] AND type = "1" <V> Recently Played lastplay > [2 years ago] AND type = "1" <V> Less Played playcount <= "3" AND type = "1" <A> for audio <V> for video got it? |
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#6 |
Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 73
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Full Albums
filename begins "H:" &! (filename begins "H:\Various Artists" | filename begins "H:\_Various Music") Various & Compilation filename begins "H:" & (filename begins "H:\Various Artists" | filename begins "H:\_Various Music") New Albums filename begins "H:" & lastupd >= [4 week ago] &! (filename begins "H:\Various Artists" | filename begins "H:\_Various Music") |
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#7 |
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#8 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 73
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I only knew FILEDATE (Last known file date/time on disk), which turned out to be a typo in the Query Language Documentation! |
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#9 |
Sawg 2.0
Major Dude Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 5,916
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Remixes:
title ENDS "mix)" or title ENDS "mix" Covers (After painstakingly putting "cover" somewhere in the comment of every cover song) comment has Cover Acoustic & Live filename HAS "(acoustic" OR filename HAS "(live" |
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#10 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 1
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Smashing Pumpkins - suck
artist HAS "Smashing Pumpkins" AND album NOTHAS "Machina" |
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#11 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 2
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Here's what I'm doing w/the media library
I'm using Winamp for both mp3s and video file management. Mp3 management is easier due to meta information being saved w/the file, but Video files don't benefit from this (many of the formats do not at least).
I've found that Winamp includes the path to the file as part of the filename, so now I'm placing my video files under categorized folders, and adding "keywords" into the folder names. Here's a summary of the way I'm structuring things (hopefully this will make sense as it works wonderfully!): /Video/Movies/Rated G ( Rated-G Childrens Family )/[Files here] /Video/TV ( Television )/Rated PG ( Rated-PG Teen )Sitcoms/Animated ( Cartoons Animated )/[Files here] /Video/Comedy/Rated G ( Rated-G Childrens Family )/Animated ( Cartoon )/[Files Here] /Video/Comedy/Rated R ( Rated-R Adult )/Standup ( Comedian Concert )/[Files here] Note how there's additional keywords included in parantheses after the initial part of the foldernames (WinXP, 2003 & 2000 support this... Not sure about prior versions). Also note that in addition to naming the folders in a meaningful way, you can (and should) name the files in a meaningful way. Such as "Futurama - Episode Name - s01e08.avi"). So now I can run queries such as: 1. Show me all sitcoms 2. Show me all Rated-PG television 3. Show me all Cartoons 4. Show me all animated TV sitcoms 5. Show me all Futurama 6. Show me all Movies 7. Show me all Rated-G movies 8. Show me all animated sitcoms And I get meaningful results from such querys! VERY cool. Well done to designers of the media library. If the above doesn't make sense, reply letting me know - It's hard to describe it , but it makes sense from a usability standpoint. ![]() |
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#12 |
Forum King
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Somewhere, USA
Posts: 2,233
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i like the recently added songs to library using filetime, but what would be cooler is if you could do something like the last 20 added songs to the database, no matter what date they were. Kinda like the MySQL 'limit' command, but for the library, that's my suggestion.
I'm not sure if this was discussed somewhere else, but I just remembered it and wanted to write it down before I forgot about it again ![]() |
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#13 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Posts: 293
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tried it but can't do it, I needed to be able to simply sort by update date :s
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#14 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 22
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This is all fine and Dandy, But
What about being able to do a search on strictly the comments field and have styles and tones descriptions in the comments field for each song. If I want to listen to music that is Adult Alternative I just type that into the search block and winamp does the rest.
[Edit --> DJ Egg] Dealt with here: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=175077 http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=175071 Please don't cross/double post any more posts regarding this issue. This thread is intended for posting ML Views, and nothing else. |
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#15 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Posts: 293
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here's my small contribution for those who have midi files in their library and still want to be able to only list real audio (not, not "Real" i mean mp3, wav, ogg, aac, m4a, etc)
No midis: ((type != "1") AND (!(filename ends "mid"))) simple yet usefull for someone like me who uses winamp to check the ringtones that I send to my cell phone :P ![]() |
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#16 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Limbo
Posts: 1,498
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Good Stuff - comment has a+ (mark all the songs I think are really good with an a+ in the comment field.
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#17 |
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Posts: 293
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Spazz333 couldn't it be done through rating?
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#18 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Limbo
Posts: 1,498
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Yes, but I personally hate song ratings. I dunno about other people but I have a bias when I rate songs. I tried it once and most of the songs I rated as 4 or 5 stars, kinda screws the point.
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#19 |
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Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 51
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I *would* have some neat presets if I could view the "composer" tag in my ML and set it through WA...
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#20 | |
Major Dude
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 991
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and 1-2 was dislike wouldnt that be the same as having an a+ on songs you like? There is no reset button on life... but the graphics kick ass |
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#21 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Limbo
Posts: 1,498
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This is true, although you can right click edit id3 tags through the playlist.
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#22 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 991
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though we are getting off topic,
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=173682 that has a plugin that allows you to rate in the playlist and http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=138586 which adds hotkeys for rating in the global hotkey section (along with the ability to show a little popup to tell you what song is playing) There is no reset button on life... but the graphics kick ass |
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#23 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 619
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I'd like to be able to filter results via playlists but I don't think you can do that (yet)
Winamp 5 updates Spilt_Milk |
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#24 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 349
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unfortunately anything time-based is IRRELEVANT
winamp still treats files on which the id3 tag has been edited since last rescan as "new" TOTALLY idiotic... |
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#25 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Posts: 293
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Veej007 don't blame winamp for that, blame windows! That happens, if I'm not mistaken, because winamp checks for the date of the last change of the file because some older windows only had that (if I'm not mistaken) and so anytime the file is changed it bumps to the top of the most recent list.
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#26 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 349
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the godfather has a "preserve file times" option, so i'd imagine that winamp could do the same
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#27 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Netherlands
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I just don't know why Winamp is lacking this option! |
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#28 |
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 35
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Show Full Albums (an album has only one entry in the Media Library)
I would still like to have some 'Windows Explorer'-like browsing ability in WA5's Media Library (my wishlist entry) Last edited by sinnema; 11th April 2004 at 00:38. |
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#29 | |
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Sacramento, Ca
Posts: 68
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Plus if I did rate a song a three or less why would I ever want to listen to it? I guess being a metalhead helps since all metal sound the same anyway right ;-) ![]() |
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#30 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 991
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well.. i rip the entire album, (just incase i want to listen to the whole album) and if there are a bunch of songs that i dont like, or if i bought the album and theres only 3 or 4 songs i like, then i can rate them better
for me, its only real purpose is for filtering in views There is no reset button on life... but the graphics kick ass |
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#31 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 124
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Good Jazz I haven't heard in a while:
genre has "jazz" & !lastplay >= [1 week ago] & !rating < "3" Good Stuff Not Played Recently !lastplay >= [10 days ago] & !rating < "3" Love Songs title has "love" Wife's Rotation (comment has "Wife's name") AND !(rating < 3) AND !lastplay >= [8 days ago] I use the "not" in all of these so that files that have never been played or rated don't get excluded. I rate as I go. Here's what my ratings mean: 5- stellar 4- great song 3- good song 2- so-so, I only keep it for the sake of completeness 1- hate it, should probably be deleted |
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#33 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 13
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What would be really neat is if you could build queries in the search bar in the regular media library without having to make a custom view for it. so have like a weird character indicate the start of a query as opposed to a regular text search, kind of like using the ` character in excel to indicate a text field and not a formula. So you'd end up with something like:
`year>1970 without cluttering up your library column with a bunch of different custom views. THAT would be sweet. jim |
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Already in there, try:
?year>1970 But I'm feeling much better now. |
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#35 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 13
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ooh! learn something new every day!
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#36 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: NL
Posts: 23
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What I would like to have - but I don't know how to do it - is generating a media library view that does something like this:
"Show only song by artists that have at least 10 songs in the library" Anyone knows if/how this is possible? Last edited by CaAl; 26th April 2004 at 10:29. |
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#37 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 619
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I'm not sure it is possible. (I'm not a Media Library Wizard), which is a pity because personal customised items like that WOULD be very useful indeed.
Winamp 5 updates Spilt_Milk |
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#38 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 2
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I use a set of 4 Library Views to manage my favorite music which gives an accurate representation of the music I currently like to listen to. The 4-view system I originally used with iTunes, but have been able to adapt it to Winamp's behavior rather easily.
Tier 1: Top rating >= "4" AND genre NOTHAS "Classical" AND genre NOTHAS "Soundtrack" AND genre NOTHAS "Relaxing" AND lastplay > [5 days ago] Tier 2: Aged rating >= "4" AND genre NOTHAS "Classical" AND genre NOTHAS "Soundtrack" AND genre NOTHAS "Relaxing" AND lastplay > [2 weeks ago] AND lastplay < [1 week ago] Tier 3: Forgotten rating >= "4" AND genre NOTHAS "Classical" AND genre NOTHAS "Soundtrack" AND genre NOTHAS "Relaxing" AND lastplay < [1 month ago] Tier 4: Potential rating = "3" AND genre NOTHAS "Classical" AND genre NOTHAS "Soundtrack" AND genre NOTHAS "Relaxing" AND lastplay > [2 weeks ago] Besides the obvious exclusion of the classical, soundtrack, and relaxing genres in every list, they are fairly simple. Tier 1 shows all music 4 or 5 stars played in the last 5 days (my current favorite music). Tier 2 shows 4 and 5 star music not played in the last week, but played within the last 2 weeks (music that hasn't been played for a while, but I might still like). Tier 3 shows me 4 and 5 star music that I haven't played for a month (for remembering old favorites, or demoting the rating of non-favorites). Tier 4 shows me 3 star music that I've played recently and if I notice a song that stays on this list for a long time, I will upgrade it to 4 stars. You may notice the gaps between the playlists where songs won't appear in any of them. This is intentional, to give those songs that fall off of a list time for me to forget about them and get fresh consideration when they appear on the next lowest tier. It should be noted that I didn't come up with this idea, though I did adapt it a bit by adding the 4th Tier. The original idea came from a post at smartplaylists.com |
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#39 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 991
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why rip classical/soundtrack/relaxing music at all if on the only 4 views you use, you dont have it included..
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Maybe for completeness, maybe he shares the computer with other users who use a different playback program, but both pull from the same music directory. Could be lots of reasons, and the local media view always shows ALL your media, if he ever needed access to them.
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