custom database???

[MozyMan]

i've got a 5G 30gb iPod, and i was wondering if there was a way to select what folders rockbox searchs for music to add to its database, like stopping it from searching the itunes folder, as i have already copied my music to a folder in the root of my iPod, and so it now shows each song twice in the database...

any ideas anyone??

[Chronon]

You're sacrificing half of your disk space to redundantly store all of your files in a file tree and in iTunes' obfuscated filing system?  (You said "copied".)

If you are set on this strategy you can probably have a look at the database code and tell it to search a particular directory (and subdirectories) instead of the entire drive.  

[MozyMan]

where do i go to look at thte database code or what do i do??

[saratoga]

Remove the music in the root of your ipod?

[GodEater]

where do i go to look at thte database code or what do i do??

Download the source code - there's heaps of info on this in other forum posts and on the wiki - and no need for anyone to spell it out again here.

[MozyMan]

hey,
i found this page about the tagnavi_custom.config file, and about setting different parameters in it. it said at the bottom of the page about excluding folders, so if i make a tagnavi_custom.config with this:

#! rockbox/tagbrowser/2.0"
filename !^ "/iPod_Control/"

should it exclude the iPod_Control folder???

[gnu]

The easiest way to find out is trying.
I personally don't use the database, so I can't help you.

[MozyMan]

nope it didnt work...
anyone know anything about what to put in the tagnavi file to exclude the search of the iPod_Control folder???

[bascule]

You can only use that to exclude files in an individual database query, it is not a global setting.

i.e., you could write a custom database file that filtered out iPod_Control files, but you would have to have that statement in every line.

[MozyMan]

so do you mean that i would have to write a separate line for each file that i wanted to be excluded from the database???

[bascule]

No, that's not how the Database works.

It works by writing each required database menu entry, which is actually a filter, describing what you want to select. e.g.:

artist -> album -> title

initially displays all artists. When you select one, it lists all albums by that artist. When you select an album, it lists all tracks on that album.

Yours would need to be:

artist ? filename !^ "/iPod_Control/" -> album -> title

etc, etc...

[ZincAlloy]

this thread is pretty old, but it should be noted that directories can be excluded from scanning for database data by placing a file named "database.ignore" in them (wow, the manual IS really useful).