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Random folder custom directories
Mmmm:
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 #7074
You 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:
--- Code: ---CDs
downloads/a-m
--- End code ---
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
--- Code: ---CDs
CDs/favourites
downloads/a-m
--- End code ---
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 :o
What do you think?
Please test it... :-) (only one smiley allowed per post??)
Llorean:
Smileys aren't too useful in a technical forum. I had limited it to three, and discovered that still didn't discourage people from using three of the ??? smilies after questions (as opposed to 6 or 7 as was in the past).
I really only see the smilies as being useful (in a practical sense) when using the winking one to denote that something is a joke or meant in jest. So I decided that you can probably safely get away with one.
PaulJam:
Hi,
nice feature.
I was wondering if this could be extended to also be able to specify folders that should not be included in the folderlist. For example in my music directory i have a folder "various artists" that i don't want to be played in random folder mode. With your patch i still have to delete this one manually from the folderlist.
Mmmm:
Hmm... I'll have a think about that...will be a bit trickier though I think...
JdGordon:
changing it to use a whitelist and a blacklist should be fairl trivial... just it will takes ages if the list is fairly big :(
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