Better Automated Playlists

[Mr.Laor]

I created a ticket on Bitbucket for better automated playlists.

We could really use "and" "or"  features. For example, if you wanted all Capcom fighting games - there is no way to include - Developer = Capcom AND genre = fighting. Instead, you will get all fighting games as well as all games made by Capcom.

There are many examples. Let's say you wanted a collection of all Mario games, but not Mario Kart. There is no way to have that automatically generated.

Here is the bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/6045/better-automated-playlists

Any support for this improvement?

[C-Beats]

I understand the desire but your examples don't help your case at all. The way the auto-gen playlist boolean logic works is that each unique field is joined with an AND and a repeated field is treated as an OR. Because of that both examples are possible with the current auto-gen system.

For example:

Developer | Equals | Capcom
Genre | Equals | Fighting

Will give you a playlist of Capcom fighting games (as requested)

And:

Developer | Equals | Capcom
Genre | Equals | Fighting
Genre | Equals | Adventure

Will give you a playlist of Capcom Fighting OR Adventure games

Series | Equals | Mario
Title | Is Not Equal To | Mario Kart

Would result in the playlist you are requesting in your second example.

[Mr.Laor]

1 hour ago, C-Beats said:

I understand the desire but your examples don't help your case at all. The way the auto-gen playlist boolean logic works is that each unique field is joined with an AND and a repeated field is treated as an OR. Because of that both examples are possible with the current auto-gen system.

For example:

Developer | Equals | Capcom
Genre | Equals | Fighting

Will give you a playlist of Capcom fighting games (as requested)

And:

Developer | Equals | Capcom
Genre | Equals | Fighting
Genre | Equals | Adventure

Will give you a playlist of Capcom Fighting OR Adventure games

Series | Equals | Mario
Title | Is Not Equal To | Mario Kart

Would result in the playlist you are requesting in your second example.

Unfortunately I posted off memory.

Here is a more specific example. Let's say I wanted all James Bond games.

I set up

Title contains James Bond 

Title contains 007

Now I have a problem - all games that have 2007 in the title also appear (think sports games).

How could I exclude those? I

 

Here is another example:

For my Capcom fighting games

I want to include EITHER  published or developed by Capcom and genre Fighting

Right now if I enter 

Publisher contains Capcom

Developer contains Capcom

Genre is fighting

Then I only get games that meet all the criteria, but I I want "OR" as an option for Publisher/Developer since they aren't always listed.

 

Do these examples make sense?

[C-Beats]

Yeah. As I said, I knew what you meant and that the lack of granular control of the AND/OR causes some playlists to be impossible. I just wanted to make you aware that the wording in the post and the examples given didn't really correlate to the real problem. I wanted to make sure it was clarified for others reading the post how it actually worked as to limit any possible confusion.

[Mr.Laor]

Do you think I should edit my initial post with the new examples?