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[slipknot]

It there a way to have Media Center create a directory for the artist letter, then the artist name and then the album name when ripping and converting files?  I am unable to find a way in the docs to describe a directory naming system like this.

[modelmaker]

Go to "Tools>Options>File Location>Directory Rule & File Rule.

[marko]

not tested, but, your directory rule should be:

mid([artist])\[artist]\[album]

if that doesn't work, there are other ways...

[slipknot]

not tested, but, your directory rule should be:

mid([artist])\[artist]\[album]

if that doesn't work, there are other ways...

Thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know. 

Is mid() documented?  I looked for it in the smartlist area of the docs and I can't find mid().

[slipknot]

Marko comes through again!

Thanks, the mid() is working perfectly.

I am trying to learn this program instead of just asking without looking around myself.

But where is mid() documented?  I'll bet whereever it's documented, there's a lot of useful functions I can use if I only knew they existed!

[JimH]

See the Media Center Expression Language section on this page:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/devzone.html

[slipknot]

I knew I wanted a substring type function....  Thanks for pointing me to the docs.

Mid(...): Retrieves specified characters from a value.

    Value: the value to get characters from
    Start: the character to start at (optional: defaults to 0)
    Characters: the number of characters to get (-1 returns all) (optional: defaults to 1)

    Examples:
    Mid(Abba)
    Mid(Abba, 0, 2)
    Mid([Artist], 3, -1)