Organising 100+ autoplaylists

2015-03-28 00:41:17

Hi,

I am trying to organise music in a way so that i can play tracks that have the same combination of tags.

I use Quick tagger for my own personal tags for this, for instance:

Speed: 1-9
Quality: 1-5
Type: house; techno; garage

Let's say i want to play garage tomorrow afternoon, with speed 7 and 4 star rating.

The way i am thinking of doing this, is to use lots of autoplaylists, but for this example only, i would need 9x5x3=135 autoplaylists (and i actually use a lot more tags). That seems a bit ridiculous.. Even less playlists would require some sort of organisation of playlist tabs.

Is there a smart way to do this?
Or am i stuck with a lot of autoplaylists? In that case, how can i organise all the playlisttabs?

The idea is to have everything ready on the fly and not having to make an autoplaylist when i need a specific combination of tags..

Thanks in advance again!

Organising 100+ autoplaylists

Reply #1 – 2015-03-28 01:08:17

Facets + whatever filters you can dream of = done.

Not worth the hassle of a ton of AP's if you can use proper tags and filters nearly instantly to get the same results.

Organising 100+ autoplaylists

Reply #2 – 2015-03-28 01:29:00

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_facets

Organising 100+ autoplaylists

Reply #3 – 2015-04-02 23:56:52

I have this working now, good stuff!

Question,

Is it possible to have a column in Facets with keywords that i can customize like "carl cox" that would display results that have "carl cox" anywhere in the filename or tag?

I can do that with an autoplaylist, but then i would need 50, this is why i started the topic. I know that i can use "artist" in a column, but only results that are in the artist tag will display here. And the tags from music all over the net are a big mess. If i would look for 10 artist and download some music from them, i would have 60 results in the artist tag because it is spelled differently, displaying musical key or something else or missing altogether...

It would be real good if i could get all the finished downloads displayed in a single playlist using the same keyword in foobar as i used in to find the music.

If it is not possible in facets, could it be done with autoplaylists in some more organised way? like in a tree-structure?

Organising 100+ autoplaylists

Reply #4 – 2015-04-06 19:19:59

No, not possible? Must be some way..

Organising 100+ autoplaylists

Reply #5 – 2015-04-06 19:50:01

The solution is to fix your tags in the first place.

Other than that you can use Facet's built-in search field or something like the component foo_quicksearch.

Organising 100+ autoplaylists

Reply #6 – 2015-04-15 00:36:17

Hey, I have been able to fix it!

Using playlist organizer (plorg.dll) and getting rid of all the playlist tabs that where taking up all the space did the trick.
I now have a tree-like structure on the left with 10's of (auto) playlists and only the content of the seleceted playlist in another window.

Maybe this is standard practice, i don't know....

@Daeron; about fixing tags.. I use foobar primarily to search (to select) through huge amounts of new music. That, obviously has not been tagged by me yet. That is why an autoplaylist is so handy, because it will get back all results with any keyword, for instance "john Digweed' no matter if the tags are properly in order or if the keyword is only in the filename or in the comments... The cool thing about autoplaylists is that whenever new music comes in it will automatically be sorted, so that i can browse through all the autplaylistst every now and then.. If there is an easier way to do this, i'd love to hear it, but this already works miracles for me now! I can make 100's and still have it organised.

And facets i use too now, for my own personal tagging system that i am developing. Great stuff!