Hey, so i just installed this a few hours ago and been setting it up since. Here is what i have so far:



Any suggestions?

I have a few questions.

1. What will happen if there is a song with no id3 tags? will it just not show up? will it show up in the search? How willi play it?

2. Is there anyway i can get FB to change the location of the mp3 file when i change the artist tags etc?

3. Is there an iTunes feature that will copy anything played into the correct subdirectory of "My Music"?

4. Can i disable songs? eg, untick them in iTunes? I have some songs on my pc that arnt mine.

Thanks alot!

Try it . Most of the column headers, like title, "fall back" to filename if the tag doesn't exist.




These are related. And the short answer for both is No. Foobar does not automatically mess with your files. You need to TELL it to move the files. (File Operations -> Move).



I don't know how this works in itunes. What is the benefit of disabling songs? Can't you just, not play them?


Suggestions:
1. Upgrade to 0.9.5.3 . You're missing out on some seriously awesome features (including the ability to create queries that depend on time.)
2. Check out the Optional Components. Take a look at the Optional Components offered (there's a link at the foobar2000 official site), don't forget to look at the components developed by kode54, foosion, haali and musicmusic (links in the Optional Components page in the official site). Also scroll through the 3rd party plugins page to see other 3rd party components.
3. Take a look at the FAQ (both official, at the foobar2000 site), and the unofficial one.
4. Learn some titleformatting (take a look at the titleformat reference file that is in your foobar2000 installation directory).
5. Learn to create queries (take a look at the query syntax reference file that is also in your foobar2000 directory).

1. In addition to kanak's post you can easily get the tags by several online-services. The only problem could be, if you aren't listening to that popular music (like me). Sometimes you're getting no results or – more or less – "crappy" ones. But this is a problem which occurs even for me seldom (and I'm listening to german Rap which isn't popular like RAG (more or less popular a half decade ago) or Mopz Wanted). But thanks to discogs.com I actually find them.

2. As far as I know you can't. But it would be a nice features if you could do it right from foobar (just like tagging a file). You even have a properties-tab for folder, file etc. So it could be nice to change it from there.

3. I wouldn't use something like this, I mean, I've got my music folder and various (intelligent) playlists. Anyway, with a little trick you can do it. One way is to create a auto (or intelligent) playlist with the last tracks you played. Or you can use foo_navigator with it's history function. Then you can copy with SendToDevice to your chosen directory. Maybe you can automate it even more, I'm not sure and it was just a quick idea. You've to test it. :-p

4. With foo_skip you can tag files with "skip" and the value "1" so fbar will skip it. Other Players shouldn't be affected as long as they're not using the tag "skip" (skip is only a name, you can Tag it as you want it.)

If you're sharing, for example, your PC with the your brother's ones and you both wanna use foobar the one of you could use "skip1" and the other one "skip2" so it should work. :-p

For me it works great (though I'm the only user of my PC) with Skits or Tracks I can't listening any time to.

Thanks alot, that got the last of my questions answered.

If the music that is your brother's is in a different directory you can skip that directory by not adding it to the medialibrary and exclude it from scans.

In answer to question 2, you could do what I do. I tag files, then I move the files based on the script I set up to move it into the appropriate directory. Of course this code won't be exactly what you want, and mine may be more complex than you will start out with, but here's mine anyway:
I also assigned that particular move preset to the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M, so all I do is tag and press that shortcut and it's done.

I also have this rename script assigned to Ctrl+R:

Thanks, i wasnt sure what the $if(%album%, , ) bit did, so i left it out. I just made two different presets for a compilation album and for a regular album.

%artist%\%album%\%filename%
and for a compilation:
Compilations\%album%\%filename%

[%disc%][%tracknumber%] - %artist% - %title%
and for a compilation:
[%disc%].[%tracknumber%] - %album% - %title%