Quick "Multi Genre"/Decade Mix

Feature requests
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Feature description:

Ability to (easily/quickly) create a decade mix from multiple genres.

What I’m looking for is a quick way to generate a mix that combines a given decade with multiple genres; adding the special magic found in personal mixes is also acceptable.

As an example: create a mix with three genres and one decade.

What I suggest as feature is:
00- Go to Genres
01- Select/hold the first genre you want to enter selection mode
02- Select second genre
03- Select third genre
04- Click a button from the selection toolbar to prompt you for a decade (similar to the decade mix prompt)
05- Select decade and play! (this will generate the tracks and add them to the player)

Problem solved:

I know this is already possible using smart playlists, but there are so many steps involved.

Example for creating a smart playlist with the same example mentioned above:
00- Go to playlists
01- Click Create song smart playlist
02- Click Add role group
03- Select Any for the role group
04- Click Add rule
05- Select Genre field
06- Click the three dots button
07- Select a genre
08- Click Save
09-13 Repeat steps 04 to 08 two more times for the other genres
14-18 Repeat steps 04 to 08 one more time to specify year start and year end
19- Save playlist
20- Play!

Example for editing an existing smart playlist:
00- Go to playlists
01- Click Edit song smart playlist
02- Click one of the Genres
03- Click the three dots button
04- Select a new genre
05- Click Save
06-08 Repeat steps 02 to 04 two more times for the other genres
09-11 Repeat steps 02 to 04 to specify new decade
12- Save
13- Play!

Brought benefits:

This feature will offer less than half of the steps required to edit an existing smart playlist, and a fourth of steps required to create a new one; it would also save you from thinking/understanding how smart playlists work:

  • You don’t need to know about what fields to choose
  • You don’t need to worry about setting up role groups and proper match values
  • You don’t need to specify a year range
  • You don’t need to do repetitive steps

Other application solutions:

 
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Additional description and context:

 
I have several genres in my collection and some of them are subcategories of the most common genres, and I usually create my own “Decade mixes” using smart playlists and combining genres and years, but I got to a point where I realized that I’m doing a lot of repetitive steps everytime a new decade mix comes to my mind. This would save a lot of time and hassle.
 

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Sorry but then why not all the other millions cases that users may want and can be done via the smart playlists.

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The reason why I suggested this combination is:

  • Genre is one of the few fields that support multiple values (making more cumbersome the creation of filters), hence the idea of using the select mode option.
  • Decade is one of those values that need to be specified with a range of two values. Also, you already have this “select decade” pattern implemented somewhere else, so no need to come up with something new.
  • I have so many genres that a decade only mix does not make sense to me. I thought users would give more use to mixes based on genres with a decade instead.

And don’t get me wrong, I love smart playlists (and all its million possibilities), but the more I use them the more I see the need of a quicker/easier way to create playlists.

Anyways, I thought this idea had potential; hopefully you consider a similar improvement in the near future.

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Artists, styles, moods, languages, tags just to name a few ? :wink:

Why a decade and not 2 or 3 with multi-select on the decades?

And why not only taking the 4 and 5 stars for the mix ?

And why not … ? And … ? And … ?

And that’s why there’s smart playlists to fit users needs. The point of the app is to fit all needs not to make 2 or 3 people have less clicks for their unique need.