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How to separate flac and mp3 albums?

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5ijzsahyhxz9@opayq.com:
I followed your detailed instructions and it worked fine in regards to the target i.e. separating albums by file type. Thanks a lot! (I had not enough knowledge and guidance to follow blgentry' suggestion).

However, the new view grouped albums with the same name and file type together (as a matter of fact, the 2 albums shown in my examples named "3" by Pole and Falco, which are both mp3).

I created then a new user defined field (called AlbumArtistFile) as you indicated, but with the following fields: [Album] [Album Artist (auto)] ([File Type])

This seems to serve its intended purpose as much as I could check so far, and not disrupting the various artists albums either.

I have 2 additional "tweaking questions":


* How would it be possible to use [File Type] to separate albums, but not display the file type (mp3, flac in this case) as in my target example (or just flac for instance)? and/or instead
* Display the album's name in a different color if - for instance - flac?
I may be able to fumble and try few things for 2., but have no idea about 1.

Help would be very appreciated on both points.

wer:
As to your first issue, albums of different artists being grouped together, this depends on your view structure.
Views can have levels, called categories.  If you have a structured view with multiple categories/levels, things are filtered at each level. Compare your Artists view to your Albums view.  The Artists view has a top-level Category of Artist (or perhaps "Album Artist"), and Album comes next. So what you saw wouldn't occur, as Pole and Falco would have already been separated. If you want a "flat" view, you do as you did.

Regarding how you want the text to display, please refer to what I already told you:


--- Quote from: wer on May 20, 2020, 01:03:49 pm ---If you'd like the text to display differently, simply change the Thumbnail Text for your view. This is accessible from the dropdown menu on the tab itself. You can make it display anything you want using the Expression Language.
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Expression_Language

--- End quote ---

So look at that and read the article.  You can change the Thumbnail Text, which is what displays immediately below the album cover thumbnail, to whatever you want, and in colors if you want.

To play around with different colors, I suggest you google "jriver thumbnail text color" and you will see a couple of threads where people are doing exactly that.

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