as a result of me diving into the world of php/mysql this weekend, i would LOVE to see this implemented. i would like to see playlists defined using the advanced search logic.

i.e. i'd love to have all songs produced by dj tiesto including remixes in one playlist... in the playlist definition, i would use "title=tiesto || artist=tiesto". the playlist would also autoupdate if i were to add any songs matching the query.

i'm sure that this would be an easy addition to emplode because the query language is already implemented, but the fact that feature additions aren't a priority at the moment makes jEmplode 42 the prime canidate for this.

what do you guys think?

I read your message several times, but failed to see what you're asking for. What needs adding to the on-player soups in jEmplode 42 to make it do what you want?

sorry, i wasn't aware that the custom soups in jEmplode 42 was able to do boolean. i'll research and see.

okay. had time to mess with the on-empeg soup playlists. it CAN do boolean, and everything else i need. but theres a catch.

my goal is to have a soup for each of the major electronica artists (i.e. tiesto, ferry, oakenfold, armin van buuren, etc.). the problem is, i want to include all their remixes AND aliases. so, for example, the search string for tiesto is:

((artist like "a3") or (title like "a3") or (artist like "Alibi") or (title like "Alibi") or (artist like "Allure") or (title like "Allure") or (artist like "Clear View") or (title like "Clear View") or (artist like "Control Freaks") or (title like "Control Freaks") or (artist like "Drumfire") or (title like "Drumfire") or (artist like "Gouryella") or (title like "Gouryella") or (artist like "Hammock Brothers") or (title like "Hammock Brothers") or (artist like "Kamaya Painters") or (title like "Kamaya Painters") or (artist like "Major League") or (title like "Major League") or (artist like "Roze") or (title like "Roze") or (artist like "Straydog") or (title like "Straydog") or (artist like "T-Scanner") or (title like "T-Scanner") or (artist like "tiesto") or (title like "tiesto") or (artist like "Vimana") or (title like "Vimana") or (artist like "Wild Bunch") or (title like "Wild Bunch")) and (not (source like "liveset" or source like "full album"))

the above in a jemplode only soup works great. but if i put it on the player, named DJ Tiesto, then an infinite loop is created because the title of the soup is matched. i hope that a check can be implemented somewhere to prevent this. maybe i'm just asking too much from my empeg.

Er, type="tune" and .... ?

duh.

is there anyway to do a "whole word only" while still using the like operator?

one of the aliases is "eon", and i'm catching all words that contain that word.

artist like "* word *" or artist like "word *" or artist like "* word"

Note the spaces. Also note that this isn't perfect, because it doesn't cope with punctuation. You can add clauses to cope with that, but it'll get more and more unwieldy.

I don't think jEmplode supports * matching in that parser (if his question was still related to jEmplode). Chalk another in your Emplode column

i dont even think that it matters. "* word *" is only useful in a == test. he was using the like operator.

it would be great if someone looked at an open source word processing application and saw how they do a whole word only search. also maybe a list generator so i dont have to do this by hand.