Favorite artists query

[Bee-liever]

@ninjaman81
That report also crashes for me.

I know boroda is making some changes to the Library Reports as I was also having some errors.

Posting the error report in the Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools plugin thread would probably help boroda fix any problems

[tjinc]

Possible alternative method (if required):

   VirtualX: $If(<Love>="L",1,0)
   VirtualY: $Sum(<VirtualX>,<Album Artist>)

And then configure an auto-playlist with criterion:
   <VirtualY> 'is greater than' 5

Edit 07/01/24:
Typo corrected (<Love> was <Loved>)
In order to enable the arithmetic comparators in the auto-playlist ('is greater than', 'is less than' etc), you may need to set the 'type' of <VirtualY> to 'Number' (Preferences > Tags (2) > Configure Fields)

[ninjaman81]

Amazing! Thank you @tjinc. That is a much more elegant way to accomplish this and I don't even need the plugin.

This worked perfectly. Thank you so much!

[boroda]

i haven't coded for some time. Now, i'm going to fix various issues with the plugin. be patient and follow the plugin topic. i'll post an updated version in a few days.

[ninjaman81]

I got this to work by doing the following (the recommended code above used Loved instead of Love, which is the correct variable):


Virtual1: $If(<Love>="L",1,0)
Virtual2: $Sum(<Virtual1>,<Album Artist>)

And then configure an auto-playlist with this criterion:
   <Virtual2> match RegEx   [5-9]\d*|\d{2,}

I had to use RegEx because the dropdown in Musicbee didn't give me the option to use "Greater than". Which seems kind of stupid, so I was forced to use the RegEx and ChatGPT to help me with that nonsense (it looks like Greek to me, but that code says anything greater than 4). So now I have it working. If I heart/love more than 4 songs of an Album Artist, it will appear in my auto playlist. Awesome!

[tjinc]

This worked perfectly. Thank you so much!

Not so perfectly it seems!

Thanks for pointing this out - I have edited my previous post to correct my typo and added a note on how to enable the arithmetic comparators for the auto-playlist.