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kena
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Here's where I am with Foobar - Two views Album & Playlist (Playlist seperate for better display on laptop) , Pretty happy with it...
Here is my Foobar2000 UI. It took a little tweaking but I am now happy with the results. With thanks to PJPro, it wouldn't have been possible without his configuration guides.
kena
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mattjax05:
Here is my Foobar2000 UI. It took a little tweaking but I am now happy with the results. With thanks to PJPro, it wouldn't have been possible without his configuration guides.
Looks cool mattjax05.....glad to be of help.
Here is my Foobar2000 UI. It took a little tweaking but I am now happy with the results. With thanks to PJPro, it wouldn't have been possible without his configuration guides.
Looks cool mattjax05.....glad to be of help.
kena:
Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...
Nice kena. Do most albums have the front/back/insde art available?
Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...
Nice kena. Do most albums have the front/back/insde art available?
I notice that people aren't using star ratings in their implementations. Is this through choice?
I've managed to set up auto-generated playlists with star ratings. So you award a track 5 stars, it gets added to the playlist. You can just see the four star plus and five star playlists added in the top left panel of my hci.
I've managed to set up auto-generated playlists with star ratings. So you award a track 5 stars, it gets added to the playlist. You can just see the four star plus and five star playlists added in the top left panel of my hci.
kena
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PJPro:kena:
Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...
Nice kena. Do most albums have the front/back/insde art available?
No usually only front/back available via art downloader, I scanned the missing art when I was ripping CD's and double checking I'd copied them all.
Not using star ratings due to the fact not using as main source yet , your way sounds a good idea and will try that when I go live .. (Need dedicated laptop so here's hoping fo xmas!!)
Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...
Nice kena. Do most albums have the front/back/insde art available?
No usually only front/back available via art downloader, I scanned the missing art when I was ripping CD's and double checking I'd copied them all.
Not using star ratings due to the fact not using as main source yet , your way sounds a good idea and will try that when I go live .. (Need dedicated laptop so here's hoping fo xmas!!)
I've been trying to follow postings on this forum and other places on how to configure Foobar2000, with varying success!!! Could anyone please help me with any of the following?
I want Chronflow to display my albums sorted by album artist. In other words I want to see all my Beatles albums together followed by Beautiful South etc. However, I have a large number of compilations albums. When I group by album artist I see all the artists from the compilation albums such that the compilation albums appear multiple times. When I try to group by album and sort by album artist I don't get albums from the same band grouped together. Instead of being sorted by album artist, as I want, they are just sorted by album name. This is driving me mad. How do I get the compilation albums to appear just once whilst still get all artists albums grouped together, or is this not possible?
When I select "new playlist" I get a playlist called "new playlist" but I can't find out how I tell Foobar2000 what I want this playlist to do. For example, I want to say all 60's Rock as once playlist. Does Foobar2000 not have smart playlists like iTunes or am I just being stupid?
I've installed the iPod component but whenever I try and do anything with it I get an error message saying that I don't have an iPod. But my iPod Touch is connected to my computer. How do I convince it that I do have an iPod?
In the Foobar2000 console I get loads of messages saying "Location not parsable: "M:MusicFLACYesClose to the EdgeFolder.jpg", reason: Unsupported file format". Is Foobar2000 trying to play these files for some reason?
It seems to me that Foobar2000 is really a powerful player but boy is it frustrating trying to get it to work how you want!! Does anyone know of a good user guide?
Leo
I want Chronflow to display my albums sorted by album artist. In other words I want to see all my Beatles albums together followed by Beautiful South etc. However, I have a large number of compilations albums. When I group by album artist I see all the artists from the compilation albums such that the compilation albums appear multiple times. When I try to group by album and sort by album artist I don't get albums from the same band grouped together. Instead of being sorted by album artist, as I want, they are just sorted by album name. This is driving me mad. How do I get the compilation albums to appear just once whilst still get all artists albums grouped together, or is this not possible?
When I select "new playlist" I get a playlist called "new playlist" but I can't find out how I tell Foobar2000 what I want this playlist to do. For example, I want to say all 60's Rock as once playlist. Does Foobar2000 not have smart playlists like iTunes or am I just being stupid?
I've installed the iPod component but whenever I try and do anything with it I get an error message saying that I don't have an iPod. But my iPod Touch is connected to my computer. How do I convince it that I do have an iPod?
In the Foobar2000 console I get loads of messages saying "Location not parsable: "M:MusicFLACYesClose to the EdgeFolder.jpg", reason: Unsupported file format". Is Foobar2000 trying to play these files for some reason?
It seems to me that Foobar2000 is really a powerful player but boy is it frustrating trying to get it to work how you want!! Does anyone know of a good user guide?
Leo
kena
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LeoL,
Various artist issue easily resolved by ensuring you use the tag %Artist Name% for the track performer and use the %Album Artist% tag as Various.
Do a google search search on Foobar smart playlists and check another site.
No Ipod so can't advise sorry..
Foobar console - certainly don't get that msg on every JPG and JPG's don't need to be excluded in media library settings - but dont have access to my NAS at mo so cant fire up Foobar to play and check
Sorry can't help with all your queries but hope it's a start and will check out console msg tommorrow if i get a chance. Good luck Foobar is worth tinkering with but also their are various skins available to download that you will find on another forum that might suit - I really like Tedgos's the Dark One 1.6 skin - use it on sons PC, while I like attempting my own thing on mine.
Various artist issue easily resolved by ensuring you use the tag %Artist Name% for the track performer and use the %Album Artist% tag as Various.
Do a google search search on Foobar smart playlists and check another site.
No Ipod so can't advise sorry..
Foobar console - certainly don't get that msg on every JPG and JPG's don't need to be excluded in media library settings - but dont have access to my NAS at mo so cant fire up Foobar to play and check
Sorry can't help with all your queries but hope it's a start and will check out console msg tommorrow if i get a chance. Good luck Foobar is worth tinkering with but also their are various skins available to download that you will find on another forum that might suit - I really like Tedgos's the Dark One 1.6 skin - use it on sons PC, while I like attempting my own thing on mine.
kena:
Various artist issue easily resolved by ensuring you use the tag %Artist Name% for the track performer and use the %Album Artist% tag as Various.
Thanks for the reply but you lost me with this. Could you explain this a little more?
Various artist issue easily resolved by ensuring you use the tag %Artist Name% for the track performer and use the %Album Artist% tag as Various.
Thanks for the reply but you lost me with this. Could you explain this a little more?
kena
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No probs, If you follow general recommended Foobar tagging conventions , you only use the tag %album artist% for multiple artist albums e.g. Various, and you use %Artist name% for the group name for all your albums.
This allows you to sort by artist or Album e.g. %album artist% - %album% would give you Various - then track artist. reverse if you want to search by group.
Check your in Foobar tags for a complete album by right clicking on the album then selecting preferences. Expand album to show a track view to see/alter an individual tracks tag.
example
And my artist/album sort string..(swapprefix just puts the at the end) , square brackets mean don't display if not exist.
$swapprefix(%album artist%) - ['['%date%']' ]%album%|[[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title%
Hope this helps..
This allows you to sort by artist or Album e.g. %album artist% - %album% would give you Various - then track artist. reverse if you want to search by group.
Check your in Foobar tags for a complete album by right clicking on the album then selecting preferences. Expand album to show a track view to see/alter an individual tracks tag.
example
And my artist/album sort string..(swapprefix just puts the at the end) , square brackets mean don't display if not exist.
$swapprefix(%album artist%) - ['['%date%']' ]%album%|[[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title%
Hope this helps..
kena
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Checked console log - Hadn't noticed before I get that as well you can exclude by adding *.JPG to exclusions in Media Library settings or any other ext you don't want scanned eg. *.txt;*.lrc ( If using lyric plugin),
I get the general idea of what you are saying but I think I need to read the scripting document I downloaded a while ago. All a bit beyond me for the moment! Thanks very much for the help.
kena
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The sort string goes in Album List/Album List Panel in general settings under media library. Lots of tips etc. on site that hosts Foobar tho some of the guides a bit out of date. Are you using version 1, If not you might as well upgrade to it now before you start tinkering probably make things easier. Well certainly if you post a query here for Foobar users.
Good luck
Good luck
To sort out Chronoflow, do the following
1) File | Preferences
2) Expand the node Display and click the Chronoflow node
3) Click the Album Source tab
4) Change the string in the Group By text box from to %artist%|%date%|%album%
5) Change the string in the Sort By text box to %artist%|%date%|%album%
6) Click the Display tab
7) Change the string in the only text box available to %artist% - %date% - %album%
8) Click the Apply button.
9) Click the Album Source tab.
10) Click the Reload Sources button.
11) Click OK
Hope this helps.
1) File | Preferences
2) Expand the node Display and click the Chronoflow node
3) Click the Album Source tab
4) Change the string in the Group By text box from to %artist%|%date%|%album%
5) Change the string in the Sort By text box to %artist%|%date%|%album%
6) Click the Display tab
7) Change the string in the only text box available to %artist% - %date% - %album%
8) Click the Apply button.
9) Click the Album Source tab.
10) Click the Reload Sources button.
11) Click OK
Hope this helps.
PJPro:To sort out Chronoflow, do the following
1) File | Preferences
2) Expand the node Display and click the Chronoflow node
3) Click the Album Source tab
4) Change the string in the Group By text box from to %artist%|%date%|%album%
5) Change the string in the Sort By text box to %artist%|%date%|%album%
6) Click the Display tab
7) Change the string in the only text box available to %artist% - %date% - %album%
8) Click the Apply button.
9) Click the Album Source tab.
10) Click the Reload Sources button.
11) Click OK
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid that didn't work. I still see all the compilation albums as I move through the album display in Chronoflow. I only want to see those albums once in the display. Is this something to do with the structure of my music in the folder? I had no idea how to rip a compilation album so I just let dBpoweramp rip them by artist/album as it did all the others. Is this my mistake?
1) File | Preferences
2) Expand the node Display and click the Chronoflow node
3) Click the Album Source tab
4) Change the string in the Group By text box from to %artist%|%date%|%album%
5) Change the string in the Sort By text box to %artist%|%date%|%album%
6) Click the Display tab
7) Change the string in the only text box available to %artist% - %date% - %album%
8) Click the Apply button.
9) Click the Album Source tab.
10) Click the Reload Sources button.
11) Click OK
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid that didn't work. I still see all the compilation albums as I move through the album display in Chronoflow. I only want to see those albums once in the display. Is this something to do with the structure of my music in the folder? I had no idea how to rip a compilation album so I just let dBpoweramp rip them by artist/album as it did all the others. Is this my mistake?
kena
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Whats your music folder structure .. Is it a folder for artist and folder for album i.e. Folder The Beatles containing 2 folders Let it Be & Abbey Road ??? and whats the track file name ... The Beatles - Let it Be.FLAC
kena:Whats your music folder structure .. Is it a folder for artist and folder for album i.e. Folder The Beatles containing 2 folders Let it Be & Abbey Road ??? and whats the track file name ... The Beatles - Let it Be.FLAC
Yes, it's exactly that although I include the track number in the name so that when I look at the directory structure I'm seeing the tracks in the right order.
Yes, it's exactly that although I include the track number in the name so that when I look at the directory structure I'm seeing the tracks in the right order.
Could someone please tell me what I need to do to get Foobar2000 and Chronoflow to recognise changes that I make in my music library? I have merged some double albums into a single directory and yet both Foobar2000 and Chronoflow still list them separately. If I tell Chronoflow to reload it still displays a place for the albums even though it no longer can find the album cover. I've tried telling Foobar2000 to remove my library and re-add it, but it still remembers all the information as it was. I can't seem to find where Foobar2000 stores it's library information and although it says it is monitoring the library it appears never to be up to date. I'd rather not uninstall Foobar2000 as I assume this will result in all the customisations being lost, although I've no idea where it stores this information either?
LeoL:
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid that didn't work. I still see all the compilation albums as I move through the album display in Chronoflow. I only want to see those albums once in the display. Is this something to do with the structure of my music in the folder? I had no idea how to rip a compilation album so I just let dBpoweramp rip them by artist/album as it did all the others. Is this my mistake?
Then, I don't understand what you are after. I thought you had compliation albums with various artists and you wanted to see this subdivided by artist....so all tracks by The Beatles would appear under The Beatles rather than under Various.
I don't think this is an issue of structure as the sort/display routines I defined above are based on the file tags not folders.
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid that didn't work. I still see all the compilation albums as I move through the album display in Chronoflow. I only want to see those albums once in the display. Is this something to do with the structure of my music in the folder? I had no idea how to rip a compilation album so I just let dBpoweramp rip them by artist/album as it did all the others. Is this my mistake?
Then, I don't understand what you are after. I thought you had compliation albums with various artists and you wanted to see this subdivided by artist....so all tracks by The Beatles would appear under The Beatles rather than under Various.
I don't think this is an issue of structure as the sort/display routines I defined above are based on the file tags not folders.
LeoL:Could someone please tell me what I need to do to get Foobar2000 and Chronoflow to recognise changes that I make in my music library? I have merged some double albums into a single directory and yet both Foobar2000 and Chronoflow still list them separately. If I tell Chronoflow to reload it still displays a place for the albums even though it no longer can find the album cover. I've tried telling Foobar2000 to remove my library and re-add it, but it still remembers all the information as it was. I can't seem to find where Foobar2000 stores it's library information and although it says it is monitoring the library it appears never to be up to date. I'd rather not uninstall Foobar2000 as I assume this will result in all the customisations being lost, although I've no idea where it stores this information either?
You shouldn't need to do anything. FB2K monitors the library file structure for change events and reloads the files as changes are made.
I suspect the issue lies with the tags within the files themselves. Try right clicking one of the tracks in foobar and selecting properties. This will show you the tags and what the data they hold. Remember, the way the files are displayed in the GUI is more to do with the tags than underlying folder structure.
You should not need to uninstall foobar.
The information that foobar holds for a user are things like playlists and GUI configurations. You'll find them (in Vista) at
C:UsersApp DataRoamingfoobar2000
You may need to change the folder settings in Explorer to allow you to see system folders and files. My recommendation? Don't mess with these system folders and/or files unless you know what you're doing or a reinstall (or worse) could be the outcome.
You shouldn't need to do anything. FB2K monitors the library file structure for change events and reloads the files as changes are made.
I suspect the issue lies with the tags within the files themselves. Try right clicking one of the tracks in foobar and selecting properties. This will show you the tags and what the data they hold. Remember, the way the files are displayed in the GUI is more to do with the tags than underlying folder structure.
You should not need to uninstall foobar.
The information that foobar holds for a user are things like playlists and GUI configurations. You'll find them (in Vista) at
C:UsersApp DataRoamingfoobar2000
You may need to change the folder settings in Explorer to allow you to see system folders and files. My recommendation? Don't mess with these system folders and/or files unless you know what you're doing or a reinstall (or worse) could be the outcome.
kena
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File preferences General, user profile folder or application install folder depending on whether your install was for default separate info for each user account or application config can be transferred between computers. If using V1 there will be a configuration folder containing a cfg file for setting for each component - if on an earlier ver only a foobar.cfg file.
Recommend a download of foo_jesus - creates a backup of config files at defined times useful if you are doing a lot of changes to tweak/tune your config.
Regards your double albums as PJ says and i mentioned earlier right click on the track and ensure that you have set disk number & total disk tags. If its a various compilation double, album artist should be VARIOUS with artist name tag being the group/artist performing that track
Recommend a download of foo_jesus - creates a backup of config files at defined times useful if you are doing a lot of changes to tweak/tune your config.
Regards your double albums as PJ says and i mentioned earlier right click on the track and ensure that you have set disk number & total disk tags. If its a various compilation double, album artist should be VARIOUS with artist name tag being the group/artist performing that track
PJPro:LeoL:
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid that didn't work. I still see all the compilation albums as I move through the album display in Chronoflow. I only want to see those albums once in the display. Is this something to do with the structure of my music in the folder? I had no idea how to rip a compilation album so I just let dBpoweramp rip them by artist/album as it did all the others. Is this my mistake?
Then, I don't understand what you are after. I thought you had compliation albums with various artists and you wanted to see this subdivided by artist....so all tracks by The Beatles would appear under The Beatles rather than under Various.
I don't think this is an issue of structure as the sort/display routines I defined above are based on the file tags not folders.
I want all albums by the Beatles to appear together but I want any Beatles tracks that are part of a compilation to appear only when the compilation album appears. As things are, because I have a large number of compilation albums, with a large number of tracks on them, I'm seeing the compilation albums appear so many times that scanning through the albums in Chronflow means going through many more album covers than I actually have albums. So for example, some of my compilation albums are tripple albums with over 50 tracks. So that album is appearing over 50 times but usually with only one track each time.
I'm sure this is because I didn't treat compilation albums differently than normal albums and I now realise this was a mistake. But I'm still not sure what I should have done or how to sort it out. Your last comment about "Various" I assume is the key. Should I set the album artist of compilation albums to various? dBpoweramp identified most of my compilation albums correctly so I just assumed it would deal with them in the way they should be dealt with, but only a small proportion of my compilation albums are filed under the directory "various artists". Most have appeared under the artists name.
I'm also not really sure what information Foobar2000 is picking up from the directory structure and what it is picking up from the Tag information. For example, I thought Chronflow displayed the cover art from the Folder.jpg file in the directory, but when I went through the Tag info for a number of albums it actually showed different cover art for different tracks within the same album. As I used dBpoweramp to do the ripping, and it got the cover art, I don't see how this could be. But I'm also lost as to where the cover art is actually held. Is it just in the directory or is the jpg held in the Tag as well? I'm using MP3TAG to go through the albums and it is the program that is sometimes showing different cover art for different tracks within the same album. Chronflow is also not always displaying the cover art for a particular album even though there is a jpg in the directory.
Sorry if this is all rather basic but I'm new to all this and my only guidance is the various forum postings.
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid that didn't work. I still see all the compilation albums as I move through the album display in Chronoflow. I only want to see those albums once in the display. Is this something to do with the structure of my music in the folder? I had no idea how to rip a compilation album so I just let dBpoweramp rip them by artist/album as it did all the others. Is this my mistake?
Then, I don't understand what you are after. I thought you had compliation albums with various artists and you wanted to see this subdivided by artist....so all tracks by The Beatles would appear under The Beatles rather than under Various.
I don't think this is an issue of structure as the sort/display routines I defined above are based on the file tags not folders.
I want all albums by the Beatles to appear together but I want any Beatles tracks that are part of a compilation to appear only when the compilation album appears. As things are, because I have a large number of compilation albums, with a large number of tracks on them, I'm seeing the compilation albums appear so many times that scanning through the albums in Chronflow means going through many more album covers than I actually have albums. So for example, some of my compilation albums are tripple albums with over 50 tracks. So that album is appearing over 50 times but usually with only one track each time.
I'm sure this is because I didn't treat compilation albums differently than normal albums and I now realise this was a mistake. But I'm still not sure what I should have done or how to sort it out. Your last comment about "Various" I assume is the key. Should I set the album artist of compilation albums to various? dBpoweramp identified most of my compilation albums correctly so I just assumed it would deal with them in the way they should be dealt with, but only a small proportion of my compilation albums are filed under the directory "various artists". Most have appeared under the artists name.
I'm also not really sure what information Foobar2000 is picking up from the directory structure and what it is picking up from the Tag information. For example, I thought Chronflow displayed the cover art from the Folder.jpg file in the directory, but when I went through the Tag info for a number of albums it actually showed different cover art for different tracks within the same album. As I used dBpoweramp to do the ripping, and it got the cover art, I don't see how this could be. But I'm also lost as to where the cover art is actually held. Is it just in the directory or is the jpg held in the Tag as well? I'm using MP3TAG to go through the albums and it is the program that is sometimes showing different cover art for different tracks within the same album. Chronflow is also not always displaying the cover art for a particular album even though there is a jpg in the directory.
Sorry if this is all rather basic but I'm new to all this and my only guidance is the various forum postings.
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