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[CLTRESQ]

I have been looking in the help section about stacking, so far no idea of what it does, I don't want want mess my library up, so haven't pressed that button yet, Could be NUCLEAR or something, lol  Any ideas of what may I expect it to do, or how it works? ?

[JimH]

There is info about stacks on our Wiki.

[marko]

Firstly, there's the wiki entry: http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/Stacks
(or is that what you meant when you referred to the 'help section'?)

I also made a stack related post yesterday that might help...
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=46228.msg317638#msg317638

Imagine you have a pile of pictures. (real, physical KodaColour prints)
The pictures are in a pile because they mostly look the same, so you piled them up and placed the best of the bunch on top of the pile so you could see it.

At any time you want, you can scatter that pile, then pile it back up again (or not, depending on your mood)
You may just decide to chuck the pile of photos in the bin and just keep the top one.
You may decide to pile them back up and place a different file on top.

MC stacks work on exactly the same premise, and can be extended to any file you like.
Play with it for a bit. Stack 'em up, knock 'em down, stack 'em up again.
The system is working really very well now.

have fun.
-marko.

[DarkPenguin]

Edit:  I typed it so I'm posting it.  But this is pretty much what marko wrote.

Here is some documentation in need of an update...

http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/Stacks

Some of the todo's have been done.

This thread

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=46228.0

has some useful information.  Look for marko's big post in it at post 11.

Basically stacks are a way of hiding files you normally do not want to see.  For instance you might take 5 pictures of a cat.  You might stack them and put the "sharp" photo on top.  You still have the others available but you do not have to see them.

The handheld cache uses stacks.  If you have a lossless file (ape, for instance) and we need to convert that file to an mp3 for transfer to your ipod we can now stack that file with the original.  You don't need to see it since it is in a stack but it is available for the next transfer.

If you have a camera RAW file and a Jpeg version you could stack them together with the Jpeg as the top file.  You still have access to the RAW file but you really only want to see the developed Jpeg version.  Etc.

They shouldn't be used as a grouping.  Better to use ratings or keywords for that.

[Cmagic]

Hi,

As Marko, just mentionned, Stacks can be used to manage piles of images just like you would do with physical piles of photos on your coffee table.

Stacks can also be used on audio files for stacking different encoding of the same tracks.
Or I found out that they can be used to help migrate file properties (tag) from one file to the other as I posted here:http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=46087.0.

I think that as the stack feature is maturing (it is quite a new feature), Interacters will promptly discover new usage for it.

Have a nice day,

C.