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File Reordering Tutorial

jack	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 6:46 PM To change the order in which files appear on your music page: 1. Put them in a folder - unsorted or 'Singles' files can't have their order changed. 2. Go to your file manager (MyDMusic - artist edit - file manager) and look to the 'filter' option in the top right. This is where you can choose which tracks are displayed - change that to you the folder than contains the tracks you want to reorder. 3. Use the tools on the right hand side of the table to place songs in the order of your choice. You can use the arrows or enter the order manually - be careful not to have two tracks with the same order, you will find your tracks appearing in an erratic order. 4. Refresh your music page and behold the changes! If you have any questions, post them in here and I'll try to clear things up.
HenriRoger	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 6:48 PM Cool thank you
shadowself	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 7:58 PM Is there a way to change the order of the folders, or do they still have to be numbered or alphabetised?
jack	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 8:10 PM That's next
GTOriginal	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 8:13 PM Weehoo!
GTOriginal	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 8:26 PM Question - Any way to handle more than 10 songs in a folder which spand into 2 pages??
jack	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 8:35 PM Nah, you have to do it page by page I'm afriad. A bit of a pain I know. Perhaps when I work on the folder reordering I can add an option that will let you select how many songs are shown at once.
evansorchid	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 11:12 PM This works very well....thanks Jack. My only other observation is to somehow give us control of the order of the songs as they appear on the 'overview' page. That page basically lists an artist's songs based on how recently they uploaded it, with the most recent upload being listed on the top of the page. I know that you can click the option in the file manager to automatically go to the 'music' page instead of the 'overview' page, but, I do like the format of the overview page as well and would like to be able to control it as well... Thanks again.
jack	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 11:24 PM Well, the section on the overview page is meant to be exactly what it says, a list of recent uploads. So naturally you'd assume the most recent appear first. However, that said, I'm sure an option to replace that with a listing of the artists' choice wouldn't go a miss - after all, you don't -always- want to showcase your most recent stuff. Perhaps a special playlist could be added (kind of how the podcasts and flash player work) and you could be given the option to show your newest uploads or that list (in the same format, of course)
tracy	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 3:11 AM thanks jack. that's going into the "Guide to DMusic" soon to be released
AndrewKirsch...	Date: April 17, 2007 @ 6:27 PM yay, its finally working...i tried this before and it didnt take... the new settings let me put all ym songs on one page and it SHOWS the previous order... works good now...somethign wasnt workign with the site before... thanks for eevrything
ebarbarella	Date: April 23, 2007 @ 9:34 AM i change the files order on the folders and now my Pop Dolls music page takes for ever to load and it doesnt show anything on overview page recent music please!!
ebarbarella	Date: April 23, 2007 @ 9:49 AM ok nevermind ... fixed itself working fine is there anyway to change the order that they show on Overwiew page, Recent Music? thanks
8111	Date: April 24, 2007 @ 3:48 PM ok, just re-ordered my music page, much better now...thank you!!