Autoplaylists tips for Foobar users (Uniti & Qute)
Posted by: Tom_W on 11 November 2010
Many of you may already be aware of this functionality, but for those that aren't this can really personalise how you use your Uniti (or Qute i'm assuming).
Autoplaylists are filtered lists of music that automatically update when you add new music to your collection.
They are useful for Uniti owners because they are accessed with only 3 button presses from the UPnP input screen, and you can tailor them exactly to your requirements. Also, they are displayed as a list of individual tracks without sub-folders, so are perfect for playing using shuffle when you are feeling lazy
These are some of my uses:
Lists of recently added music
Lists of mixed genres e.g. Jazz and Downtempo, Electronica and Experimental
Music from the 50's and 60's
Music to do the hoovering to (nothing less than 160 bpm)....I joke, but you get the idea.
To set them up, go to Library - Album List, or Library - Search in the menu bar. This will show all the music in your collection. You can then filter it to your requirement by typing in an expression in the 'filter' box. (n.b. you can also type into the 'quick Search' box if you have installed this component). To new users it can be a bit daunting getting your head around how to compose the expressions, but if you are familiar with using MS Excel, it's a bit like that. Click on the question mark to see some help on the query syntax.
As with all digital music, having your tags and metadata in an orderly fashion is essential for getting predictable results.
To get you started, try cutting and pasting these expressions (replace the genre names like jazz with your own preferences):
%added% DURING LAST 4 WEEKS
%genre% HAS jazz OR %genre% HAS downtempo
%date% GREATER 1949 AND %date% LESS 1970
Once you can see your music collection has been filtered, right click where it says 'All Music' in the Album List window, and Create Autoplaylist.
That's it. You can rename the playlist to something you will easily recognise from the small Uniti screen if you like.
Have fun!
If anyone else has good autoplaylists, or related tips they would like to share, please post here.
Cheers
Tom
Autoplaylists are filtered lists of music that automatically update when you add new music to your collection.
They are useful for Uniti owners because they are accessed with only 3 button presses from the UPnP input screen, and you can tailor them exactly to your requirements. Also, they are displayed as a list of individual tracks without sub-folders, so are perfect for playing using shuffle when you are feeling lazy
These are some of my uses:
Lists of recently added music
Lists of mixed genres e.g. Jazz and Downtempo, Electronica and Experimental
Music from the 50's and 60's
Music to do the hoovering to (nothing less than 160 bpm)....I joke, but you get the idea.
To set them up, go to Library - Album List, or Library - Search in the menu bar. This will show all the music in your collection. You can then filter it to your requirement by typing in an expression in the 'filter' box. (n.b. you can also type into the 'quick Search' box if you have installed this component). To new users it can be a bit daunting getting your head around how to compose the expressions, but if you are familiar with using MS Excel, it's a bit like that. Click on the question mark to see some help on the query syntax.
As with all digital music, having your tags and metadata in an orderly fashion is essential for getting predictable results.
To get you started, try cutting and pasting these expressions (replace the genre names like jazz with your own preferences):
%added% DURING LAST 4 WEEKS
%genre% HAS jazz OR %genre% HAS downtempo
%date% GREATER 1949 AND %date% LESS 1970
Once you can see your music collection has been filtered, right click where it says 'All Music' in the Album List window, and Create Autoplaylist.
That's it. You can rename the playlist to something you will easily recognise from the small Uniti screen if you like.
Have fun!
If anyone else has good autoplaylists, or related tips they would like to share, please post here.
Cheers
Tom
Pev wanted to know if there was a way of shuffle playing all his music without including any Grateful Dead. He wanted to do this without setting up separate libraries. see this post
Solution:
Set up autoplaylist as detailed above in first post, and use this expression to filter:
NOT %artist% HAS grateful dead
This could also be useful for similar situations such as: NOT %genre% HAS x factor
If you want a playlist with ONLY Grateful Dead in it, just remove the NOT from the start.
Solution:
Set up autoplaylist as detailed above in first post, and use this expression to filter:
NOT %artist% HAS grateful dead
This could also be useful for similar situations such as: NOT %genre% HAS x factor
If you want a playlist with ONLY Grateful Dead in it, just remove the NOT from the start.