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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: lalittle on December 14, 2005, 01:23:11 am
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Somebody else just asked a similar question recently, but I had a followup question and the thread was locked for some reason, so I have to start a new thread to ask this.
In the other thread, two different people posted different ways of doing this. One person suggested
imagefile=":"
and somebody else suggested
[Image File]=[]
The original poster said that imagefile=":" worked for him, but this confuses me since when I do this, it finds songs that DO have cover art saved in the file. I can look at the files in the list and see the cover art in the Action Window. I tried variations on imagefile=":", such as [Image File]=:, [Image File]=":", imagefile=:, etc, but none of them work. [Image File]=[] does seem to work, but I am confused about why the other method isn't working for me.
Thanks for any helping me understand this,
Larry
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the recent question was not how to find files with no art, but how to find those with art stored externally.
I'm surprised to find that imagefile=":" returns any results as it was my understanding that "..." implied an exact match.
Anyhow, imagefile=[] returns all files with no coverart associated, =[] returns empty, or unnasigned file matches.
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the recent question was not how to find files with no art, but how to find those with art stored externally.
I'm surprised to find that imagefile=":" returns any results as it was my understanding that "..." implied an exact match.
Anyhow, imagefile=[] returns all files with no coverart associated, =[] returns empty, or unnasigned file matches.
You're right -- I apparently misread the post a bit. It looks like [Image File]=[] is what I'm looking for.
Thanks for clarifying this.
Larry
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Isn't there an autosmartlist included with MC called "Task - no images" that contains all files without images assigned? i definitely remember one being there last time i looked...
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the recent question was not how to find files with no art, but how to find those with art stored externally.
ah
You're right -- I apparently misread the post a bit. It looks like [Image File]=[] is what I'm looking for.
looks like i just did the same (misread the post) ... never mind.
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:)
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I'm surprised to find that imagefile=":" returns any results
Well If It Is External It Has A Drive Letter Like "C:\"
Since ":" Or ":\" Would Be In Any External Image, It Works
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obviously. it's not that that surprised me, it's the quotes.
I thought that ":" meant that to match the search, [image file] must be exactly :
while [image file]=: would look for any occurrance of : anywhere in the field entry
[image file]=[:] behaves in the way I'd also expect [image file]=":" to do.
It was more the kind of raise the eyebrows, shrug my shoulders, and move along kind of surprise, than the shock-horror variety :)
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It was more the kind of raise the eyebrows, shrug my shoulders, and move along kind of surprise, than the shock-horror variety :)
There are more than a few of those in life. Whew.