Hello all. I have made my own ColumnsUI interface with Chronflow incorporated. I have had some problems with album showing/sorting and would really appreciate your help.

I have a big library (1200+ albums) in one folder "Music Collection". Inside I try to keep an \Artist\Album\Songs.ext structure, but sometimes I have to use a more elaborate tree like \Classical\Richard Wagner\Parsifal\CD1\CD1.ape or \Aerosmith\A Little South Of Sanity\CD1\Songs.ext

Every endpoint folder/subfolder with the songs has the cover of the album in folder.jpg format. If there are multiple CDs, there is the same folder.jpg in every CD1/CD2... subfolder.

I am using Album List Panel to get to all my music, which is sorted alphabetically. Chronflow does not show the whole \folder\subfolder\...\songs.ext hierarchy, and sometimes only shows 2-3 out of 4-5-6 CDs (subfolders) in one parent folder.

The config (which I found here reading through threads) I am using for Chronflow is:

Database filter: 1
Group By: $directory(%path%,1)
Use Group By for sorting unchecked
Sort by: %path%

Sort Tracks Within Album: $num(%tracknumber%,3)
Sources: $replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg

PLEASE take me out my misery and help me to be able to view all albums in Chronflow. As I see it, it should be able to present the covers from folders and subfolders as they appear in the folder tree. If there are multiple CDs within an album, all or only one instance can be shown for the album, it does not matter to me. I have used the AlbumList plugin for Winamp in the same way with great success, but have since dedicated myself to use Foobar2000 as my one-and-only audio player.

Thanks for any help in advance! Stay well all.

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Group by:

Not sure what the first part means :-) Yes, my hometown is Skopje. Thanks, I will try this code to sort the albums. But what happens if some tags are missing - for example in the Classical genre? The album_artist/album classification does not apply and not all files have tags will these fields (there are many .ape and .flac with .cue).

Can Chronflow just correctly present the album list tree to the last subfolder and show the cover in that subfolder?

Thanks again, I will try the suggestion at home and write results.

As I suspected, this does not solve the problem. There are also many albums with Various Artists that are sorted completely out of order with this config.

Can Chronflow just correctly present the album list tree to the last subfolder and show the cover in that subfolder? What syntax can I try to sort the album art this way? Thanks again.

%directory%

What sorting? Aren't you talking about grouping? You want albums with multiple discs and different folder structure to be shown in chronflow - is that right?
The above grouping code works fine for me - and you must have those tags filled: discnumber for multiple discs
And check "Use Group By" for sorting

Seems we are not understanding each other :-) Can Chronflow _not_ read tags, and just present album art according to the (alphabetical) directory structure? This is done very easy with Winamp's Album List plugin, and can also group subfolders by pattern (CDx, DiscX, DVDx) into one album art instance.

Example: http://gtd.blog.com.mk/system/files?file=winamp.jpg

Can I somehow tell Chronflow to show the album art in this order - just as the albums are alphabetically sorted in the main "Music Collection" tree?

Thanks again!

Yes. Sort by: %album%


Maybe you are looking for graphical browser: http://img195.yfrog.com/img195/9530/albums.png

Nope, does not do what I am trying to do. This sorts all albums alphabetically, no matter the parent (artist) folder. I get Van Halen's "Diver Down" followed by Scott Henderson's "Dog Party". Can it show me the albums as they appear in the music collection folder tree?

Example: Master folder is "Music Collection". First parent folder is ACDC, second is Adiemus, third is Adrian Belew - let's imagine this is all of it. What I would like Chronflow to show me first is all ACDC's albums in alphabetical order (as in the folder tree); then all Adiemus' albums in alphabetical order (as in the folder tree); and at last Adrian Belew's albums in alphabetical order (as in the folder tree). No need for reading tags at all - I just want it to read the directory structure down to every subfolder and display the folder.jpg in _every_ such subfolder. Is this possible?

If possible to show/sort the albums this way, what syntax do I use for grouping - not to have double/triple/xxxxx of the same album art showing one after another? I have several such albums with multiple CDs, and all subfolder named CD1, CD2...etc have the same folder.jpg inside.

I also tried Graphical Browser, but I could not find a script that could provide me with the same view I got within Winamp/Album List. Help on this would also be highly appreciated :-) I could not even make it to show covers at all :-)

Thank you for every reply.

Try sort by: %album artist%|%album%

It's a bad idea for you to use directories, because as you said your folder structure is not coherent, but if you like you can use %directory% for your current folder or $directory(%path%,2) for child folder etc.

If you don't like to display multiple CDs as multiple chronflow items then use above quintets_man code - it will show only one item for multiple CD. But then, what about multiple disc albums with different covers?

Hi,

Sorry starterz to use you topic but does chronflow work with foobar 9.6.9?
I just cannot make it appear

Of course it works. You need to use ColumnsUI instead of the default UI, and add Chronflow as panel within the ColumnsUI interface.

EDIT: It doesn't show embeded albumart, does it?

I don't think so...although I can't say for sure, I have no embedded album art.

It does, or at least for my embedded art it seems to work anyway.

Wohooooooooooooo!

After a zillion tries, I finally have the config I wanted.

Group by: %directory% $directory(%path%,2)
Use Group by for Sorting: UNCHECKED
Sort by: %path%

I think that the main problem my lack of knowledge for the syntax options within these fields.

Thanks for all suggestions. Stay well.

this component most definitely does not read embedded album art. can't you remember me explaining this to you on the ABI forums?

Yeah I remember, but my album art showed up before I changed anything so I just assumed it read embedded art.

edit: Just went back and reread that thread, and you did say Chronflow doesn't support embedded album art. Sorry for the mix up .

Thank you.

Let's open Tag&Rename then!

I was some sort of trolling your topic by asking a question (see above) without even realizing that it is what I was looking for as well:


Great, thank you!

Welcome :-) I am enjoying Foobar2000 with Chronflow more than any player, ever. Stay well.