Playlist strategy for managing Beta roms

[Angstrom]

Hi all,

I've starting working on importing my 1G1R (for the most part) No-intro collection into Launchbox. There are some beta roms for many platforms, and I'd like to keep these separate from the released versions (rather than consolidating into one entry) to make it easier to find interesting betas that might be worth playing in the future.

The challenge I'm facing is how to create a playlist of all games for a platform that excludes the betas. The most important reason for this is I've found that the metadata scraping often applies the same metadata and box art to a beta rom, which makes the beta and released rom indistinguishable when viewing your library in Launchbox. So I thought I could create two playlists - one of just betas and one including all games EXCEPT betas.

The problem is I can't figure out how to exclude betas programmatically. A beta rom is defined by having "(Beta)" in the version field for a rom. When choosing fields for autogenerated playlist, we have the ability to filter off of Version, but we can't do a "does not contain" comparison. I tried "Is Not Equal To" but that doesn't work (probably expected).

Has anyone come up with clever strategies to solve this or is the best option to manually populate a playlist? Thanks!

[Angstrom]

Actually I think I arrived at a solution. I wound up making a custom field called "Beta" and set to "Yes" (using the bulk edit feature). With that in place, I was able to use the "Is Not Equal To" conditional to create a playlist that excludes the beta roms.