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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Mac => Topic started by: aliciaviola on September 22, 2017, 10:02:17 am

Title: Pictures, pdf... outside of the folder
Post by: aliciaviola on September 22, 2017, 10:02:17 am

Is there a possibility to show pictures, pdf, html... via the context menu "extras" that are outside the folder of the music files?
It would be extremely useful with compilations.

Frank

Title: Re: Pictures, pdf... outside of the folder
Post by: Matt on September 22, 2017, 10:04:35 am

It looks in these subfolders already:
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Extras\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Scans\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("PDF\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("PDFs\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Booklet\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Art\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Artwork\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Cover\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Covers\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Cover Scan\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Cover Scans\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Album Artworks\\"));

If you need something else, just say the word.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Pictures, pdf... outside of the folder
Post by: aliciaviola on September 22, 2017, 05:20:45 pm

Sorry, I am still looking for my shoes.
Where are these folders?

Title: Re: Pictures, pdf... outside of the folder
Post by: aliciaviola on September 22, 2017, 05:26:29 pm

And I forgot: thanks for the most stable version I used up to now of MediaCenter.

Frank

Title: Re: Pictures, pdf... outside of the folder
Post by: blgentry on September 22, 2017, 05:33:53 pm

"Extras" are only taken from the folder where the music is *and* subfolders with specific names.  The folder names that Matt showed you are the sub folders that are searched for extras.  This allows you to keep your extras separated from the music files, as they are in their own folder.  But that folder has to be inside the album folder.

I hope that helps.

Brian.

Title: Re: Pictures, pdf... outside of the folder
Post by: jayla on October 21, 2017, 02:05:51 am

Quote from: Matt on September 22, 2017, 10:04:35 am

It looks in these subfolders already:
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Extras\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Scans\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("PDF\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("PDFs\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Booklet\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Art\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Artwork\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Cover\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Covers\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Cover Scan\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Cover Scans\\"));
      arySubfolders.Add(_T("Album Artworks\\"));

If you need something else, just say the word.

I would really appreciate to have the possibility to build a reference folder (or short cut) into a given folder that contains the music. The reference folder would point to the folder that has for example the .pdf files I want to read once I hear music. Why? because than I only need one file about a composer and can gain access to it from every music folder that plays music of this composer.

Example: Composer is Beethoven. I create one folder named Beethoven. This folder contains the biography of Beethoven as pdf. In every folder that contains music from Beethoven I create a shortcut (or reference) to the folder Beethoven. If JRiver now gains access to that folder I can read always the biography while I'm playing music from Beethoven.
 
Thanks.