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Favorites Folder Question [Resolved] #783890 11/25/23 09:16 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO J Joseph Land OP Expert
OP Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	I store the vast majority of my songs in a dedicated directory designated as my home directory but there are some I am saving in a different location. I tried using the Open Favorites Folder (alt-shift-f) command which brings up a list. The problem is that the folder locations in that list are old and most of them I don't need to see anymore. Is there a text file that can be modified using a text editor such as Notepad or Notepad++ ? I tried searching and looking a most of the *.txt files in the BB directory but could not find anything. I want to clean up the list to get rid of most of the entries. See screenshot. Thanks jcland Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) favorite.jpg (139.74 KB, 154 downloads) BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #783958 11/25/23 12:01 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	If you select the Open Special > Open Favorite Songs, does the item appear there at all? If so, there is a Delete button option available that may work? BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #784073 11/25/23 02:41 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO J Joseph Land OP Expert
OP Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	Audio Track: I think you misunderstood my question. I was talking about "Open Favorite Folder", not "Open Favorite Song". I want to clean up the folder list that shows up in the popup window. If you open the Favorite Folder using the shortcut Alt-Shift-F, you do not have the option of doing anything except pick one of your last used folders. If you use the command Open Special > Favorite Folders, you get an different popup screen, which also does not let you delete anything but it does give you a couple of more buttons, none of them which gives you the option of editing the list. See both graphics. Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) Using Open Special.jpg (74.96 KB, 136 downloads) Using Shortcut Key or SSG Keystroke.jpg (66.82 KB, 136 downloads) BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #784113 11/25/23 04:52 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	Hi, I did follow what you were trying to achieve, but when the Favorites Folder didn't have any edit option available, I wondered if it might be listed in the Favorite Songs dialog instead. I'lll keep trying ideas.... BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #784132 11/25/23 05:18 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,035 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley Veteran
Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,035 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Following. I recall looking for this a few years ago and not finding a way to edit it. Perhaps this is headed for the Wishlist unless someone else know how to do it. In most software, I would expect to be able to set my preferred folder in Preferences. Before 2018, and the reorganization of folders in BIAB, this was even more perplexing. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Favorites Folder Question AudioTrack #784149 11/25/23 06:08 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	After a fair amount of searching, it's stored internally in the file x:\dd\preferences\F32I.BIN You could rename that file, but you will lose all of your favorite songs as well, including Favorites and Recently Played. It's a binary file (not editable with usual tools). BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question AudioTrack #784150 11/25/23 06:09 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	The string also appears in Intrface.bbw, but that might only be a reference to a recently opened location. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #784173 11/25/23 08:27 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO J Joseph Land OP Expert
OP Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	Audio Track: Armed with that information, all I needed to do was to rename the file so BIAB could recreate a new list that only showed the root directory. I then went to File>Open from the menu and then chose the directory that I wanted to be on the Favorite Folder list and that fixed the problem. As long as I don't open another SGU or MGU file from another directory, the list will stay clean as you can see from the new graphic. I will mark as Resolved since there is no easy way to edit the binary file, unless someone else has a better solution. Thanks. jcland Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) folder1.jpg (22.51 KB, 111 downloads) BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #784179 11/25/23 09:02 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	Excellent. I'm glad that worked out for you. Thanks for marking it as resolved. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question Joseph Land #784260 11/26/23 05:04 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 62 U Uwe Schwarz Enthusiast
Uwe Schwarz Enthusiast U Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 62	Originally Posted by Joseph Land Audio Track: I will mark as Resolved since there is no easy way to edit the binary file, unless someone else has a better solution. jcland This could help: https://www.heise.de/download/products/systemsoftware/dateimanager/hex-editor#?cat=systemsoftware%2Fdateimanager&catf=systemsoftware%2Fdateimanager%2Fhex-editor

Re: Favorites Folder Question Uwe Schwarz #784270 11/26/23 05:42 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	Uwe, yes, an idea for a solution, however, without knowing the exact content of the fie (headers, data length, CRC checksums and more), it would be easy to corrupt the file content by simply editing out the necessary ASCII data fields. Using a Hex Editor would not be my recommendation. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question Uwe Schwarz #784271 11/26/23 05:44 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	A further thought would be for PG Music to incorporate the necessary tools into the program to edit/remove unwanted folders from the favorites dialog. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Favorites Folder Question [Resolved] Joseph Land #784282 11/26/23 06:24 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2021 Posts: 1,689 Mark Hayes Expert
Mark Hayes Expert Joined: Jun 2021 Posts: 1,689	According to ChatPG, you can remove a favorite folder by right-clicking on it and selecting that option from the contextual menu. I cannot, however, get this to work on MacOS and don't have the Windows version. Last edited by Mark Hayes; 11/26/23 06:40 AM.

Re: Favorites Folder Question [Resolved] Mark Hayes #784290 11/26/23 06:42 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO J Joseph Land OP Expert
OP Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	Looks like ChatPG is wrong. I just tried it on my Windows version and right-clicking does absolutely nothing. The easy fix is what i did, just either rename or delete the binary file and let BIAB make a new one. Originally Posted by Mark Hayes According to ChatPG, you can remove a favorite folder by right-clicking on it and selecting that option from the contextual menu. I cannot, however, get this to work on MacOS and don't have the Windows version. BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Favorites Folder Question AudioTrack #784291 11/26/23 06:44 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO J Joseph Land OP Expert
OP Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	That would probably have to be done next year since we are so close to the 2024 version being released. Originally Posted by AudioTrack A further thought would be for PG Music to incorporate the necessary tools into the program to edit/remove unwanted folders from the favorites dialog. BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Favorites Folder Question [Resolved] Joseph Land #784376 11/26/23 03:01 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,110 M musocity Veteran
musocity Veteran M Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,110	I just use the Windows Explorer open dialog to create favorites, I just have a folder "A Locations" pinned to the top that contains shortcuts to different folders.

Re: Favorites Folder Question [Resolved] Mark Hayes #784426 11/26/23 09:11 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	Originally Posted by Mark Hayes According to ChatPG, you can remove a favorite folder by right-clicking on it and selecting that option from the contextual menu. I cannot, however, get this to work on MacOS and don't have the Windows version. ChatPG appears to be incorrect. There is no context menu available on the Windows version either. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

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