With these tools, you can organize your files according to the features you select.

Throughout this Wiki, and on the Interact forum, when you see a reference to your Library, we are referring to this database only, and not to your source files.

However, note that MC cannot have more than one Library loaded at a time, and must load a Library in order to launch.

Please note, however, that you can only have one Library loaded in Media Center at a time.

For this reason, it is cumbersome to switch between Libraries for different types of files that you may want to use all at once.

For tasks like sharing different sets of files among different users, or segregating types or genres of media (classical music from rock and roll, for example), we recommend that you also consider implementing Users or creating your own customized Media Views instead.

For this reason, the performance of the disk where the Library (or Libraries) is critical.

The Library files are not large, and should be stored on your fastest, internal disk in the computer (an SSD if possible).

Please refer to the Troubleshooting Network and Slow Storage guide for additional details.

So, for example, a Library created by MC19 cannot be used by a copy of MC18.

If you manually load a Library formatted for an older version of Media Center with a newer version, the Library will be upgraded during the process and will no longer be compatible with the older version.

If you think you might need to switch back to your old version, please make a backup of the Library using the prior version of Media Center before continuing.

For more information on restoring from backup, please refer to the Library Manager page.

However, MCs Media Network functionality is cross-platform compatible.

So, you are able to load a network Library served by a copy of MC running on a different OS, just not directly.

This limitation is primarily due to the different filesystems and path structures between the different OSes.

Importing is simply the process of telling Media Center about the files, and adding them to this database.

You can create your own database fields, some of which can be saved in the media itself.

Do you need a field for composer Orchestra leader Photographer No problem.

With the Media Modes buttons, you can narrow the display to Audio, Images or Video.

Furthermore, these Media Modes display only relevant View Schemes.

Selecting Images, for example, displays the default Images View Schemes (Year, Month, Day) as well as other View Schemes in the expanded tree (including PeoplePlacesEvents).

You can change the defaults, remove them, andor create your own.

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