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Pamplemousse
Hello,

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


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 smile.gif )
zachastrife
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. smile.gif


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 smile.gif )

Well. Use the ALBUM ARTIST tag then, if foobar doesn't find the ALBUM ARTIST it defaults to ARTIST instead.
NEMO7538
Try this :
CODE
%album artist%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2). $if($strcmp($meta(%album artist%),Various artists),%artist% - ,)%title%
Pamplemousse
Thank you so much NEMO7538, it works great ! biggrin.gif

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
Here
Pamplemousse
Okay I'm learning it,

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


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

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

Pamplemousse
Thank you ! smile.gif
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