[Malmanian]

Greetings to the XBMC community! I do not use ID3 metadata tags and all my music files are organized by folders in the following structure; (Genre\Artist\Track.mp3), For example "80s \ Depeche Mode \ Pimpf.mp3".

I am not able to use $INFO " MusicPlayer.Artist" and " MusicPlayer.Genre" due to how my music files are organized. Only the %T title name info works (MusicPlayer.Title).

I wonder if it is possible to filter my folder structure and tell XBMC how my files are organized. The closest option that I could find was "musicfilenamefilters" in the advanced settings.xml but that option is only usable when it comes to filenames and not folders if I'm not wrong. I've tried to use "\" backslash or / to mark the folders in XBMC but without any success. ex:

<musicfilenamefilters>
<filter> %G \%A \%T</filter>
</musicfilenamefilters>

I would appreciate any help on this issue. Cheers

[jmarshall]

It probably only applies to filenames, yes. I believe it only applies while playing as well, not while browsing.

[Malmanian]

Greetings jmarshall and thanks for the reply and support. It seems to be impossible to use the music-library mode without ID3 metadata tags. I wonder what other users with similar folder structure and no metadata do to. (Genre/Artist/Album/Track.mp3).

The showings of "Genre" and "Artist" name in the NowPlaying screen is not that important for me but I truly miss a "search" function while in file-mode, (similar to an OS search box), that is the only reason I'm trying to convert to library mode for my music. Again thanks for the support. Cheers

[jmarshall]

Hardly anyone has no metadata with their mp3's.