Smartlist
Smartlist are playlist generated by using expressions e.g. all tracks with a 5 star rating.
Duplicates
There are many reasons why there will be duplicates:
- you have the original albums and “The best of…”
- the same composition performed by different musicians
- the same song by the same group but one is a live performance
- errors in the tagging resulting in different movements of a composition has the same name
- etc.
You can make a Smartlist to detect duplicates.
A simple one is using Name, all the songs with the same name.
Sort them by Name to get the duplicates grouped.
If you use the name (title) only, you can get a lot of false positives especially in case of classical music.
Adding the artist solves this problem.
Adding duration gives you a list of exact duplicates.
Tracks without cover art
Make a smartlist
If you press Import/Export, you see the syntax.
You can edit it manual if needed.
AND and OR
You want a smartlist containing all the works by Beethoven and Schubert
This is simple, just select the two from the picklist.
This is an OR function.
You want all the sonatas by Beethoven.
You need 2 rules and they act like an AND function.
You want all the work by Beethoven and all the sonatas regardless of the composer.
If you look closely at the screenshot above, you see a ( right in front of the Composer and a ) at the end of the Album rule. Indeed if you click next to this fields you can toggle between ( and [ to group rules together using OR or AND.
All the works by Beethoven with sonata in the album title and all the works by Schubert with piano in the title.
Couldn't get it to work using the interface.
Hand typing the expression solved it but in the interface it looks a bit funny
(([Composer]=[Schubert, Franz /(1797 - 1828/)] and [Album]="piano") or ([Composer]=[Beethoven, Ludwig van /(1770-1829/)] and [Album]="sonata"))