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[michel]

I asked myself this question and I choice to set two libraries: one for my audio library, another one for my photo library. There are two reasons for that:

- I think MC could take more time to start with a bigger library

- I prefer not to mix photo custom fields and audio custom fields and I discovered that MC manage a set of custom fields per library. May be it could manage also a set per media ?

[Cmagic]

Salut michel,

no clear answer. I personaly prefer to use separates libraries for the same reasons as you discovered: I don't use the same set of fields for music, videos and photos.

Don't know about the impact on performances if you mix 10000 songs with 25000 pictures and some videos ?

C.

[JimH]

Salut Cmagic,

10000 songs with 25000

Ca marchera, je pense.  M. Sparta a eu 130,000 chansons sans catastrophe.

Le build de ce soir tu permit vues differentes ("sticky views") pour images et musiques.

J'espere d'acheter le premiere bouteille pour tu et zev et michel.  Cafe Rostande?

Nous avons beaucoups de decouter.

Jim

[Cmagic]

Hi Jim,

J'espere d'acheter le premiere bouteille pour tu et zev et michel.  Cafe Rostande?

Sympa, Anytime you like, je suis prêt !

As for "sticky views" that's a great addition but unfortunately it does not work for me. I don't understand. Well it's on the machine @work and I only did a quick test, I'll try  @home tonight.

Have a nice day Jim,

Christian

[Cmagic]

Michel,

I've just played with sticky views under XP and I must say that's a great plus for MC.

I've set up different views for Audio, Images and Video. It looks like we'll be able to manage them all in
one library !

for Audio I displayed name - Artist - track# - Composer - Duration - Album - bitrate - number play
for Photos I displayed name - Album - date - location - peoples - occasion - versions

(peoples, location, occasion and versions) are custom fields I created for images

The nice thing is that  it's also possible to memorize list or thumbnail views for each view scheme.
That's great to have for example Artist/ALbum in detail view and Decade/Album in thumbnail view.

looks like I'm going to dig a bit deeper !

As for speed I tested with 8000 audio files and about 7600 pictures (1/2 of them 6Mpix jpegs ~2 Megs each)
Went quite well once the thumbnails were created.

C.