Auto Populate Playlist don't work with more than one condition?

[Tomkun]

Hi.

I'm not sure if I'm being stupid here, but I am trying to create a playlist which excludes certain systems. It's not important, but the reason is I want to exclude systems which are curated outside of Launchbox. (Mame, ExoDos, WinExo etc...)

So, I create a playlist with the condition:

platform - does not equal - MAME.

And it works! Great! No MAME games!

But when I add the second condition:

platform - does not equal - Microsoft DOS

The playlist breaks. Both MAME and DOS games are appearing.

I can't understand why this doesn't work.

 

[sundogak]

3 hours ago, Tomkun said:

Hi.

I'm not sure if I'm being stupid here, but I am trying to create a playlist which excludes certain systems. It's not important, but the reason is I want to exclude systems which are curated outside of Launchbox. (Mame, ExoDos, WinExo etc...)

So, I create a playlist with the condition:

platform - does not equal - MAME.

And it works! Great! No MAME games!

But when I add the second condition:

platform - does not equal - Microsoft DOS

The playlist breaks. Both MAME and DOS games are appearing.

I can't understand why this doesn't work.

 

You cannot daisy chain same name field conditions (basically an "AND" query).  But you can accomplish what you want by doing as below with the "Has None of the Values" and separating the platforms you do not want by semicolon. Example below excludes Apple II, MAME, and MS-DOS games.  

Edited October 8, 2021 by sundogak

[Tomkun]

Thanks for the solution. I'm going to check it now.

But I'm not crazy, am I? Logically this should work and if it is indeed working as intended it really needs to be documented and made impossible to choose the same name field twice.

[xmas]

1. I guess we still need "AND" daisy chain multiple fields as they are common for creating smart list..(such as iTunes)

I was trying to modify Cave playlist since it's missing some of games.

Play list default shows as following:

and it shows these game list:

But if I try to add another field with source containing "cave"

it will only show 5 list since it doesn't sum up both field that matches.

 

This is problem because when I show sources only instead of publisher (default)

it will show different game list.

 

 

If "Cave" is auto-populating the game list, it should show all games

that include both published AND  source code used by cave.

Therefore, fields should have "ANY" or "AND" style to accomplish full list.

I found this works 100% perfect with iTunes smart playlist:

EX) When I click "all", it won't show The Beatles songs but if I click "any" it will include Beatles and John Lennon, etc.

 

Edited October 9, 2021 by xmas

[Tomkun]

Yes, I agree with you. Every system that I have used with smart playlist has been like that. For example, Kodi, iTunes etc...
I can't believe this is the intended behaviour, because it makes the smart playlist more-or-less useless for complicated queries.

[Bidule200]

I would also love to see and AND/OR for daisy chaining queries!

[Bidule200]

Are the Launchbox devs at least interested in implementing such a feature?

[darreldearth]

I would like to see it implemented also. Confused the crap out of me till I realized I couldn't use the same operator twice to create an AND/OR.

[paulitix]

I know it's not ideal but you can create temp playlists for each of the conditions you require and then select all and choose add to your desired playlist (it must me manually created though, not auto-populated).

[Light Sock]

That one was confusing! It would be really great to have the choice of the conditions logic. AND/OR is basic and would save a lot of time.

For example Disney isn't in every Title. So I would like to have Alternate Name Contains Disney AND Title Contains Disney