I find it quite annoying that every time I scan my folders with the random_folder_advance plugin, I always have to delete a large number of folders from the list so that radio recordings and other things aren't picked. As I change the contents of my drive fairly often this happens all the time.
So I have written a patch so that you can permanently store the folders that you want scanned in a file and then only these files are scanned.
Here it is:
FS #7074You must create a text file in /.rockbox called "folder_advance_dir.txt" and in this file you should put your directories.
eg.
if your root folder contains:
CDs--------> a-m
 --------> n-z
 -------->favourites
downloads-->a-m
    -->n-z
pictures
if you make your folder_advance_dir.txt look like this:
CDs
downloads/a-m
then just
CDs--------> a-m
 --------> n-z
 -------->favourites
downloads-->a-m
will be scanned and you won't have to delete
downloads-->n-z
pictures
A nifty side effect of this is that if you put
this into your folder_advance_dir.txt file
CDs
CDs/favourites
downloads/a-m
then the favourites folder will be twice as likely to be picked than any other folder!
So you can put a bias on any folders you like! Â
What do you think?
Please test it... :-) (only one smiley allowed per post??)