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Auto-Populate Playlist with Pattern


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I absolutely love this thing, but I'm trying to work through some cleanup in my library, and think it would be helpful to have a playlist for games beginning with each letter of the alphabet and one for non-alphabet characters.  I would think the way to do that would be with "Is Similar To" comparison, but no patterns I try will work.  I feel like there should be a few more comparison options, such as:

  • Matches Pattern
  • Does Not Match Pattern
  • Starts With
  • Does Not Start With

If what I'm attempting can be done with one of the existing comparisons, can anyone help me get there?  I have tried the following with "Is Similar To":

  • ^a.* (RegEx)
  • a* (wildcard)
  • a% (SQL wildcard)

Suggestions welcome.

Thanks!

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I'd personally recommend you steer clear of trying to do that. We have other functionality in app to help you quickly jump to a letter and the playlist will just add a lot of frustrating bloat once you are comfortable with those features. Inside of LaunchBox you can select any item in the content list and then just press the letter you want to jump to and after a half second LB will jump to the first game with that starts with that letter (you can actually type a word and jump to that should you want. Typing M-A-R would take you to the first game starting with "Mar" for example). Inside of Big Box we have the index in every game view that also allows you to simply jump to a letter. Both would be faster than selecting the playlist, especially if you want to quickly change between letters.

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