Chapter 5The clip browser

The clip browser shows the folder of your show, exactly as it is on your disk.

Find a clip

Click a folder to open or close it.
Type in the search box (Ctrl+F). Search covers every sound file in the show's folder.
Search forgives typing errors. A hit that is not exact shows a ≈ and a different colour.

A near hit — "lashs" still finds "The king who took the lashes".

Played clips are dimmed

A file that you PLAY on air turns grey. Loading it is not enough, and playing it on PFL does not count. A new show, or starting CurryCaster II again, clears it. Turn this off on the Desk tab, under Clips.

Focus on one folder

Right-click a folder and choose Focus on this folder. The browser then shows only that folder, and search still covers the whole show. Click ✕ on the focus bar to see everything again. The show remembers the focus when you save it.

Choose the show's folder

Click ⚙ next to the search box, then Choose folder…. Everything under that folder is browsed and searched.

Library settings — ⚙ open: Choose folder… and the folder in use.

New files that you add to the folder while the app runs appear by themselves, in a few seconds.

Formats: MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG, Opus, M4A (AAC and Apple Lossless), AAC, WMA and WebM.

A folder from somewhere else

To put a folder from another place (another disk, say) in your show's folder, use a symbolic link. The browser shows it as a normal folder, and search finds the files in it.

On a Mac or on Linux, open Terminal and type ln -s "/path/to/the folder" "/path/to/your show folder/". Tip: drag each folder from the Finder into Terminal to type its path.
A Mac Finder alias (Make Alias) does not work. The browser shows it greyed, with "Finder alias: cannot be opened".
On Windows, a shortcut does not work either. Make a folder link in a Command Prompt instead: mklink /J "C:\path\to\your show folder\Name" "D:\the folder".