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Any way to make MC 10 flac compatible?
Alex B:
Some old replies (by me) that might help:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=32482.msg223410#msg223410
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=50160.msg343248#msg343248
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=33953.msg231763#msg231763
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=22841.msg159422#msg159422
You can find the above and many other, possibly useful, "art" links here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=59513.msg449291#msg449291
MrC:
To get you going, the custom view you'll create will use the folders as the basis for Album and Artist. This is so that you don't have to immediately tag your cover art (I believe the views mentioned in AlexB's great posts will require this, but I haven't read them all, yet, too many for today!)
1. Right-click Audio, and Add Library View...
2. Select Empty View and name it something like: Artists, Albums, w/Cover art
3. Leave View As as Panes
4. Under Settings > Included files, deselect Use parent scheme rules for file display
5. Under Settings > Included files, select Set rules for file display... and press the Import/Export button and paste:
[Media Type]=[Audio],[Image] [Filename (path)]=[M:\Music\" ~sort=[Dimensions]-d,[Track #]
but change the part in red to the path to your own music folder (mine audio is under M:\Music\)
6. Under Show categories in this order, select Add and add select Expression. Set the Name to Artist, and add the expression:
FileFolder(,1)
7. Add another expression category, same as (6), but this time name it Album, and set the expression to:
FileFolder(,0)
At this point, your view will now have two pane columns, one for Artist and one for Albums. The file list below will be grouped by Album by default. You can leave this if you want, and just double click an entry under the Artist or Album column in the pane. This will start playback of the files in the list. Since the artwork is sorted first (because we're sorting by Dimensions which Images have, but Audio does not), the artwork is queued (to the default Images zone) and then the remaining audio tracks (sorted in track order) are now queued to the current zone.
Now, if you tag your cover art images with the same tags you use for the audio (e.g. Album, Artist, Album Artist, Date), then you'll be able to use views based off the metadata rather than the folder structure as we've done here. You can customize any view to include these images, and exclude cover art from your Images views (by ensuring Filename (path) does not start with the path to your audio (similar to, but the inverse of, what was done above).
Also, you can use the same expression we've used above in the views for album and artist to help quickly tag your cover art. You can select one or more cover art images (easiest if you sort the file list by file type), and enter the corresponding expression above, appending an = character, into the Artist or Album tag. You can edit directly in the file list column, or use Action Window > Tag. For example:
In the Artist tag, enter:
=FileFolder(,1)
In the Album tag, enter:
=FileFolder(,0)
sixtiesstereo:
MrC
Thanks for all of the info. I'll be attempting all of this in the next day or two.
I realize now why I was never able to get this to work after MC10. It seems way more involved than
it really needs to be. I've been using Media Monkey for several years, and nothing like this is really
required. In MM you just start playing a track, open the album art window, and just scroll through the
assorted jpg's. The problem with MM is it doesn't really have an automatic slideshow, strictly manual.
Plus, I have always really liked the other features in MC, especially the zoom feature during the slideshow,
so it's definitely worth trying to get it up and running. I downloaded and installed MC 17, so I'll try all of this on that.
If it works, I'll upgrade. Thanks again.......
sixtiesstereo:
I was finally able to get this to work per the info given, however, even though I was able to get the
slideshow function to work, the album cover view is not displaying as specified. While some are shown correctly, others (most) are grouped in the bottom half by date (?) or other naming conventions other than artist/album title.
I tried many other things to correct this, with no luck. Also, rather than using folder.jpg as the cover thumbnail, other jpg's in the stack are showing as the main cover (the tray scan, etc, rather than folder .jpg). Makes it hard to
locate the album desired when images other than the cover are being used.
This is taking way too much time to get up and running when it really should be a selectable, preconfigred option that doesn't need to be set up using expressions etc. I realize many users have alot of time on their hands but many
of us don't.
I'll keep occasionally toying around with this, but I guess I'm back to Media Monkey, which worked the way I wanted
right after it was originally installed, and has ever since, with no additional programming needed. Thanks again!
Scolex:
sixties
Your choice but you shouldn't give up so easily there is a plethora of knowledge here and your desired result can be reached.
There are so many features in MC that place it at the top of the list for quality that it is more than worth putting in the time to learn it.
If all of your main covers are named folder.jpg and in their respective folder it should use them by simply setting
tools-->options-->file location-->cover art-->Audio Mode: to "In the same folder as the file (as Folder.jpg)"
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