On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Chris Jones<cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:59:56PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> > Do you mean that if I have 20-30 directories with .mp3's or .flv's, I
>> > need to edit the config file every time I want to switch to a different
>> > directory.?
>
>> no, be smarter than that. If they are not in the same directory tree
>> then make a "music" directory direct freevo to that directory put
>> symlinks in to your music. you can then navigate the directory tree
>> in freevo
>
> You mean there is no simple way I can just point freevo to a directory
> that contains .mp3 or .flv files..??
>
> Do I need to create a freevo directory with a symlink to each of the
> thousands of .mp3/.flv files on this system and then edit the local conf
> file to point freevo to that directory of symlinks..?
>
> No way I could do that by hand, so I'd have to write a script to handle
> this.
>
> Is there anywhere in the freevo documentation that explains how I'm
> supposed to do this?
>
> CJ
Start on the Wiki and the read through the local_conf.py. Freevo is
not exactly what you are thinking it is. It is not a frontend for
Mplayer so much as it is a Media Center frontend for Mplayer,Xine,TV
recording, Games Emulators and more. Freevo does not know anything
about were you launch it from, it only knows what you have told it in
the local_conf.py. To use Elizabeth's idea as an example:
I want /mnt/music to be were I can find all my muisc. So first step
edit local_conf.py to set AUDIO_ITEMS=[("Collections","/mnt/music")].
Now I happen to have dirs A B and C that all contain different MP3
collections. Under /mnt/music I create symlinks A B and C pointing to
the correct directory. Now when I launch freevo I will see a
directory Collections under the Music Menu. and in the Collections
directory there will be 3 directories containing all my music.
Evan
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