Adding the contents of just one folder to My Library

I download the Economist Audio edition each week and put it in a folder.
The contents of the folder and titles of the audio files change each week.
I need to add it to the WMP library to sync with my Sansa View Player.

I delete old version from the Library and add the new one. I have all the
folders in Add to Library set to Ignore except two: the Rip type which
cannot be set and one I use to load the weekly Economist Audio edition.
When I click OK, WMP goes through all the folders in My Music and takes
forever. There are also some songs I do not want added.

Is there an easy way to just have the contents of one folder "added"?

Bill-R

Vincent
Sun Mar 16 04:13:01 PDT 2008

As far as I could judge there is an easy way: do nothing at all!
All monitored folders are monitored permanently. So if you add files to a
monitored folder, sooner or later they should appear in the library.

"Bill Rankin" wrote:

> I download the Economist Audio edition each week and put it in a folder.
> The contents of the folder and titles of the audio files change each week.
> I need to add it to the WMP library to sync with my Sansa View Player.
>
> I delete old version from the Library and add the new one. I have all the
> folders in Add to Library set to Ignore except two: the Rip type which
> cannot be set and one I use to load the weekly Economist Audio edition.
> When I click OK, WMP goes through all the folders in My Music and takes
> forever. There are also some songs I do not want added.
>
> Is there an easy way to just have the contents of one folder "added"?
>
> Bill-R
>
>
>

Bill
Mon Mar 17 19:38:41 PDT 2008

That would be nice but it has never happened and I have been waiting for two
weeks.

In fact going through the process of "Add to Library..." does not work
either. The folder I added is of type "Manually Added" and it does not
appear to be searched or monitored. The folder is not shown in the WMP
"Folder" window.

When I check the Properties of the individual MP3 files using Windows
Explorer, it shows that the Artist is "Economist" and the album title is
"March 8 - March 14, 2008"

None of this appears in the WMP Library.


"Vincent" <Vincent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> As far as I could judge there is an easy way: do nothing at all!
> All monitored folders are monitored permanently. So if you add files to a
> monitored folder, sooner or later they should appear in the library.
>
> "Bill Rankin" wrote:
>
>> I download the Economist Audio edition each week and put it in a folder.
>> The contents of the folder and titles of the audio files change each
>> week.
>> I need to add it to the WMP library to sync with my Sansa View Player.
>>
>> I delete old version from the Library and add the new one. I have all
>> the
>> folders in Add to Library set to Ignore except two: the Rip type which
>> cannot be set and one I use to load the weekly Economist Audio edition.
>> When I click OK, WMP goes through all the folders in My Music and takes
>> forever. There are also some songs I do not want added.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to just have the contents of one folder "added"?
>>
>> Bill-R
>>
>>
>>

Bill
Mon Mar 17 20:46:09 PDT 2008

To get it into the Library I have to extract all the mp3 files from their
individual section folders and put them together in one folder.

"Bill Rankin" <bkds_rankin@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%23J6auEKiIHA.5504@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> That would be nice but it has never happened and I have been waiting for
> two weeks.
>
> In fact going through the process of "Add to Library..." does not work
> either. The folder I added is of type "Manually Added" and it does not
> appear to be searched or monitored. The folder is not shown in the WMP
> "Folder" window.
>
> When I check the Properties of the individual MP3 files using Windows
> Explorer, it shows that the Artist is "Economist" and the album title is
> "March 8 - March 14, 2008"
>
> None of this appears in the WMP Library.
>
>
> "Vincent" <Vincent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5A691414-3746-4923-858A-7904C8D209FC@microsoft.com...
>> As far as I could judge there is an easy way: do nothing at all!
>> All monitored folders are monitored permanently. So if you add files to a
>> monitored folder, sooner or later they should appear in the library.
>>
>> "Bill Rankin" wrote:
>>
>>> I download the Economist Audio edition each week and put it in a folder.
>>> The contents of the folder and titles of the audio files change each
>>> week.
>>> I need to add it to the WMP library to sync with my Sansa View Player.
>>>
>>> I delete old version from the Library and add the new one. I have all
>>> the
>>> folders in Add to Library set to Ignore except two: the Rip type which
>>> cannot be set and one I use to load the weekly Economist Audio edition.
>>> When I click OK, WMP goes through all the folders in My Music and takes
>>> forever. There are also some songs I do not want added.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to just have the contents of one folder "added"?
>>>
>>> Bill-R
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

zachd
Fri Mar 21 09:29:53 PDT 2008


You can drag and drop that one folder onto the library.
You can set the Rip folder to the Economist folder, thus leaving you with
one actual monitored folder.

Are you perhaps deleting the Economist files after you're done with them?
The player likely is sensing the filename collisions on the deleted files -
it doesn't readd "deleted" files automatically. In that case you would want
to use drag and drop. Or otherwise create some filepath or filename
differentation.

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"Bill Rankin" <bkds_rankin@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%23YxRmMyhIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I download the Economist Audio edition each week and put it in a folder.
>The contents of the folder and titles of the audio files change each week.
>I need to add it to the WMP library to sync with my Sansa View Player.
>
> I delete old version from the Library and add the new one. I have all the
> folders in Add to Library set to Ignore except two: the Rip type which
> cannot be set and one I use to load the weekly Economist Audio edition.
> When I click OK, WMP goes through all the folders in My Music and takes
> forever. There are also some songs I do not want added.
>
> Is there an easy way to just have the contents of one folder "added"?
>
> Bill-R
>

Bill
Fri Mar 21 13:19:21 PDT 2008

Thank you. I did not remember that I could just drag the folder into the
library. Using your suggestion, each week I can delete the folder from the
Library and then the drive and create and drag the new one. It is much
easier and solves the problem I thought I would have using "Add to Library"
to add new files that looked like previously "deleted" files.

Now if I can figure out how to get the "Album Artist" data corrected.

Thanks again, Bill-R


"zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> You can drag and drop that one folder onto the library.
> You can set the Rip folder to the Economist folder, thus leaving you with
> one actual monitored folder.
>
> Are you perhaps deleting the Economist files after you're done with them?
> The player likely is sensing the filename collisions on the deleted
> files - it doesn't readd "deleted" files automatically. In that case you
> would want to use drag and drop. Or otherwise create some filepath or
> filename differentation.
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> --
>
> "Bill Rankin" <bkds_rankin@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23YxRmMyhIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I download the Economist Audio edition each week and put it in a folder.
>>The contents of the folder and titles of the audio files change each week.
>>I need to add it to the WMP library to sync with my Sansa View Player.
>>
>> I delete old version from the Library and add the new one. I have all
>> the folders in Add to Library set to Ignore except two: the Rip type
>> which cannot be set and one I use to load the weekly Economist Audio
>> edition. When I click OK, WMP goes through all the folders in My Music
>> and takes forever. There are also some songs I do not want added.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to just have the contents of one folder "added"?
>>
>> Bill-R
>>
>
>