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- | ====== How to use Display Titles to customize the titles of your media files ====== | + | ====== Using Display Titles to customize the titles of your media files ====== |
Mezzmo lets you customize the titles for your media files using Display Titles. | Mezzmo lets you customize the titles for your media files using Display Titles. | ||
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{{:displaytitleskeywords.png?nolink|Display Titles dialog}} | {{:displaytitleskeywords.png?nolink|Display Titles dialog}} | ||
- | For example, you may have a music file "Coldplay_Yellow.mp3", where the associated metadata is Title = Yellow, Artist = Coldplay, Album = Parachutes, Track = 5. Using display title keywords, you can create titles like this: | + | **Example:** You may have a music file "Coldplay_Yellow.mp3", where the associated metadata is Title = Yellow, Artist = Coldplay, Album = Parachutes, Track = 5. Using display title keywords, you can create titles like this: |
* **%TITLE%** will create a title "Yellow" | * **%TITLE%** will create a title "Yellow" | ||
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* **%ARTIST% -%ALBUM% - %TRACK%** will create a title "Coldplay - Parachutes - 05" | * **%ARTIST% -%ALBUM% - %TRACK%** will create a title "Coldplay - Parachutes - 05" | ||
+ | If you want to display the file name as the title, then you simply need to use the %FILENAME% keyword. For example: | ||
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+ | ===== Displaying File Names as Titles ===== | ||
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+ | If you want to display the file name as the title, then you simply need to use the %FILENAME% keyword. For example: | ||
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+ | {{:displaytitlesfilenames.png?nolink|Display Titles dialog}} | ||
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+ | ===== Adding an Index / Counter to your Titles ===== | ||
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+ | Some of the devices in your home that you stream to may sort the list of files in a playlist or folder alphabetically and ignore the order of the files that Mezzmo server has delivered to the device. | ||
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+ | This can be very annoying since you may want to see your files listed in track order, or episode order, or recently added order, or most played order, etc. Kodi/XBMC media player and certain models of Samsung TVs and BDP Blu-ray players have this sorting problem. | ||
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+ | To work around this problem, Mezzmo lets you add the %FILECOUNTER% keyword to your display titles. This lets you add an index counter prefix to your titles to 'trick' the device's firmware sorting. | ||
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+ | For example, using %FILECOUNTER% a list of movies may look like: | ||
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+ | 001 Inception | ||
+ | 002 Hunger Games | ||
+ | 003 Star Trek | ||
+ | 004 A Beautiful Mind | ||
+ | ... | ||
+ | 999 Catch Me If You Can | ||
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+ | See this example how to add %FILECOUNTER%: | ||
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+ | {{:displaytitlesfilecounter.png?nolink|Display Titles dialog}} | ||
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+ | ===== Setting Different Display Titles For Files In Playlists / Folders ===== | ||
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+ | You can set different display titles for files in particular playlists and folders. This allows you to override your display titles settings in the Options dialog (General page). | ||
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+ | Right-click on a playlist or folder and click **Properties** to display the playlist or folder's **Properties dialog**. | ||
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+ | {{:activeplaylistproperties.png?nolink|Active Playlist Properties dialog}} | ||
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+ | On the Properties dialog, click the **Display Titles** button to set display titles for files contained in the playlist or folder. | ||
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+ | **Tip:** Click the **Default Settings** button on the **Display Titles dialog** to revert back to the global display titles that you have set in the **Options dialog (General page)**. | ||
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+ | ===== Changing the titles of your TV shows ===== | ||
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+ | If you want to change the way the titles for your TV shows are displayed, then you can use the **%SERIES%**, **%SEASON%**, **%EPISODE%** and **%TITLE%** keywords in the **TV Series** edit box. | ||
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+ | For example, you may have a video file "Game Of Thrones S01E05.MKV", where the associated metadata is Title = The Wolf and the Lion, Series = Game Of Thrones, Season = 1, Episode = 5. Using display title keywords, you can create titles like this: | ||
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+ | * **%TITLE%** will create a title "The Wolf and the Lion" | ||
+ | * **E%EPISODE%: %TITLE%** will create a title "E005: The Wolf and the Lion" | ||
+ | * **S%SEASON% E%EPISODE%: %TITLE%** will create a title "S001 E005: The Wolf and the Lion" | ||
+ | * **%SERIES%: S%SEASON% E%EPISODE%: %TITLE%** will create a title "The Game Of Thrones: S001 E005: The Wolf and the Lion" | ||
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+ | Click the **Presets** button next to TV series edit box to see popular title styles. | ||
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+ | {{:displaytitlestvshows.png?nolink|Display Titles dialog}} |