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General Discussions / Re: I can't get "Album Sort as" to work, any suggestions ?

« on: March 23, 2021, 02:22:22 PM »

Excellent, that did the trick  , I have a virtual rule running with the sorting, had previously the sorting on Album Artist/Year/Album, changed it to Album and the sorting is just like I wanted it  and all other tabs still maintained the view I wanted.
Thank you so much for your help, really appreciate it.... happy to learn something new !
Have a wonderful day

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General Discussions / Re: I can't get "Album Sort as" to work, any suggestions ?

« on: March 23, 2021, 01:33:58 PM »

I am using the Album view, just checked the Track view, in the Track view sorting by "Album" view it actually does sort correctly.... any idea why it doesn't do that in Album view ? Thank you for your help

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General Discussions / Re: I can't get "Album Sort as" to work, any suggestions ?

« on: March 23, 2021, 11:09:26 AM »

@hiccup: Hi, thank you for your feedback, to clarify: I do not expect the Sort Album name to display under the Album, I expect the Sort Album title to position the Album, which is exactly not happening.

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General Discussions / I can't get "Album Sort as" to work, any suggestions ?

« on: March 23, 2021, 05:01:17 AM »

The more I get into MusicBee, the more I understand it and I think it's really a great program.
I still have a little problem though as following:

I want to sort some "Various Artists" Albums with an alternative Album name but I can't get it to work.

What I did so far:
1. Went to the Album -> Edit ->  Sorting -> Album sort as (entered the alternative name)
2. Went to Preferences -> Sorting/Grouping -> Ticked the box "enable custom sort values"
3. Checked in Album Name sorting List if the "sort as" values are there and correct, they are

But the album still doesn't sort by the "sort as" name.
I'm running 3.3.7491 P, the latest full version (standalone)

Am I missing something ?
Thank you for your patience and support

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Plugins / Re: KaraokeShow - a desktop lyrics

« on: March 20, 2021, 05:28:37 PM »

I have exactly the same problem:
It shows in the view tab, but it wont allow me to click on it, and a gray box comes up for about 2 seconds and disappears. Would be great to get a suggestion on how to make it work, love the concept

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Questions / Re: Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 17, 2021, 07:50:17 AM »

@frankz: thank you for your to more cents  I am still not sure, probably I need to get a grip on the filter functions first, once I am convinced I can manage it in the right way it does sound like the way to go 

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Questions / Re: Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 17, 2021, 05:55:40 AM »

@The Incredible Boom Boom:
Thank you for your feedback & experience. I will need to think about what's the best way of organising, separate libraries for different major styles of music (e.g. classics/ modern) or filtering a master library.

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Questions / Re: Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 16, 2021, 06:50:03 PM »

@The Incredible Boom Boom: Great, thank you very much. My understanding is that I cannot have separate "libraries" for each tab, but my customs tab can show a filtered version of my master library, is that pretty much correct ?

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Questions / Re: Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 16, 2021, 04:39:38 PM »

  yeah, I wasn't sure on the Example code for VirtualTag2, it looked like I had to enter ALL other artists that don't apply to VirtualTag1, which probably wasn't right

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Questions / Re: Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 16, 2021, 03:34:10 PM »

@ma_t14: I tried your solution, It works only for one line, that's what I did:

I added 2 Virtual Tags:
Soundtrack:         $If($Or(<Album Artist>="Soundtrack A",<Album Artist>="Soundtrack B"),<Album>,<Year>)
Various Artists:   $If($Or(<Album Artist>="Various Artists A",<Album Artist>="Various Artists B"),<Album>,<Year>)

Then I added under sorting/grouping the following:
Sorting Set sort by
1 Soundtrack
2 Various Artists

Whichever Value I have as the first one will display correctly, the second one not. Also the "ignore the"- rule is no longer followed, though i ticked the box.
Anything I'm doing wrong here ?


@The Incredible Boom Boom:
I don't understand what you mean by separate tab panels, is there a way to have more than one "main panel" in one library ? like various "libraries" tabbed in one session of MusicBee ? Is there some documentation you can guide me to for this approach ?

Thank you both for your help

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Questions / Re: Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 16, 2021, 11:11:53 AM »

Thank you so much    I will try and let you know if it worked

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Questions / Multiple Sort Criteria

« on: March 16, 2021, 09:16:42 AM »

Hi, first of all a big thank you for MusicBee  I really find it wonderful to organise all my music.
I am a newbee and I am trying to achieve the following:
Typically I am sorting my library with the standard "Album Artist/Year/Album" feature, which is perfect.
I do have a few "Album Artists" (Soundtrack, Various Artists, Various Artists Pop, Various Artists Rock, Various Artists Romantic) that I would like to sort differently by  "Album Artist/Album/Year".
Through Virtual Tags I can only change the sorting for one of the "Various Artists" categories.
Is there a good way to permanently change the view so that All Individual Artists are sorted by "Album Artist/Year/Album" and defined "Various Artists" are sorted by "Album Artist/Album/Year" ?
I played around a lot, but unfortunately couldn't get it done.
Thank you for your help and support