Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee question

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Dick Parker <merryoakparker yahoo com> wrote:
> Howdy y'all,
>  I'm a noobie to Linux and after a lot of trial and error research have
> settled on Linux Mint Debian Edition as my Linux OS of choice. Currently I'm
> running a dual boot with LMDE and Windows XP SP3 and hoping to switch
> completely to LMDE soon. My hold up is two programs which will not run on
> LMDE  even with WINE and/or CrossoverLinux.
>
> 1) MovieOrganizer 2.8.6 (http://www.movieorganizer.se/download.php (which
> can run with CrossoverLinux from codeweavers.com)
>
> 2) The biggie is JRivers Media Jukebox 8.400, the lowest entry in "old
> versions" here: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/
>
> My problems in finding or properly utilizing Banshee, Clementine, and other
> such programs are the need to create playlists or smartlists which allow, in
> addition to artist, for single and multiple genres (example: female
> vocalist, torch, romance, mood), to combine playlists or smartlists  and to
> be able to have the program not play lists which contain the genre
> "Christmas" except during the season.
>  Can Banshee do this and if not, any comments and suggestions for other
> Linux media programs would be greatly appreciated?

In Banshee, you can create playlists and smart playlist, and combine
then if you need to.
In particular, you can create a smart playlist that contains all
tracks that have a genre different than "Christmas".
For more details, see:
http://help.gnome.org/users/banshee/stable/playlists.html.en

If you want a playlist whose content changes automatically depending
on the date, so that for example it contains Christmas songs only in
December, then I don't think that's currently possible.
It would be possible to implement that as an extension, but it would
require some coding.

> Please ask if I have not clarified what I am seeking. When I tried it with
> Banshee, the program created 942 playlists rather than the dozen or so I had
> intended. I'm currently working with Clementine.

How did you end up with 942 playlists in Banshee ? That doesn't sound good...

> Thank you for any assistance, suggestions, and comments.

--
Bertrand