feat. in the title instead of artist field

English mAirList 6.x
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Hello,

i have switched on the debug modus.
I’m testing my radio for a few days right now. I hear some artists to much. The artist seperation is set at 2 hours. This isn’t working correctly.

As you can see i have set the " (feat. Calvin Harris) " in the title field, and not in the artist field like this => Benny Blanco feat. Calvin Harris .
Is this the reason?

Because if you see the screenshot of the system log you will see only “Benny Blanco - I found you” and not “Benny Blanco - I found you (feat. Calvin Harris)” This is the bug i think.

See attachments…

And another thing, i have different remixxes of some songs, I have read some articles that you always must write down the title like this => "Speechless [Throttle Remix] " is this correct ?

artist-song-name.png

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“feat.” will only be split when it’s in the artist. You must rewrite it as:

Title: I found you
Artist: Benny Blanco feat. Calvin Harris

It does make sense to have the artist names in the artist fields after all, doesn’t it?

For the title field, any part in [] brackets will be ignored when it comes to title separation.

What you see is in the system log is not a bug - the system log displays the filename of the song, not the metadata.

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okay thanks Torben! i will set all the artist names at the right way. nice job for this weekend :stuck_out_tongue:

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Consider spending the time learning SQL and then do it with a single statement at the end of the weekend 8)

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Hi Torben,

To add to this topic, I just discovered this in my playlist, artists should be split on feat. right? Cannot put it in debug anymore but just checking.

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Are both tracks in the same folder or in different ones?

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Same folder. I think I get why you are asking, maybe I need more artists in that folder :wink:

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Ok just checked, found out why. My track seperation penalty was higher then artist and that folder did contain a lot of the same artists. Changed the hours on the artist, let’s see how this goes :slight_smile:

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Okay, you’ve been faster… 8)

Here’s what I wrote in the meantime; maybe it will be helpful though:

Yes and no. :smiley:
If you have two different (too small) folders the mini scheduler must pick items from, it’s possible he can not handle the separation rules.

You know that you can a start a report on creating a playlist?

From this thread the quote came from we had this interesting discussion on that problem a few days before:
https://forum.mairlist.com/index.php/topic,10125.0.html

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Thanks for your reply. Yes I know about the debug option :slight_smile: , but I have an event that creates the playlist every hour. Until let’s say this week I had not problem with the same artists in a row (or didn’t notice it). I will generate some playlists with debug mode on, let’s have a look :slight_smile:

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It’s the same here too. :slight_smile:
I only use this special feature to figure out whether something’s went wrong or not - and, in result, it’s a fault in my music plan / rotation.

You can create playlists in debug mode without saving them or you save them and the event “Create playlist” gives a feedback “Playlist already exists”. That works fine.

Good luck!

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Recent 6.1 versions have the debug log option also in the “Generate playlists” action. Will be saved to the main data folder as MiniScheduler-<date/time>.txt.