Page 1 of 1
Can I change the extensions assigned to categories like 'Audio'?
Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:05
by Andarras
Hi all,
I'm setting up some catalog searches to centralise and manage my media libraries. What I'm noticing is that mp4's are returned when I search on 'Audio Files'. Just wanting to confirm if there's a way for me to define what files are attached to these categories?
Thanks!
Re: Can I change the extensions assigned to categories like 'Audio'?
Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:34
by highend
There are tweaks to do this:
https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak
But don't ask me how the pattern to remove an entry looks like, I don't get what Don means with
; Tweak: add (bim, bum)/remove (bam) extensions to/from factory defaults: bim.-bam.bum
Re: Can I change the extensions assigned to categories like 'Audio'?
Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:42
by Andarras
Thanks, yeah that doesn't make much sense to me either. Surprising that an mp4 comes up with audio files search though. Will just have to manually build a search with a list of file extensions of my own.
Thanks anyway!
Re: Can I change the extensions assigned to categories like 'Audio'?
Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:57
by admin
I added MP4 to the audio files category years ago because I own some mp4 that apparently are audio only. But now a research seems to clearly say that MP4 is a video format. Maybe my files were just mis-named...
So, I will remove it from the audio files category if nobody objects.
Re: Can I change the extensions assigned to categories like 'Audio'?
Posted: 23 Apr 2018 13:01
by highend
Will just have to manually build a search with a list of file extensions of my own.
Can be scripted as well, e.g.:
Code: Select all
$audio = get("genericfiletype", "{:Audio}", ",");
$audio = formatlist($audio, "eF", ",", "!*.mp4,*.mp+");
if nobody objects
No objection