Author Topic: Sharing Sequence Suggestions (Read 18734 times)

rando1957 · « **on:** September 01, 2015, 08:56:04 AM »

I have about 11 sequences completed for this year and would like to share them with the forum. Not that I am a great sequencer, but it does help newbies to get an idea of what is possible. Rather than upload all the files to the forum, I thought about sharing using dropbox, but was not sure about how to share them there without showing other dropbox personal folders / files. Any suggestions?

kevinp · « **Reply #1 on:** September 01, 2015, 10:10:58 AM »

You should be able to share a folder under dropbox without showing everything you have stored under your account. Dan Kulp recently did that for his jokes sequences he was looking for help on. You can only access that folder, not the rest of his folders if there are any.

danj · « **Reply #2 on:** September 01, 2015, 10:57:51 AM »

I thought the "standard" way to do this was to send xml files to Sean via email then they are included in the "songs" directory that downloads when you download xlights? Is this no longer "the way" to do this?

dkulp · « **Reply #3 on:** September 01, 2015, 11:25:44 AM »

No idea how it is on Windows, but on the Mac, I can right click on any folder in my "Drop Box" folder and on the popup menu is a "Share Dropbox Link" option that will put the link to that folder on the clipboard then paste into a message here. That's a URL directly to that folder and only that folder.

rando1957 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 01, 2015, 11:50:49 AM »

I see where you share a folder in dropbox, but I was confused where it says to invite others and create a list. Wanted to avoid that. Let me try it.

Ok here are my xml files. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cjvfkgwt7kedx6r/AABEwyDDeRIuutxp5KwLDrAwa?dl=0. I need to add the .txt files with the song links at Amazon.

jnealand · « **Reply #5 on:** September 01, 2015, 07:05:43 PM »

Randy, that worked fine. I downloaded them and will look at them as soon as I get a little free time. For others info I just create a folder called Randy 2015 within my main xlights data folder and then I can just switch my setup to point to that folder and open them one at a time and look at the preview. You do have to add the music to the folder or you can fake it by telling the sequence to use any song in the folder so you can at least see the effects even if they don't match to the music. Then if you like what you see go and spend $1.29 or whatever to buy the song. Just my 2 cents.

Randy are you going to the mini on the 12th?

RoboMello · « **Reply #6 on:** September 01, 2015, 10:27:14 PM »

Amazing work. I love it.

rando1957 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 02, 2015, 09:10:53 AM »

Thanks Jim and Robo. Definitely not a sequence expert but my wife and I like it.
Jim - I would love to come to mini but it requires an overnight stay at minimum and I been trying to hold some costs down. I miss visiting with the mini folks. Great people with wealth of knowledge.

doga78 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 02, 2015, 11:37:41 AM »

Thank you so much

rando1957

arw01 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 02, 2015, 02:47:11 PM »

Thank you Randy, will do as Jean did and make a sub folder to check them out. Nutrocker is on my list to do this year so will be interested to specifically see what you did with it.

danj · « **Reply #10 on:** September 02, 2015, 08:22:57 PM »

Allright I am missing something. I created a folder to which I saved Rando's files. Told xlights to point to that folder, opened up the sequence (nutrocker) and didn't really see anything. Then returned to setup tab and changed show/media tabs back to my normal xlights folders. Nothing plays now even though I can see the sequences. What am I missing? Thanks

--Never mind--some weird thing with my PC. I did the old school reboot and all is well now. So weird...

gerry · « **Reply #11 on:** September 03, 2015, 12:07:48 AM »

In the event that I have to switch folders, I open xlights , change the folder. Close xlights.
Then open it again (it is now pointing to the new folder), then I look for and open a sequence.

To go back to the first folder , I save what I am doing , close xl.

Then open xl gain , change folders and close xl

etc ie I do not try and 'in flight' change folders and then continue on to do stuff. Because then at the end , when xl prompts to save stuff , I would not expect it to save in the right folder.

A bit cautious maybe , but I spent several weeks doing this during the manual documentation and managed without issues due to the swapping.

Gilrock · « **Reply #12 on:** September 03, 2015, 07:21:10 AM »

The computer never should need to be rebooted. The only thing that can fix is if you have multiple copies of xLights running which you could easily see by running task manager where you can also kill those processes. I'm always helping you guys out so I hot swap my show folder all the time. I don't follow any of these crazy procedures like closing the program or rebooting.

sean · « **Reply #13 on:** September 03, 2015, 08:04:51 AM »

i also have about 20 folders containing users files. i never have had to reboot xlights, i just point to the various directories and add a SETUP of like 32 universes of E1.31. Most users just share the xlights_rgbeffects.xml so i need to do a onetime create of xlights_networks.xml. I also normally copy one mp3 into these directories so i dont have to navigate to other directories.

i wonder what condition you ran into Gerry?

danj · « **Reply #14 on:** September 03, 2015, 10:46:10 AM »

Thanks for the replies. Next time I go down that route I will open up xlights twice and use the second one for the "other" files...