handheld vs console Playlist?

[Junky B]

Is there a way to filter for just console games to create a playlist?  I see a "portable" field, but not sure what it does.  I don't see any others that would be relevant.

Thanks

[Lordmonkus]

Not exactly sure what you are asking. Launchbox has categories to separate your Console and Handheld platforms and you can generate playlists using the platform name.

[Junky B]

I don't want to seperate, I want to a field to filter for auto-populate.  I set my auto-populate playlist to "Platform Category: Consoles", but Handhelds are showing.

How do you auto-populate a playlist based on platform category?  Example: auto populated playlist with only console golf games.

Edited February 22, 2018 by Junky B

[Junky B]

It looks like "Platform Category" doesn't filter games, it only groups playlists

[Lordmonkus]

I'm not exactly sure what it is you are trying to do.

The auto populating playlists relies on the meta data of the games to help it out and the Platform Categories just organizes the platforms.

If you are wanting to just make a playlist for all your "Console" games and none of your "Handheld" ones, just go to each Console platform, select all the games using Control + A and then right click and add to new playlist. You can just rinse and repeat for each platform but after the first one just add to the existing playlist you made from the first one.

[Junky B]

I want to create a playlist with games from multiple consoles & arcade titles.

I guess I can't do this:

Auto-Populate: True

Title contains = "Golf"

& Platform Category = "Console"

[Junky B]

My workaround:  Batch edit every handheld platform and set the field portable=true.  This seems to be an unused field.

Auto-Populate: True

Title contains = "Golf"

& Portable = "False"

[Lordmonkus]

You can't do "Platform Category" but you can do "Platform" and select the different platforms you do want it to pull from.

Yeah flagging all the portable games would work as well.

[Junky B]

Selecting 25-30(?) platforms for a playlist makes auto-populate kinda pointless.   

It would be nice if all fields were searchable, and the filters were additive (AND) instead of just "OR" in the future to allow inverted queries.

Thanks for the replies.

[Lordmonkus]

If I remember correctly I believe Platform Categories was added after the Playlists (I could be wrong though) and @Jason Carr didn't go back in and add it to the list of options for the Auto Population window.

Your tagging of all the Handheld games using the Bulk Edit tool is certainly the best work around for now.