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Lej

Dec 4 2005, 13:42

So I got quite a lot of music from different tv-series where each album got songs by several artists.

I got them stored like this:

CODE

TV-Series
Album1
Song1
Song2
Song3
Album2
Song1
Song2
Song3

If I sort them by any of the standard sorting options I will end up with a mess. What I would like is the album list to show it as following:

CODE

[name of the FOLDER with the tv-series]
[ALBUM name (OR foldername if there is no album name)]
[tracknumber + title (OR filename if there is no title) ie 01. Song]
[02. Song]
[03. Song]
[ALBUM name (OR foldername if there is no album name)]
[01. Song]
[02. Song]
[03. Song]

I've been looking around for tutorials and tried a few times but I'm not sure how to do it. Help greatly appreciated

Frank Bicking

Dec 4 2005, 13:54

foobar2000 0.8:

CODE

$directory(%_path%,2)|$if2(%album%,$directory(%_path%))|$num(%tracknumber%,2). $if2(%title%,%_filename%)

foobar2000 0.9 beta:

CODE

$directory(%path%,2)|$if2(%album%,$directory(%path%))|%tracknumber%. %title%

Titleformat Reference

Lej

Dec 4 2005, 14:04

Maybe I didn't explain it carefully enough but what you suggested doesn't do exaclty what I wanted.
I'll try to be more careful now, this is how I want it:

CODE

[All Music]
[TV-Series1 folder name]
[Album1]
[Song1]
[Song2]
[Song3]
[Album2]
[Song1]
[Song2]
[Song3]
[TV-Series1 folder name]
...

What you suggested result in what I was stuck at:

CODE

[All Music]
[Album1]
[Song1]
[Song2]
[Song3]
[Album2]
[Song1]
[Song2]
[Song3]
...

Frank Bicking

Dec 4 2005, 14:07

Added underscores to several fields for 0.83.

Sorry, forgot how title formatting works there, the reference is for 0.9 only.

Lej

Dec 4 2005, 14:15

Me doing something wrong would be a very possible explanation.

What I did was go into the "album list" preferences. Added a new "View" and pasted your code there. Then in the album list window chose the new view.

[EDIT]

Ah yes, works like a charm now! Thanks a lot

And one question. If I would use deeper levels of subfolder is it enough to change the 2 in $directory(%_path%,2) to a higher number? Becuase I notice that in one Album folder I had 3 CD folders ( the album was split on several CDs) and the CD folder ended up beeing shown on the All Music level instead of inside the Album folder.

[/EDIT]

[EDIT2]

Ok so I sat down and read some on the subject and wrote something ugly but working.

It lists a few layers of sub folders from the "root" (called Music in my case).
If a folder contains files it creates an Album folder in the view instead and in it it lists the files. If you know a little you can easily make it go deeper into subfolders or customize it.

Thanks for the links and all help!

CODE

$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%),Music),[$num(%tracknumber%,2). ]$if2(%title%,%_filename%),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,2),Music),$if2(%album%,$directory(%_path%,1)),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,3),Music),$directory(%_path%,2),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,4),Music),$directory(%_path%,3),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,5),Music),$directory(%_path%,4),)
|
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,2),Music),[$num(%tracknumber%,2). ]$if2(%title%,%_filename%),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,3),Music),$if2(%album%,$directory(%_path%,1)),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,4),Music),$directory(%_path%,2),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,5),Music),$directory(%_path%,3),)
|
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,3),Music),[$num(%tracknumber%,2). ]$if2(%title%,%_filename%),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,4),Music),$if2(%album%,$directory(%_path%,1)),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,5),Music),$directory(%_path%,2),)
|
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,4),Music),[$num(%tracknumber%,2). ]$if2(%title%,%_filename%),)
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,5),Music),$if2(%album%,$directory(%_path%,1)),)
|
$if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,5),Music),[$num(%tracknumber%,2). ]$if2(%title%,%_filename%),)

[/EDIT2]

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