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Hi All,
I have my bb folder at the root of one of my hard drives where it also contains all the songs that came with the installation. I have my library of BIAB songs in another folder (and on another disk). This works OK but I feel that I should put ALL the songs in the bb folder so that I get the best use from the song and style picker utilities.
Any suggestions please?
Thanks
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HI Jonel
As the song picker can be set to look any ware for songs but only one place at a time,
If you was to merge all your songs and inbuilt demo songs etc to one folder it would be so big as to be little use for finding anything.
Myself, everything is where it was installed , but my own songs and others I have from elsewhere are stored in My Music / my biab songs, here they could be sorted into sub folders of genres say Country songs .
This way in song picker I can just bring up my Country songs or all the built in demo songs depending where I point the song picker .
Each song picker list is maintained separately.
Mike
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Thank you. That is really the way I have it now but I wondered about whether BB could find the styles that are in the other folder?
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I save my Biab song files to my individual Cakewalk project folders... Everything I do in Biab ultimately ends up in a Cakewalk Project File, potentially in support of of a finished music file.
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hi again Thank you. That is really the way I have it now but I wondered about whether BB could find the styles that are in the other folder? Not with you here What styles in what other folder. All BIAB styles are in their installation location EG C: /bb/ Styles There are no styles in my song folders were ever they live. Regardless of a song’s location, if it needs to load a style it will expect to find in the installation location for styles. Do you have styles else where?? Mike
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Well ... going back to those BIAB files I downloaded some time ago, I did a search for '.sty' extensions and found quite a lot of these. So, I suppose I could copy these to the BB sub folder
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Hi
I see, well I guess they could be user styles that someone has created I have not played with that side so have no idea where they live.
Sure one of our resident experts will know though, so I look forward to learning.
Mike
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You can have third party styles in any folder alongside the songs that use them. However usually it's best to put the styles in the bb\Styles folder. That way they will show up in the StylePicker, and you can also use them with any song without having them saved in the same folder as your song file. As for the best location to save your songs, there isn't really a best location, but a good place would be the bb\Songs folder.
Andrew
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I do miss when styles resided in the main BIAB folder, but could also reside in a "Styles" folder under the main folder. I kept all the PGMusic styles in the main BIAB folder, but put all my 3rd party styles into the "Styles" folder.
I kind of wish when the folder reorganization was done that there could have been both a "Styles" folder and a "UserStyles" folder. That way, I could keep my 3rd party styles separate from the styles provided by PGMusic.
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+1
I really would rather keep my 3rd party styles, wherever they came from, in their own folders. My preference would be to have subfolders within the bb\Styles folder that could have their own style picker list.
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I do miss when styles resided in the main BIAB folder, but could also reside in a "Styles" folder under the main folder. I kept all the PGMusic styles in the main BIAB folder, but put all my 3rd party styles into the "Styles" folder.
I kind of wish when the folder reorganization was done that there could have been both a "Styles" folder and a "UserStyles" folder. That way, I could keep my 3rd party styles separate from the styles provided by PGMusic.
Looks like a wishlist request to me!
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I agree. Some years ago I had purchased some 'Expanded' styles and I stored them in the main bb folder. Unfortunately it seems that a later upgrade of BIAB has removed them. Being in their own folder would have helped.
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It would be nice if you could have a solution such as:
..\Styles
..\Styles\System <-- the PGMusic provided styles
..\Styles\System\Style Pak #1 (etc.)
..\Styles\User <-- user and 3rd party styles
..\Styles\User\Norton <-- I could put all my Norton styles here
..\Styles\User\Norton\Style Pak #1 (etc.)
..\Styles\User\Lasse Ramberg styles
..\Styles\User\Other Styles
etc.
(and yes, I realize this isn't the wishlist forum, but I've made this information known to PGMusic multiple times in the past).
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