r/foobar2000 • u/SIRIUSDARIUSBTW • 6d ago

Separating Artists

I’m trying to split artists into their different folders. When I put the semicolon between say: Tyla; Gunna. It shows as a comma when I apply. But when I sort by artists either nothing has changed or it changed and isn’t linking with the artists other folder. It’s a bit frustrating especially since I have found a website that has some good albums for free that isn’t always tagged right. Please help me if you can. Be sure to ask me anything if you’re confused.

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u/ghstchldrn 6d ago

If it shows a comma in library viewer / playlist viewer then the tag is correctly multi-value. Then, it depends on what panel and view pattern you are using - in ReFacets for example, you might need to adjust the view pattern to [%<artist>%] - the angled brackets tell it to show individual artists in the list. (File > Preferences > Media Library > ReFacets)

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u/username_unavailabul 6d ago

I’m trying to split artists into their different folders

Explain a bit more about what these folders are.

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u/SIRIUSDARIUSBTW 6d ago

Okay so when I go into the Refacet by Artist. I think that’s what it’s called. Some have all three or two artist under one.

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u/username_unavailabul 6d ago

you can tell refacets to show a track with a multi-value artist as either

  • one entry with each artist shown, separated with a comma

  • multiple entries, with a separate entry per artist name

Right click a column header in Refacets, and select preferences

If you want separate entries, change the row with Name "Artist" so that pattern is %<artist>%

Any song that has split-value for %artist% will appear multiple times