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wer:

--- Quote from: Shail on March 26, 2021, 05:20:13 am ---...After some wasted hours I finally stumbled on how to do this using Create Custom View > Location and setting that to (Root).

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I'm surprised there were wasted hours, since I specifically mentioned that location dropdown was how you controlled where the view was created. I think many would find what you've done, with many different types of audio at the root alongside the redundant "Audio" itself to be confusing, especially if you have photos and videos under a heading that says "Indian Classical Music".  FYI, there is no effective difference in where a view is located, other than inheritance (which I described to you previously). It's just aesthetics.  For example, the only difference between the top Audio "container" and the top Video "container" is one restricts file type to audio and the other to video.  (And you can customize that of course.) I call them containers instead of views because, by default, they do not contain any view categories. That means, unless you have "support tree browsing" enabled, clicking on "Audio" itself doesn't show any files or categories; it's empty except for the views underneath it. If you create something (via Add Library View) at the root, but don't configure it as a View and leave "support tree browsing" off, you get an empty container to which you can add additional views.

I would encourage you to nest your views and leverage inheritance where possible. It streamlines and saves time when you make changes later.

Being able to create views at different locations and where to configure JRemote views are not new discoveries. The location dropdown is covered in the tutorial; configuring JRemote views is revealed with a simple google search. So they're both well known. :)  It's just new to you.  That's ok. A lot of people google search to research, but unfortunately many don't and so the same questions get asked repeatedly, which ironically can have the effect of making it easier to find with a search, but can also lead to a jumble of results.  All the functionalities we've talked about have been in MC since well before you started using it. It's unfortunate you were frustrated for so long. MC isn't well documented but hopefully the tutorial will help.

Most people keep their audio, video, and images separate because the tagging requirements and display preferences are so different. That you want to keep different genres of music separate because you think the tagging differences are too great, but you think Video and Audio related to the same artist are close enough to view together is an outlier. But MC lets you configure however you'd like.  Have fun.

Re your questions:
1. No
2. Drag and drop, if it works on Mac.

Shail:
Dear wer,.

It's a pity you became so vexed with my trivial questions, and I find your replies to my posting unnecessarily aggressive. I'm sure it's all been done before and so a simple two-line reference would have been enough. MC is a large and complex program and it can be difficult to find how to do simple things for people like me who do not spend their lives immersed in it.

I have no desire to continue in this vein so I shall be deleting my account.

My advice to you would be to learn to be a bit more diplomatic

Shail

PS If you're interested drag and drop doesnt seem to work on a mac. When I try it hangs for a while. A google search was inconclusive.

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