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Media Center uses two main approaches to help you organize your media library. It offers flexibility in creating various custom fields, Playlists and Smartlists to help you manage your media library, and it provides flexibility in viewing your library.
Organization Flexibility
In most Jukeboxes, you can organize your media using various standard fields including artist, album, genre, and comment. Media Center provides this and much more. You can create your own database fields, some of which can be saved on the media itself. Need a field for composer? Orchestra leader? Photographer? No problem.
Media Library
The entire collection of media files you are managing with Media Center is readily available in the Media Library section of the tree. By default, Media Library displays View Scheme Groups for Audio, CD & DVD, Images and Video, so that you don’t have to sort through mp3s when you are looking for a picture.
All these View Scheme Groups are customizable. You can change the defaults, remove them, and/or create your own.
Playlists
Media Center offers you even more flexibility with Playlists and Playlist Groups. With these tools you can organize your files according to the features you select.
Examples
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Create a Playlist Group for Radio Stations, which contains Playlists for French, News, or Rock radio stations.
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Create a Playlist for all performances of Beethoven's music.
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Create a Playlist Group called "sub genre" in which you create Playlists for as many genres as you can think of (classic-rock, post-grunge, or alt-country-rock).
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Create a Playlist called "Nationality" which contains Playlists for various countries. Then listen to British or Cuban music with the click of a mouse.
The point of creating Playlists is to group your collection in groups that you identify, and which are then very easy to access. See the Playlists section for details.
Smartlists
Smartlists are a special kind of Playlist that store rules instead of lists of files. There are virtually thousands of rule combinations you can use to create your Smartlists. The basic difference with a Playlist is that a Smartlist, being rule-based, creates the list of files that meet the rules' conditions on-the-fly, so it always takes into account any changes you may have made to your files.
Media Center comes with dozens of automatic smartlists, including these:
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Play one hour’s worth of of music
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Play one CD worth of my favorites
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Show all tracks imported this week
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Play the 100 most played tracks
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Show the tracks that still have empty Album fields
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Show the tracks I haven’t rated yet
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You can create your own Smartlists as well, using rules to include or exclude any database field provided by Media Center, including your own custom fields! See Smartlists for details.
Rating and Other fields
Media Center has a 5 star rating system, so that you can easily rate your tracks or pictures or movies. It also has fields for replay gain, BMPs, intensity, width and length (good for images), and many more. And of course with Media Center you can easily edit database fields and ID3 v1 and v2 tags.
Sorting/Viewing (View Schemes)
And that’s not all…Not only can you categorize your music the way you want, but you can choose how you view it in Media Center. Want to see all your artists? Just select Media Library in the tree view. Want to see all your albums in alphabetical order? Or want to view your library by country of origin? By language? By decade? Want to see only those tracks with a 5 star rating? With View Schemes you select what you want, and Media Center is happy to serve.
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