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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Windows => Topic started by: stevenjw on March 12, 2018, 07:48:55 pm

Title: How do you modify the manual import pull-down list?
Post by: stevenjw on March 12, 2018, 07:48:55 pm

How does MC create the manual import pull-down list and how does one go about modifying it?  It seems very random, doesn't store what I type.  Therefore it's pretty useless and not very user friendly. 

And I know all about Auto-import and Library & Folder options.  That's not what I'm asking.

Title: Re: How do you modify the manual import pull-down list?
Post by: RoderickGI on March 12, 2018, 09:00:38 pm

It looks like the drop-down list of locations shown in the "Import a Single Folder" Media Import dialogue is a list of all locations that Windows has found image, audio, or video media files. Plus the last used location that MC has imported media files from is shown as the current suggested location.

The drop-down list has never accepted keyboard entry. You have to use the Browse button to select a new location to import from.

Why do you ask? Are you having trouble Browsing to a location you want to import from? If so;

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,114852.0.html

For NAS; https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,114873.0.html

Title: Re: How do you modify the manual import pull-down list?
Post by: stevenjw on March 13, 2018, 09:28:36 pm

Thanks for the response.  Basically, MC2x relies on Windows to fill this list of locations rather than providing something more user friendly and useful.  They save the last location.  How much harder would it be to save more than that?  The Windows drop-down list is pretty much useless.  I know that I can type a location in the field or use the Browse function, but what I was hoping for was a way to change the drop-down list to contain the drives/directories that I almost always use when importing a single folder.  Instead of MC2x remember say the last 5 folders that I have used, it relies on Windows for that list.  Sadly, I couldn't find the entries in the current list in the registry, so no idea where Windows builds/keeps that list.  Basically, the answer is MC does not create the list at all.  Sorry, but I find that sad and lazy.  Wouldn't take much effort to keep a list that the end-user is most likely to use, like the last 5+ selections previously entered, instead of letting Windows do the work via some method() or other lazy approach.  Sad.

Anyway, thanks again for you help.