Smart Filter

Use the Smart Filter dialog to restrict your active playlist to a certain group of files.

Example: You wish to restrict your active playlist to TV shows that have not yet been watched. The search criteria would include two rules:

• Match [all] of the following rules:
  • [Category] [contains] [TV Show]
  • [Play Count] [is] [0]

You can use many different attributes of your media files for filtering your active playlists - including Artist, Album, Bit depth, Duration, File type, File size, Genre, Height, Width, Year, Title and Rating.

If you have multiple rules in your search criteria, you can choose to have media files match all the rules or match any of the rules.

To enter a rule, choose a field from the first combo box (for example, Genre or Artist or Album). Then, choose an operator (for example, 'is' or 'starts with'). Then, enter the value to match with (for example, 'Rock').

To add a new rule, click the + button at the end of a rule. A new empty rule will be added into the dialog box.

To remove a rule, click the - button at the end of a rule. The rule will be removed.

Limiting playlist is useful if you do not wish to see all matching media files, but just a certain number. For example, the top 50 rated songs, or the 100 recently added videos.

Limiting can also be useful for collecting a set of matching media files to be written to removable media (USB/CD/DVD). For example, you can limit the duration to 80 minutes so you can burn the smart playlist to fit an audio CD, or you can limit the total file size to 64GB so you copy the files onto your USB flash drive.

To limit your smart playlist, enter the amount of the limit and type of limit you wish to apply. You can limit by:

• the number of items - for example, limit the playlist to 100 media files.
• the duration - for example, limit the playlist to 80 minutes total duration.
• the file size - for example, limit the playlist to 64GB total file size.