Add “AND NOT” Logic to Playlist Auto-Populate Rules 🧠🎯

📋Summary

Improve the playlist auto-populate feature by allowing users to combine include and exclude conditions using AND logic instead of only OR. This would make dynamic playlists much more precise and reduce the need for manual cleanup or static conversion.

❗Problem

Currently, LaunchBox evaluates each auto-populate rule independently using OR logic. This means if a user sets a rule like “Title contains Sonic” and another rule “Title does not contain Wings,” both rules are treated separately. As a result, LaunchBox may include games that match only one condition—leading to false positives like Sonic Wings appearing in a Sonic the Hedgehog playlist, or even including nearly the entire library unintentionally.

This limitation forces users to either tolerate irrelevant entries or convert dynamic playlists to static ones, which breaks the usefulness of auto-population for future additions.

💡Proposal

Add support for AND NOT logic in the auto-populate filter options, so users can create compound rules like:

• Title contains “Sonic”

• AND Title does not contain “Wings”

This would ensure that only games meeting all conditions simultaneously are included—offering far more control and eliminating the need to manually clean up or manage static lists.

✅Benefits

• Allows more accurate, dynamic playlist creation

• Reduces reliance on static lists and manual game removal

• Prevents unwanted matches in keyword-based collections

• Keeps playlists automatically updated as new games are added, without risk of irrelevant entries