2022-11-22, 18:51
Hi all, I'm trying to solve a problem relating to smart playlist filtering. I have custom tags for Flac and MP3 files, specifically a tag entitled Export, that I use to filter tracks when sending to external devices from my library in order to conserve usage of limited storage on those devices. The library is external to Kodi, but Kodi gets a full replicated version. My library is quite large and thus has many redundant/semi-redundant tracks (ie a track from its original album, then a Greatest Hits album redundant track, then a Live version semi-redundant track). In these scenarios I will usually flag the files not to be exported by setting the Export flag to SKIP on versions of a track I can afford to miss. I'd like to add this same filter to smart playlist criteria, but realize that smart playlists are not looking at file tags, just at the database, and the ingestion of such tags doesn't seem to accommodate custom tags like my Export. Just wondering if anyone has thoughts for working around this scenario.