Can I get Album List to ignore the prefixed "The" when sorting by folder structure?

Edit: Looks like %path_sort% ignores the prefix entirely

This is not what I'm seeing - %path_sort% still displays all artists beginning with "The" under the letter T.

Are you still using Album List or did you install Library Tree (w/ Spider Monkey Panel)?

How would I go about recreating the folder structure view?

This is difficult to answer without knowing your folder structure. I mean, if ALL your artist folders are displaying correctly on level 2 (not mixed up with album folders?), then it could be as easy as this -

$directory(%path%,2)|$directory(%path%,1)|%filename_ext%

Then you would add $stripprefix() to remove "The" prefix from beginning of artist folders -

$stripprefix($directory(%path%,2))|$directory(%path%,1)|%filename_ext%

^ Try that in Album List. If you had a folder "The Beatles" it would be listed under "Beatles". (Or with $swapprefix it would be "Beatles, The")

Then moving on to Library Tree, you would add $nodisplay to the above, followed by the original folder you want displayed -

$nodisplay{$stripprefix($directory(%path%,2))}$directory(%path%,2)|$directory(%path%,1)|%filename_ext%

^ Now a folder called "The Beatles" would be listed under "The Beatles" with other artists under the letter B.

BUT this only works if ALL tracks are 2 folder levels deep. Therefore you might need to swap out the $directory(%path%,2) part to get the correct folder, with the examples listed in the already linked topic above. (I cannot really explain how it works any better than I already did there)

So if the above is mixing up folders, try the $directory examples posted by Freeky in that topic, in Library Tree -

$nodisplay{$stripprefix($directory(%path%,$sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,,|,,/,)),2)))}$directory(%path%,$sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,,|,,/,)),2))[|$directory(%path%,$sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,,|,,/,)),3))][|$directory(%path%,$sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,,|,,/,)),4))]|%filename_ext%

^ This should show up to 3 folder levels, with the first one ignoring the prefix. BUT this only works if ALL monitored folders are the same folder level. (In Preferences > Media Library)

(Edit: Fixed codes that reddit screwed up)

By the way, the usual quick way of replicating folder structure view in Album List is this -

$replace($directory_path($substr(%path%,10,999)),\,|)|%filename_ext%

This example begins at 10 characters in from the %path% -

D:\Music\Artist\Album\Track.MP3
         |
        10th character

So if your folder structure looks like that - artist folder on the second level, you could use that with the previously mentioned Library Tree code -

$nodisplay{$stripprefix($directory(%path%,$sub($len(%path%),$len($replace(%path%,\,,|,,/,)),2)))}$replace($directory_path($substr(%path%,10,999)),\,|)|%filename_ext%

(A little cleaner / faster than the last example I posted)

Oh, cool, I hadn't realized they Foobar switched that good! I totally understand not wanting to switch, it was initially a bit of a pain to get everything carried over.