Re: Is it possible to separate albums by containing folder? If so, how?
Reply #3 –
I've been using Foobar for years and occasionally come back to an issue that I have: Foobar grouping albums that I may have multiple versions of together. At present, Foobar with the skin I'm using tends to group albums with the same album and artist name together.
I'm not sure what components your theme/skin is using to display the playlist, but assuming you do indeed have these different-format-but-same-albums in separate folders, you can try adding %directoryname% to the default sort order, and try something like %codec% and %__bitspersample% in the playlist groupings. I'm not sure exactly what to use and I'm not the best at the ol' title formatting, so best advice is to just experiment until you find what looks best. (Standard foobar'ing, really.
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I'm only familiar with Facets and SimPlaylist for such things, but hopefully that might give you some ideas for whatever components your layout is using. For example I use this code in a few places -
%codec% $if($stricmp(%__encoding%,lossless),[%__bitspersample%/]$div(%samplerate%,1000))
- Which (at least in SimPlaylist > Groups > Subgroups) would group albums into "MP3", "FLAC 16/44" or "FLAC 24/96", etc. I notice under Default User Interface > Playlist View, there are also grouping schemes, though I've never used them I assume they probably work the same as SimPlaylist (?)