Forcing unique results in dynamic playlists

[John Atkinson]

On 9 March 2010 23:20, Justin Brown <justin.brown1.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just bought a spindle of CDs, and I'm trying to create several disks of
> my top rated music for my 6-disk changer in my car. My idea was to use
> dynamic playlists with certain criteria such as:
> >3 stars
> 0% of several albums that I will burn separately
>
> The problem is that I don't have much music rated >3 stars, and
> consequently, I get a lot of duplicates in the generated playlist. This
> makes it very tedious to clean up the playlist, so that I don't burn
> duplicates.
>
> <snip>
>

A potential work-around solution exists (although I haven't tried it):

There is already "remove duplicates" functionality, however you have to
invoke it manually from the playlist main menu. I would have thought that
extending the number of tracks randomly generated, then clicking this would
give you a reasonably quick way to generate a playlist with the criteria you
mentioned.

I agree that a "unique tracks only" version for the selection process itself
would be better though. Personally, I've never been restrictive enough to
notice that it happened.
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