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In Foobar2000, I would like to make an autoplaylist that only shows songs that are not currently in another specific (manual) playlist.

Is there any way to query for this?

I imagine the query to look something like:

%rating% GREATER 3 AND NOT IN playlist1 OR playlist2

The ultimate goal would be to sort all my favorite music into two categories and to have an easy way to do so in the future.

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I don't think it's possible to do exactly what you want without creating a custom plugin.

However, my suggestion would be to add a custom metadata field to mark the files from your existing "manual" playlist. That way you can easily create two autoplaylists - one to represent the old one and a new one that doesn't overlap the other.

Note that this assumes that your playlist is a Foobar playlist and not a generic (M3U etc.) playlist

  • To add the metadata field, select and right-click the relevant files from your original list and choose Properties. In the Metadata tab, right-click and select Add new field...

    How to add metadata

  • Set Field name to be FAVOURITE

  • Set a single value which will be True

  • To add your new auto playlists, choose Library-> Search.

  • Enter the following filter string for you manual playlist:

    FAVOURITE IS "True"

  • Click the ... button and choose Create Autoplaylist

  • For your other autoplaylist you need something like the following:

    FAVOURITE MISSING AND RATING GREATER 3

Alternatively you could use a numeric value for the custom field in order to allow more than two playlists.

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I downloaded a component for foobar2k called "Quick Tagger" or foo_quicktag.

Within Tools > Tagging ? Quick Tagger I have setup a custom Field known as "Rating" with the Values "1; 2; 3; 4; 5"

Within a playlist you can right-click a song and under Quick Tagger you will see Rating with a sub-menu of your options--in this case 1 through 5.

To see the fancy rating visuals tithin Display -> Default User Interface -> Playlist View setup a Custom Column known as "Rating" with the Pattern "$if(%rating%,$repeat(o,%rating%),x)"

Replace o with the character you want to fill up your 1-5 rating. I have replaced o with a more bullet-type character. Replace "x" with anything you want for when a song is not rated. This could be a single bullet or an entirely different character to indicate rating unavailable.

What you are now left with is within a PlayList you will see each song has a Ratings column with a properly assigned Rating tag. Start having fun and tagging your songs.

Now I wanna make a playlist after I got a bunch of songs. I want all Songs with 3 or higher stars. I type "RATING GREATER 2" into my music library Filter and it shows only songs I have rated 3 or higher. I add all this to a playlist and start having fun.

Good luck!

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