Hello,
I am using Amarok 2.4.3 with kde 4.6.5 on Fedora 15 and can not get the Automated Playlists to work.

I have no problems with Dynamic Playlists, but I would like to create a playlist with a few more constraints. And from what I read the Automated Playlists are great.

But even the predefined ones for e.g. Example 2: "rock or pop music" do not work. I do have music in my collection with the mp3 tag Genre Rock and other files with Pop. But if I press the blue arrow, all the buttons become grey and nothing happens. I left it for 3 hours, but still no success. At the moment I do not have too many files (roughly 30 albums) in my collection and tried it even on another host with only three files included, but I don't understand what am I doing wrong?

It would be great if anybody could give me a hint to look for.

Cheers and thanks
dododmu

The APG is broken in 2.4.3. This has been fixed for 2.5.

In the meantime, it is definitely possible to build playlists with complex sets of constraints in the dynamic playlist - what are you trying to achieve exactly?

Oh that is good to know, I was really wondering what I am doing wrong. I will stop trying to get this to work and try now with the dynamic playlists.

What I want to achieve is not that complicated. Just some multiple exclusion of mp3 tags and to avoid duplicates. I do not have so much experience with it, so maybe the duplicate part is not that important. Just that it will play different kind of music, and not so many tracks from the same artist after each other.

Something like all music but genre:audioBook or spoken.

That's easy. The simplest way is just to use a search bias with the search string set to:
-genre:"audioBook" -genre:"spoken"

Alternatively, for a better understanding of the dynamic playlist constraints:
Create a new playlist and set the first constraint to 'and'. Then, set the constraint under that one to 'match meta tag', 'invert condition' on, 'genre', contains 'spoken', then right click on the match all bias and click "add new bias". Give that one the same settings as the other match meta tag bias, only with 'audioBook' not 'spoken'.

Great, thank you very much. I didn't manage to get the second bias contraint "AND" in my dynamic list before, that was the main reason why I focused on APG before.

For me it was not clear that it is possible to built a tree with different rules, it is a bit more self explainable in the APG section. But now I got it, and it seems to do what I want.

Thank you for your great and very quick help.