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Files sorting problem

Hello.

There is one thing in Winamp that makes me still install it, despite I play music only on foobar - it's sorting of files on playlist. I use Winamp just as playlist generator for foobar, but it's annoying - I wanted to make something to let foobar sort files as Winamp does in one of it's options - "sort by path and filename". How to do it? Let me explain what I need exactly.

Let's have a look at some typical folder on my disk - it's named after artist and contains some tracks (single files) and some albums (directories - with names between [] parentheses) :

[Artist01]:
[bb album]
[dd single]
aa.mp3
cc.mp3
ee.mp3


I am strongly accustomed to the way I see it in Windows Explorer - files and directories are sorted directories are diplayed first, free files after them.  "Sort by path and filename" in Winamp makes something similar - the difference is that free files are first, directories goes after them and I find it reasonable. So Winamp will sort it like this:
aa.mp3
cc.mp3
ee.mp3
[bb album content]
[dd single content]

Unfortunately foobar makes something completely different when using "sort by file path" or when just dragging directory to playlist :
aa.mp3
[bb album content]
cc.mp3
[dd single content]
ee.mp3

What should I enter to "Sort By..." dialog to get equivalent of "sort by path and filename" from Winamp? And what should I write to "Sort incoming files by" dialog in "Shell integration" menu to get this by default?

Thanks for any help.

Files sorting problem

Reply #1 –
Did you try using %path_sort%? As I remember it is supposed to do just that.

What kind of files are those without a folder by the way? I usually give rarities/remixes/other related files a corresponding ALBUM tag and leave the DATE field empty. Everything else (ARTIST/GENRE/etc.) matches the official and properly tagged albums. That way the missing field can be used to keep them last in my Library/Playlist viewer. Would that help you or do you want to stick strictly to what you said?

Files sorting problem

Reply #2 –
Quote from: EpicForever on
What should I enter to "Sort By..." dialog to get equivalent of "sort by path and filename" from Winamp? And what should I write to "Sort incoming files by" dialog in "Shell integration" menu to get this by default?

Hmm... you might try:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%) - %filename%


Files sorting problem

Reply #3 –
%path_sort% was set in "Sort incoming files by" dialog in "Shell integration" menu and it didn't work.

BenB - looks like your expression works !! Thank you !!

I always feel little bit supid when I just look at "Syntax help" and I can't imagine how to use fields and operators to get what I need :/ . Well, maybe that's why I never wanted to be a programmer - that is not my level of abstraction.

Files sorting problem

Reply #4 –
$directory_path(%path%)
is the only syntax you need

Files sorting problem

Reply #5 –
After spending a considerable time observing the behaviour of my Playlists, I would like to give my report:

If you want to sort your playlists using the Winamp-style filesystem heirarchy,
$directory_path(%path%) %filename%    gives accurate results 100% of the  time,
$directory_path(%path%)    does not give accurate results 100% of the time.
 

Files sorting problem

Reply #6 –
Thanks