I am interested in separating my music into two main categories... MP3 and Live music. i was curious if it would be possible to open two separate album list panels and have one display only my MP3 shows according to their directory structure and the other to only display my Live shows according to their directory structure. i can't figure out a way to get around this sticky situation... if there is something i am able to do or maybe something someone might have to develop i would appreciate any response i can get... thanks a lot...
jake

Hold down the Shift key when you create a new panel (Right-click / Layout / Tabbed panel stack).... after the new panel is created, simply add a new Album list panel

Creating a new panel or tab is pretty easy. If you want a new panel the directions above work, a new tab is even easier, just right click on the tabs and go to Add Tab->Panels->Album List. To display the different music sounds like it will take some manipulation. I don't know if there is a way to have the Album List completely ignore music that lacks a value, but you could add a TAGZ to your music indicating whether its live or not. Then create an Album List tab where all music is sorted starting on that tag to start.

i can make separate album lists pretty easily, i have three right now sorted between year, who taped the show, and song title. this is a problem my friend wants fixed. i agree with him that it would be neat to have different album lists according to live or "not live" music. i know that i could manipulate it one way to get it to only display live music but then i might not be able to manipulate it another way to display my other music file... one restriction i might be able to set up would be directory... such as

constraint one:
sort by year -> with restriction in directory(ies) to display music files from cds, etc.
constraint two:
sort by year (live) -> with restrition for directroy(ies) where my live music files are located...

if anyonoe know hows to do this i would be very appreciative

edit-(i would obviously prefer a way to set contraints on directory structure view but if that is not possible this method would work as well)

edit- ok so i took java programming and now im trying to figure out how i shoudl set this up but i cant program in this code for foobar so maybe someone else would have to... heres what i have for my "sort by year" the "sort by year (live)" is after

given: my directory for music is A:\ and my directory for live music is B:\, C:\, and D:\

so

"Sort by year"
if beginning of directory of file = A:\
then display %date%, submenu %Album%, submenu with %tracknumber% and %title%

"sort by year (live)
if beginning of directroy of file = B:\, C:\, or D:\
then display %date%, submenu %Album%, submenu with %tracknumber% and %title%

thats about all i got... any programmers out there that might be able to help me out id really appreciate it! thanks in advance... jake