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NEW: View Extras
Negasonic:
This is my folder structure (for a 2-disc album):
Parent folder
Artist
Album
CD1
CD2
covers
So, I guess the program would have to first go up one step ..\ and then do the usual search for the various "extras-folder" names (covers/cover art/artwork etc etc).
Vectra:
I am not able to get the feature to work. What am I doing wrong? Seems on need to upgrade to MC22 on server and not just client.
My PC runs J River 22 and accesses the J River 21 Library on my music server on home LAN. Do I need MC22 on the server, too? Perhaps that is the issue.
Folder structure:
Artist
Album, Disc 1
track 1.flac
track N.flac
backcover.jpg
cover.jpg
disc.jpg
pg1.jpg
Album, Disc 2
track 1. flac
Some albums use:
Artist
Album
SACD Stereo
track1.dsf
SACD Multi-Channel
track2.dsf
Art
cover.png
disc.png
The above seems to have the same 2 CD folder issue as prior post but I don't have as many in this structure.
I also use .PNG files. Will that file type work?
I can only view the cover art which I have assigned to the albums and J River stores those pics somewhere else.
I love this feature on FOOBAR 2000...just click the cover to sequence through pics.
rossp:
--- Quote from: Vectra on December 23, 2016, 06:59:11 pm ---My PC runs J River 22 and accesses the J River 21 Library on my music server on home LAN. Do I need MC22 on the server, too? Perhaps that is the issue.
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Yes you will have to have MC22 on the server as this is a new MC22 feature. Get the latest version and install on the server and upgrade your client.
Get it from the link below.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,109099.0.html
On your server after the upgrade make sure you disable the MC21 server startup by going through the GUI to
Tools/Options/Startup/Windows Startup
and select Nothing
Ross
Negasonic:
--- Quote from: blgentry on October 25, 2016, 08:31:11 am ---He (we) mean the context menu that comes up when you right click on the Cover Art display in Playing Now. The one that has Cover Art Scale, and Cover Art Style submenus on it. View Extras would be really cool to have as one of the top level menu items there.
Brian.
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Agree with this. It's how I envisioned this would work if the option to view additional images associated with an album was implemented. Since this menu was (before "View Extras" was added) the main way to "tinker" with and view the cover art, it would make sense to add the "View Extras" to it.
Also... how it works now is that when you double click on the cover art (in Playing Now) it will display the cover art in full screen. It would be great if it would also work the same way as clicking "View Extras", so when you double click the cover art, you could also view all the images (the extras) and not only the dedicated cover art file.
About the feature itself: It's currently a bit restricted in the way that it forces users to have the extra material (images, PDF's etc) sorted in a specific way, which is a bit different from how Media Center otherwise works, where you can basically dump and scatter your files anywhere and the program will find them through certain set ups and pointers. Cover art itself don't have to be in the same folder as the tracks, for instance. You can use the "Add From File..." command which opens up a window where you can browse through your computer for the desired file. Would it be possible to have something similar for extras? "Add Extras From Files" for instance, which in this case would function in the same way, but you could select multiple files (wherever they are located)?
mattlovell:
Would it be possible for the "View Extras" menu to also list any document files (specifically, *.rtf) found in the same folder (or recursively) as a music file?
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