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Dynamic playlists: any way to do this?

Long-time lurker, first-time poster.  I'm trying to setup a dynamic playlist system.  Basically I have a large music collection (~450GB) and quite often lose track of which new albums I've acquired in a given month.

I would like to be able to create a dynamic playlist (or some kind of library query that I can run once a month or so) that will give me a list of all the media files in my Foobar library that were added to the library (or otherwise created) within <X> days/weeks of today's date.

I can't see a metadata field that would allow me to use the builtin library search function.  Is there an easy way to access filesystem metadata like DATE_CREATED (modified date wouldn't work -- otherwise newly-rated tracks would show up) or DATE_ADDED?

Ideally, there would be a component out there somehwere that automatically generates a playlist using specified criteria, but I can't seem to find a working version of foo_autoplaylist or similar.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

(PS -- I'm using 0.9.5.3 with a heavily customised ColumnsUI).

Dynamic playlists: any way to do this?

Reply #1 –
you really need the playlist statistics component available off the main foobar page and an autoplaylist and a search on the forum...

i am at work so dont have the time to explain but all of this is quite easy to realise... if you have any questions once you have learnt about the %added% functionality post them here...

Dynamic playlists: any way to do this?

Reply #2 –
That dynamic playlist is called autoplaylist in foobar. If you search for that term in this forum together with %added% you will find more then enough topics.

Because I am to lazy to search for you I give you a hint:
%last_played% DURING LAST x WEEKS
%added% DURING LAST x WEEKS
%last_modified% DURING LAST x WEEKS
WEEKS can be SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS or YEARS. x is a number.

Use this as a query and save the results as an autoplaylist. For the searchbox you need the database search component from foosion: http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/?...amp;version=1.4

Also the default album list can filter by this query and save the results as an autoplaylist.

As 4nt1 says: you need the official playcount statistics component to get %added% and %last_played% tags in your files. Download here: http://foobar2000.org/components/foo_playcount.zip. When its the first time you install this component, all %added% tags will have the date of the day you install this