Serato Software Feature Suggestions

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 Serato Software Feature Suggestions
Smart Crate confined scan rule
What features would you like to see in Serato software?

Smart Crate confined scan rule

Lexi 10:15 PM - 6 August, 2011
Generally Smart Crates work real well for me, however since my library is getting larger and larger I find myself needing to weed out certain songs/versions which I don't want to create so many different filename/song rules.

How about narrowing the scanner to select certain crate(s)?

For example I try to keep an organized and updated list of tracks on the billbords. I have one main crate 'Billboard' with seven sub-crates, (60s, 70s, 80s, etc...). Let's say I want to grab certain songs from within my 80s crate where the BPMs are 90-100. I can't simply make a smart crate with a year filter for >= 1980 and <= 1989 then search BPMs because specifically I want to sort songs within that crate, not any/all other crates with songs that match the year.

There should be a 'Look in...' type of rule that has a scope of:
1. GLOBAL (default)
2. PARENT CRATE (only)
3. PARENT CRATE (including sub-crates)
4. PARENT CRATE -> CHILD CRATE (only)
DJ Dub Cowboy 12:08 AM - 9 August, 2011
this is exactly why I was coming into the features suggestions area!

I was thinking along these lines for sub-smart crates

for instance:

Crate <is, contains, does not contain, etc> <pop-up menu of existing crates>

I have a few main smart crates that serve me well but they are getting too full now.

I would love to be able to keep those smart crates, but make sub smart crates that limits the contents of the original smart crates

I also want to be able to group smart crates together so I can collapse them when not needed, but I think those should be two separate functions.