Vista - Monitored Folders WMP

I keep all audio files in my Music folder, meaning all files related to
audio. Most of my audio is music files, but i have some stock sound files for
when i create little films. In Windows media player, i have the Music folder
set to be monitored. Its ok for my music to be added to the library, but my
sound files are also added. I have to remove them from my library, but once
in a while i add new files and they get added to the library. I keep all my
sound files in folder called Sounds in the Music folder. I was wondering if
there was a way to stop monitoring a specific folder in a monitored one. This
will save me from having to delete the unwanted sound files from the library
every time. I also don't want to move the Sounds folder out of the Music
folder, but if there is no way to help my problem then i must resort to that.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I am not aware of any way to exclude monitoring a folder within a folder.
However, if the sizes of your sound files are substantially smaller than the
sizes of your music files, you could try configuring Windows Media Player
not to add small files (for example, anything smaller than 300 KB) to your
library.

Press F3 to open the "Add To Library" dialog box, click "Advanced Options,"
and then change the audio value in the "Skip file smaller than" box.

For more information, see the section "To change which folders are monitored
by the Player" in the following Help topic:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...91033.mspx#EMB

--
John Shaw
Windows User Assistance team
Microsoft Corporation



"k1190" <k1190@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I keep all audio files in my Music folder, meaning all files related to
> audio. Most of my audio is music files, but i have some stock sound files
> for
> when i create little films. In Windows media player, i have the Music
> folder
> set to be monitored. Its ok for my music to be added to the library, but
> my
> sound files are also added. I have to remove them from my library, but
> once
> in a while i add new files and they get added to the library. I keep all
> my
> sound files in folder called Sounds in the Music folder. I was wondering
> if
> there was a way to stop monitoring a specific folder in a monitored one.
> This
> will save me from having to delete the unwanted sound files from the
> library
> every time. I also don't want to move the Sounds folder out of the Music
> folder, but if there is no way to help my problem then i must resort to
> that.
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Thanks for this tip. It helps a lot.

"John Shaw [MSFT]" wrote:

> I am not aware of any way to exclude monitoring a folder within a folder.
> However, if the sizes of your sound files are substantially smaller than the
> sizes of your music files, you could try configuring Windows Media Player
> not to add small files (for example, anything smaller than 300 KB) to your
> library.
>
> Press F3 to open the "Add To Library" dialog box, click "Advanced Options,"
> and then change the audio value in the "Skip file smaller than" box.
>
> For more information, see the section "To change which folders are monitored
> by the Player" in the following Help topic:
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...91033.mspx#EMB
>
> --
> John Shaw
> Windows User Assistance team
> Microsoft Corporation
>
>
>
> "k1190" <k1190@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsEFC96DD-7B84-4632-A292-78D100A33111@microsoft.com...
> >I keep all audio files in my Music folder, meaning all files related to
> > audio. Most of my audio is music files, but i have some stock sound files
> > for
> > when i create little films. In Windows media player, i have the Music
> > folder
> > set to be monitored. Its ok for my music to be added to the library, but
> > my
> > sound files are also added. I have to remove them from my library, but
> > once
> > in a while i add new files and they get added to the library. I keep all
> > my
> > sound files in folder called Sounds in the Music folder. I was wondering
> > if
> > there was a way to stop monitoring a specific folder in a monitored one.
> > This
> > will save me from having to delete the unwanted sound files from the
> > library
> > every time. I also don't want to move the Sounds folder out of the Music
> > folder, but if there is no way to help my problem then i must resort to
> > that.
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
>