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Albums appear 'separated'

Hey all, complete foobar noob here so don't be confusing me:P

Anyways, I installed foobar today and got everything set up, looking the way I want it to. I was just beginning to put some songs together into a playlist and noticed that when I click an artist, the albums don't appear as full albums. Most of the time, they're split up into sometimes 1, sometimes maybe 5 or 6 different groups of songs. This is what I mean if I'm not making sense as you can see on the right. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong, preferably as simple as possible?

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #1 –
You should check the tags of those files for inconsistencies, select them in foobar and right click -> properties. That's usually the problem when albums are split like that. See if <multiple values> appears in any field that should be the same for the whole album (eg. date).

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #2 –
Ok so I checked the properties on a few different tracks that were behaving like this and there never seemed to be anything different among them. Sometimes there were ones doing things like this where you can see that one has an 'Album Artist' and the other doesn't, but other tracks that were playing up aren't like this so I don't think that's the problem?

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #3 –
You should select all the tracks that you believe is part of the same album then look at their properties. There are a few obvious things that should be different (e.g. track number and title) but pretty much anything that isn't specific to a track should be the same.

It also depends on how they are grouped and if you are using any components like ColumnUI.

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #4 –
Pretty sure it's a Columns UI config.

Right-click in the playlist to open the context menu, you should see something along the lines of Groups, Groupngs, Group By, etc. Try changing those settings if it gives more than one option.

If it doesn't help, post a screenshot of the context menu. It will make it easier to determine what playlist viewer you're using and fix the grouping, if necessary.

I think that's foo_uie_library_tree on the left. I'm not too familiar with that component and don't know how or if it influences groups/sorting.

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #5 –
Quote from: BenB on
Pretty sure it's a Columns UI config.

Right-click in the playlist to open the context menu, you should see something along the lines of Groups, Groupngs, Group By, etc. Try changing those settings if it gives more than one option.

If it doesn't help, post a screenshot of the context menu. It will make it easier to determine what playlist viewer you're using and fix the grouping, if necessary.

I think that's foo_uie_library_tree on the left. I'm not too familiar with that component and don't know how or if it influences groups/sorting.

The grouping options didn't seems to solve anything, here's a picture of the context menu when I right click on a track if that's what you mean

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #6 –
Quote from: BenB on
Pretty sure it's a Columns UI config.

I would ask the OP to confirm this, but I suspect they might just have downloaded a pre-made configuration from somewhere else and might have no idea how it’s constructed. No personal offence to the OP, but this happens a lot, so it’s not improbable.

Is it too much to ask for authors of such things to provide a guide or assistance in its original location? Can you ask them in the first instance? It’s not normally easy for people here, who most likely haven’t used the configuration in question, to guess at how it works.

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #7 –
as that does look to be library tree on the left, it has more advanced options for sorting tracks when sending them to playlists. if you right click Artist and then edit view

you should find a box to enter sort details - i don't have the exact term as i'm posting this from memory. something like

Code: [Select]
%date%|%album%|%discnumber%|%tracknumber%|%title%


should do.

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #8 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
as that does look to be library tree on the left, it has more advanced options for sorting tracks when sending them to playlists. if you right click Artist and then edit view

you should find a box to enter sort details - i don't have the exact term as i'm posting this from memory. something like

Code: [Select]
%date%|%album%|%discnumber%|%tracknumber%|%title%


should do.

I managed to get to that and this is what I'm seeing when it opens. I have no idea if it's correct, is there something I need to change?

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #9 –
Quote
you should find a box to enter sort details - i don't have the exact term as i'm posting this from memory.


only one box in your screenshot has the word sort in its label....

you need to replace %artist% with the code from my post.

Albums appear 'separated'

Reply #10 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
Quote
you should find a box to enter sort details - i don't have the exact term as i'm posting this from memory.


only one box in your screenshot has the word sort in its label....

you need to replace %artist% with the code from my post.

It worked! Thanks so much man, that was giving me real headaches!