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NG Playlist

I am using foobar 0.9.5.4 and columns 0.3 preview 11e

This is how my NG Playlist looks:



But I would like tracks on the same album appear under one album cover and to have "Various Artists" above the cover, with artists listed by each song, as in this example:



I have tried looking for how to set up NG playlist, but the only thing I seem to be able to do is turn the album art on or off, and set the fonts. I can't even seem to locate where/how to set background line colors and alternative rows etc...

How can I achieve what I am after in the second image?

NG Playlist

Reply #1 –
Use %album artist% to group instead of %artist%

NG Playlist

Reply #2 –
Thanks! Fast reply too...

I was about to ask HOW? But "grouping" was the key word and I found what I was looking for. I have used this:

[%album% / ]$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)

and it seems to be exactly what I want.

THANKS!

NG Playlist

Reply #3 –
You do not need to do $if2(%album artist%,%artist%).

%album artist% displays the contents of album artist tag if present, otherwise it displays the contents of the artist tag.

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Reply #4 –
Quote from: kanak on
You do not need to do $if2(%album artist%,%artist%).

%album artist% displays the contents of album artist tag if present, otherwise it displays the contents of the artist tag.

I just ran a couple of tests, and so it does. But without the album tag as well, it groups ALL various artists together, regardless of album... So, another quick edit and it is now simply:

%album% - %album artist%

Thanks again for the info

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Reply #5 –
Now I would like to know how to make it so that you can have the artist of the song behind of before the song name that is on the playlist when it is a compilation.

With what was mentioned above it makes everything group, but it removes the artist names which I would like to see also on the track line.
Any help is welcome.

NG Playlist

Reply #6 –
Quote from: masterrossi on
Now I would like to know how to make it so that you can have the artist of the song behind of before the song name that is on the playlist when it is a compilation.

With what was mentioned above it makes everything group, but it removes the artist names which I would like to see also on the track line.
Any help is welcome.


If your %album artist% field differs from %artist%, then the field %track artist% becomes available to you.

Add it to the end of the title formatting of your column that represents Track with:

[%track artist%]

should take care of it.

terry
 

NG Playlist

Reply #8 –
Possible to display in the album group the lenght of it?

I have this in my playlist:

Artist....................................................................
  Year.....................................................................
    Album.................................................................. 

I will like to see the lenght of the album in somewhere in the same line as the album name. Is this possible? Or should I calculate each album lenght and insert into the tag of the album?

NG Playlist

Reply #9 –
using NGplaylist, tagging the files with the album length is your only option.

ELplaylist can display the length by calculating it automatically but there's quite a steep learning curve involved in learning how to use it. %el_sum_length% is all you need to show it. but actually re-creating your existing playlist would be the hard part.

NG Playlist

Reply #10 –
Hey, sorry to revive this thread but I have a similar question. I managed to have my O.S.T. sorted by tagging "album artist" as "O.S.T." and leaving each artist field for the respective artists. Despite having everything under O.S.T., the album tracklist is not sorted by track number, but by artist name. Here are my groups scripts:

[%album artist%]
'('$year(%date%)')' %album% $rgb['['CD %discnumber%']']