Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-09-08 Thread Ronnyjoz
Nonreality;332052 Wrote: > I don't use Vista but is there maybe a "path" type statement you could > use? Using a network path (\\RONNY-PC\ instead of C:\) does seem to work. I do still have albumns listed multiple times with different numbers of tracks (sometimes only one track), and all the al

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread amcluesent
I prefer to use NTFS junction points to pull together various directories on different drives into a root directory for Squeezecentre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile:

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Nonreality
Ronnyjoz;332016 Wrote: > I've tried all methods: right-dragging the destination folder into the > Music folder and Choosing 'Create shortcuts here'; right-clicking > inside the Music folder and using the New Shortcut wizard to browse to > the destination; copying the shortcut that does work and t

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Ronnyjoz
OK, if I run SqueezeCenter as a task instead of a service, it works fine. This adds fuel to my theory that it's some kind permissions thing. This'll do me for now. I only ran it as a service in the first place to take advantage of the Wake on LAN feature, which doesn't work anyway as it turns o

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Ronnyjoz
I've tried all methods: right-dragging the destination folder into the Music folder and Choosing 'Create shortcuts here'; right-clicking inside the Music folder and using the New Shortcut wizard to browse to the destination; copying the shortcut that does work and then editing it to point somewher

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Siduhe
How are you creating the Shortcut - using the Wizard or manually? If manually, IIRC you must to create the shortcut in the folder that you want to link to, (C:\Users\Ronny\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Music in your example) for it to work properly, then cut and paste it to your Music folder. It

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Ronnyjoz
That's basically what I did by creating a folder on the desktop. Any shortcuts I create just point to the folder they're in. Copies of windows-created shortcuts work fine. Would it be worth clearing the cache? If so, do I delete the entire cache folder ('C:\ProgramData\SqueezeCenter\Cache')or

Re: [slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Nonreality
You could create a practice music folder to try it on. Just put a few albums in it like you would like and rescan. Make sure you do a complete rescan. That way you can try things and see if you can get it to work. Put shortcuts pointing to your main one or create different levels and then play ar

[slim] New shortcuts placed in my music folder point straight back to my music folder!

2008-08-24 Thread Ronnyjoz
Greetings I got my Squeezebox Classic yesterday after experimenting with SqueezeCenter and Softsqueeze for about a week or so. I understand that if I want SqueezeCenter to find music that's not in the default music folder it's simply a matter of creating a shortcut to the desired location. Unfo