Hydrogenaudio Forums > Please help with [VA compilations & album list panel]

Pamplemousse

Oct 31 2007, 18:21

Hello,

I'm a big foobar2000 fan, following it's evolution for years !
This is my first message on this forum.

I have a problem i can't fix for so long (and i could not find any answers anywhere...) :

I have several VA compilations. The artist of each tracks is stored in the 'ARTIST' tag, and i always give a 'ALBUM ARTIST' tag (in which i write 'Various artists').

I would like that these artists don't appear in the album list panel (artists view) !!! (or only under 'Various artists', to avoid have many artists for just 1 or 2 songs.)

I would like to see only artists of non-compilations albums in the album list panel.
Could someone help me? Pleaaase !

( I hope you can understant my terrible english

)

zachastrife

Nov 1 2007, 05:58

QUOTE(Pamplemousse @ Nov 1 2007, 02:21)

Hello,

I'm a big foobar2000 fan, following it's evolution for years !
This is my first message on this forum.

I have a problem i can't fix for so long (and i could not find any answers anywhere...) :

I have several VA compilations. The artist of each tracks is stored in the 'ARTIST' tag, and i always give a 'ALBUM ARTIST' tag (in which i write 'Various artists').

I would like that these artists don't appear in the album list panel (artists view) !!! (or only under 'Various artists', to avoid have many artists for just 1 or 2 songs.)

I would like to see only artists of non-compilations albums in the album list panel.
Could someone help me? Pleaaase !

( I hope you can understant my terrible english

)

Well. Use the ALBUM ARTIST tag then, if foobar doesn't find the ALBUM ARTIST it defaults to ARTIST instead.

NEMO7538

Nov 1 2007, 07:28

Try this :

CODE

%album artist%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2). $if($strcmp($meta(%album artist%),Various artists),%artist% - ,)%title%

Pamplemousse

Nov 3 2007, 08:49

Thank you so much NEMO7538, it works great !

One more question :

Where can i learn about this foobar2000 scripting/coding ?
I can't understand it...

I would like albums to appear sorted by date in this new album list view.

NEMO7538

Nov 3 2007, 10:01

Here

Pamplemousse

Nov 4 2007, 10:20

Okay I'm learning it,

it's not so easy to understand, but i won't give up

But could someone give me a hint, how to order my albums by date ?

Where shall i configure this. In the album list panel options or somewhere else ?

All i could get now is errors and weird sorting of my albums...

Thank you !!!

bbt-hh

Nov 4 2007, 10:36

CODE

%album artist%|['['%date%']' ]%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2). $if($strcmp($meta(%album artist%),Various artists),%artist% - ,)%title%

Frank Bicking

Nov 4 2007, 10:42

Shorter:

CODE

%album artist%|['['%date%']' ]%album%|[%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title%

Pamplemousse

Nov 4 2007, 13:05

Thank you !