In all seriousness, Alwin, I have nothing against web-based apps and I use many of them, but the lack of local access is still a killer for me.
I’ve always used MuC more as a standalone, even for tracklists and album art, rather than use your sources for those things. As I’ve mentioned before, my collection is heavy with unusual things, and it’s more common that I upload an album’s details to Core than the times when I find it in Core in the first place.
It’s fairly common to scan a newly-acquired CD in the drive and have Core deliver a completely bogus link, and barcodes are no help either. Then my recourse is to use Player to load cdplayer.ini with the tracklist and times, then use that as a backdoor into MuC. That’s saved my life countless times. It doesn’t seem that there’s an equivalent way to do that in Connect.
Re local files: one web app I use regularly is iPiccy, a basic photo editor. The first thing it asks is “where’s the jpg?” and allows local computer access. Something similar is not possible with Core?
You can of course upload ONE file to Connect. It already does that for uploading custom cover images.
But Connect cannot scan your local hard drive for files.
AJ,
The ability to actually play the local music files as well as the movie files (in Movie Collector) is what I would miss, besides the extra customization abilities. I might be okay with the current/future customizations you would plan, but the ability to actually play a local music file or movie file from Connect is my main issue. I think this is more an issue for me on Movie Collector, to link to clips. I think I would probably have to manually input a file location on each item in order for the program to link to the local file.
I went into an elaborate explanation of how I often use MuC for obscure items, hoping you’d tell me how that would be handled with Connect.
So I’ll ask:
If I have a strange CD from a distant place, and it’s not in any of the db’s used by Connect, what steps would be needed to get that CD into the collection and Core?
You can do what I do. Scan the CD, get the track times, fill in the info, scan the covers, submit to Core. Once that’s done, I add my esoteric info to Collector but the basic info should someone else have the same CD is in Core and I can see it in Connect.
Hi Wids, I would love a copy as well. I’m still searching for mine on old hdds. I’d sure appreciate it. I’m happy to supply my email if that would make it easier.
I do have the templates. Doh! I would still appreciate your update as mine is v9.0. If anyone is interested in this not-quite-as-new version, you are welcome to message me.
I apologize for my absence from the group for the past several weeks. Binotri, has someone sent you the Enhanced Details templates or are you still in need of them?
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Indeed, scanning files is not something that Connect can do on your computer. In general, a “website” scanning a harddisk is something that would likely pose a lot of security problems (and support - the amount we spend now on the Windows Music Collector support for file scanning is a lot).
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I have asked before about the ability to play video files from your local hard drive and have recieved similar responses. What I don’t understand is the reason of scanning your hard drive is a security concern. All I want is to be able is to have a link that I can tell the program where I want it to go on my hard drive. This does not seem to me that you have to scan hard drives. Heck, even if the link would just navigate to a folder in file explorer on your hard drive, I could then click on the file I wanted to play from there would be much appreaciated. I just don’t understand why you would even need to scan the hard drive. Thanks, John
Well “scanning the harddrive” would be a logical step a user would want - because adding a link to a local file on your HDD would mean typing it in otherwise, which I assume would be a lot of work.
Then if you open CLZ Music Web on any other computer, it won’t do anything, because the file is not on that computer, or mobile device.
Then lastly, it’s generally not possible to directly open a file on your local hard drive from a website due to security restrictions in web browsers. Browsers usually prevent websites from accessing the local file system to protect users from potential security risks and malicious activity.
