MegaDJ v2.59 [MM3+4] 2012: Better compatibility + time fix

[the unknown]

Hi Twinbee,

yes, its because its just easier for me to use the group feature of magicnodes to organize my music collection. With it i can see at a glance which songs are taken out of circulation (from my music pool) so I have better control on how often an mp3 is played. Am sure lots of people use magicnodes so it would be great if we can use megadj to better control our mp3 collections. thanks!

[emagin]

This may be a noob question, but I cannot figure out how to concatenate many "OR" genres together.
I tried this without any luck:

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Genre ~ (ambient OR world OR instrumental OR chillout OR electro OR electronica OR folk OR bossa nova OR celtic)

[twinbee]

One of two solutions:

"Genre ~ ambient OR Genre~world OR Genre~instrumental" etc. etc. etc.

Or simply:
(ambient OR world OR instrumental OR chillout OR electro OR electronica OR folk OR bossa nova OR celtic)

...without the genre bit. However, it would take those words even if they weren't in the Genre. So in summary, the first is closer to what you would want. Your idea of grouping them together to avoid using Genre all the time is quite good in a way, but MDJ doesn't work like that at present.

[Mars74]

Hello,

First, le me thank you for this wonderful script.
The rotate function seems not to recognise the Auto-Playlists. Is there any possibility to change that ?

Thanks in advance.

[twinbee]

I may consider that in the future, though MegaDJ can do practically everything Autoplaylists can do, so are you sure MegaDJ can't create a similar node itself?

[Mars74]

Hi Twimbee,

Thanks for answering.
In that case, I manually maitain 'Brilliant' list, & create autoplaylist by original date (actually decade on the original date). Here are the playlists I'd like to rotate on.
Though it's feasible by copying my autoplaylists to manual ones, it would be easier if MeaDJ could handle directly ... Hopefully in the future

[twinbee]

If the autoplaylist is based on the date of the song, you might be able to use MegaDJ to set up an equivalent node, and then cycle between those instead. Are you 100% sure that's not an option?

[jcfogerty]

Do I have too many nodes? I am getting Error #58 and Error #70, "Line 665, column 2" when I try to delete unusable nodes. How can I remove the bad ones without throwing away the good? It also generates an error when I do the alt arrow to move nodes up the list. thanks!

[twinbee]

Hello,

How many nodes do you have approx? Is it is the tens or hundreds? Also, have you tried closing and reopening Mediamonkey to test if the bug still occurs?

There are a couple of ways we could go about this. Either you can reproduce the error from a clean setup (zero nodes). Or you can give me all the nodes you have, and hopefully the same error will happen on my system, and so I can try and fix the error like that. The former method is preferable, though may be tricky to do, so feel free to try the latter.

[emagin]

One of two solutions:
"Genre ~ ambient OR Genre~world OR Genre~instrumental" etc. etc. etc.
Or simply:
(ambient OR world OR instrumental OR chillout OR electro OR electronica OR folk OR bossa nova OR celtic)
...without the genre bit. However, it would take those words even if they weren't in the Genre. So in summary, the first is closer to what you would want. Your idea of grouping them together to avoid using Genre all the time is quite good in a way, but MDJ doesn't work like that at present.

Was wondering if you might adopt a Gmail type of notation for boolean searches.
I use curly brackets a lot in complex Gmail filters and find that it is a very clean and easy to remember notation.

Lifehacker Article

Instead, surround the disjunctive search terms with curly brackets {}. Searching Gmail with {to:adam subject:iPhone} will yield the same results as the OR search above while allowing you more room for tweaking the terms and saving you from typing an endless string of ORs. Everything inside the curly brackets is assumed to be linked with OR.

Gmail Reference

[twinbee]

hi,

As well as using OR, you can use |. It's almost as clean, and a bit more consistent (proper separation between phrases, as well as keywords).

For example:
(ambient | world | instrumental)

What do you think?

[Santadog]

Hi,

Nice add-on!
Before I buy it, I have two questions:

1.
I want MM to start with the nodes in MegaDJ collapsed.
How can I do that?

2.
I want a node with 3 random (complete) albums, sorted on albumname/tracks.

ad 2)
All complete albums have a custom field called 'Album' or 'tracks'(=not a complete album), so the first SQL will be:
Custom 1='Album'
Then I have to find 3 Albums: tracks with the same AlbumArtist and the same Albumtitle.
The result must be sorted on Album and track#.
Any idea?

Btw: every Album is located in a seperate folder: ...\Artist\Album\tracks.
So maybe a SQL for 3 random pathnames?

Thanks for your response!

[twinbee]

1. I want MM to start with the nodes in MegaDJ collapsed.
How can I do that?

Not possible yet unfortunately. I'll add it to the Todo list. It's one of those things that could be dead to easy to implement if I'm lucky.

2. I want a node with 3 random (complete) albums, sorted on albumname/tracks.

ad 2)
All complete albums have a custom field called 'Album' or 'tracks'(=not a complete album), so the first SQL will be:
Custom 1='Album'
Then I have to find 3 Albums: tracks with the same AlbumArtist and the same Albumtitle.
The result must be sorted on Album and track#.
Any idea?

Btw: every Album is located in a seperate folder: ...\Artist\Album\tracks.
So maybe a SQL for 3 random pathnames?

I doubt this will be possible, but you're the not the first who's asked for this kind of feature. It would add a massive layer of complexity onto MegaDJ if I did try to implement it. Perhaps try MagicNodes?

[Santadog]

Ok, thanks.
(sorry if 2. was an old question).
I'll try to learn some scripting for MagicNodes.
Still, MegaDJ is a nice add-on.

[davidrsvp]

Thanks for taking my query and for an awesome program.

I'm having trouble with a specific genre, apparently because it contains one of the filter characters. I have R&B as a genre. Is there any way to get MediaDJ to recognize and sort by that as a genre specifically (ie not use the & character as an "and" filter)? I've tried every combination I can think of.

Also, I have quite a number of albumwrap files. To not include them in a playlist, would adding a FileLength math filter of around 23000000 (most album wraps are larger than this while most single mp3 songs are smaller) be the best method? And would the optimal filter be: FileLength<23000000 ?

Thanks again~