allowing duplicate artist tags in ccertain media libraries but not others. is it possible

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fjb59
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allowing duplicate artist tags in ccertain media libraries but not others. is it possible

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i have many media libaries with various artists, genres. i have profrexx setup so that as a rule it does not allow duplicate artists within 30 tracks, i can't guarantee a show will have 30 tracks. some do, some don't. however one media librry called intros has several tracks all by the same artist. they play once at the beginning of the show. a different track every week but by the same artist. i have nine of these in total. A simple solution would be to slightly change the artist metatag on each track but copyright issues prevent that. so is there any way to tell profrexx to ignore the artist on this library alone or at least reset the artist count on this library on each scheduled tracklist but only on the artist?

If that makes any sense.
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The easiest way is to set the Media Entry Type for those tracks. When using a Media Library you can also set a default Media Type for all tracks not having one set yet.
In the general settings you can then simply exclude those entry types from the check:
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yeah i saw that but the issue is i don't want it to be excuded completely from the check, just the artist check as i don't want the same intro to play two shows in a row. i tried setting it to squential rather than random but then it didn't appear at all. I'm not sure why.
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There no option to only exclude the Artist check.

When you use the LeastRecentlyPlayed mode this ensures it as well - as your n that case the least played tracks are not used as well.
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Re: allowing duplicate artist tags in ccertain media libraries but not others. is it possible

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radio42 wrote: 13 Oct 2022 20:36 There no option to only exclude the Artist check.

When you use the LeastRecentlyPlayed mode this ensures it as well - as your n that case the least played tracks are not used as well.
there's a leastrecently played? that would certainly help. i didn't see that option
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Re: allowing duplicate artist tags in ccertain media libraries but not others. is it possible

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sorted. thanks for the quick response.

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