How to get Hoster to index a folder with multiple sub-folders

[alanross]

Thank you, Roy!

If I understand you correctly, I am going to have to go through each and every folder and make sure all the .zip files are in the same format (i.e. - DiskId-Track - Artist - Title) and then index them by setting the field order to include the folders they are in.

In other words - My folders are set up like:
KARAOKE
> ALL HITS
>....2000s
>......2000
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>......2001
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>......2002
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>........DiskId-Track - Artist - Title.zip
>....8000s
>......8000
>......8001
>......8002
>....Maxx Pack
> CHARTBUSTER
> PIONEER
> SOUND CHOICE

So my field order should look like:
Brand\\Ignore\\DiskId-Track - Artist
(I can\'t use DiskId twice in define field order)

Is this correct?

[Roy Dennis]

It seems to me your have too many folders in the tree to set the define field order correct as there aren’t enough boxes.
You could try Using the index in reverse order with ignore in the first field as shown in attachment.

But if it was me I would move all the All hits Zips into the All Hits folder directly, doing away with the 2000 & 2000s folders.

Other than that select the All Hits folder as top of the tree and just the sub folders within that.

That would mean importing in stages of All hits first.
Then Chartbusters as top of the tree and so on.

Just import one Brand at a time instead of starting with Karaoke as the top of the folder tree.

[alanross]

Brilliant!

That should work! No matter how far deep into the folders I go, the last thing is always the .zip files, so ignoring everything before that should do the trick!

Thank you!