Filtering-in 1000 albums

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Can anyone suggest how I can filter-in all the albums on a list of 1000?

Each album is in a separate directory so I have tried:

%_parent_directory% IS 00008637207120 OR %_parent_directory% IS 00008637209025 OR %_parent_directory% IS 00008637211721 OR %_parent_directory% IS 00008637215323 OR ...

but this exceeds the 30000-char limit of the filter.

I do not want to change the track files.

Thanks.

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Regex MATCHES ???

... or ... just an idea ... maybe you can create subgroups?

%_parent_directory% HAS leading 000086372
AND
(%_parent_directory% HAS trailing 09025 OR
%_parent_directory% HAS trailing 11721 OR
%_parent_directory% HAS trailing 15323)

DD.20140628.1952.CEST

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30000 characters - that is a about the equivalent of 7 pages A4 (80 chars by 55 lines). I simply doubt that anyone would ever type in such a filter.

As you give only 4 examples it is very hard to tell how to filter the actual data.
Do you really want help for a filter or simply tell that you have found the limits of an input box?

4

Agreed. I paste it.

You misunderstood. That's one example, abbreviated.

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I can't see how that will work on an arbitrary list.

D, it is an arbitrary list. Generated by Export of a playlist.

6

If you have the list from a playlist ... why don't you d&d the playlist as this apparently has all the tracks in it. Then there is no need for filtering.

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Hmm ... but the filter cannot be arbitrary?!
You want to find concrete targets.

DD.20140628.1956.CEST

8

!!! good idea !!!

DD.20140628.1958.CEST

9

This filter string can be arbitrary. Referring to the concrete targets in the arbitrary list of albums.

10

Incorrect again. It does not have all the tracks in it.

11

%_directory% MATCHES "Edits|Mori|Nat"

... finds all tracks within the folders ...
Nat 'King' Cole
Alanis Morisette
Edits

20140628.2038.CEST

12

Thank you. Perhaps the supplied information was misleading, then.

How do you get all tracks?

A little more maths: you have to load a fairly high number of files to filter 1000 albums.
If each album has an average of 12 tracks you list 12000 tracks. And then?

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Ah, to compress the string. With album IDs of 14 chars, that cuts my 1000-album list string to 4125 chars. Good enough for now! Thanks for the workaround.

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Correct. I do have a fairly high number of files.