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[xanadu1979]

I hope I explain this well enough for everyone to understand.

My girlfriend and I share a computer. Out music collections are very different and we like to keep them seperate from each other. I would like to be able to access them seperately in media center without having to create two libraries. Right now I have both of our music collections imported into the library.

I think what I need is the option to setup a view scheme and under the "Pick files to show" section I could select location and set the base folder to my music folder. Then I could setup another view scheme and set it to my girlfriends folder.

Right now in the latest build of MC11 there isn't an option to select location in the "Pick files to show" section.

Could that feature be added or is there another way I could do it? I've already tried putting location up in the "Create View Items" section, but that doesn't give me what I want.

[marko]

in step 4, use:

[filename (path)]=

adding something common to each of your music paths in each of your viewschemes.

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Are you using windows XP?

you do know that if you and your girlfriend use seperate XP user accounts you can both have completely independant libraries?

[dNj]

You were on the right track, but needed to take a couple extra steps to design the view schemes to your liking.

Go back and add a new view scheme
(1) select the preset of "Location" or create a empty view scheme and then create sub view schemes under that empty view scheme (empty view scheme is explained better below)
(2) this is the step you missed---after selecting location click on "location (root)" and hit the edit button to the right.   This will bring up the dialog box of choosing which drives and/or directories you want to show in your view scheme. 
(3) the second line that says "Base directory" click on the "...." and pick which base folder you want to show in your view scheme.
and thats it.  You can always elect to only show audio files in your view scheme, by selecting media type=audio. 

Now if you want to take your view scheme a step further.  After creating that intial view scheme.  you can add sub view schemes to that newly designed scheme.  By repeating the create "location preset" view scheme. 

To create a sub view shceme right click on your new view scheme and choose add view scheme.  For example I have a view scheme called "Muzika" which is just an empty view scheme.  And with that empty scheme i created sub view scheme that only show my specific music folders.  1 view is for my vinyl ep's, the 2nd is for my record labels (lp's), 3rd is for compilation cd's and the 4th is for my artist (lp's). 

Hope this helps

[marko]

dnj, if all the files in each of the two viewschemes are relative to each PC user, creating a "location" based pane is a potentially redundant step and a waste of screen real estate.

two viewschemes named xanadu's music and xanadu's girlfriends' music with the relevant filename limiter in step 4 would take care of things with less clutter, and, as you correctly state, adding child viewschemes to these two primaries, with the "honour parent searches" ticked will work extremely well also.

-marko.

[xanadu1979]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Marko's tip worked perfectly.

dNj, I had already tried your steps, but when I setup a scheme with location and the base directory set at my folder, it still shows all of my girlfriends songs in an 'unassigned' section. Also, since all of my music is organized into folders, the tree on the left forced me to choose my folders to get to the music artists and albums in those folders. So in theater view I basically had to choose my artist and album (since that's how my folders are organized), and then choose my artist and album again. I could post screenshots if this isn't clear.

marko, I know that I could setup two user accounts in XP, but my girlfriend and I share a lot of things, just not our music. We tried it in the past and it was kind of a pain.

[marko]

marko, I know that I could setup two user accounts in XP, but my girlfriend and I share a lot of things, just not our music. We tried it in the past and it was kind of a pain.

kind of guessed it'd be something like that.
glad to hear you're off and running again.

[dNj]

dnj, if all the files in each of the two viewschemes are relative to each PC user, creating a "location" based pane is a potentially redundant step and a waste of screen real estate.

Thanks for the tip Marko.  I'm new to the whole creating view schemes, but it is my newest love. 

[marko]

I'm new to the whole creating view schemes, but it is my newest love. 

like the second layer in a box of chocolates.

[Marty3d]

I know I'm late here, but we have the same issue at my home.

What I did was in Audio viewscheme, I created two subschemes, Martin and Mia.
1. Create viewscheme named Martin
2. added G:\Music in Step 4: Pick files to show, set up the other steps as you like
3. Copy that viewscheme to Mia
4. Changed no 4 to D:\Mias music

That's all! Then all subschemes to these two schemes were customized to our own likings.