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Sorting / Grouping columns ui

Hey guys, I'm trying to get foobar up and going. I got my playlist to sort by artist with all their songs grouped together but I want the songs listed under the artists sorted by album, right now it sorts them by title. I found I could select the artist and sort manually but I want this to be done automatically, I'm sure this can be done in the grouping tab using title codes but I can't figure out what codes to use! Help is appreciated. thanks.

Sorting / Grouping columns ui

Reply #1 –
Grouping and sorting are separate issues.

If you want sorting options, select the playlist and then go to Edit->Sort in the main menu.
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Sorting / Grouping columns ui

Reply #2 –
That's not what I'm looking for, I want the groups, which is by artist, to have the songs listed in album order instead of A-Z. When I sort the playlist it sorts the groups. Also wondering how to make foobar ignore "The" in artists names.

Sorting / Grouping columns ui

Reply #3 –
dbl post sorry

Sorting / Grouping columns ui

Reply #4 –
Highlight the entire playlist (Ctrl+A) then right click-> sort-> sort by . . . and paste the following in the box:

$stripprefix(%ARTIST%,The) - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %TRACK%

To sort your ALBUMS in order from oldest to newest or:

$stripprefix(%ARTIST%,The) - %ALBUM% -  %TRACK%

to sort albums alphabetically.

Hit enter and you're good to go.
 

Sorting / Grouping columns ui

Reply #5 –
Quote from: evil roy on
Highlight the entire playlist (Ctrl+A) then right click-> sort-> sort by . . . and paste the following in the box:

$stripprefix(%ARTIST%,The) - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %TRACK%

To sort your ALBUMS in order from oldest to newest or:

$stripprefix(%ARTIST%,The) - %ALBUM% -  %TRACK%

to sort albums alphabetically.

Hit enter and you're good to go.


Thank you, exactly what I wanted.