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

Interesting request. It doesn't seem like it would be an unusual request at
all but it seems you are correct. Some fields you can choose equals but not
for year. And what's with the decades list in the selections?

Dale

"John Shailer" <JohnShailer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to create an Autoplaylist for songs released in 2006 - WMP 11
>doesn't
> seem to allow this ?

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
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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?
--
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
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:36:00 -0800, Dale <dale0973@nospam.nospam>
wrote:

>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?


Only these, but neither is anywhere near complete : The MSDN docs
under the main page are unusually sparse because I think there are
more available values just from inspecting WMP's wpl file output.

http://www.wischik.com/damon/Comp/wplFormat.html
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb249685.aspx

As it's all standard XML, manipulating these is a walk in the park.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

As I had previosly assumed, the MSDN page confirms that you couldn't
substitute a value range other than what was in the dropdown already. For
instance, for LastPlayed, there is 7 days, and 30 days. I'd like to have 14
days. Just can't be done.

Oh well. I still like the auto playlists. I use them almost exclusively
for filtering my music as I listen.

Dale

--
Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:36:00 -0800, Dale <dale0973@nospam.nospam>
> wrote:
>
> >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?
>
>
> Only these, but neither is anywhere near complete : The MSDN docs
> under the main page are unusually sparse because I think there are
> more available values just from inspecting WMP's wpl file output.
>
> http://www.wischik.com/damon/Comp/wplFormat.html
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb249685.aspx
>
> As it's all standard XML, manipulating these is a walk in the park.
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>