2020-10-06, 01:30
What I would like to do is have a playlist for an individual artist, sort the most popular songs out over the collection of artist albums.
(2020-10-06, 01:30)Harro Wrote: sort the most popular songsHow do you define the criteria for "most popular songs"?
(2020-10-06, 01:37)Karellen Wrote:That's just it. I made a playlist for Cat Stevens (3 albums), first tried sorting by rating, which didn't do a thing. Next I sorted by my rating and gave to rate all the most popular songs, and that worked. I have over 20 Beatles albums so looking at an easier solution. In my office I have plex installed and clicking artist will sort by most popular songs. At home Kodi so looking to duplicate that plex list for popular songs(2020-10-06, 01:30)Harro Wrote: sort the most popular songsHow do you define the criteria for "most popular songs"?
(2020-10-06, 09:16)DaveBlake Wrote: So Plex gives you some random songs and calls them "popular", and you want Kodi to do the same? No idea what criteria Plex uses, so no way to tell you how to reproduce it.
Popular could be rating based, or playcount or a combination of those weighted in some way.... or Plex could connect to some remote site that has a global popularity value for songs.
(2020-10-11, 19:13)tkgafs Wrote: use the gui to create a smart playlist select the artist and sort by playcount descending (this will be your most popular tracks)Thanks for that. But if a person added new albums, there wouldn't be any play count yet. So plex must be getting popular songs from some site.
you should end up with something like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="songs">
<name>Beatles</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="artist" operator="contains">
<value>Beatles</value>
</rule>
<order direction="descending">playcount</order>
</smartplaylist>
you could also limit to first 50 or whatever
(2020-10-11, 19:21)Harro Wrote:yes but they are your most popular songs. As you play newly added albums, then those tracks playcount will increase so in time if you play an album a lot it will progress up this smart playlist. Conversly if you only ever use the smart playlist to play an artist then yes newly added albums will tend to remain at the bottom as they'll never get played.(2020-10-11, 19:13)tkgafs Wrote: use the gui to create a smart playlist select the artist and sort by playcount descending (this will be your most popular tracks)Thanks for that. But if a person added new albums, there wouldn't be any play count yet. So plex must be getting popular songs from some site.
you should end up with something like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="songs">
<name>Beatles</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="artist" operator="contains">
<value>Beatles</value>
</rule>
<order direction="descending">playcount</order>
</smartplaylist>
you could also limit to first 50 or whatever