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Title: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: Fred1 on February 13, 2017, 05:14:39 am

Hi,

i have a simple problem:

I can't find the keyboard shortcuts for rating a track (1-5 stars) on the Mac.
The HELP isn't really helpful here. Would you please help me?

Thanks, Fred.

Title: Re: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: blgentry on February 13, 2017, 05:46:03 pm

I don't think there are any built in shortcut keys for star ratings.  But a while back I did a few key mappings for MC on Mac and documented what I did.  I chose alt-1, alt-2, etc for star ratings.  See my post here with my keyboard mappings for MC on Mac:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98402.0

Brian.

Title: Re: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: Fred1 on February 13, 2017, 10:46:51 pm

Hi Brian,

thanks for your answer! I will try your method.
Nevertheless i don't understand why this is not built in the app.

Thanks, Fred.

Title: Re: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: Fred1 on February 13, 2017, 11:42:28 pm

Hi Brian,

i created a new directory "Custom Resources" under the "Data" directory and inserted the "Resource.xml" because there was neither "Custom Resources" nor "Resource.xml".

(http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/08/1895808/6231396333616334.jpg)

I copied your code to "Resource.xml".
But unfortunately it doesn't work (after restarting MediaCenter).

Fred

Title: Re: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: blgentry on February 14, 2017, 05:59:29 am

It's been a long time since I posted that thread.  I had forgotten that my "code" needs to be inserted at the end of an existing Resource.xml file.

Here's a link to the wiki article which in turn has a link to a sample Resource.xml file:

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/User_Defined_Global_Keyboard_Shortcuts

Put that file in place, then copy and paste my code at the bottom *before* the ending "</Accelerators>" line.

Finally, I see you put this under Media Center 21.  Are you running MC21 or MC22 ?

Good luck.

Brian.

Title: Re: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: Fred1 on February 15, 2017, 03:03:45 am

Brian,

thanks again for your help!!

This time is works like expected.
And i've seen, there are many aspects of MediaCenter that can be controlled by keyboard shortcuts. I have to dive into the documentation.

P.S.: Yes, i still use MC21. Therefore i used this directory.

Fred.

Title: Re: What's the keyboard shortcut for star-rating?
Post by: blgentry on February 15, 2017, 04:16:47 pm

Congrats.  Glad to hear you got it working.  :)

Brian.