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Shortcuts

PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:44 pm
by SpritHansi
Hi!
I have a question about this shortcut-function.
If I want to make shortcuts to f.eks Top 40 album this week, is the only way to copy this albums to a folder named Top 40, and make a shortcut named "Top 40"?

I think the best way to do this is to place a shortcut to the album/song in the Top 40 folder. :roll:
Is this possible in any next versions?? :)

PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:40 am
by 3R3
so called "shortcuts" are windows specific, in linux there are symbolic links, so for compatibility and ease of use i think this way of handling shortcuts works pretty good. you could organize music like

-music
--soundtracks
---mulan
---reservoir dogs
---...
--benny page
---various
--paul kalkbrenner
---waxmise
--faithless
---no roots
---reverence
---...
--pink floyd
---darkside...
---...

the shortcut in this case would be "soundtracks", and this is the way subsonic expects the music to be organized for shortcuts to work as they should.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:52 pm
by SpritHansi
My music is organized like this
-Album
--0-9
---2Pac - Hits Of A Ghetto Star (2008)
--A
---ABBA - ABBA Live (1986)
-VA
--0-9
---80's Collection
----CD1
-Singles
--0-9
---A

And with over 240000 songs, I don't want to reorganize my library :wink:

PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:19 pm
by 3R3
thats too bad, because as it is, i think the number of songs that already got reorganised by current subsonic users exceeds 240000 by a few magnitudes :wink:

but that aside, there are tools to automagically reorganise a well tagged library with the wink of a finger/mouse, so it wouldnt be work intensive, just a little time consuming in your case (mine is only 22k songs, but I had to retag a fair amount :shock: )
such as:
mediamonkey (proprietary)
foobar (free)(if configured as such or in a "all inclusive" package)