I put something on the devel list months ago about this but didn't see any responses. In dynamic playlist I have various 'and' conditions one of which has match all next track from album else: search for tracknumber:1 That seems to frequently give an album which is similar to the previous one (once there are no next tracks in the album) - maybe it's just a coincidence - but often I see a very long symphony immediately followed by another very long symphony - I would like the facility to say don't look for something similar. For example, at the moment my playlist has (provided by dynamic playlist) a performance of the Schubert String Quintet (4 tracks) another performance of the Schubert String Quintet (4 tracks) an unrelated single track another(!) performance of the Schubert String Quintet These feel too closely related to be random - the various other 'and' conditions don't limit the possible tracks from the collection that much. The 'and's limit to lastplay>7m and playcount:0 and that gives 3200 tracks, within those there are 16 tracks which are the String Quintets. If there is the link to the prev album in the code somewhere, (I've not found it yet), I've like to be able to be able to break the connection in the dynamic playlist specification. Reproducible: Always
I've skimmed through the dynamic playlist code a bit, but haven't seen anything like that anywhere. I guess this is at least partially explained psychological confirmation bias; additionally, this effect is probably intensified by the fact that long symphonies are, well, long, so they're being played for longer times even if they come up as often as shorter tracks. And, albums with longer tracks are likely to have less tracks on album, so a greater proportion of them match the tracknumber:1 too, I guess.