Filtering in foobar2000 (show .flac if available else other format)

foobar2000music-management

I would like to know if it is possible to filter albums with conditions in foobar2000. Here's an example. For this artist I have an album twice, one is in flac and the other one is in mp3, I like to have mp3 as they take less space when on the go on my phone and with my mediocre headphones. But at home I prefer listening to flac. What I would like to achieve is tell foobar to only show the flac/wav(lossless) version of this album if it is available, otherwise show the other version (any format). Is such a thing possible in foobar2000?

Example below

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For what it's worth, I have a near-identical requirement: flac for listening on my desktop, ogg files sync'd to my phone.

When I ripped all the CDs in the first place I placed the flac files in subfolders <albumname>/flac. Then in foobar2000 I just prepend 'flac' to any search query.

It's not ideal, but having read the docs I don't think there's a way to specify the 'prefer flac and remove duplicates' behaviour.

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Surprisingly, its about as easy to do in Windows Media Player as it is in iTunes. Here is a link to an article for vista, and while some of the menu options differ, the steps are all the same:

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=688534&seqNum=4

In the instructions where it says "the arrow below the library tab", just click the "Organize" button. The rest follows pretty closely.

Here is a digest:

click "Organize", then "Options"
On the library tab be sure to check "Rename music files using rip music settings" and "Rearrange music in rip music folder, using rip music settings". These settings will allow windows media player to organize the music in the folder you select on the "Rip Music" tab, so make sure this is the parent folder of all your music.
Click "Apply" and "OK"
click "Organize", then click "Apply media information changes".

Your library will be updated and all songs that you had added to the library that we not located in your music folder (the one specified in the "Rip Music" tab) will be moved, renamed, etc.

Stop foobar2000 from grouping together MP3 and FLAC files on the album list

You could simply add %codec% to your view pattern.

For example:
In Preferences: Media Library > Album List, create a new view called "by artist/codec" and use the following pattern:

%<artist>%|%album%|%codec%|[[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title%

(The pipe | characters make it a separate level in the tree hierarchy.)

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Stop foobar2000 from grouping together MP3 and FLAC files on the album list

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