Foobar2000 on BAFM

foobar2000 File Operations Setup

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 07:19:29 +0000

As I said in the previous posts, I’ve reorganized my music library. That included creating sub directories based on the first letter of the artists name (say for example AC/DC would be sorted into the folder A, Iron Maiden would be sorted into I).

So here’s the file name pattern, that I’ve used to accomplish this:

`1`	`$left(%album artist%,1)\%album artist% - [%date% - ]%album%\$num(%discnumber%,1)%tracknumber%. %title%`

Adjust album list display in foobar2000

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:48:23 +0000

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:

`1`	`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:

Display MusicBrainz info in foobar2000

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:08:15 +0000

I’ve been cleaning up my music library the past few days (well, I bought a Sonos 😀), so here’s how you display for example the tagging field MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM TYPE in foobar2000’s default metadata view.

Goto preferences (Ctrl+P or File->Preferences)
Navigate to Advanced
Extend the Display node, extend Properties Dialoge node
There you’ll find the option for Standard fields
Change it to the following:

Artist Name=ARTIST;Track Title=TITLE;Album Title=ALBUM;Date=DATE;Genre=GENRE;Composer=COMPOSER;Performer=PERFORMER;Album Artist=ALBUM ARTIST;Track Number=TRACKNUMBER;Total Tracks=TOTALTRACKS;Disc Number=DISCNUMBER;Total Discs=TOTALDISCS;Comment=COMMENT;Album Type=MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM TYPE

After changing the Standard fields option, the metadata view will look like this: