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Isn't the criteria Accessible Podcast episodes -> Sort by Date Descending the same as current: Genre is Podcast -> Sort by Date Descending ? |
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No, as "Accessible Podcast episodes" refers to a single Podcast and genre podcast refers to all podcasts. Playlists should be created per each podcast containing only accessible episodes from that podcast not others. |
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Then one can use "Podcast equals" condition: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sf7a6lw0r1l6raw/screenshot%202020-04-07%2021.51.48.png?dl=0 It always shows only accessible (downloaded) episodes. Or are you rahter suggesting that MM should auto-generate M3U playlists also for podcasts ? i.e. something similar to Sync Profile > Also generate playlists for: [ ] Selected artist nodes [ ] Selected album nodes [ ] Selected folder nodes i.e. add [ ] Selected podcast nodes there? |
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Yes, For each Podcast and Audio Book user ATM needs to create Auto Playlist Manually in order to sync and show them on Device. I had another session with user that have issues and would like to use MM for syncing Podcasts and Audio Books. So I showed him how to create New AutoPlaylist using these steps. We firstly created Two new Static Playlists (Audio Books and Podcasts) -> Then Under each we we creating Auto Playlist one by one: Copy Name of Audio Book/Podcast from Tree -> Created new sub Auto playlist under root Playlist and used "<Podcastname> (Podcast)"/"<Audio Book Name> (Audio Book)" to name Playlist -> instead of "Equal" We used "Starts with" and pasted name of Podcast/Audio Book (It is easier than scrolling thru 100s of names -> Set Sort by (for Podcasts = Date Z..A, For Audio Books = Track#) And that handles that. But user needs to do that for 100+ Podcasts and Audio Books. Yes, issue is in Automatic creation of podcast playlists for devices that do not support Podcasts and Audio Books natively. He pointed out that it is hard for regular User to go to Device & Services -> ... -> Configure -> Options -> Playlists and enable "Selected podcast nodes" like you suggested. Instead of he suggested to add option directly In Sync -> Device options for Podcasts and Audio Books (Attached pictures) where it would be clear that User can enable creation of playlists easily. Podcast playlists.png (38,363 bytes) Audio Books playlists.png (29,443 bytes) |
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I suppose that this way we would need to move also the current checkboxes like '[ ] Selected artist nodes' from 'Sync profile' > Playlists to the 'Sync list' tab. But this would be problematic as the selected artist/album nodes can be under multiple different collections. So I would rather lean toward to add the '[ ] Selected podcast nodes' to the 'Sync profile' > Playlists (in order to not have playlist configuration in various places). Assigned to Rusty to review/triage the suggested UI. |
- Anonymous
