Oh, I found the solution, although I have no idea why Audirvãna made adding and editing smart playlists so painfully complicated. Why are there splitted windows in the filter editor? What is the difference between a filter and a rule? And if there is a difference, why is the rule thing in the filter editor? Why can’t I add a rule from the upper window and first have to add a filter from the bottom window? What do I have to type in the field next to the “Rating” filter to look for four-star songs? Why can’t one just click on the playlist and select “edit”? Sorry to say that, but this whole playlist thing doesn’t make any logical and “natural” sense to me.
The rule is to is about defining one or more conditions that songs must meet to be automatically added to this playlist: for example songs added since less than 30 days. The conditions are defined as a rule including a criterion, a rule and a target value. In the example, ‘date added’, ‘less than’ and ‘30d’.
A filter consists in choosing a criterion from the list and defining a value among those present in the selection. This then means you can do filtering over a rule.
It could be perfectible, I agree. I made some recommandations to make some change in the playlist editor and especially for the playlist creation but we made decision for the 2.0 update, we can probably work on this for a future update.
This part for example is perfectible but for the filter and rule section, the way it’s done is probably not helping you understand how it works and we need to think about how to simplify it more.
Sorry @Antoine, if my little outburst seems to be a bit harsh. English is not my first language and I certainly mean no offense and do disrespect to you guys personally and all the work you guys put into Audirvãna!
I guess I have to add some more smart playlists to get to know your ideas behind the integration of it better.
So what was the solution? The only way I have found is to set up five rules (“rating = 1”, “rating = 2” and so on) and stipulate that none of them may be true; but I can’t believe that there isn’t a less clunky way. The picture suggests that you need to set a filter in the lower part of the window, but the YT video suggests that editing a smart playlist involves using only the upper part. I have no idea what is supposed to be the difference between the upper and lower parts.
I’m currently trying out the demo and I really like the sound, but I’m doubtful whether to buy the app because I agree with the OP that the GUI is a nightmare. If you’re going to make it this complicated you really need to provide a proper manual.
But that is not my “concern”.
for example is perfectible but for the filter and rule section, the way it’s done is probably not helping you understand how it works and we need to think about how to simplify it more.