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StuckMojo

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Theater View - View/Sort Problem
« on: August 24, 2010, 11:47:20 am »

Hi Guys!

I,ve one Problem.I want to "Cut-Out" my Music Videos from the Movie Videos to a Root View in Theater Mode.
So I made a new Root Library Field called Music Videos.
Now I tried to add a Folder Rule,so that in the Music Videos View are only MusicV.
Example:
HDD1:
C:\Movies
C:\Music Videos
Both on the same HDD ->Movies and Music Videos
The Problem is,that i can set only a Full Path Rule like (C:\),but no specific Folder like(C:\Music Videos).
I made a workaround and added a Rule with the Description Tag and tagged "Videos->Video" and "Music Videos->Music Video"
So works all fine,but not good for me because yesterday i added a few Files (Videos & Music Videos) and was wondering first why they didn't appear in Theater View,til i thought about the day before as i tagged my files. ::)
I'm using a HTPC with Remote Control so I'm not happy about this.
I don't want to tag files each time i add them to the system.That's the Point why I'm using the Location view mostly ;D (for Videos only)

Is there any workaround,that i can set a specific folder rule,so that the files are importing themselves into Theatre View.(Location View)??
I've 4x 2TB HDD's onboard. Lot of things to sort! 8)




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Re: Theater View - View/Sort Problem
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2010, 11:54:45 am »

i do more or less the same as you, but then with images.
use some thing like
filename > starts with > C:\Music Videos

or

filename > contains > Music Videos

in the rules

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Re: Theater View - View/Sort Problem
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2010, 12:13:26 pm »

I am not 100% sure if this is what you are trying to do but I am doing some work on my music and wanted to move a certain set of music to a different location on the hard drive and then view only that music in Theater View. I moved the music and then created a view that only looks at that folder and a second view that only looks at the original folder. Now when I go into Theater View I see my two views and can peruse them separately or go into my normal views and see all music. Is that what you are trying to do?

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Re: Theater View - View/Sort Problem
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2010, 02:53:47 pm »

Not only are you unrestricted in using Rules for file display that refer to paths (as gappie suggests), you can include a "Location" view. Where you would normally add a category to "Details," select a "file path" rather than "library field" type category. Set this to the appropriate root folder. The resulting view will allow browsing the child folders. As you point out, such a view has the advantage of not requiring any tagging to be done. Even if other more sophisticated views (that rely on tags) are available, I think it's a good idea to always include a "Locations" view just in case the others are not working—for any reason.

This does require, however, a properly organized folder structure. It's not going to work if you put things in different root folders. It requires something like...

D:\Video\Home
D:\Video\Documentary
D:\Video\Movies
D:\Video\Movies\Restricted (access controlled)
D:\Video\Movies\Trailers
D:\Video\Music
D:\Video\Series
D:\Video\Series\[series name]

Then just add a Location view with the root path D:\Video—and you're done.
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Re: Theater View - View/Sort Problem
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2010, 04:25:12 pm »

Thanks for the quick Answers.

I'll see,I will have to play a little around with the Views & Rules.

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