Smart Playlists - Treat "Date" as a linear value

[jdglanville]

Some may view this as a bug, I'm going to document this as an enhancement request.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Smart Playlist
2. Chose "Date" as a field
3. For the "criteria type", select something that allows "greater than" or "less than" - not available

Expected Behavior

It would be good to have a playlist where you set the criteria using linear relationships. Examples:

• where "date" is greater than "2018" (equivalent to "anything in the past 5 years")
• where (and)
  • date greater than 1981
  • date less than 1985
  • (This could probably be approximated by a regex, but it doesn't take much to find more complicated ranges)

Current Behavior

The current behaviour is to treat the "Date" field as a string, providing criteria like "contains" or "regex"

Possible Solution

A potential solution for this is treat the date field as a linear value, similar to how the BPM field is treated.

Environment

• Operating System and version: Ubuntu 23.04

• Exaile Version: 4.1.3