Today I managed to get a few hours to try to learn the workings of coding in foobar.

I managed to find out lots of stuff about displaying info and sorting, but I can't seem to be able to make the songs automatically appear sorted by artist - album - disc - tracknumber.

I can make it sorted like that after using the playlist -> sort -> sort by command, but i'd like this to be done automatically as soon as I select an album (or all music, for that matter) in the albumlist panel.

So: Question 1: How do I do it?


Also, whenever one of my albums happens to be a soundtrack or a compilation, it appears scattered in the playlist because of the "artist" sorting condition. Is there any way of getting the tracks from on of these albums appear together, without changing the tags? (since everything is stored in an iPod, messing up with the tags would mess up the iPod's organization).

Question 2: How do I do this?

Thanks in advance! Also, if this was somehow already posted, I really couldn't find the answer to these questions.

1. Add a command under 'Preferences -> Core -> Sort Incoming Files By'
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2. Add an 'Album Artist' tag to all your files.

Perfect! Thanks a million!!