Smart playlists tutorial

[verbal]

Is there any tutorial on creating smart playlists?

I'm familiar with 90% of functionalities but I'm still struggling with "rules" while creating playlists. 
Most of the time I achieve what I want simply testing, but If I mess up rules and playlist pulls over 200 000 songs then player freezes and its quite annoying...

As you can see I'm trying to have all Instrumentals in 1 PL, but I don't know how to get rid of the songs (with vocals) which are located in "Instrumentals" folder and labeled in Music Library as "Albumi u instrumentalima" ?

[JD]

Your rule is (simplified):

• Or:
• file name like "Instr"
• path is instrumentals
• label isn't instrumentalima.

But you need something like:

• And
• Or
• file name like "Instr"
• path is instrumentals
• label isn't instrumentalima

[verbal]

Thanks JD, so I got it that way.. but is there any significant difference between these 2 options ?

and

[Artem]

Thanks JD, so I got it that way.. but is there any significant difference between these 2 options ?

In this case, no.

[verbal]

Guys, I need your help again..
Is there any way to ignore certain rules?
As you can see last 2 rules are in direct confrontation with the one above.
How can I set rules to ignore last two IF tracks are labeled "Albumi u Instrumentalima" ?

[Desert dessert]

Hi verbal. If I get the intention right, you need to replace that NOT OR block with the following:

OR
-- Labels equals Albumi u Instrumentalima
-- AND
---- Labels not equals Albumi u Instrumentalima
---- NOT OR
------ File Name contains …
------ File Name begins with …

This can be optimized, as you already have the condition “labels equals Albumi u Instrumentalima”, but I feel that would be a tangle overall. Instead, may I advice you to redesign the whole expression, shaping it like this:

OR
-- AND
---- Labels equals Albumi u Instrumentalima
---- anything that applies in this case
-- AND
---- Labels not equals Albumi u Instrumentalima
---- anything that applies in this other case, including:
---- NOT OR
------ File Name contains …
------ File Name begins with …

I bet this one will be more friendly to design, and read afterwards too.