Hi everybody!
My first posting - cool forum anyway!

I love foobar and I'm using it now for at least 3 years.
But the bigger my mp3 collection gets, the more confused I get because of a lack of management.
I have a folder management for my tracks, but I really need some kind of qualitative classification.

I imagine an option in foobar to rate tracks while listening and afterwards a filter function which makes it able just to play the good rated tracks out of a specific folder.
Do you get my idea?

Is anything like that available as a plugin or something?
Or is anything like that planned?

I know only Itunes where you can rate tracks, but i hate it!

THX,
foobario

You can use your own mass tagger scripts or the foo_rating component(probably more solutions, too) to rate your songs. You can use foo_playlist_tree to make a dynamic playlist of any rating of your choosing(say, if you only want to listen to your 5-star songs on shuffle).

foo_custominfo

You can tag a song with every tag you like, e.g. RATING, STYLE, MOOD, WHATEVER_YOU_CAN_IMAGINE without any plugin. Just open a file's property window, add a tag with the desired name and enter a value you like. To make that process more convenient you can use masstagger (included in the foobar setup, available through context menu > tagging > manage scripts):

For example, I rate (in a tag named RATING) my songs on a scale from 0 to 5. In masstagger, I set up to scripts which have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them:

Increase Rating by one (maximum value: 5):

Decrease Rating by one (minimum value: 0):


Edit: To create playlists containing only high rated songs (from a specific directory, too, if you like) use the component Autoplaylist Manager.

HTH
ojdo

could you explain that for computer dummies?

especially rating with shortcuts would be great!