media-sources.md

Media sources

To add media to a group, you can specify the group's sources using the gear icon in the group's header controls.

You can configure different kinds of sources:

• A path source is the path to a specific file or folder on your computer. For folders, the application will look for media directly inside of that folder, but not in any of its subfolders.
• A glob source lets you specify many files/folders at once using glob patterns. For example, C:\media\**\*.mp4 would select all MP4 files in any subfolder of C:\media.

Tips:

• Relative paths are supported and resolve to the current working directory.
• Sources may begin with a <playlist> placeholder, which resolves to the location of the active playlist. If the playlist is not yet saved, then it resolves to the current working directory.
• Sources may begin with ~, which resolves to your user folder (e.g., C:\Users\your-name on Windows).
• For globs, if your file/folder name contains special glob characters, you can escape them by wrapping them in brackets. For example, to select all MP4 files starting with [prefix] (because [ and ] are special), you can write [[]prefix[]] *.mp4.