Auto-Playlist of Highlighted Songs?

[shemantis]

I use highlighting rules to distinguish songs with "issues," such as incorrect filenames, missing tags, etc.
I'd like to make an auto-playlist that includes ALL songs that are affected by highlighting rules.
I am aware of the <Highlight> tag, but can't seem to make it function as a true/false type of tag, where I can use an IF statement to make something like IF<Highlight>="true","X") and then use that to form an auto-playlist of all highlighted songs.
Thank you!

[psychoadept]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

I don't think this is possible. You'll just have to recreate the highlighting rules in your playlist. (I have a similar situation, it's a pain if you need to change one of the rules but it's doable.)

[shemantis]

Oh, I was hoping to use the playlist to *gather* the highlighted songs into one easy-to-scroll location, so just re-creating them in the playlist kinda defeats the purpose of the exercise. Thank you, though!

[psychoadept]

Depending on how compilcated the rules are, you might be able to create a virtual tag that would serve for both highlighting and playlists. But if you're not using the highlighting except to create the playlists, then it's unnecessary effort.

[shemantis]

I use the highlights for two reasons:
--Visually identify "issue" tracks in my Inbox (before being added to the Library, to make sure I correct the issues before I import them).
--Visually identify tracks with issues that already made it to the Library, so I can fix them as I come across them.

It would just be nice to have a playlist that gathers ALL the "issue" tracks for me to review on days that I feel ambitious, and want to try to correct a bunch at once.

[psychoadept]

Yeah, the only way I can think of to reduce duplication would be to create a virtual tag (if possible) to identify the issues you're looking for. Then you just have the one tag to mess with in playlists and highlighting.