Our church just purchased two 10-inch LCD Photo Frames. We’re going to be putting them up in our lobby to display announcements and photos from church-life. It’s going to be splendid – I can’t wait to get them up.
I’ve been working with them a bit today and trying to “randomize” the photos & graphics has been quite cumbersome. I’m sure some higher-end models allow for a “random” slideshow, but ours simply goes in sequence according to the file name. That just ticked me off.
So, I did a little “browsing” and found a great solution. I offer it here because others may want to do the same and may find this solution very helpful!
I simply downloaded a program called, “File Renamer Basic“. It’s free, simple to use, and perfect for this application. I simply put all of the image files into a directory and pointed File Renamer Basic to that directory and after a few trial-and-error attempts managed to get each file renamed to a random number filename (our frames require a .jpg extension – this was simple to keep as the standard using this application).
It couldn’t be easier (well, if my photo frame had a “randomizer” built in, I guess that would be easier).
I now have 70+ images stored on our one photo frame and am currently watching the “random” slideshow while sitting here at the desk! I know that it may be a bit discouraging that my “random” slideshow will repeat itself exactly as it played the first time, but this is something I believer we can live with.
For what it’s worth, we bought two of these photo frames for our purposes here.
You are amazing how you find such helpful things!
that is a good idea to get that frame up and show off stuff with what is going on in your ministry I should steal that idea
On your TWEETS…I am afraid that truth is that YOU are one of the people that gives good reason as to WHY there is coming fast – a law that will make it illegal (against the law) to even talk hands free on the phone (or to be using other communication devices while driving a vehicle)!
Yes, your Momma
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Hey Stevan
I was searching for ages to find a way to do exactly what you described. I wasted a lot of time trying different things and it was driving me crazy until I found your post. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Have an awesome day!
AJ :)