directory structure

[jake.t]

(10-09-2014 11:09)DavidHB Wrote:  

(10-09-2014 00:12)jake.t Wrote:  does anyone know if there's a way to control the directory structures to create nested searches?

what I mean is, for instance from the main folders, select Year_added, under that select Month_added, under that select Day_added?

it makes no sense selecting a month across years, or a day for that matter.

This is an awkward query to respond to, because it is not immediately clear what you are trying to do, or what, in this context, you mean by "Directory Structure".

The normal MinimServer dynamic browse tree is not constructed from folder locations but from tags in the music files, via an index. In many control points, nodes in the tree are represented as folders, so this may be what you are referring to. Simon's advice in the preceding post is relevant here; the whole point of a dynamic browse tree is that it makes the selections as you browse, rather than defining the tree in advance, as is done in other server programs. You change the behaviour of the browse tree by defining (in Settings) which tags are indexed and of course through the content of the tags themselves. As there is a Date tag, it is certainly possible to browse items by Date, though that is typically a publication date, rather than a date added. It might be possible to add special tags to do what you have in mind.

MinimServer also offers [folder view] which allows you to browse the folders in the music directory as if you were in a file manager. In that case, the folders are whatever you have set them to be in your ripping program or using your file manager or whatever. MinimServer simply deals with the folder structure that it finds, so arranging the folders to suit your needs is a file management task.

This isn't much help, I fear. If you can give an example of precisely what you wish to do, it might be possible to offer more specific advice.

David

thanks David, it totally makes sense the way its done and normally for situations like composer, conductor, Orchestra is feasible that once you've chosen a composer, you want to select a conductor, and perhaps an Orchestra.

What I've done and find very useful is use the %file_create_date% to breakout the year, month and day the material was added to the collection.

this allows me to quickly go through the collection and listen to 'new' material at any time.

from the root, selecting a month or a day doesn't make much sense because they are arbitrary without a year so I want to nest the month index within the Year index, and day within the Month.

does that make sense?