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Support => Questions => Topic started by: Acry on September 14, 2016, 10:19:44 AM

Title: How to sort Musicbee library like Foobar's default folder structure setup?
Post by: Acry on September 14, 2016, 10:19:44 AM
I have my music collection sorted like this
Main Folder -> 2x Folders that separate japanese music and english music -> Artist -> Album -> Songs
This is all manually setup and perfect. The tags/etc on them are all completely wrong and that would take way too much time fixing, so my folder structure is perfect and I want it to ignore every other element.

Example from Foobar that is out of the box with no customization at all.

(https://puu.sh/raOdG/7e8b1ae6e8.jpg)

So, I would like to expand those folders in this panel on Musicbee like that. I already have a virtual tag that brings it down to folder
$Split(<Path>,\,3)

as shown here: (https://puu.sh/raOj0/83c96eb4e6.jpg)

and keep it exactly how Foobar shows due to my organization in folder structures. I don't want anything from the tags or any defining element to the songs EXCEPT folder structure
Title: Re: How to sort Musicbee library like Foobar's default folder structure setup?
Post by: Aevaris on September 17, 2016, 11:16:28 PM
Why not use MB or MP3tag to add a genre (or some other virtual tag) to them to split them with? Then you could have a playlist that splits them based on "contains genre X" very easily. Adding a genre would take a few minutes and then done.
Title: Re: How to sort Musicbee library like Foobar's default folder structure setup?
Post by: theta_wave on September 18, 2016, 04:32:55 AM
Why not use MB or MP3tag to add a genre (or some other virtual tag) to them to split them with? Then you could have a playlist that splits them based on "contains genre X" very easily. Adding a genre would take a few minutes and then done.
Agreed.  

To the OP, there's a computer node down the left panel where you can access your folder structure directly.  Also, you will miss out on quite a few powerful features of MB (and FB2K) that are dependent on having your music tagged correctly.
Title: Re: How to sort Musicbee library like Foobar's default folder structure setup?
Post by: Acry on September 19, 2016, 03:48:23 AM
Why not use MB or MP3tag to add a genre (or some other virtual tag) to them to split them with? Then you could have a playlist that splits them based on "contains genre X" very easily. Adding a genre would take a few minutes and then done.
The issue with tagging is it doesn't fit what I want exactly. I tend to play music based on English and Jap on randomize. This is why they are split like that in the picture. There is however problems with non-native language taggings on a bunch of japanese music.

(https://puu.sh/rgadi/15949a6509.jpg)

Simply adding a tag in order to get some sort of sorting would not get the arrangement I am wanting unless I individually fixed every tag and put correct bands and albums (some of which I don't even know the name of!)

@Ssri I'm okay with that. I run Foobar2000 out of the box with folder structure and I haven't found myself wanting more than that. MusicBee has the perks of having a lot of extra cool stuff for the stuff that is fine with the tags they have. I found how to access that (but couldn't find the icon that was talked about?) it doesn't do exactly what I'm wanting though - it works however.
Title: Re: How to sort Musicbee library like Foobar's default folder structure setup?
Post by: theta_wave on September 19, 2016, 07:47:23 AM
Computer node:

(http://9.t.imgbox.com/bXUIr5qf.jpg) (http://imgbox.com/bXUIr5qf)

I never used FB2K's folder implementation, but for MB you'd probably like to include files from subfolders:

(http://5.t.imgbox.com/PopStUY0.jpg) (http://imgbox.com/PopStUY0)