Wildcards in mAirlist

[Luud]

Hello mAirlist friends,
Is it possible to use wildcards in “mAirlist 6.38 Home” when sorting or searching for records. As an example: sort or search on records of 198* (so I mean records from 1980 to 1989).

If so, what characters (Wildcards) can be used in mAirlist.
I wonder if someone can help me.
Thank you in advance.
Regards Luud,
from The Netherlands.

[Tondose]

Hi Luud,

you can make use of regular expressions, see here.

[Stefan_Hillen]

Hi Luud,

Wildcards in Search Bar

For the SEARCH just type i.e. “198” in the search bar and mAIrlist will find all items with this attribute.

You can change the behaviour of what mAirlist is allowed to search. Just use “attributes” in case of too much unwanted results.

Defined Range of Duration

There’s one special way to search for songs with a defined duration:

3:00+30 will find all elements with an effective (!) runtime of 3 minutes up to 3m30s

Wildcards in Music Blocks and Hour Templates

To set wildcards for music block items or items in your hour template, you can use the following parameters.

Example filter for the YEAR attribute:

~^19[89] will match only items starting with a year of 198 or 199
~(^19[9]|^20[0]) will match items with 199 or 200
~(^19[679]|^20[0]) will match items with a year of 1960 to 1979, 1990 to 1999 and 2000 to 2009
~200 will match items with a year starting with 200 only

!~197 will except all items beginning with 197
!~^19[89] will except all items beginning with 198 and 199

Example for filter BPM:

~^12[123456] will select all songs with a BPM of 121 to 126 for you

Good to know

! will except items with the following value from the result
~ will match only everything starting with the following value

[Mr.Roboto]

Hi All,

Still struggling with filters in mAirlist 6 (latest version)
Some screenshots to clarify.

Hope someone can help me out

Regards ,
Ron

[Liam]

@Mr.Roboto

Hope someone can help me out

Have you already tried the other filters?

~^(199[0-9]|20[0-1][0-9]|202[0-4])

At least it worked for me recently…

[Mr.Roboto]

Tried everything
Been busy for months now

~^(199[0-9]|20[0-1][0-9]|202[0-4]) — is not working
~^(199[0-9]) — is not working

~199 — is working flawlessly

BPM filter has same issue

[Stefan_Hillen]

@Mr.Roboto

Still struggling with filters in mAirlist 6 (latest version)

Hi Ron,

if I remember it correctly I had the same problems with the “Randomly pick items” selection.

Did you try to use one of the other options?

Use exact order = Fills the music block with the exact number and order of elements in a music block (even with the infinite fill option selected)

Use exact order, repeat if… = same, but now repeats to fill up the music block until it’s full of enough elements

[Mr.Roboto]

@Stefan_Hillen

~^19[89]

Still no luck tried every setting you suggest.
Same setting on a trial version mAirlist 7 works fine.