How to access the default music folder with filesystem?

[tomekslesicki]

What’s the proper way to do this? There is a Documents wildcard, which is great. How do I go to Music from there on each OS? It’s one folder back from the Documents.

Also - what’s the best non system-locked location for samples on the internal drive? I would assume the Documents folder to be fine but for some people, it’s permanently synced to the cloud, which isn’t optimal.

Also 2 - what if the username of the person using the samples contains dots or other bad characters?

Thank you!

[d.healey]

@tomekslesicki I don't think you can rely on a Music folder existing. But I'd start at the user's home folder and call createDirectory to get to the Music folder.

I always let the user select where they want to install the samples. For a default location though you could put them in a sub-folder inside documents or downloads.

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey said in How to access the default music folder with filesystem?:

I don't think you can rely on a Music folder existing

Sure, in fact that's one of the only "sandbox-safe" locations for music apps on macOS (eg. GarageBand can only access the sample content from there).

I'm using this as default location for all my sample-based plugins on macOS.

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart Oh that's good to know, but what about on Windows, is it undeletable by the user?

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey just tried to delete it. Didn't work.

[Christoph Hart]

FIY, I added a FileSystem.Music constant which brings you directly to the folder.

[tomekslesicki]

@Christoph-Hart fantastic, thank you!

[dannytaurus]

@Christoph-Hart So to be clear, this means we can use FileSystem.Music constant on both Mac and Windows to access the always-present Music folder for storing samples?

[Christoph Hart]

@dannytaurus yes.