Author Topic: Shortcut To Open A Specific Library  (Read 1805 times)

Thalion Korvhas

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Instead of going through File>Library>Open Library>choose library, is there anyway to create a shortcut command on the toolbar to open a specific library?

phred

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No such shortcut exists. I suggest checking the Wiki for command line options as there may be something there that will do what you want. I don't have the time to look right now.

Also, instead of having/using multiple libraries, you can use filters which would avoid having to go back and forth between libraries. The Wiki has some documentation on filters also.
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Thalion Korvhas

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No such shortcut exists. I suggest checking the Wiki for command line options as there may be something there that will do what you want. I don't have the time to look right now.

Also, instead of having/using multiple libraries, you can use filters which would avoid having to go back and forth between libraries. The Wiki has some documentation on filters also.

I have never used filters before. But playing around with them, I could see their use. Because I did not know about filters, I created 2 main libraries based on encoding type. (1) library has lossy encodes & (1) has lossless encodes. I have some others based on other criteria. Doing it this way helped me keep my archive files separate from my "working" copies. I have way more lossy files than lossless. I tend to think more in terms of file structure than metadata (each library also has its own folder in windows to keep them separated).

I do see that filters could allow me to create one big library and filter them to create *sub libraries*. That works 99% for me. I also see I could make custom tags and use them as filters. This works great for things like audio books where someone actually uses the genre tag for the type of audio book. I use the genre tag to call them Audio books because I only have 3 authors and I don't need to define them further.

The only fly in the ointment is that I do have a few lossless files in my lossless folders for reasons of consistency. I.E. a bonus track from another version of the album that I could not get in lossless format.