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Author Topic: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?  (Read 1298 times)

zmz125000

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Hi,
I have a few terabytes of music files on my HDD, I categorized them by pop, classics, score then in subfolders by artists and composer like Beethoven and Pink Floyd.

It's easy to find albums in folder structure, when I want Beethoven I can get it by three click: classic->Beethoven->the album, and foobar2000 is good with it because fb2k support folder structure view very well.

when it comes to JRiver, with JRiver's powerful library view it's very hard to find the album I want since a song can usually have different version, in different album, by different artists, even in different remastered so it's nearly impossible with JRiver's filters (artist etc.).

In foobar2000, it list subfolders as first strusture, in JRiver, it list Drive at first so I need to click Drive->folder->subfolder etc. JRiver can't bookmark folders likes windows explorer ether.

Can you give me some tips with my situation? Thank you.

Update: I use files view and save views on exit "Tools > Options > Startup > Startup Interface > Location:" now JRiver works like foobar2000.
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2021, 06:07:06 am »

Isn't the 'Genres' view what you are describing? You can drill down by Genre, then Artist, then albums.
You can customize an existing View or create a new one to display albums as you want. You can also create Playlists to hold your bookmarks or favorites. There's also a customizable Favorites toolbar icon (right click on the menu bar, select Customize).
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zmz125000

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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2021, 06:19:08 am »

Thank you for your help.
Genres don't play well with generic genres such as rock and classic which have many sub-genres, and put many albums in a playlist mess it up. I am using JRiver's primitive file browser now.
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2021, 06:26:12 am »

I have organized it in the following way (Album Artist are Artist with complete album's; Mixed are e.g.CD's coming with stereoplay and containing modern and classical music):
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2021, 09:04:52 am »

JRiver can't bookmark folders likes windows explorer ether.

Can you give me some tips with my situation? Thank you.

If you add "Favourites" to the task bar you can then add a Folder to Favourites, MC's equivalent of Bookmarking a Folder.

To add a Folder, or anything else, to Favourites you select the Folder/Item you want to add then select "Add to Favourites" from the Favourites DropDown Menu.
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2021, 09:10:38 am »

Thanks, that's helpful.
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zmz125000

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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2021, 09:58:19 am »

If you add "Favourites" to the task bar you can then add a Folder to Favourites, MC's equivalent of Bookmarking a Folder.

I can't bookmark a folder, add to favourites just add current view to favourites, in my case it add root of locations to F instead of adding current folder.
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2021, 10:00:52 am »

I have organized it in the following way (Album Artist are Artist with complete album's; Mixed are e.g.CD's coming with stereoplay and containing modern and classical music):

This will flatten out the structure and mix different artists under the same genres together
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2021, 12:30:26 pm »

I can't bookmark a folder, add to favourites just add current view to favourites, in my case it add root of locations to F instead of adding current folder.

To add a folder to favourites - Expand Files until the Folder is visible in the list, left click on the folder to select it and then click on "Add to Favourites" and enter a meaningful name for the folder.

I tested it by selecting a folder that contained only the tracks from an album and that worked, followed by selecting a folder that contained sub-folders and that also worked
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2021, 07:53:29 pm »

It works and I am surprised how unintuitive it is. Thanks
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Re: Ways to navigate through thousands of albums in JRiver library?
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2021, 01:39:58 pm »

I have a view with panes for Location, Artist, Album, and File type, with the list of files. Something like that is not difficult to set up. These days, I only browse by location if the location is the important part.

Search is powerful. Despite it's quirks, I rely heavily on search. It is as fast or faster than if you browse different views based on artist, album, etc.
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