Artist and all tracks list

[scobob]

I want to have 2 columns; artist in 1st and ALL tracks from that artist in column 2. Personally when I'm listening to music and trying to setup a playlist, I could care less about the album it came from or the track number. I want to be able to have a list of all artists, when I click on that artist I want to have a seperate column list of all songs in my library from that artist.
I know this should be simple but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do this. I am looking at xMusic plugin but still haven't figured it out yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[scottw]

I wanted the same thing. What I had to was to arrange my music on the hard drive the way I wanted it in XL: c:\music\artist\track.mp3 (with no album folders) and then import into XL with the "Import Type" of ID3 and the "ID3 Options" of Album.

Hope that helps.

[scobob]

I don't know why you would need to arrange your songs in any particular physical order on your hard drive in order to get a particular filter and sort order from an XML file. To me it makes absolutely no sense, for one, that the data needs to be in an xml file in the first place when the files are tagged with the necessary data and, two, that the XML file is structured in any fashion that resembles a presumed directory structure. I guess it would make sense for consistency in interfacing the presentation of all the different data structures.

I may be the exception but I don't rip entire CDs to my drive. There are very few CD that I want ALL songs from.

I may be wrong, it's happened before. I guess I am having a really hard time wrapping my head around the thought process involved.

[Colby]

I may be the exception but I don't rip entire CDs to my drive. There are very few CD that I want ALL songs from.

Yeah youre the exception. J/K. do you still arrange by album name or how?

I want to be able to have a list of all artists, when I click on that artist I want to have a seperate column list of all songs in my library from that artist.

Where do you get that "library" termonology? Thats not how Xlobby works. If you really dont care about albums or tracknumber, then why not have your music in directories of artist as Scott said? I assume you have your music organized in incomplete albums, which makes no since to me at all.

I think the problem is how you import. Your track info is called the details of a category entry. So if your category is Artist, its details would be albums. If your category is albums (beautiful coverart) then the details are tracks. I dont know how you would list all the tracks of 1 artist from different albums in a normal category view, unless you do a filter or custom search based on artist.

Good Luck.,

[scobob]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Where do you get that "library" termonology? Thats not how Xlobby works.

Exactly what I am trying to figure out. Unfortunately, I don't have the history with the app that you do and therefore I don't have the knowledge of all the aspects of the development and the thought process involved.

If you really dont care about albums or tracknumber, then why not have your music in directories of artist as Scott said? I assume you have your music organized in incomplete albums, which makes no since to me at all.

I guess that's kind of my point, why do I need order the files in any physical fashion? I have over 5000 songs and don't have the time or ambition to organize them in any physical structure. What if later on I decide I want to organize them by Genre or Year? If you are going to go to the trouble of creating an xml data structure from tagged data in the MP3 files, I assumed the system would perform the organization function since all the necessary data is there. I'm not saying that this is necessarily wrong taking all other aspects of xLobby into consideration. I am just trying to understand so I can apply it to my skin.

I think the problem is how you import. Your track info is called the details of a category entry. So if your category is Artist, its details would be albums. If your category is albums (beautiful coverart) then the details are tracks. I dont know how you would list all the tracks of 1 artist from different albums in a normal category view, unless you do a filter or custom search based on artist.

I import as Artist>Album with Ignore Folders checked. Maybe what I am looking for is an Artist>Track import option.