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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: sthomp on March 29, 2007, 01:25:27 am

Title: Disk location smartlist?
Post by: sthomp on March 29, 2007, 01:25:27 am

Is there a way to use disk location as a criteria in a smartlist? After checking the help file, I've tried...

location=C:\Music\Various\
[Filename (path)]=C:\My Music

(Replacing paths with the actual path.) Both leave the smartlist empty even though there are plenty of files there.

I'd like to include subfolders as well. Can this be done?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Disk location smartlist?
Post by: marko on March 29, 2007, 01:31:00 am

use either [filename] or [filename (path)] and if there's spaces, wrap the path in double quotes:

[filename (path)]="C:\My Music"  will return all files that contain that string in their path names.

Title: Re: Disk location smartlist?
Post by: sthomp on March 29, 2007, 08:51:00 am

Thanks for the answer. I updated to 12.0.198, and now have the smartlist wizard. Now I can't figure out a couple of things I used to be able to do...

1. How can I use "or" in a smartlist so that, for example, I can specify two different disk locations and return everything in both of them?

2. How can I use a playlist as a smartlist criteria? The ones I had before show up as "custom" and use a playlist ID. Is there still a way to navigate through my playlists to choose one, or at least find out what my playlist IDs are so I can enter these manually?

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Disk location smartlist?
Post by: winniew on March 29, 2007, 12:45:23 pm

1. You can configure the rules as follows:

Filename (path)       is    C:\My Music   
Custom                  or
Filename (path)       is    D:\My Music   

But:
Don't try to edit the Dropdownlist with the paths.
It gives you strange results.

2. I also don't see a way to use smartlists in the rules. I mentioned it here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=39636.0
But no replies. I hope that the smartlist wizard is not yet ready.

3. When you add  a rule with:
Feed URL     is    xyz
you also get wrong results.  After closing the Dialog and reopen the editor
the rule is empty.

So I think we have to wait...

Title: Re: Disk location smartlist?
Post by: marko on March 29, 2007, 03:09:21 pm

double quotes are still needed around the paths

Title: Re: Disk location smartlist?
Post by: sthomp on March 29, 2007, 08:42:57 pm

Thanks for the info.

By the way, in case anyone finds this useful, to include a path and its subfolders, use...

Filename (path)      contains      C:\Music

You'll need to manually type in the path instead of selecting it from a drop-down list. (Using quotes if necessary, as others pointed out.) For some reason, if you look back at the rule after saving it, the rule will say "is" and the path will be blank, but it will still work.