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Organization of the playlist: get the album title (by default) as the

Hello
I wished to know how foobar2000 could retrieve as album title, the folder's name, by default.
I mean...
When I drag and drop albums to the playlist, foobar2000 gets the album information, as it is encoded in the mp3...
okay...
sometimes, the data are not well encoded in the mp3, if the ripper of a certain album, did a bad work, the sound quality could be okay, but the metadata is messy! for for example, we can get an album with the following information...

Album's name: no title
Artist: no title...

and other album with the same data...

Album's name: no title
Artist: no title...

If you drag and drop certain folders, with the mp3 inside having the information bad codified, then... what you do is a total mess!!! mixing all the songs in the playlist... and assuming different albums located in different folders, are the same artist and the same album... no title...

One thing that don't fail, is... assuming always and by defualt the folder's name as the album's name...

Winamp works in this way.

I come from winamp, but I am switching to foobar2000 because I am very disappointed with winamp because eat a lof of computer resources...

If you have a lot of albums with the basic information bad codified... but it is assumed by default the album's name as the folder's name, this don't fail, because always, always, always the playlist will be perfectly organized.

So... the killer question is: how may I do foobar2000 assume by default, as the album name its folder's name?

Thanks

Organization of the playlist: get the album title (by default) as the

Reply #1 –
Instead of trying to get foobar to ignore bad tagging, spend the time having foobar help fix your tags.


$directory(%path%,1) will return the name of a tracks parent folder. You can test by highlighting a few tracks in foobar, rt click, properties, highlight album field, rt click, format from other fields, insert pattern $directory(%path%,1) and see in the preview box if it works.

If so, you can fix all your file album titles with just one step.

Organization of the playlist: get the album title (by default) as the

Reply #2 –
Quote from: tpijag on
Instead of trying to get foobar to ignore bad tagging, spend the time having foobar help fix your tags.


$directory(%path%,1) will return the name of a tracks parent folder. You can test by highlighting a few tracks in foobar, rt click, properties, highlight album field, rt click, format from other fields, insert pattern $directory(%path%,1) and see in the preview box if it works.

If so, you can fix all your file album titles with just one step.


I think my problem is dealing more with the way Foobar2000 is organizing my playlist...

When I drag and drop a folder, Foobar2000 present the tracks organized by Artist name... okay I don't want that... I want it present it by album's name...

So let's imagine we have a folder in which I have a 100 tracks, the tags are perfect... they show the song name, the artist name, and the album name...
when I drag and drop this folder, I don't see the 100 tracks grouped as if they belong to the same album... no, what I see is they are shown as 100 independent tracks, and this is annoying...
How may I present them properly organized?

Organization of the playlist: get the album title (by default) as the

Reply #3 –
Preferences > Shell Integration > Sort incoming files by

Organization of the playlist: get the album title (by default) as the

Reply #4 –
Quote from: dv1989 on
Preferences > Shell Integration > Sort incoming files by


in that place what should I type?

the actual value is %path_sort%

and what should I do? change it with $directory(%path%,1)

???

Organization of the playlist: get the album title (by default) as the

Reply #5 –
Have you read what %path_sort% does? If you use that as foobar's  sort by instruction in shell integration, then foobar is going to sort by your path structure. If you are getting a sort by artist name, then I assume your directory/folder structure is something like artist | album | tracks.

If your tagging is correct, you could try %album artist% %album% %tracknumber% as a sort string. Regarding using the $directory function as a sort.....you could just try it. You will get an immediate answer as to whether it works in your case instead of waiting on a forum response.

There are a lot of threads in the forum already regarding sorting. A quick search will give you quite a bit of information.

As an aside, there are two ways to make foobar unnecessarily hard to understand. One is to not use the default user interface. The other is to not take advantage of Foobars internal library and library viewers. The faster you stop managing your tracks in Windows Explorer and use Foobar the sooner you will grasp the simplicity and power of foobar.