Smart List selected by Most often Played selected alphabetically

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Smart List selected by Most often Played selected alphabetically

I have a Top 500 playlist which is intended to select the most often played (ie the highest play counts), limited by many criteria, including several playlist is not criterion, which themselves include playlist folders.

In practice, it selects songs according to those criteria, but not those with the highest play counts. Rather it selects them alphabetically, from the end of the alphabet. So I get only ones that are W-Z artists, in my case.

Sure seems to be a bug.

It seems that the "playlist is not {group playlist}" could be the culprit. I could test by removing them, but I have dozens, so want to ask here first if anyone has seen this issue.

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Posted on Sep 7, 2025 05:18 AM

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ed2345

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Sep 7, 2025 09:45 AM in response to Loren Ryter

Loren,

"Playlist is not.." should correctly handle its argument being a playlist folder instead of a playlist, at least I have not noticed a problem.

You may have discovered a new bug. However, given the intricacy of the rules as you describe, there may be something being overlooked. Can you create a simpler version of the logic and see if it works as expected, and then expand it to the full desired functionality? If you care to post the rules here, perhaps someone can take a look.

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