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[Swordsman74]

Hi all,
 I have all of my music in "C:\My Documents\Music".  From there I have four directories: Albums, Albums To Be Tagged, Singles, Singles To Be Tagged.  I want to create a view scheme for each of these folders.  For the first folder (Albums), I create a new scheme, choose location first (pick the folder), then album, then artist.  But when I go to look at the scheme, the only thing that shows up is "(unassigned)" and then if I click on that I get every song in my collection - regardless of folder.  What am I doing wrong?  Is it a problem with the space between 'My' and 'Documents'?  Any ideas?

 Thanks!
   - Matt L.

[Matt]

In the extra search part of the view scheme, you'll need something like this:

folder=[C:\My Documents\Music\Singles]

Does that help at all?

-Matt

[Doof]

Try this instead.

Define the View Scheme as Artist\Album or whatever. Just ignore Location for now.

In the Search Criteria box, put "location=Albums To Be Tagged" except without the quotes. This will create a Media View that will only show you files in the Albums To Be Tagged folder, and break it down by Artist\Album or whatever you specified.

[Matt]

Yeah Doof, that's sort of what I was going for.  Guess I didn't make it too clear...

And use the folder=[...] syntax, for best results.

Let us know...

-Matt

[Doof]

Actually, I posted the same time you did. I didn't even know the folder keyword existed. It's not in the helpfile and I've been out of the loop for a while.

Can you detail how it's used and how it's better than using location?

[Swordsman74]

Hi Matt/Doof,
 Thanks!!  It (almost) works great!  :-)  The only problem that remains is that the search criteria "folder=Albums" gets the songs in both "Albums" and "Albums To Be Tagged".  I'm guessing this is how it is supposed to work - I can see how some people might want that behavior.  For my use, I can change the folder names so one is not a shortened version of the other one...  

Thanks for your help!
   - Matt L.

[Matt]

The folder keyword only looks up at the folder part of the filename. (i.e. the C:\Music part of C:\Music\1.mp3)

If you want to list only the files in C:\Music and none of the files in its subdirectories, you can't do it without the folder keyword.

C:\Music\1.mp3
C:\Music\New\2.mp3

If we only want 1.mp3, we need folder=[C:\Music] because location=[C:\Music\" would list both.

Hope that makes sense...

-Matt

[Matt]

Oh, Swordsman74, just read about what quotes vs. brackets do in the help file.  You need brackets.

-Matt

[Swordsman74]

Interesting!!

I just noticed that the sort function in MJ has the same behavior!!  I sorted my entire library view by file location...and found that the files in "\Singles" and "\Singles To Be Tagged" are intermingled...  Check out this screenshot.  Is this a bug?

  - Matt L.

[Swordsman74]

Matt - I just saw your note about the brackets - perfect!  All four views work great now!  Thanks!

 - Matt L.