[collected] Song Rating Genre Management and Smart Playlist

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Hi,

AFAIC, the two features I really lack are:

  • support for song rating (1 to 5 stars) and genre (drop down of existing genres + option to create new one) management from UI
  • support for “smart” playlists like in “play 4 stars rated reggae tracks” or even better “play (rock or blues) tracks which rating is >= 3”

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absolutely right, I was missing this features too. in 2014 this should be expected in any player - I am adding myself to this thread to follow the development or further comments on this.

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FYI I’ve two tickets opened on this subject:
github.com/jotak/Volumio-WebUI/issues/5
github.com/jotak/Volumio-WebUI/issues/6

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Yes the rating is required,Have you considered a database Sqlite Ex. sourceforge.net/p/rompr/wiki/Ena … 20Tagging/

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Up, it would be great to have a rating system !

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I know this is old, but “Smart Playlists” (where I can play all “4-star” songs (or “all 4+ star songs”)) is the one feature I feel this package is really missing that’s keeping it from greatness.

Really, I don’t even need true “smart” playlists: just some way to select all songs of a certain or minimum rating.

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I user Volumio since years and really love it! The only thing which I really miss is song-ratings: it would be very helpful to at least see the ratings and have the ability to sort; filtering or selecting songs based on their rating would be perfect.

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Yes, we desperately need the ability to filter/select songs based on any tag meeting any criteria!

It’s unfortunate that the only solution here is to use a program with better ‘smart list’ functionality to generate an M3U playlist an then import that via a plugin (which currently needs to be installed manually).

It’s unfortunate enough that I fear I’m going to have to cancel my sub and find an alternate player. :frowning:

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have you looked at Cantata. It can be connected to Volumio’s MPD and has a lot of playlist capeabilties.

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Thank you for the tip, but the development of cantata has ceased and the latest release is from March. Although it is for Linux, I’m searching for an Android App.