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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Mac => Topic started by: Al ex on January 04, 2015, 02:28:33 pm

Title: Automatically add file to a Zone
Post by: Al ex on January 04, 2015, 02:28:33 pm

I want to have automatically added newly imported mp3 & flac files to my zone AUDIO. Or in other words: all files in a certain folder in my music library shall be added automatically to a certain zone.
Is that possible?

Title: Re: Automatically add file to a Zone
Post by: JohnT on January 06, 2015, 01:54:33 pm

You can setup auto import to monitor one or more folders and import new files that show up there:
File / Library / Import / Configure Auto-Import

Any audio file can be played in any zone that handles audio.

Title: Re: Automatically add file to a Zone
Post by: Al ex on January 07, 2015, 02:50:47 pm

Quote from: JohnT on January 06, 2015, 01:54:33 pm

You can setup auto import to monitor one or more folders and import new files that show up there:
File / Library / Import / Configure Auto-Import

Any audio file can be played in any zone that handles audio.

Yes, know the AutoImport feature. But I would like to automatically add audio files from my library to the zone "radio".

Title: Re: Automatically add file to a Zone
Post by: JohnT on January 07, 2015, 03:24:14 pm

So it sounds like you want to have a folder where files that are copied there are automatically queued up for playback in a zone called "AUDIO", is that right?

I don't believe there's a way to do that.

There is a way to configure a zone to handle playback of certain tracks based on a set of rules.  So for example, if you wanted all MP3 format files to be played in a certain zone, and all FLAC files to be played in another zone, you could do that using "Zone Switch" (right-click on a zone).

Title: Re: Automatically add file to a Zone
Post by: JohnT on January 07, 2015, 03:32:19 pm

You could set up a smartlist of all recently imported mp3 & flac tracks within a particular folder.

Then you could use the "Play Doctor" preset radio buttons to for example play the smartlists created above and give the presets descriptive names.

Title: Re: Automatically add file to a Zone
Post by: Al ex on January 08, 2015, 03:01:49 am

Quote from: JohnT on January 07, 2015, 03:24:14 pm

So it sounds like you want to have a folder where files that are copied there are automatically queued up for playback in a zone called "AUDIO", is that right?

I don't believe there's a way to do that.

There is a way to configure a zone to handle playback of certain tracks based on a set of rules.  So for example, if you wanted all MP3 format files to be played in a certain zone, and all FLAC files to be played in another zone, you could do that using "Zone Switch" (right-click on a zone).

Yes exactly.
And zones I have configured already that way.

Anyway, I think I will leave it to a manual process, i.e., when new files are added to the library, I will just copy them over to the relevant zone...

Thanks