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Chapter 8. Final notes

Some tips and tricks

I will include some tips so that you can take fully advantage from all the features of TDEMid:

Opening files

I always keep a KDE desktop with a Konqueror window in my root midi folder, and TDEMid in this desktop (if playing a midi file) or sticky (if playing a karaoke file :-)). This way, when the active collection finishes, or I want to play some file, I just go to the konqueror; window, select the desired files and Drag & Drop to the TDEMid's window.

Suppose that you want to play some midi files, but don't want to add them to any collection, well, just turn off the AutoAdd to Collection option in the Collections menu, and open the files, they will be added to the Temporary Collection.

Another method to create a new Collection

Suppose that you have midi files A.mid, B.mid and C.mid. At first you only want to play the first midi file, so you unselect AutoAdd and open A.mid. You get then a Temporary Collection with only one midi file.

Then you decide to play also B and C, and make a collection with all them, what do you do?

Easy, select AutoAdd and open B.mid and C.mid (by any of the multiple methods), they will be automatically added to the Temporary Collection, that will then have A.mid, B.mid and C.mid. At this point, you can open the Organize Collections dialog, select the Temporary Collection, and click on the Copy button, enter the name of the new collection, and you are done . You already have a new collection, which holds the A,B and C midi files, and that is not deleted when you close TDEMid.

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