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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Jayhawk on August 24, 2007, 03:08:28 pm
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On a new installation of MC12, I loaded a fairly large library (26 gig) of all WMA files. They loaded sucessfully with tag info including the prior genres and ratings I had set in Windows Media Player. Great!
Now trying to make some smartlists by genre, but when open smartlist creation window and select a rule to filter by genre, the dropdown box from which to select the genre to be used for the filter is "empty".
Can I get the existing genres showing for my tracks to populate the dropdown box?? ?
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Bump... still haven't got this figured out... any help??
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Don't know, but try updating and wait a little. That's a lot of data.
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Well... have waited quite a long time... still no genres in the dropdown list. I have gotten around the issue by creating smartlists of specific genre using the "contains" or "starts with", etc conditions that allow me to type in a genre. Lousy workaround.
Still would like some help on what could cause the drop list to not populate with genres....?
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If you mean this genre list then something is not right:
(http://www.adart.pp.fi/mc/pix/emptygenre.png)
MC should populate the list automatically from the library contents. The list in the screenshot is from a small test library that has only a few genres.
My main library shows 377 genres in the smartlist editor.
The used file format is irrelevant. The list should come directly from the database.
As a test, could you try to create a new library, import only a few files and check if that makes any difference? (File > Library > Library Manager > Add...)