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Columns UI appearance

Reply #1625 –
Mandatory rant being ranted, that config looks rather neat, especially that pretty waveform seekbar.  The background seems slightly off-colour though, you might want to match it to the near-black above.
Stay sane, exile.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1626 –
Quote from: Zao on
One of the reasons to disallow third party installers is that it's impossible to verify the authenticity and trust anything in an unofficial installer and software installed by such a party. It's especially important as installers often run with elevated rights, making them an excellent vehicle for malware.

The same holds (minus the rights) for downloading compnent bundles like the one above from unknown sources. There's a reason there's a central component repository, and let's not forget that individual components may not allow distribution through any other channels than the component repository.

Another reason why bundles are suboptimal is that configuration files are often included unmodified. I assume that "anon" isn't your real Audioscrobbler moniker...

There has been some decent improvements in redistributability. In particular, configuration files are split per-component, and user-installed components reside in the user-components directory.

In the past it was rather dangerous as the configuration file was monolithic, but it's still a risk as people who zip their directories up rarely think of obliterating any incriminating traces of their personal data.

I'm sure that the user above me is all well-meaning and all, but making users comfortable with downloading software from unknown sources is a slippery slope.

On the brighter side of things, thus far I've gotten one request from a skin asking author whether he was allowed to redistribute my components, which was a very nice touch and warmed my heart to see that someone cares.


I understand the argument, but if Foobar2000 is to be easily usable and popular, it needs a better way to import packages that apply themes and necessary components.

Right now components are scattered everywhere, on third-party websites, this forum, and the official repository.

I like foobar and recommend it, but it seriously deters people because of how hard it is to configure. Foobar needs Linux style repositories that include dependencies and license information. That way I can important a config, and required files are automatically fetched, and licenses can prompt for approval.

Right now, it's such a chore to copy another persons config because you are expected to get each component individually and manually configure. It's also hard to share because of the same reason.

Whatever though; people will just ignore the rules and share the binaries, configs, and components on other websites (with or without permission); unless the problem is fixed.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1627 –
How can I make my playlists to select them in dropdown list? I know regular foobar look has that option, but Columns UI should also.

Quote from: notwa on
Still working on it, but I have all the important stuff done.


What's the component for displaying albums separately, with their artwork to the left ?
Also, how do you use filters, I'm total noob and wanted to set up like you but can't get it to filter anything :S
Can you post your complete setup with manual plz.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1628 –
Been using this layout for a long time, been very happy with it

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1629 –
Quote from: Takaji on
Been using this layout for a long time, been very happy with it


Oh wow, mind providing that playlist config? Is that esplaylist?
The very act of observing, influences what happens.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1630 –
 

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1631 –
Hi, guys. I'm posting a shot of my config.



I've just got a kinda newb question. Can I change the colour and backgrounf of the tabbed panels (Tab stack & Playlist tabs)? It'd be cool to be able, but I can't seem to find a way. I've seen other configs, who use tabs for navigation and the weren't the default ones, but I can't seem to do it. And if it's not possible is there any other way to get tabbed navigation and playlists? WSH panel? Thanks for the help

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1632 –
the tabs are dictated by your windows theme. some people find exotic themes with nicer tabs and colour their foobar to match it. or you can do away with tabs altogether and use a component called panel stack splitter. with this, you can create your own custom buttons and use them to show/hide panels that mimic a "tabs" behaviour. this takes a lot of time and effort as you have to make your own images as well as learn the syntax to do it.

panel stack splitter can be found here: http://foo2k.chottu.net/#pss

edit: i forgot, you don't have to use images for buttons. you can use text instead which should be less effort.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1633 –
Thanks, I was kinda hoping that wasn't the case. Actually, I'm using panel stack splitter for splitting my panels and such. But  for me it would be easier with images, I'm a graphic designer not a coder. Yet that wouldn't work for playlists. Anyway, is there somewhere a comprehensive wiki/tutorial how to set the stack splitter to try and come put with some kind of code. Or I'll have to vulture someone else's...

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1634 –


Hi, can someone please tell me what the name of the thing on the left top (Filter + Artist+Album) is?
Thanks.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1636 –
Quote from: garbanzo.bean on

I'm curious about how the extra line of information under the group titles was done (with Disc 1, Disc 2, genre, country, etc.).

Is this just some standard Columns UI scripting that I've not seen before, or is something else at play here?

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1637 –


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This is my configuration, based on some great skins form deviantart

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1639 –

fooLazi, a hybrid of EIKO(basic stucture), Mnlt2(PSS Tab style), moonlite mod(EL style).
mad messy misanthropist morbid mused

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1640 –
Quote from: SDF1 on
This is awesome minimalistic foobar2k! Would you be willing to post your config files?

Hi, recently picked this project up again. Got few jscript bugs to fix and I'll upload it to deviantart. I ditched library tree in favor of columns ui playlist switcher + filters.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1641 –
Here is mine:


Columns UI with ELPlaylist, Playlist tree mod, Bookmarks and trackinfo panel. Next step will be replacing the volume and progress sliders with something nicer. I just need to find the time.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1643 –
MonoBasic EL
This is a basic Columns UI layout with filters, artwork viewer, playlist switcher, and an ELPlaylist modified from Mr.Griy by ~sthag, which in turn was a modified version of MonoLite Plus, which in turn, etc., etc. I tend to listen to whole albums at a time, so didn't need much in regards to search refinement.



I wasn't overly keen on the WSH Panel stuff (which looks great, but resets itself on each restart of foobar2000), so ditched that and just kept the ELPlaylist part. I modified some of the display scripting to show the codec, as well as VBR profile or CBR bitrate for MP3s under the album title. I also expanded the track/disc total on the right to show it as "XX tracks on XX discs". Just below that are the album's RG info, dynamic range and total playing time.

I used a few custom tags to allow display of certain items:
- %DYNAMICRANGE_ALBUM% to show the album's total dynamic range
- %ALBUM_LENGTH% to display the album's total running time in the Album filter. This is also used across double-disc sets as the sum of their playing time.

I also utilize the %CONTENT GROUP% tag to show a disc's subtitle if it's part of a set, e.g. "Disc %DISCNUMBER%[: %CONTENT GROUP%]" to display "Disc 2: Twilight to Starlight".

I'm not totally happy with it yet, but am fairly new to ELPlaylist scripting, so will tweak it until it suits my needs.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1646 –
My very simple config 

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1647 –


on the client unit

and on the server unit (only 15" display)



with dockable panels for bio info and album info.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1648 –
Quote from: hechacker1 on
Quote from: David Heath on
So this is from the Columns UI Appearance thread, but I'm having trouble and didn't want to clog that up:

Quote from: KGRF on


here's what i'm using. i don't really like having a huge fb2k window with dozens of bloated features, i prefer a clean and simple playlist.

it's modified version of zix skin from deviantart. i dont have any knowledge of cUI skins/components or code, but i poked around the settings and made adjustments. mostly just made the playlist view more minimalistic with smaller lines, text, and album headers.

This is the newest version of this particular interface:
http://gasdaumin.deviantart.com/art/ZiX-V2-0-188850661

When I try and install everything I get lots of errors on start-up and then some elements won't function.
Assuming I'm running a completely fresh, unopened fb2k install, I'll do the following to get this theme to work:

1) Download and open the RAR file containing the files for this theme
2) Copy everything except the components folder into the fb2k directory (Program Files (86x)/foobar2000) overwriting when prompted
3) Open the components folder within the RAR file
4) Go into each of the three subfolders (LastFM, Official and UI) copying all the files into the components directory of fb2k overwriting when prompted (i.e. copying the files into Program Files (86x)/foobar2000/components without the subfolder structure)
5) Opening fb2k will presumably now give me the option for which interface I should use ...

Do I then choose Columns UI and then load the FCL from /zix/Windows 7?

Doing this causes all sorts of errors - is anyone able to help please?


Sigh, my post was deleted for trying to help you guys.

Seriously, foobar needs a way to allow complete configurations to be applied; since its license doesn't allow it to be easily redistributed.

Anyways, here's post 2.

Step 1: Download latest foobar and install to a folder in portable mode.
Step 2: Download this file, and overwrite the existing foobar files with these files:

http://ordorica.org/appz/foobar_zix.7z

That should give you the ZiX configuration with minimal effort. Hopefully it works. I've added a few minor tweaks, and updated the user components to the latest versions. You can undo the tweaks by re-importing the ZiX fcl file using ColumnsUI options.


Thanks for this - it works. However it's the older version of the skin, not the above linked v2.

Here's how to install the V2:

Install foobar2k
Download the v2 rar
Extract the rar to the foobar install directory, overwrite and merge file/folders
Launch foobar, select Columns UI
Go into preferences and edit the following: Setting -- uncheck WSH Safemode
Now load the the fcl skin for the OS/Color you want

This should work with no problems. I just did it on foobar2k v1.1.7.b4.

After this you will need to configure your last.fm settings and enable the database to get your song ratings -- these directions are in the skin's included readme.txt.

Columns UI appearance

Reply #1649 –
Made some improvements to my skin. Grab it here.