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I have to share this one.

I just started using the Latshaw KJ Manager program and sent Bob this note through his customer service contact form:

From: Thomas Ohlendorf

Bob:

I have been using KJ Filemanager. Great tool.

One request though, wouldit be possible to build in a function that replaces or appends to a field from the fullpath ofthe file.

For example; let's say the path is:

g:\Karaoke\Backstage\BS103\Collin Raye - 01 - She's All That.MP3

The function would allow me to select the text between the 3rd "\" and the 4th "\" and replace the Disc ID with it.


Thanks,
Tom
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Here's Bob's first reply:

That's actually a good idea. I'm adding it to my official list of good suggestions.
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Here's his second:

Tom,

I just replied to you only a couple minutes ago, but after placing your suggestion in the "good ideas" folder, I couldn't get it out of my head. It's not just a good idea, but a great idea. I know there are many people who sort files into many subfolders in the way that you do, and I can see how that kind of feature could really speed up things for a lot of people. I'm going to start work right away on a new "Path Extraction" feature that will enable the user to choose the name of the parent folder, grandparent folder, etc... for appending to the field of choice.

Pat yourself on the back. Its suggestions like that that help make this program useful.

Thanks again,

Bob Latshaw
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Now that's customer service...
 
Was this before or after you showed him the post on the autokdj forums?
 
Well it's nice and all that he did it, but myself, and plenty of autOKdj users had the unfortunate experience of bobs bad side when it came to supporting this format. He was asked to do this months and months ago. BTW this isn't an autOKdj format, this is the default winamp media library format for untagged files (i.e. zip, mpg, vob, etc)
 
I have been using KJ Filemanager. Great tool.

One request though, wouldit be possible to build in a function that replaces or appends to a field from the fullpath ofthe file.

For example; let's say the path is:

g:KaraokeBackstageBS103Collin Raye - 01 - She's All That.MP3

The function would allow me to select the text between the 3rd "" and the 4th "" and replace the Disc ID with it.
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So I'm a little thick. Why would you want to do that?
 
The Path shopuld have read:

g:/Karaoke/Backstage/BS103/Collin Raye - 01 - She's All That.MP3

What I wanted to be able to do is use the "BS103" as the Disc ID. It was not available in the file name but it was available as part of the full path of the file. The change that Bob mamde to the program allowed me to be able to use a piece of the full path in the reconstructed file name.
 
Yes, I am one of Bob Latshaw's many clients. I use the KJ Manager and Song Book Generator products. They do an excellent job for me.
 
GoodKnightDJ said:
The Path shopuld have read:

g:/Karaoke/Backstage/BS103/Collin Raye - 01 - She's All That.MP3

What I wanted to be able to do is use the "BS103" as the Disc ID. It was not available in the file name but it was available as part of the full path of the file. The change that Bob mamde to the program allowed me to be able to use a piece of the full path in the reconstructed file name.
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Ah, the mist is clearing! You wanted to turn:
g:/Karaoke/Backstage/BS103/Collin Raye - 01 - She's All That.MP3
into
g:/Karaoke/Backstage/BS103/Collin Raye - BS103-01 - She's All That.MP3
so when you did a search you could do so by song number without getting a million hits for "01" right? He's right. That is a great idea.
 
I was actually able to use KJ Manager with the new feature to reformat the names into the Baltimore format. Now when somebody give me a disc ID on the playslip I can just key that in and then pull in the song in an easier fashion.

Latshaw rocks!
 
Artist - Title Disc ID

So, let's say "Friends In Low Places" by Garth Brooks is CB2001 (I made that up). Then the format would be:

Garth Brooks - Friends In Low Places CB2001
 
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