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Sort albums by label/publisher?

Fiddling around with foobar2000 and generally getting a hang for Columns UI. Got a preliminary layout going, but I'm willing to change it as I go along. There's one thing I'm wondering, though. I wanna be able to sort music by things besides the default Artist/Year/Genre/Album/All-of-the-Above, specifically Publisher, Contributing Artists and Writer. I've been looking around in Preferences, and I can see a way to do that, but I'm a complete noob at this, and am not really sure what to do to get it work properly. All the info in the other categories looks daunting, though I'm quite positive it's simple once I know how to look at it. I uploaded a picture in case I explained what I want to do horribly.



I'm also entertaining the possibility this isn't even the correct part of the program to do this. Anyone able to help?

Sort albums by label/publisher?

Reply #1
Try using multiple Columns UI Filter panels (or Facets for DUI) instead.

Each filter panel can list values from a specific field and they can work together allowing you to compose the kind of playlists you are looking for much easier.

Sort albums by label/publisher?

Reply #2
So you've read the documentation?

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title...nces:Album_List

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title...rmat_Album_List

This:
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%publisher%|%<artist>%|%album%|[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber %title%


...is about as simple as title formatting gets. Also, it covers no corner cases, so there's that.

All I did was take the default "by artist" string and add %publisher%| to the front of it. %publisher% is likely your tag and the | character performs the branching operation, as the documentation describes.
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Sort albums by label/publisher?

Reply #3
Thanks for the pointers both of you.