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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bounguine" data-source="post: 333508" data-attributes="member: 16098">Thanks for the new version!Although I’m too much aggrieved that you haven’t switched to scanning folder/file names from adding names to the DB using Last.fm entries.So, I’m still dependant on the entries being added by Last.fm users or being correct in orthography.OK, I scanned two large folders:(1) short music videos (non-VIDEO_TS structure) – more than 300 items,(2) live concerts and music movies(non-VIDEO_TS and VIDEO_TS) – more than 200 items).Scanning (1):A1) in almost 100 cases a “Confirm artist’s name” window popped up (artist is not in Last.fm DB, cases “artist, the”, different spelling, cases “artist 1 & artist 2”, etc), pressing “cancel” is to loose the entry, so I made “CTRL + C” & “CTRL + V” & “retry” 100 times (isn’t it a torture to keep a record in DB if there’s no parsing folder/file names?),B1) after doing the operation “CTRL + C” & “CTRL + V” & “retry” (see A1) all the items were added to DB,C1) as there’s no way to predefine a mask for scanning folder/file names, I have:- “artist “Ska”, song “P”” for “Ska-P – Tio Sam” and - “artist (artist), song (name of festival)” for “(artist) - (name of festival) – (song)”Scanning (2):A2) 90 cases (see A1),B2) pressing “retry” added no entry for non-VIDEO_TS folders and the pop-up window appeared in a circle for one entry causing me press “cancel” and loose the item,C2) (same as C1),D2) no VIDEO_TS folders were added at all.You see, the result is far from being perfect and DB is far from being full and correct.Still waiting for the concept of scanning being changed and VIDEO_TS structure being supported.PSOpening MP error:2008-11-25 10:25:33.640625 [Info.][MPMain]: render exception<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />ystem.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Xface\media\animations\music'.   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)   at System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames(String path, String userPathOriginal, String searchPattern, Boolean includeFiles, Boolean includeDirs, SearchOption searchOption)   at System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)   at System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(String path)   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIMultiImage.LoadDirectory()   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIMultiImage.AllocResources()   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIMultiImage.Render(Single timePassed)   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIControl.DoRender(Single timePassed, UInt32 currentTime)   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.Render(Single timePassed)</blockquote>

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