On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:22:01 -0800, John Shailer
<JohnShailer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I want to create an Autoplaylist for songs released in 2006 - WMP 11 doesn't
>seem to allow this ?


I'm not sure, it doesn't offer that as an option in the dropdown. I
tried it with Release Year and Date Recorded which offered a hard
coded selection as Dean noted, of 'decades' as well as 30 days/6
months/1 year/2 years. So nothing quite fits '1 year + 6 weeks' or
'specific year'.

However you ~can~ manually edit those playlists, which are just text
files. Right click the playlist and choose 'Open File Location'.

Find the file matching the name of your playlist (it will end in .wpl)
and drag the file onto an open copy of Notepad.

Find the line which has <fragment name="Release Date"> then the
<argument name="value">2000s</argument> (assuming you selected 2000's
as the period in the dropdown).

Replace that value inside the angle brackets with 2006. Now press
CTRL+S to save the file, avoiding Notepads save-as-txt options

Try reopening that in WMP and see if it's held your changes. I can't
make sense of the results here because I don't take much care with my
metadata enough to know if the tracks listed for 2006 correspond, but
you should be able to do it at your end.


HTH
Cheers - Neil
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