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<blockquote data-quote="oxolodo" data-source="post: 602465" data-attributes="member: 103671">Introduction : skip if you want to go straight to the questionHi, I'm new to Mediaportal. I was previously with J River Media Center and I decided to switch today.The main thing I'm looking for is the possibility to customize the music menus as I want. I would like a combination of id3 tags and folder structure. We are 4 music listeners in my family and it's difficult to keep things clean! We all categorize our music in different folders based on the use of it, and then by artist-album-track.Is there a way to obtain a menu with a specific path, which then switch to the database tags? For exemple :Folder name--&gt;Folder name---&gt;%Artist%---&gt;%Album%I achieved this in J River Media center by creating a list with an entry for every folders with the conditions &quot;path&quot; &quot;begins with&quot; &quot;beginning of the path\&quot;. After a click in that list, the view switched to the standard %artist%-%album% lists.In foobar, it's very simple : I can use the tag &quot;$directory(%path%,3)&quot; as a column in my music library, so it shows me the third parent folder of the audio file.Main questionIn mediaportal, is it possible to either: - add a path-related field in the music views (foobar-like)- manually create different menus or lists or views (whatever it would be called) that are directly related to a folder path. After clicking on these menus I would see the music in that path sorted by tags. (J river-like)Thank you!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oxolodo, post: 602465, member: 103671"] [U]Introduction [/U]: skip if you want to go straight to the question [SIZE="1"]Hi, I'm new to Mediaportal. I was previously with J River Media Center and I decided to switch today. The main thing I'm looking for is the possibility to customize the music menus as I want. I would like a combination of id3 tags and folder structure. We are 4 music listeners in my family and it's difficult to keep things clean! We all categorize our music in different folders based on the use of it, and then by artist-album-track. Is there a way to obtain a menu with a specific path, which then switch to the database tags? For exemple : Folder name-->Folder name--->%Artist%--->%Album% I achieved this in J River Media center by creating a list with an entry for every folders with the conditions "path" "begins with" "beginning of the path\". After a click in that list, the view switched to the standard %artist%-%album% lists. In foobar, it's very simple : I can use the tag "$directory(%path%,3)" as a column in my music library, so it shows me the third parent folder of the audio file.[/SIZE] [U] Main question[/U] In mediaportal, is it possible to either: - add a path-related field in the music views (foobar-like) - manually create different menus or lists or views (whatever it would be called) that are directly related to a folder path. After clicking on these menus I would see the music in that path sorted by tags. (J river-like) Thank you! [/QUOTE]

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