Hello guys,
Long story short, I'm one of many affected by the Theater View blank or white with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.
In the process of restauration, I ended up downgrading to Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS but screwed up and lost my Library backups so I had to start from scratch.
Following many suggestions I got Years ago on this Forum, telling that I should not use File location but Tags instead, I think is now the time to try to implement such thing.
I just need guidance for one View and from that I think I can manage to create the others. It is just that I don't get how to use Expressions with all these fields, functions and variables and feel completely lost. I tried many variants to no success so I decided once more to resort to the knowledge of you people here.
I'll try to keep this as clear as possible.
My goal is to create a "Classical" view for displaying all my Classical albums.
My files are stored like this:
Top level is divided into 4 groups:
A-D, E-M, N-Z, (Various Composers).
2nd level has all the composers belonging to the 1st groups chosen, with the exception of '(Various Composers)' which has only the name of the Albums.
3rd level has of course the Albums and is the equivalent to the 2nd level for '(Various Composers)'.
That being said I would like to navigate the same way.
I would like to show first the 4 groups and then be able to drill down.
Unfortunately I can't even get the Top level right! This is what I get with these settings:
Notice the presence of "Classica", "Multimedia" and "Musica" mixed with the groups "A-D", "E-M" and "N-Z". Also, '(Various Composers)' is missing!
I tried many different expressions, like using FileFolder(,3) or 2 or 5, 6, etc. I tried even to use more complex Expressions but clearly I don't have a clue what I'm doing.
As for the Thumbnails Text, this is what I get with this Expression:
Nada. Niente! Zilch! Rien! Nothing!
BTW, I'm receptive to alternatives, like using custom Library fields. In fact I have already two: 'Music Type' and 'File Location'. This last one is just not filled for Classical music but I can do it. Is it more efficient this way instead of using expressions?
The thing with custom fields is that I don't know how to setup MC to automatically fill them when importing new files but I know this can be done...