Interesting test idea. I have often wondered what the possibilities are for
custom edited auto playlists. My particular interest is in having more
options in the "not heard in the last x days" category.

Have you seen any documentation on what the possibilities are for manually
editing auto playlists?
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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> 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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>