I am slowly exploring foobar and all its wonders...here is my question:
Is it possible to control what each view option displays?
Situation: I have a column with sort by artist/album in the view window. This column duly displays this info, together with the year of the album, and, occasionally, other info which I guess is part of the album tag. I would like the column to display just the names of the artists and albums without the rest...possible?
Thanks. Be gentle - i am learning as I go.
Nick
It might be better if you posted a screenshot of your config so that it's easier to assist you. I suspect what you're describing is the Album List (or perhaps Album List Panel). The settings for both are located at
Preferences > Media Library, and both make use of
title formatting (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Title_Formatting_Reference) to configure what they display.
The following are some of the strings you could possibly use to obtain what you want by creating a new view:
%album artist% - %album%
%album artist%[ - %album%]
[%album artist%[ - %album%]]
%album artist%|%album%
%album artist%[|%album%]
[%album artist%[|%album%]]
Each is subtly different in appearance but do differ in what they return and how that which is returned is displayed. It's a good idea to learn the title formatting I linked to above if you are going to use foobar as title formatting is used extensively.
You also might want to read the
foobar2000 wiki (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Foobar2000). It's not up to date, but it will allow you to learn how to use foobar more or less and familiarize yourself with the terminology used.
Thanks, BenB...that's exactly what I was looking for. I see how this works now and will play around with it.
Nick