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There are many styles that I know I'll never use [example: FUNKWAH, etc.] and I'd like to just get them out of my style picker list so that it would be easier to select files that I'd never use without having to make my way around them. Perhaps move them to a "Junk" folder or somewhere in the style picker so they won't clog up the list.
I know that I can remove styles from my BB\styles folder and rebuild the list but trying to determine what genre a lot of them are for deletion can be quite the time-consuming challenge due to the 8 character names. The style picker is much more descriptive, so if there's a way to put a check mark or press a delete key or something directly in the style picker list to move the offenders or even delete them from there so that they won't reappear in the next rebuild, that would be a help.
So, I thought I'd check here to see if there is in fact an easier way that someone here might know about.
Thanks in advance,
BluegrassPicker
Last edited by BluegrassPicker; Yesterday at 09:05 PM.
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BluegrassPicker, Using the "Category" filter, it's possible to get Stylepicker to show only a range of styles that belong to a particular genre. Maybe using those quick filters would be useful for you. ![[Linked Image - Only viewable when logged in]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32240&filename=Category-filter (2).jpg) Regards, --Noel
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I personally find the category filter to be a complete waste of time.
There's a few ways you could do this with user categories but I don't know of a way to have it load as a default list. Not too terrible, just means that every time you use the style picker, you then have to select a user category.
First clear the filter in the style picker and then save it as a user category. This will give you a complete style list which you can then remove individual styles with a right click "remove highlighted style from current user category".
Another thing that you can do which can be another handy way to organise things is to save the style list to clipboard. This will create a tab delimited file showing all columns.
For example, you could create a list that shows ONLY a specific genre as it's labelled in the style picker - something the category filter does not do.
Let's say I only want styles in the genre that is actually labelled as "medium rock". Open the delimited file in Excel or whatever, sort by genre and then on the left column you will have all the 8char file names.
Copy them to a TXT file named "medium rock" and save in folder bb\Data\StylePicker\User Categories.
At the very top of the text file put "MEMO=Medium Rock" (without the quotes). This will now show up as a user category.
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You can always move the styles you are sure you will never use from the style folder into a new folder you create (so you don't lose them - just in case). Call it OutOfStyle or anything you want. Then re-build the style picker window.
If you ever get curious, you can still manually load the style into BiaB and give it a listen.
I'm sure there are other solutions to your question, but this is the first thing I thought of.
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Thanks to everyone who responded.
I believe I found a workable (for now) answer that doesn't take too much time. It's still a work in progress to nail down exactly what I want, but I thought I'd post my possible solution in case anyone is interested in doing the same thing. If anyone tries this method, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if you find an easier, better, alternate or additional option way.
I modified the Style Picker Category > Show All Categories listing to show the categories that I want by doing the following:
Close BIAB
Goto [your drive] BB\Data\ and find stylz_kategories_MENU.txt file and make a copy just in case.......
Open the stylz_kategories_MENU.txt file and remove the categories and names that you want to exclude in the Style Picker All Categories list. Apparently the category names are in the dashed lines and the categories are listed underneath, like this:
------------------------------ COUNTRY STYLES ------------------------------
EVERYTHING COUNTRY$Country
Country Ballad$Country Ballad
Country Classic$Country Classic
Country Contemporary$Country Contemporary
$$ More...
------------------------------ MORE COUNTRY STYLES ------------------------------
Boom Chick$Boom Chick
Rockabilly$Rockabilly
Spaghetti Western$Spaghetti Western
Country Swing$Country Swing
Country Waltz$Country Waltz
$$end
------------------------------ TRADITIONAL/WORLD STYLES ------------------------------
Bluegrass$Bluegrass
Celtic$Celtic
Folk$Folk
World$World
$$ More...
------------------------------ BLUEGRASS ------------------------------
Bluegrass Waltz$Bluegrass Waltz
Save the file with the exact same file name stylz_kategories_MENU.txt
Restart BIAB.
In the StylePicker under Options > Set StylePicker Options, uncheck the box on the setting of "Default display should include all styles (available and N/A not available)"
On my installation of 2026 the only main categories listed were now the ones that I saved in the .txt file. I did not do a rebuild, and I'm holding off on that until I'm sure that everything will be working ok so far.
I'm going to do some fine tuning as time allows by changing some other things in that file and perhaps one or more of the other .txt files in that BB\Data area, but this is the starting point for me.
***Please make a copy of any files that you change before you begin and proceed with caution, as I don't know yet how these changes affect anything else in the program or workflow. YMMV
Best regards to all
BluegrassPicker
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Thanks, I will play around with it. But I think it might be difficult since I found the categorisation not being very clear, they seem to mixed into each other, So if I remove a category that I am certain that I dont want, it still may hold several styles that I would want to keep and that I would have categorised differently. (maybe I can remove something, who knows).
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Just fyi, I have found that my Style Picker list does not display all the styles in the .txt list. It shows the first screen full of categories but not the full list. More work to do.....
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I can cut one lower case line item and paste below a different ALL CAPS category successfully. (So far).
EXAMPLE: If I cut Boom Chick$Boom Chick from the MORE COUNTRY category in my example in my previous post and paste it into the COUNTRY category, it successfully now shows up in the COUNTRY category in BIAB.
This should give the opportunity to re-categorize according to personal preference. Still a work in progress.
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Just fyi, I have found that my Style Picker list does not display all the styles in the .txt list. It shows the first screen full of categories but not the full list. More work to do..... Just a note to anyone trying to accomplish the same task, the display problem here was solved by deleting some $$end and $$More tags in the style category line items in the .txt file. It seems that $$More forces a subwindow and $$end ends the list in the subwindow. When those tags are moved and / or deleted with some experimentation, I now have full screen with two columns listing all of my styles that are only in the categories that I wanted. For now I'm going to mark the issue as resolved.
Last edited by BluegrassPicker; 1 hour ago.
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I played around with it also and it seems to work OK. If you really spend some time on it, you should be able to tailor the Category drop down exactly the way you want to on an individual basis. I DO HIGHLY recommend that you make a backup copy of the stylz_kategories_MENU.txt file just in case you need to revert to the original. Of course this begs the question PGMusic. Why name it kategories instead of categories. Is that a Canadian thing?  Asking for a friend. Good job BluegrassPicker
Last edited by Joseph Land; 20 minutes ago.
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