Well, as I said earlier I’ve been playing around with my Sonos (and in that regard cleaning up my music library). Now, I started setting up my foobar2000 to ignore articles (The, A) when moving/copying file to my music library.
For example, previously the structure would have looked like this:
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albums\T\The Beatles - 1963-03-22 - Please Please Me |
Now, after implementing the file operations adjustments (I’ll post them later), the structure looks like this:
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albums\B\Beatles - 1963-03-22 - Please Please Me |
However the Album View will display the album artist as it’s presented in the MP3’s %album% tag. So, I needed to modify the Album List’s view. For that repeat these steps:
- Goto Preferences (Ctrl+P or File->Preferences)
- Extend the Media Library node
- Switch to Album List
I wanted to adjust the “by artist/album” view (since I only use that). The default code for that is as follows:
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[%album artist% - ]['['%date%']' ]%album%|[[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title% |
As with everything in foobar2000, that is configurable and uses the Title Formatting. After a short peek into the Foobar2000 forum, I found what I was looking for.
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[$if($strcmp($left(%album artist%,4),The ),$right(%album artist%,$sub($len(%album artist%),4))', 'The,%album artist%) - ]['['$cut(%date%,4)']' ]%album%|[[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title% |