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irjason

Apr 6 2005, 21:32

Hi all. I have been using foobar for a month or so now. I got around to cusomizing it some And have it to a point where I am fairly satisfied (thanks to this forum and the wiki) except for this problem I have.
I have found that it only happens to albums that have the word "Singles" in the title. As you can see in the screenshot, I am using a config where the Artist and Album title only show up one time instead of next to every song. I can't remember what it was called at the moment.
The problem is; this doesn't work when the album title contains "Singles" like the one pictured "Singles Round Up".

I suspect this is due to the file path more than the mp3 tag info. I experimented with changing the album name to "test" in the mp3 tags and it stayed the same. All of my mp3's are in folders like this \Music\Artist\Album\song.mp3. I am not familiar engough with Tagz to fix this on my own. I have tried commenting out some lines in the configs, but got nowhere.
If any of you can help me out with this I would sure appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

gfngfgf

Apr 6 2005, 22:06

hmm, it would help if you either remembered the name of the config (or someone recognizes it), or could paste a few lines of code here. Specifically, if you see any $if() commands involving the word 'Singles', and you could paste the few lines before and after.

I'm guessing there is some code similar to:

CODE

$if($strstr(%_path%,'Singles'),
<some TAGZ spanning a few lines>,
<some more TAGZ spanning more lines>)

The first set of TAGZ code occurs if the path contains the word 'Singles'. If you want to eliminate the singles mode entirely, just remove the $if() command and keep the second set of TAGZ code.

irjason

Apr 6 2005, 23:29

Thanks for the reply. I am pretty sure this was the config I started with. "Azrael Last Edition" Link I will take a look at the config tomorrow and see if I see something similar to the code you listed.

Now I see in the documentation for this config "Show album information on singletracks (on by default)" I think this is causing the problem. Maybe I just need to turn it off.

Thanks!

PoisonDan

Apr 7 2005, 01:31

I've had the same problem as you. To solve it, you need to search for this part:

CODE

//Force single file (include this indicator in the name of your singles directory)
//Note: Already hardcoded: [includes: '=SINGLES=']
$puts(single_indicator,'singles')

I simply replaced

CODE

$puts(single_indicator,'singles')

with

CODE

$puts(single_indicator,'bleh')

This did the trick for me.

irjason

Apr 7 2005, 16:52

Thanks for the help! That took care of it. I totally missed the Variables tab under global setttings when I was looking for the problem.

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