[RWP] The ctrl+alt+X Media Browser's Not For Me

[Jim Snowbarger]

In my world,  once the list has focus, and you can up and down arrow to 
files,  right arrow plays the file, and left arrow stops it.  Or, you can 
check the little checkbox at the bottom to cause it to play automaticaly.
I think, if you select a folder that way, and press enter, you go into the 
folder, just like windows exploder.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:12 PM
Subject: [RWP] The ctrl+alt+X Media Browser's Not For Me


> I've definiely cooled on my initial enthusiasm, thinking I'd got a 
> shortcut to the familiar Reaper Media folder I navigate so easily with 
> Windows Explorer.
> When I hit ctrl+alt+X and quickly shift tab, sometimes I get the My 
> Documents/Reaper Media folder, and sometimes the Dump folder on my 
> desktop, other times I couldn't tell where I was.
> 2 or 3 tries with ctrl+alt+X and I'd finally get Reaper media, I shift tab 
> up and find the names Reaper Media, and the subfolders I placed in there, 
> but I can't enter the sub folders, let alone back out of them.
> To play a .wav file I have to tab down to the shortcuts list, E.G., play, 
> stop, pause, select play with spacebar in Jaws, then tab back up and find 
> files to play
> This is definitely not Sound Forge's media selector.
> Using the regular method of inserting  media in Reaper with ctrl+mid 
> insert key, I return to the last folder I was in.
> I have a huge number of midi files and loops, and keep them in a folder 
> off my desktop, not in the Reaper Media folder.
> Yes, If I'm inserting media into my project with ctrl+mid insert key, I 
> can't preview them by playing them, Sound Forge style. I'll make a little 
> macro to navigate to my Reaper Media Folder, and  another for my own media 
> folder, outside of Reaper.in Windows Explorer.
> Once in those folders, I can play files with winamp, even arrow through a 
> list of files with winamp playing; and it interrupts play of the previous 
> file and begins the one I'm arrowed to currently, like in Sound Forge.
> When inside a media folder in Windows Explorer, it's so easy just to tab 
> back and forth between there and Reaper.
> I haven't tried it yet, but I'll bet you could be in the same folder 
> inside Reaper and outside reaper in Windows Explorer, and tab back and 
> forth. All I lack is a quicker way to navigate outside of Reaper to the 
> Media folder.
> Any macro program can do that in a few minutes of configuration, and you 
> always end up where you intended
> This is not  the usual simple intuitive Reaper.
> Indigo L.
>
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