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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: jgreen on March 30, 2006, 03:16:11 pm
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I believe it was Quisp who suggested an alternative to windmilling stacks that involved several little icons displaying "number of files" and whatnot. Well, setting aside the whatnot, isn't there a way to display the number of files in a stack by inserting the appropriate expression in "thumbnail text" area in "Customize Current View"? I say this because I notice that the field I have for "File Size" is reporting a summed total when shown for a stack.
The problem is that I've generally avoided expressions like the Plague or Bill Collectors or a Plague of Bill Collectors. Can somebody help me? What would "number of Files" look like written in that expressions gobbledegook?
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Beg Pardon.
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sorry jg, last time I looked, expressions couldn't count files.
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no way to actually count but i wonder if a hack would work assuming you have track numbers entered in for all your tracks.
- a smartlist to reverse sort [Track #] & [Album] puts the highest track number first and groups by [Album]
- Pick only 1 track/album using limit . Will it pick the first track each time, thereby the track with the highest (Track #].
- customise columns to show [Album] & advanced expression with name [Track Count]but actually references [Track#]
No you won't see a track count in Tiles view but a smartlist of the above might work.
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(jgreen gazes wistfully into the distance, and sighs. Unbidden, the words of the poet come to mind. "Of all sad words of tongue or pen . . .")
Thank-you to Marko and NY for trying, at least.