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foo_browser

Reply #625 –
File> Preferences> Media Library> Browser

Under "Panels" select the header you want to modify, click [Edit], then change the "Format" line to parse your directory structure for the desired information. [OK], [Save All], [Close], then Shift+RMB on the panel and refresh the source.

foo_browser

Reply #626 –
Quote from: Yotsuya on
File> Preferences> Media Library> Browser

  • Automatically Activate


    Have you tried (un)checking this box?


Thanks very much, solved.  I saw SOOOOO SICK of hearing track 1 of "Adrian belew" every time i opened a file

foo_browser

Reply #627 –
Hi folks,

A while back, someone posted a piece of code that lists artists such as "The Beatles" into "Beatles" (meaning that they are higher up on the list). I was wondering if anyone could point me to the direction of this code? I sued to use it in past installations, but I forgot to note it down when I installed the new beta

foo_browser

Reply #628 –
My browser sort stuff for Artist is this :

Code: [Select]
$if(%album%,'1. ','2. ') $if($meta_test(album artist),2. $replace($meta(album artist),La ,,The ,,Les ,,Le ,),$if(%artist%,2. $replace(%artist%,Les ,,La ,,The ,,Le ,),))

It also works for french articles.  And sorts artists from albums before artists from single songs.

foo_browser

Reply #629 –
Feature requests

1)

In a panel, we can easily select more than one item with ctrl or shift keys.
But, in this way we are getting an "OR" among the selected items: isn't there a way to easily get an "AND" instead? By now I have to set up many panels with the same tag but with lower precedence to get that result. Maybe two radio buttons on top of each panel (if wanted) with "AND" and "OR" and then process the selection with the chosen operator.
(My usage of this is mostly with the performers info: quite often I'd like to select only those tracks where plays together say, Miles Davis + John Coltrane + Bill Evans etc.)

2)

Can we have an option to lock a precedence level for a specific panel? (Maybe beside those radio buttons above...) In this way, we could just load different headers to get different lay-outs and we know which the panels precedences are by their position. I tried with columns UI lay-out change but it's too slow to be useful. By now I would have to set up a list of headers each of them with all the different precedence levels and then load "3 performer" after maybe "2 title" and "0 genre" and "1 rating".
With all my tags the list would be endless (and for a wife it would be easier not to have to pay attention to the numbers)

Thanks.

foo_browser

Reply #630 –
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' date='Sep 14 2006, 23:36' post='431092']
My browser sort stuff for Artist is this :

Code: [Select]
$if(%album%,'1. ','2. ') $if($meta_test(album artist),2. $replace($meta(album artist),La ,,The ,,Les ,,Le ,),$if(%artist%,2. $replace(%artist%,Les ,,La ,,The ,,Le ,),))

It also works for french articles.  And sorts artists from albums before artists from single songs.


That works perfectly, many thanks

foo_browser

Reply #631 –
Whatever I put in the Sort field is ignored. For instance, %date% (or date) in the Album panel causes no order change. The Format field works perfectly.

Component version is 1.2.2c.

I know this was a problem in older versions, but now it seems to be working properly for the majority. I assume there's something wrong with my configuration.

Sorry if the answer is obvious or something, but I did search and found no clarification (only an unanswered question about the same thing). How to make this work?

EDIT

My bad. I now see you have to Shift + RMB click the panel and select the new (or edited) sorting behavior to put it into effect.

foo_browser

Reply #632 –
Would there be a way to include "static panels" as well? Something like in playlist tree.
Really nice if we could have one panel with for example "Sorted by Artist, Album, Genre" or maybe "Albums (which would show artist/album in the other 2 browsers), Single songs (which would show year/artist in the other browsers).
You understand what I mean?

foo_browser

Reply #633 –
Quote from: fade on
Quote from: Yotsuya on

File> Preferences> Media Library> Browser

  • Automatically Activate


    Have you tried (un)checking this box?


Thanks very much, solved.  I saw SOOOOO SICK of hearing track 1 of "Adrian belew" every time i opened a file


LOL

I had that happen as well and I swear the first song of whatever it was, was the most annoying song EVER.

foo_browser

Reply #636 –
OK, thanks

I've started making my things with this impressive plug-in, but I have some troubles then.

I've made 5 browsers, the first one select the album genre, actually "Classical" or "Modern" (as the Classical mp3s have got their own folders), then selection of the date, then selection of the artist, then selection of the format (LP, EP, single, OST, etc.), and then selection of the albums.

But I don't like the way the things appear in my playlist. I want it to appear in the directory alphabetical order. For the moment it appears in the order alphabetical order, but including subfolders.

Then singles and LPs for example aren't not put together if they have the same artists, as a single will be call [Singles]/Artist - Disc, when a normal LP is not into a proper folder but the main one.

I would like also to keep the normal alphabetical order for the browsers.


Another problem, browser makes foobar freeze a little bit when I start it (I've got 1 GiB of RAM), and same thing each time I try to change a value in the browsers.

foo_browser

Reply #637 –
I found that when I select an album in my "Album" Browser panel, that it properly displays the order of the tracks in the default "Browser" playlist.  However, if I right-click the same album and select the "Playlist Tree-->" and choose any of the "Add to", "Send to" or "New" playlist options, it does not properly sort the tracks within an album (it appears to be random as it is different each time fb2k is closed then re-opened).  To double check, I select the same album in a "Album" based Playlist Tree query and it display properly.  It seems that there is something up with the right-click link to PLT in Browser.

EDIT: Nevermind.  It seems that it wasn't refreshing my sort changes.  All is well now.

foo_browser

Reply #638 –
1)
Quote from: kockroach on
I found that when I select an album in my "Album" Browser panel, that it properly displays the order of the tracks in the default "Browser" playlist.  However, if I right-click the same album and select the "Playlist Tree-->" and choose any of the "Add to", "Send to" or "New" playlist options, it does not properly sort the tracks within an album (it appears to be random as it is different each time fb2k is closed then re-opened).  To double check, I select the same album in a "Album" based Playlist Tree query and it display properly.  It seems that there is something up with the right-click link to PLT in Browser.

hmmm, same here
Quote
EDIT: Nevermind.  It seems that it wasn't refreshing my sort changes.  All is well now.

hmmm, different here, all is still a mess
I've been playing around with all kind of settings lately, so maybe also some sort changes I better would not have done. Any hint what might have caused the mess?

EDIT (for other newbies that might read this one day): As a newbie I just now found that sorting and formatting the panels are different things. Filling the sorting option of the individual browser panels just with "*", which I understand just refers to the formatting string, seams to result in difficulties with the 'playlist tree' commands like 'add to'. Putting proper strings in the sorting option now helped getting the desired order when adding files from browser to active playlist.

2) Oh and one more thing: any shortcut to refreshing the browser so that I don't have to use the library-menu-command? Maybe somehow possible to get it into the context-menu?

Thanks
hifish

foo_browser

Reply #639 –
For 2), you can set this in Preferences: General: Keyboard Shortcuts.

foo_browser

Reply #640 –
Is there a way to integrate a search with foo_browser? By this I mean in the same way as iTunes, where searching automatically trims the browsing panels (i.e. you browse the results of a search.)

foo_browser

Reply #641 –
Bug: Using keyboard to navigate the panels which foo_browser shows (i.e. pressing 'e' to jump to the first item starting with 'e', etc..), causes a keyboard shortcut to be performed aswell, whilst using foo_uie_single_column_playlist. I.E., I bind 'X' to play, and if I press 'X' whilst using the foo_browser panels, then it searches the foo_browser panel, generates the playlist, and because of 'X' being binded to play, plays the song. (may not be your problem)

foo_browser

Reply #642 –
spex04, is your 'X' shortcut a Global hotkey?  If so, then it is not a problem with foo_brower.

foo_browser

Reply #643 –
Quote from: kockroach on
spex04, is your 'X' shortcut a Global hotkey?  If so, then it is not a problem with foo_brower.


Nope, I thought that at first, but they are just regular hotkeys.

foo_browser

Reply #644 –
hello,
a little question:
i tried to put in the artist column %artist%+%album artist%.
i tried different combinations like
Code: [Select]
 $if3(%artist%, %album artist%, <MISSING>)

and it gave me %artist%+%album artist% but... if i have an album of bob Dylan and a soundtrack that has song of Bob Dylan - it didn't display the song from the soundtrack - but it did displayed the %album artist% of the soundtrack.

whats the right code for it?
thanks...
 

foo_browser

Reply #645 –
Request: Browser with trackinfo_mod code. (I requested it there, too, but maybe here is a better place)

foo_browser

Reply #646 –
Quote from: Birk on
Request: Browser with trackinfo_mod code. (I requested it there, too, but maybe here is a better place)


I am against that! Why? Although i would use it!

The browser is a media library viewer and i would be happy if its origin functionality would be improved everytime Chris puts time and work in it. Not every component must represent the new foobar style. But sure: it is up to Chris to decide in which direction he likes to develope his two ml viewers.

foo_browser

Reply #647 –
I thought of two versions of the browser component (one normal like it is now and one with the ability of showing pictures and different font sizes). And not only chris can programm components, maybe someone else could programm "foo_browser_mod".
I don't use the "new foobar style" because it's nearly useless for me, but foo_browser_mod would be very usefull for me. For example I could display artists which I like more bigger than others, and selecting albums by clicking on their cover would be very nice.

foo_browser

Reply #648 –
I'd like to see the ability to alternate the background for a couple of rows rather than just having one plain background.

Also the ability to align the list using the padding method.

And finally, somehow get the fonts to look smoother, because currently i'm using the same font in my browser as my playlist and yet they look completely different because the browser font is quite jaggy.

foo_browser

Reply #649 –
Hey Cbowron. I was wondering if you had it in the works to emply drag and drop from the Browser into the playlist.

Playlist Tree already has this functionality, however, even in the .9 version the songs actual are just added to the playlist, rather than going where 'dragged.'

Just being nitpicky, of course. Keep up the good work, your components are the best