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Group artists with one song under "various artists"

In the Artist / Album view, reagroup artists with one song in a single group called "Various artists".

Example 1:

+ Various artists (5)

Example 2 (expanded list):

- Various artists (5)
[blockquote]Byetone - Plastic Star
Richard Chartier - Levels
Steve Roden - Crop Circles
Michael Jackson - P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)
GLaDOS - Still Alive[/blockquote]

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #1 –
change %artist% to %album artist%, and tag your compilations appropriately
elevatorladylevitateme

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #2 –
Quote from: shakey_snake on
change %artist% to %album artist%, and tag your compilations appropriately


Maybe I didn't make my point clear.

I'm not talking about Various Artists compilations, I'm talking about single music files which are not part of any album and there is no other song with the same artist. Grouping all this songs in one category.

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #3 –
Will this work ok?

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Various Artists|$if($not(%album%),%artist% - %title%)


A more complex variation, with regular albums.
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$if(%album%,Albums|%album%|[%artist% - ]%title%,|Various Artists|[%artist% - ]%title%)
Windows 10 Pro x64 // foobar2000 1.3.10

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #4 –
I also have a bunch of tracks like that, I have them all tagged with the album artist 'Various', (I tag compilations with "Compilations" rather than "Various Artists") and keep them together that way. You could try something like this:
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%album artist%|$if($strcmp(%album artist%,Various),%artist% - %title%,%album%)

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #5 –
Quote from: runonce on
Quote from: shakey_snake on
change %artist% to %album artist%, and tag your compilations appropriately


Maybe I didn't make my point clear.

I'm not talking about Various Artists compilations, I'm talking about single music files which are not part of any album and there is no other song with the same artist. Grouping all this songs in one category.
You'll have to do this with metadata and titleformatting somehow.

Because it's very capable of doing it this way, it's not going to be hacked to do so at the development level.
elevatorladylevitateme

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #6 –
Thanks for all the support. I'll be trying your tips as soon as I can and then post my results.

Thanks again!

See ya.

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #7 –
There's a better way to do this, without tagging your files with wrong tags. It's all about using directory structure on your computer, so you need to spend a little while sorting your collection.

Here's the way I have mine set up:

1. Create ------> C:/Music/

2. Create separate folders in here according to genre ----->  C:/Music/Rap, C:/Music/Rock, etc.

3. Create separate folders in here for each artist. ------->  C:/Music/Rap/2Pac, C:/Music/Rap/Notorious BIG etc.
Place your music files into the respective artist folders.

4. For artists of whom you just have 1 or 2 songs, create ------>  C:/Music/Rap/Various Artists  <------- and place those files in here.

Now, go to foobar:

- group your files using, %directoryname%
- and sort your files using, %directoryname% - %artist% - %title%

It takes a bit of time, but you don't have to do it all in 1 sitting and it's totally worth it if you have a lot of songs which can't be grouped by albums. Let me know if it helped.

Group artists with one song under "various artists"

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Nevezen on
It takes a bit of time, but you don't have to do it all in 1 sitting and it's totally worth it if you have a lot of songs which can't be grouped by albums. Let me know if it helped.


Actually, grouping non-album songs in one folder it is a good idea if I were using directories instead of tags. Thanks for the tips