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Title: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: britade on August 12, 2006, 11:38:07 am

Is there a way to select or exclude images form a certain directory hierarchy?

I want to modify the View Schemes for images so that I don't get all the album art appearing.  At present, my pictures are on a different volume for my music so I can get away with the following:

[Media Type]=[Image] -[Volume Name]=[M:]


However, I want to move my pictures on to the same disk as the rest of my media in the near future.  What I really want to do is something like:

[Media Type]=[Image] [Location]=[M:\Pictures\Photo Album\*]

or

[Media Type]=[Image] -[Location]=[M:\Music\*]

However, I can't find a suitable field name.  Have I missed something?

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: Alex B on August 12, 2006, 11:50:16 am

[Media Type]=[Image] [Filename]=[M:\Pictures\Photo Album

or

[Media Type]=[Image] -[Filename]=[M:\Music


Because there is no bracket in the end the expression defines only how the filename starts.

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: marko on August 12, 2006, 12:17:18 pm

Quote from: Alex B on August 12, 2006, 11:50:16 am

[Media Type]=[Image] [Filename]=[M:\Pictures\Photo Album

or

[Media Type]=[Image] -[Filename]=[M:\Music


Because there is no bracket in the end the expression defines only how the filename starts.

for the 'begins with...' rule to work, it will need a closing quote....

[media type]=image -[filename]=[M:\Music"

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: Alex B on August 12, 2006, 12:31:55 pm

Actually, it seems that a closing quote is not needed. At least not with the [Filename] field.

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: marko on August 12, 2006, 01:02:10 pm

interesting. it's not what I'm seeing here:

without quote:
(http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/noquote.jpg)

and with:
(http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/quote.jpg)

Without the quote is causing a lot of confusion as the tree selection (all images) only pulls files from drives D: and F:

Also, interestingly, remembering that = implies contains, the example given don't actually need any search formatting at all..

-[filename]=M:\Music would work perfectly as the string could not possibly be any where else than the start of the filename.
for learning though, the complete string would probably be best. -[filename]=[M:\Music"

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: britade on August 12, 2006, 01:23:11 pm

Thanks to both of you for your help.   I was about to post to say that I couldn't get the original suggestion to work.

I'll give it a try, once I manage to kick my wife of the PC with MC installed.   ;)

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: Alex B on August 12, 2006, 01:49:04 pm

For some reason with thumbnails on top and details on bottom the expression works fine without the closing quote (I tried it before posting). It seems to be different with Panes.

I found that I have an audio view scheme that uses a similar incomplete expression without a closing quote, but I have never tried panes with it.

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: britade on August 12, 2006, 02:11:55 pm

Ahh.. that would explain it.  I've using Panes at the top and thumbnails at the bottom.

I've settled for the following which seems to work:

[Media Type]=[Image] [Filename]="M:\Pictures\Photo Album"

Thanks again!

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: britade on August 12, 2006, 02:56:45 pm

I assume the inconsistent behaviour between pane & without is a bug.  How do can we report this, albeit very minor, bug?

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: wilfredjg on August 12, 2006, 07:37:28 pm

Thanks I have been trying to get album art not to show up with my photos. Thought about creating a folder move my cover art to it then delete folder. But this should do the job. Thanks

Quote from: britade on August 12, 2006, 02:11:55 pm

Ahh.. that would explain it.  I've using Panes at the top and thumbnails at the bottom.

I've settled for the following which seems to work:

[Media Type]=[Image] [Filename]="M:\Pictures\Photo Album"

Thanks again!

Title: Re: How to exclude album art from image views
Post by: britade on August 13, 2006, 03:01:40 am

I have to admit that I've been meaning to do this for about 6 months but only got around to it this weekend.  However, the ability to edit and create views really shows the power of MC.