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Title: /SilentImport of directory tree
Post by: avid on May 17, 2005, 07:48:13 am

Can someone confirm that I can still *not* use /SilentImport to silently import a directory and (recusively) all its sub-directories? Is there any other non-interactive way that can do this - that I can trigger from MJExtMan/Girder/COM/etc?

Is this planned at all? It seems to have been requested several times over the last year or two.

Brian

Title: Re: /SilentImport of directory tree
Post by: Matt on May 17, 2005, 08:51:05 am

Command line imports should support paths now.  This is new to MC 11.

Title: Re: /SilentImport of directory tree
Post by: avid on May 17, 2005, 12:55:00 pm

Sorry to be a niusance Matt, But can you (or anyone) clarify further please.

My understanding from earlier postings was that the command line imports will import a directory insofar as it imports the files immediately within the directory. But it will not import the contents of descendant sub-directories.

Have I got the wrong idea?

What I have is a directory structure: C:\Music\<artist>\<album>\<track>.wma and I want to be able to refresh the library from this directory with a single silent operation acting on C:\Music

Is what I want possible?

Thanks

Brian

Title: Re: /SilentImport of directory tree
Post by: Matt on May 17, 2005, 01:17:59 pm

Something like this should work:

Media Center 11 Launcher.exe /SilentImport "C:\Music\"

or

Media Center 11 Launcher.exe /SilentImport "C:\Music\Abba\"|"C:\Music\Aerosmith\"

Title: Re: /SilentImport of directory tree
Post by: avid on May 18, 2005, 02:07:15 am

Matt,

Thank you. That worked just as I wanted (with 11.0.269). Somehow (from earlier postings) I had got it into my head that the import was not recursive. But I am very pleased to be proved wrong.

Cheers

Brian