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[TheGreatBiguini]

Am still looking for a way to open a Web media URL and have play default to "There" - I have been trying to configure a ZoneSwitch rule to do this but it does not seem to work with any of the streaming radio stations I have set up. Better yet, the zone selection should be sticky so that if using J River as a client to a library server and one wants to play thru a remote zone, it should autoload the selected remote zone on startup.  Many thanks!!!

[TheGreatBiguini]

I discovered that if you go into ZoneSwitch and add a rule that sets Web Media URl's to "is" then you can see a drop-down list of all the URL's you have inputted so far. This seems to work. However, it is mighty clunky and one would have to manually select each new URL. For some funny reason no other option seems to work with URL's for me. So, am still hoping that J River can give us a way to always default to a specific zone. Thanks!!

[Micromecca]

Have you tried using contains or starts with instead of equals in the zone switch rule and entering something common to all the addresses, such as 'http' ?

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[Web Media URL]=[http"

[TheGreatBiguini]

Yes - it does not work (though it should!!!)   

[Micromecca]

You could always create a new Library Field with a Yes or No value, tag the streams with it and use that for the zone switch.

[TheGreatBiguini]

Thanks, will try it!!

[Micromecca]

No Problem, it definately works for remote zones as I tested it yesterday using a custom library field that had all of my zones listed as values.

I also agree that:

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[Web Media URL]=[http" 'should' work in zone switch, hopefully one of the devs will catch sight of this thread and chime in.

[TheGreatBiguini]

Yeah, tried a bunch of things in ZoneSwitch with no luck, weird. ZoneSwitch seems to work fine for me with regular files but not URL's. Am continuing to play with existing fields; haven't yet figured out how to add new ones though. If you can give me a 1-line lesson that would be much appreciated!

[Micromecca]

To Add a new library field simply navigate to..

Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Manage Library Fields

Select Add New Field and enter its name
(I Used DefaultPlaybackZone)

Enter something to refer to each Zone in Acceptable Values, Seperated by a ;
(I Used: HereSpeakers;ThereHDMI;ThereMDAC)

Now Tag your files using the newly created Library Field, and use it to Define your zone switch rule.

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[DefaultPlaybackZone]=[ThereMDAC]

[TheGreatBiguini]

Thanks. Tried it and so far it works!!!  Why it didn't work with a bunch of pre-existing fields I dunno.

[MrC]

The rule:

    [Web Media URL]=[http"

works here.  Do you have ZoneSwitch configured to Stop playback for the other zones.  They act as a group.

[TheGreatBiguini]

Yes