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[michel]

The problem is to be able to create schemes such as

genre/style/artist/...

where style can have several values for the same file.

For example, file A:
genre="rock"
style="indie", "punk"
artist="toto"

then I could see A in the tree (for this scheme):

rock/indie/toto/...
rock/punk/toto/...

Another example of the kind of scheme could be:

artist/album

file A
album="singing together"
artist="shakira", "jennifer lopez"

then I could see A in the tree (for this scheme):
shakira/singing together
jennifer lopez/singing together

May be the way to do it is to define custom fields such as style1, style2,... with one style in each. We could define the key in the scheme this way: style*

I hope to be not too confuse with my poor english.

[NoCodeUK]

I think what you want is similar to me.  I wanna set up an album and a subalbum field for images so that the data could work thus File A - Album1/SubAlbum1/File A, File B - Album 1/SubAlbum2/File B.  With the view scheme set to Album/SubAlbum/File when I click on Album 1 I want to see Files A and B but when I click on SubAlbum 1 I want to only see File A and when I click on Sub Album 2 I want to only see File B.  At the moment whatever Sub Album I click on I can stil see all Files.

[NoCodeUK]

Actually I re read your post and what you want is nothing like what I want

Still to be able to do both would be nice...

Adam

[michel]

May be the way to do it is to define custom fields such as style1, style2,... with one style in each. We could define the key in the scheme this way: style*

I found a way:

-define a custom field 'styles'

- define as much as smartlists you have different styles; for example:

smartlist indie defined by 'styles'="indie"
smartlist pop defined by 'styles'="pop"
...

- group them into a playlist group 'style'

-define a scheme style/artist/

-store the styles of a track into 'styles' custom field
(styles= indie, pop   for example)

If file A is:
artist=toto
styles=pop, indie

and file B is
artist=titi
styles=pop

then MJ should display for the scheme:

indie/toto/A
pop/toto/A
     /titi/B

But that doesn't run ! MJ bug ?
In fact, I have no file in the smartlists indie and pop even I have A et B set as described.

[michel]

But that doesn't run ! MJ bug ?

I have to retry with MJ9 (I cannot do it now as it is on another pc) but that runs with MJ8  

I am not sure it is the right solution for my problem (there are hundred of styles used by AMG so I should create hundred of smartlists  ) but it is a good example of the capacity of MJ to help you to manage thousand of tracks.

Congratulations.

[Quisp]

define a custom field 'styles'

OK, what am I missing? I *think* I know how to define a custom field. But how do I enter data into it in MJ 9. There doesn't appear to be a way to get access to your custom fields.... :-/

[Quisp]

hmmmm...

What I'd like to do is similar to michel, only I think I'd like to take it a step further:

Genre/Styles Playlist/Artist

In other words, I'd like to categorize the styles by genre so that I would only see styles that were related to Rock, Country, Jazz, etc. Currently I see all Playlists no matter what the genre. If I follow most of AMG there are hundreds of styles, it would be nice to group them..

Anyone have any ideas?

[NoCodeUK]

This is similar to what I want to do only I am planning to have an image category with Album/SubAlbum/Name.  I only want the files to appear in the Sub Album that have that tag.  Unfortunately like you said at the moment all files appear in every subalbum.  I don't think Matt and the guys have got this hooked up yet.

BTW to add data to your custom fields they should appear in the list view (probably at the very far right of the list!!).  They don't appear in the properties window yet although they are apparently going to eventually...

Adam