Hi everybody, this is my first post here at hydrogenaudio, so let's hope I didn't post in the wrong forum.
My question about foobar is in regard to the library viewer selection. In the interest of clarity, I have included a screenshot of my playlist.
(http://i42.tinypic.com/ev3ui0.jpg)
As you can see in the screenshot, the albums are not listed chronologically. I would like to correct this and have foobar list albums by year of release. I have poked around all over and have yet to find a way to do this. Does anyone know of a method to do this, or should I just get over it?
Thanks.
Take a look at Preferences >General >Adding New Files > sort incoming Files.
The various fields that can be used in this box and nearly everywhere in Foobar is located at your instance Help>Titleformating help
terry
How you set this up will be dependent on How your files are tagged.
Good chance that:
%album artist% %date% %album%
will start to get you close
The library viewer selection is a playlist and its sorting is handled like every other playlist. What playlist are you using? It looks like NG Playlist for Columns UI.
To sort an existing playlist use:
Edit> Sort> Sort by...
To have foobar automatically sort new playlists:
File> Preferences> General> "Sort Incoming files by"
To sort by year of release as you asked, you'll need to develop a sort string that includes %date% (assuming your songs are tagged properly). You may want to try something like this to get you started:
%album artist%|%date%|%album%|%tracknumber%|%title%|%path_sort%
For more information about what fields are available for sorting, see the file titleformat_help.html in your foobar main directory.
Hi, I seem to be having the same problems with my Library viewer and I cannot find a way to sort everything by chronological date automatically. I've tried your guy's suggestions but nothing seems to be happening. I'm using a vanilla version foobar and here's my layout:
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/352/12431.jpg)
It looks like the library viewer you are using is the album list.
Your playlist view will inherit the sort options of your viewer - in this case by artist
You can confirm by viewing deeper into your current album list view at, say, Tom Watts and it should show the same sort.
Go to preferences > Media Library > album list and adjust or add another View string.
A simple addition of [%date%] added to the end of the current by artist string may be sufficient.
terry