Hello!
I'm a bit of a noob with foobar, and I need some help with the sort strings. What kind of sort string (For SCPL) would I use to group into albums (with ordered track list), and then group all tracks that don't have an album together?

Cheers.

- Are you using the new SCPL Sort/Group Criteria presets or the older approach using regular foobar sort strings?

- What do you use to determine if "tracks .. have an album". From the sound of your post it sounds like you use %album% but do you really strip %album% tags from singles? Do you maybe use %tracknumber% instead?

- Do you use %discnumber% for multidisc albums? Do you want different disks grouped separately?

Yep, i'm using "group by". Tracks that don't have an album have an empty album tag, and multi disc albums just have the disc number stuck onto the end of the album tag (So nothing needs to be done for these).

Try something like this for an "Album" criteria primary sort string:
$if2(%album%,!single)

And for a "Track Number" criteria:
[%tracknumber%]

Then create a preset. (0) Sort & Group by Album, (1) Sort by Track Number
If you want additional sorting for the singles you'll want to add %artist% and/or %title% but that should get ou started.

Thanks, but you've confused me now

Creating a sort string with the new Group By presets is a bit more complicated than the old system.

File> Preferences> Panels UI> Sort/Group
You need to create a "Sorting and grouping criteria" for each part of your sort string. For what you described I would suggest adding/modifying the following:

• Album
• Track Number
• Artist
• Title

Once you have defined the criteria you can create the sort string from SCPL. Right click your playlist and select
Sort / Group By> Edit from the popup menu. In the "Sort/Group By" dialog that appears uncheck all the boxes and then:

• Left-Click "Album"
• Right-Click "Track Number"
• Right-Click "Artist"
• Right-Click "Title"

Save the preset to whatever name you like and then you should be able to use it from the SCPL right click menu.

Cheers, seems to be what I want now!

How can I get the preset to stick?
When i restart foobar I have to click on my preset again to get it to apply.