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Excluding data folders from auto library imports
JimH:
MC has tools you can probably use.
You can import any file and then change it to a document type in the Media Type.
You can also move files, using logic, with the tool called Rename, Move, and Copy.
You can probably select what you want by using the search as a filter. For example, if the sub-directory was always named littlefiles, you could search for that or you could put a minus sign in front of it to show all but those sub-directories.
The wiki has helpful information.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: kane2 on June 29, 2019, 03:41:18 pm ---I can find them using the smart play list and Filename(path) contains.... , but can't figure out how to tell the library to then forget all the songs in the smart playlist.
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Well that part is easy. Just select all in the playlist (Command-a) and then press delete. That will bring up a dialog asking you what to do. Take the default which is to remove from library. That will leave the files on disk, but remove them from MC's inventory. MC will not try to reimport them again because it keeps track of what you remove.
Brian.
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: kane2 on June 29, 2019, 03:41:18 pm ---This doesn't solve the ongoing issue for new music that is added, there really should be a grep like way to do this either in the auto-import program (either via the wizard, or by creating and auto-import preference file that would contain what files to include, and what patterns to exclude.
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Post a list of all the extensions of the files that you do not want to be imported. You have mentioned only one, "pmbmf".
On the thread you mentioned, user jeraldej posted that the issue was resolved, and it looked like a perfect solution to me, for his issue.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on June 30, 2019, 08:36:46 pm ---On the thread you mentioned, user jeraldej posted that the issue was resolved, and it looked like a perfect solution to me, for his issue.
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Unfortunately this won't work for the OP. Our OP here in this thread has these "weird" directories inside EVERY album directory. So he has hundreds of them and will have more every time he adds new albums. Thus the need for some kind of exclude expression or similar. Kind of an odd case, but it's certainly a valid need/desire to fix it.
Brian.
kane2:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on June 30, 2019, 08:36:46 pm ---Post a list of all the extensions of the files that you do not want to be imported. You have mentioned only one, "pmbmf".
On the thread you mentioned, user jeraldej posted that the issue was resolved, and it looked like a perfect solution to me, for his issue.
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The files contained in these folders have extensions so they appear to look like music files (.m4v, .mp4, etc) but they are NOT music files. iTunes sees them and tricks it so that iTunes can play flac output. That's why Media Center needs to ignore ANYTHING it finds in a folder with the given name in it's path. As said there are hundreds of these folders (one for every album).
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