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SOLVED How to have a consolidated view of multiple hard disks like Foobar2000

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RoderickGI:

--- Quote from: sheppaul on August 17, 2017, 01:16:46 am ---Besides, MC seems to scan the whole files in library from all the hard disks whenever MC is started.
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If MC is doing that, and it is obvious and takes a lot of time, you are probably doing something wrong. MC will check for file system changes if you have it set to "Fix broken links" and/or "Update tags when file info changes", but that shouldn't take all that long.

However, if you are using a File System view, such as "Drives & Devices > Explorer" or some Location based View, then MC needs to read the whole drive in the same way Windows would have to, and that takes time. That is why using tags makes so much more sense. It is fast, using a small library, doesn't need to read the whole drive, and is far more flexlible.

Andrea I will have to set up some sample data to see if I can produce what you want. I don't have anything similar to what you have to test. That is why I wanted good examples of what you have. No guarantees when or if I will get to that.  ;D


--- Quote from: DJLegba on August 19, 2017, 12:50:37 pm ---If you can't move everything onto a single 8TB drive would symbolic links work? Check out the mklink command.

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MC can handle the consolidation across drives no problem without using symbolic links or anything like that. The "removeleft([filename (path)], 3)" expression does it, as above. The possible difficulty is in doing the consolidation at the drive letter level, and then still providing what is essentially a drill down through sub-directories View. That may be easy and work well. There are some ideas above. I can't test ideas without building some sample data across drives.

JimH:
May be running the install file and then importing, instead of running the installed program.

AndreaT:
Dear RoderickGI, please, help me better understand what I shall provide you to support your test.
Sorry, but it is not clear for me reading your last email.

Regards
Andrea

AndreaT:
Hello, no any news for me?
Help me, please!
Regards
Andrea

RD James:
Though I agree with the suggestion to transition from file structure to tags - and Media Center has tools to make this easy if your file structure is good - I think I have a solution for you:

1. In the tree, right-click Audio and add a new library view.


2. Select an empty view and give it a name. I used "consolidated drives"

 
3. In "customize view" set it to view as "panes" with the pane on the left.


4. Add a new category. Select "expression" and paste the following code:

--- Code: ---RemoveLeft(Replace([Filename (path)],;,；), 3)&DataType=[list]
--- End code ---


 
You should now have a view which combines the file structure of all drives in a nested list down the left-hand side.

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