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davidxdavid

Dec 20 2007, 14:25

I've been playing around with some Panels UI skins.. namely, FoFR and FooAVA..

Everytime Foobar2000 starts up, the "browser" playlist (which contains the playlist of the entire library) is not sorted correctly.

Some problems are

1. the Various Artists album are sorted by artist rather than track number.

2. the Albums are sorted by album name rather than Date

If I right click the playlist and click Sort/Group By Artist / Date / Album, everything is sorted correctly. It is a PITA to do this everytime Foobar2000 starts.

So, how can I automate this sorting process for the browser playlist on startup?

davidxdavid

Dec 21 2007, 20:16

wow.. I take it no one knows the answer. dang.

davidxdavid

Feb 14 2008, 18:15

Thanks to a user named bertox, this problem is now solved.

The solution is the following... word for word.

QUOTE

To do auto list sort at browser startup/refresh you have to put your sort values in:
preferences -> general -> sort incoming files by:

CODE

%ALBUM ARTIST% - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %DISCNUMBER% - %TRACKNUMBER% - %TITLE% - %PATH_SORT%

The problem was with the foobar default sort string

CODE

path_sort% %ALBUM ARTIST% - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %DISCNUMBER% - %TRACKNUMBER% - %TITLE%

That's why everything is sorted by album name rather than year.. because it reads the folder name first before everything else..

Thanks bertox for everything!

Case closed.

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