[Announce] Exclude Files and Folders (aka. IgnoreDirREManager)

[mherger]

> Then I tried just the folder name
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> \/06 - Songs From the West Coast 2001
> --------------------

I see a leading slash. Don't use it. It's to part of the folder name.

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Michael

[mherger]

[Announce] Exclude Files and Folders (aka. IgnoreDirREManager)

The little "Exclude Files and Folders" plugin allows you to define a regular expression to filter out files and folders during scans or while browsing the music folder. This can be useful to eg. hide all those "@eaDir" items your beloved NAS creates inside your music folders.

Please be careful with what you do: by defining a generous regex you could easily hide large parts of your music collection :-).

The possibility to exclude items based on a regex is not new. It's been there for more than a decade! Alas: there was no way to define that regex other than manipulating the prefs file. Which probably nobody ever did. This plugin therefore only exposes hat variable to you and does some very basic validation. Therefore please do NOT ask for more features which are not purely UI related...

[SlimChances]

The little "Exclude Files and Folders" plugin allows you to define a regular expression to filter out files and folders during scans or while browsing the music folder. This can be useful to eg. hide all those "@eaDir" items your beloved NAS creates inside your music folders.

Please be careful with what you do: by defining a generous regex you could easily hide large parts of your music collection :-).

The possibility to exclude items based on a regex is not new. It's been there for more than a decade! Alas: there was no way to define that regex other than manipulating the prefs file. Which probably nobody ever did. This plugin therefore only exposes hat variable to you and does some very basic validation. Therefore please do NOT ask for more features which are not purely UI related...

I tried excluding a folder by entering the full path under linux but regex101 shows errors using forward slashes. How should I specify the path I want ignored?

Thanks

[karlek]

Put a backslash in front of the slash to escape it.

[SlimChances]

Put a backslash in front of the slash to escape it.

Thanks. that eliminated the errors shown at regex101, but I am still able to browse the folder in question both through "Music Folder" and Custom Browse by artist. I guess I do not understand how this plugin functions. I did a full clear and rescan first

[pinkdot]

The plugin information says the following:
"The comparison is done on the actual item only, not its full path! "



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[SlimChances]

The plugin information says the following:
"The comparison is done on the actual item only, not its full path! "



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so if I enter the full path or just the folder name it makes no difference. Afraid I don't understand how to use this plugin

[pinkdot]

so if I enter the full path or just the folder name it makes no difference. Afraid I don't understand how to use this plugin

If you want to exclude the folder A-B-C add that to the line:

^A-B-C

The folder will be excluded from the scan.

[mherger]

[Announce] Exclude Files and Folders(aka. IgnoreDirREManager)

> so if I enter the full path or just the folder name it makes no
> difference. Afraid I don't understand how to use this plugin

What did you enter? What did you try to match? What did you expect this
to do?

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Michael

[SlimChances]

> so if I enter the full path or just the folder name it makes no
> difference. Afraid I don't understand how to use this plugin

What did you enter? What did you try to match? What did you expect this
to do?

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Michael

I thought it would exclude folders from view and hopefully from play . I first entered the path to the folder

\/mnt\/Music\/Flac\/ROCK\/John, Elton\/06 - Songs From the West Coast  2001

and did a rescan.
Then I tried just the folder name

\/06 - Songs From the West Coast  2001

EDIT: I see if I remove the \/ from the second attempt it works. Will this remove the item from playlists and MusicIp or just from viewing when opening the artist folder?