Ah.  I now realise that I have misunderstood the work-flow.

After 'f p', what is displayed is not the list of factories but the menu of
existing filters organised by factory.

I must choose 'new filter' and then I get a list of factories with which I
can make a filter interactively.  Once I have done this, my new filter
'Year range : (1967 1969)' appears in the menu in the Year range section.
Q: is there a way, in the interactive filter creation, to name the new
filter (in my case to something like '1967-69'?

Sorry for my incomplete understanding of this nice tool,

---Fran



On Mon, 6 Apr 2026 at 22:33, Erica Qi <[email protected]> wrote:

> The prompt are registered with the factories and filters are in different
> lists.
>
> A filter is just a realized lambda of a factory.
> As you create filters they are added to the list for the session.
>
> I've created range filters interactively a lot.
> I'll take a look in the morning.
>
> Enica
>
> Sent from Proton Mail for Android.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On Monday, 04/06/26 at 22:44 Fran Burstall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> With the EMMS browser open, I wish to filter to only see
> tracks with info-date/year between 1967 and 1967.
>
> What I do:
>
> Hit 'f p' to push a new filter onto the stack.  I am shown a
> list of factories to choose and I choose "Year range".
>
> What I expected:
>
> To be prompted for the start and end years of the range.
>
> What happened:
>
> I get presented with the list of preloaded filters made
> using the same factory:
>
> 2020s
> 2010s
> 2000s
> 1990s
> 1980s
> 1970s
> 1960s
> 1950s
> 1940s
> 1930s
> 1920s
> 1910s
> 1900s
> No filter
> no filter
>
> Long story short: any preloaded filters overwrite the
> original interactive version of the factory.
>
> Same story with the Genre factory.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> ---Fran
>
>
>

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