Smart Collections and Smart Playlists

General Discussions
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I cannot find this anywhere and have been struggling for a bit. Plex Music, but I assume the same applies to Movies/TV.

There seems to be no guide when using Smart Collections to populate Smart Playlists.

Smart Collections seemingly can’t populate smart playlists like they should or I am missing something?

I want to create a variety of Smart Collections - say Artists from between 50-70s, that I haven’t played in 1 month to populate a Playlists and throw this songs into different playlist moods. “Like highlight the more positive moods and/or genres” limit the list to rating, play count and number.

I’ve gotten around this by creating dumb playlists instead, which works, but isn’t ideal. I feel like I’ve created Smart Album Collections and Smart Artist Collections and just seen a variety of varying results.

For instance- My smart Collection of Albums, based on release date, works and can be pulled into a playlist, but the one created with Genre or Style - Don’t. And can’t be seen in the picklist when I create a smart playlist.

Is there an in depth guide/process to understanding how each trigger is effecting either the Collection or the Playlist to make it usable? ( I remember a couple of weeks ago I created a smart collection with artists by accident, it wasn’t visible, but I changed the view/collection to album and it was?) It’s like artist+genre doesn’t work, or album+genre doesn’t work, or changes the way it then can be pulled into a playlist?

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Both smart playlists and smart collections are constructed using filters.
After you have made a filter, you can either save it as a smart collection, or as a smart playlist.
Both a collection and a playlist can be played as such.

You can always “Edit Filters” of either, and then choose to save it as either playlist or collection.

Collections for music are a bit special. They are separated by type. You can have collections of tracks, albums, or artists.
The types do not mix.

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Thanks!

Why would a Music Collection not show up as a possibly filter on the picklist?

Even if its the only collection type used while building the Smart Playlist?

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Sorry, I don’t understand what you are trying to express.

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So when I am creating a Smart Playlist and I selected “Artist Collection” “is” or “Album Collection” “IS” I don’t see all of my Album or Artist Collections. Or Collections that I crated that I expect to be there.

For instance - I created a Collection of Albums that are the best, so I used my own rating and the Album Critic Rating -

But this collection never shows up as a possible filtered collection as part of the Smart logic.

I also did an Album Collection of anything released in the 1980s and that also didn’t show up, but a manual creation of the 80s Albums does.

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You will only see “manual” collections in there. You cannot create a filter based on a smart collection, which is a filter on its own.