Foobar2000: how to sort by album artist?

[_ASSASSIN_]

I love foobar, but one thing that continually pisses me off is how it's organized, as I cannot organize by album artist, and albums become split because they have 2 artists in them, can someone help me with this? I have looked everywhere to no avail, help pl0x.

[h264]

http://brother-john.net/tagz/create-colour-scheme.html

you can do ANYTHING with foobar! If you can SCRIPT it that is...

EDIT: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31509

this looks like a good one to start with. I'm still using the defunked Azreal. I'm old...

[Lyons]

Just change the metadata and install columns UI, add an album artist column. Not very hard.

[h264]

Just change the metadata and install columns UI, add an album artist column. Not very hard.

 

Columns UI has some nice "get you started" designs.  I use one of them.  With a lot of silly extras.

[Lyons]

Columns UI has some nice "get you started" designs.  I use one of them.  With a lot of silly extras.

 

Works for me.

[_ASSASSIN_]

Works for me.

you have Pendulum and Prodigy?

nice work my friend

[_ASSASSIN_]

http://brother-john.net/tagz/create-colour-scheme.html

you can do ANYTHING with foobar! If you can SCRIPT it that is...

EDIT: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31509

this looks like a good one to start with. I'm still using the defunked Azreal. I'm old...

yo, how do you install this?

[h264]

yo, how do you install this?

 

You'll need the columnsUI plugin.  You just drop it inside the components folder in your foobar install.  It's available here:

 

http://yuo.be/columns.php

 

Then you can either use one of the default playlist view setups on its setup page or install that custom theme into the folder and modify it from there.

 

You'll probably want quite a few of the foobar components, actually.

[Gorgatron]

Works for me.

What theme is that?

[Lyons]

What theme is that?

 

It's just columns UI.

[Gorgatron]

It's just columns UI.

I see. I'll check this out later when I get home. It doesn't look like this layout has playlist tabs or drop down. I'm presuming you can add one with this layout correct?

[_ASSASSIN_]

thanks for all the help, but in the end, I used something different that solved the problem

this theme right here :D 
http://anonymousgrafix.deviantart.com/art/Zetro-294961023?offset=10#comments

[Lyons]

I see. I'll check this out later when I get home. It doesn't look like this layout has playlist tabs or drop down. I'm presuming you can add one with this layout correct?

 

You can, when you install the theme and open fb2k for the first time it gives you a layout wizard, or you can do it manually.

[Gorgatron]

You can, when you install the theme and open fb2k for the first time it gives you a layout wizard, or you can do it manually.

Yeah. It has been a long time since I have used columns_ui. Why have I stopped using this?

 

edit: Can you import layouts? I'm just going to be lazy here and see if you can share yours.

[d0nGa]

Hey there guys I just started using Foobar as well. Loving it so far! But can someone tell me if there is a way to sort all my top rated songs? Like in itunes they have a tab where all your top rated songs are.

[Gorgatron]

You can, when you install the theme and open fb2k for the first time it gives you a layout wizard, or you can do it manually.

 

Yeah. It has been a long time since I have used columns_ui. Why have I stopped using this?

 

edit: Can you import layouts? I'm just going to be lazy here and see if you can share yours.

 

pls respond

[Lyons]

 

 

pls respond

 

 

haha, pls respond  :P

 

I've attached one with playlists on the left side. Just extract the .zip somewhere and import it in f2k preferences. Make sure you have the columns UI .dll in your components folder.

fb2klayout.zip

[Gorgatron]

haha, pls respond  :P

 

I've attached one with playlists on the left side. Just extract the .zip somewhere and import it in f2k preferences. Make sure you have the columns UI .dll in your components folder.

Thanks m8. I have to reinstall windows because of eventually I get constant freezing :( but I'm going to set this up afterwards. I did download the playlist dropdown so I may play with that. I'm glad you found humor out of that post :)