a set of *mood lines* containing expressions in terms of attributes
and other data contained in the database.
-A mood defines a subset of audio files called the *admissible audio
-files* for that mood. At any time, at most one mood can be *active*
-which means that para_server is going to select only files from that
-subset of admissible files.
+A mood defines a subset of audio files called the *admissible audio files*
+for that mood. At any time, at most one mood can be *active* which
+means that para_server is going to select only files from that subset
+of admissible files.
So in order to create a mood definition one has to write a set of
mood lines. Mood lines come in three flavours: Accept lines, deny
Takes no arguments and matches an audio file if and only if no
attributes are set.
- played_rarely
-
-Takes no arguments and matches all audio files where the number of
-times this audio file was selected is below the average.
-
- is_set attribute_name
+ is_set <attribute_name>
Takes the name of an attribute and matches iff that attribute is set.
- path_matches pattern
+ path_matches <pattern>
Takes a filename pattern and matches iff the path of the audio file
matches the pattern.
+ artist_matches <pattern>
+ album_matches <pattern>
+ title_matches <pattern>
+ comment_matches <pattern>
+
+Takes an extended regular expression and matches iff the text of the
+corresponding tag of the audio file matches the pattern. If the tag
+is not set, the empty string is matched against the pattern.
+
+ year
+
+Takes a comparator ~ of the set {<, =, <=, >, >=, !=} and a number
+N. Matches iff the year tag Y of the audio file is a number that
+satisfies the condition Y ~ N. If the audio file has no year tag,
+or if the tag is not a number, the file does not match.
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Mood usage
Troubles?
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-Use the debug loglevel (option -l 0 for most commands) to show
+Use the debug loglevel (option -l debug for most commands) to show
debugging info. Almost all paraslash executables have a brief online
help which is displayed by using the -h switch. The --detailed-help
option prints the full help text.