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alex404

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Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 51

Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

I've been looking for this ever since I completely left windows behind, and six months later, it's killing me that I haven't found the right music player.

Obviously, I used to use foobar2000. The greatest thing about it for was the 'facets' extension which added customizable filter panels. The MOST GREATEST THING about it was that you could combine directory and tag sorting, which means I could sort my REDICULOUSLY HUGE music library by Folder/Folder/Album, which corresponded to Genre/Artist/Album. For various finicky little reasons, sorting it by folder was much more effective than by tags.

Does anyone know any media player which allows this?

MW

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 127

Re: Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

I have not tried it yet, but have you looked at fooaudio-git?
yaourt -S fooaudio-git

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

Guayadeque labels might suffice. I'm using the svn version since switching from amarok, though I don't have a big enough collection to need labels

Last edited by vacant (2010-02-26 11:42:36)

cngn

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Registered: 2010-03-20

Posts: 65

Re: Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

Obviously, I used to use foobar2000. The greatest thing about it for was the 'facets' extension which added customizable filter panels. The MOST GREATEST THING about it was that you could combine directory and tag sorting, which means I could sort my REDICULOUSLY HUGE music library by Folder/Folder/Album, which corresponded to Genre/Artist/Album. For various finicky little reasons, sorting it by folder was much more effective than by tags.

Does anyone know any media player which allows this?

Hi, I was a foobar2000 user too. It was driving me crazy that I couldn't find a good replacement, but i've found one. It's quodlibet. Unfortunately right now it's not possible to do Folder/Folder/Album in the panels, but QL has a 'filesystem view' for this. Other than that it can do the good stuff:
- freeform tagging
- freeform filtering

It means that you can set whatever tag you want to and then put it in the panels, song list or search bar. It has conditional tags too. For me it was Genre/Style/<albumartist|<albumartist>|<artist>>/Album, but I do not use the panels anymore. I do not have to see my library everytime I play some music. These days I'm using the Album List with the search bar and doing stuff like &(style=goa,#(playcount<1),#(discogs_votes>=50),#(year <= 1998)) makes my day. Replaygain with auto-select between 'track' and 'album' based on current view and play order is a neat feature too. ;-)

cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 199

Re: Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

foobar2000 works in Wine, usually. See http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … n&iId=1749 .

ozzolo

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From: italy

Registered: 2010-02-03

Posts: 19

Re: Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

gMusicBrowser.

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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 671

Re: Looking for a music player with a very specific feature

mpd handles both  tag- and folder based collections. Combine it with a   front-end  like Sonata.