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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: kdwykleingeld on July 20, 2013, 05:55:49 am

Title: Use MC also as collection library tool (vinyl - tapes.. etc
Post by: kdwykleingeld on July 20, 2013, 05:55:49 am

Hi, i would like to see functionality to manage/maintain my "vinyl" collection through the "Audio" part of MC..    just like collectorz does ...

I have all my real media loaded in MC but i also want to be able to manage my vinyl / tape etc collection with MC

The issue being that there is no media file to load so currently MC does not allow for create of an "album"

Managing the collection means managing / displaying album art, tags, views etc ..   ..

Maybe combined with lookup in media databases etc ...

thx koen

Title: Re: Use MC also as collection library tool (vinyl - tapes.. etc
Post by: MrC on July 20, 2013, 12:41:56 pm

You can do this with either dummy files, or by populating MC with entries using the MPL import method.  I provided somebody with a spreadsheet (CSV) to MPL converter not too long ago to do the same thing.

If either of these two methods are acceptable, ask for more details.

Title: Re: Use MC also as collection library tool (vinyl - tapes.. etc
Post by: kdwykleingeld on July 25, 2013, 09:44:29 am

Hi, i have tried mpl files and this seems to work for what i want ... however the main challenge remains now how to get these files for vinyl albums i already have ?? i do not want to type in all track names etc .. is there a way to get / query for track lists in mpl format accompied with album art ??



thx koen

Title: Re: Use MC also as collection library tool (vinyl - tapes.. etc
Post by: MrC on July 25, 2013, 11:17:55 am

You might be able to use this method (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79942.msg560781#msg560781), with either n dummy files, or some as-of-yet-not-added-new-feature, such as auto-creating the MPL (and dummy files if desired) given a URL only.