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Topic: Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track? (Read 3151 times) previous topic - next topic
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Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track?

I often use Foobar2000:Properties/Automatically Fill Values and want to make a Keyboard-Shortcut for this way:

Context Menu --> Properties --> Tools --> Automatically fill values...

As Source I use only „Clipboard: line per track“. I have to constantly change this, because the Programm Foobar2000 offers first „File names“...

As Pattern I use only %artist%;%album artist%;%album%;%date%;%title%;%track number%;%genre%. I have to constantly klick this, because the Field Pattern is empty.

Can I get this without Choosing and changing anything? There is only this 1 Plattern!

Is there a posibility to have this fixed Configuration on a Shortcut like Strg+Y?

Thanks for helping
AldiMp3

Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track?

Reply #1 –
For tasks like this, there is the (free, open-source) program AutoHotkey. A script for your task could look like this:

Code: [Select]
^Y::
send !{Enter}; Properties dialog
sleep, 50
send !T; Tools menu
sleep, 50
send f; Fill values
sleep, 50
send {down}; Clipboard
sleep, 50
send +{TAB 3}  {space}; Paste button
send {TAB 5}; select pattern field
send `%album artist`% - `%tracknumber`% - `%title`%
;send !O; press OK. Uncomment this line only if the script works as expected
return


Have a look in the documentation, especially for the send function. The last line is in comment, so that it won't close the dialog. (Semicolon begins a comment.)

Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track?

Reply #2 –
great idea it works with this script:

^Y::
send !{Enter}
sleep, 50
send !Tf               
sleep, 50
send c{TAB 2}
send `%artist`%_`%album artist`%_`%album`%_`%date`%_`%title`%_`%track number`%_`%genre`%
send !O
sleep, 50
send !O
return

thank you very much
AldiMp3

Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track?

Reply #3 –
my next steps are:

STRG+M
Context Menu --> Tagging ---> Attach pictures --> Front cover

with Strg+M I make for tagged files a new folder + file name structures and the needed front cover is always the first picture in the cover-folder (sorted by last modification)

Is it possible to enlarged the script with Foobar-Shortcuts and another context-Menu, so that all works with Strg+Y?

For a Newbee it isn't easy to make this alone

Thanks for helping
AldiMp3

Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track?

Reply #4 –
Just let your script "send ^M" before the return. (Maybe add another sleep 50 to wait for the Properties Dialog to properly close.)

Shortcut for menu/Automatically Fill Values/Clipboard: line per track?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: ojdo on
For tasks like this, there is the (free, open-source) program AutoHotkey.

Wow thanks very much ojdo, like AldiMp3, I was looking in the foobar2000 shortcut preferences with no luck. I’m also an AHK great fan and user but I did not think of it for this problem ! Maybe because I’m used to a very configurable foobar2000, I’m not used to need external soft for it.

Here I share my AHK setup (I don’t use clipboard, I use Other…), it’s a special formatting I like that may not suit you but you can change it with foobar2000 syntax.
It does these things to ARTIST, TITLE and ALBUM (and ALBUM ARTIST*) :
  • → UPPERCASE
  • ' → ’
  • ... → …

Code: [Select]
; ######################################
; FOOBAR2000 : AUTOMATICALLY FILL VALUES
; ######################################
#ifwinactive ahk_exe foobar2000.exe
^y::
sendinput !{enter}; warning, must select some files first
winwait, Properties
ifwinnotactive, Properties, winactivate, Properties
winwaitactive, Properties
sendinput !tf
winwait, Automatically Fill Values
ifwinnotactive, Automatically Fill Values, , winactivate, Automatically Fill Values
winwaitactive, Automatically Fill Values
sendinput o{tab}
sendinput % "$replace($replace($upper(%artist% :: %album% :: %title% [:: $meta(album artist)]),'',’),...,…)"
sendinput {tab 2}
sendinput % "%artist% :: %album% :: %title% :: %album artist% "
sendinput !o
return

(*) Incidentally adds album artist even on non various-artists albums (VAA) :/ (quite dumb but I didn’t want to have both a VAA pattern shortcut and a non-VAA pattern shortcut, so I delete the album artist tag manually after shortcut, maybe there is better way I didn’t find yet).
edit : fixed using $meta(album artist) instead of %album artist% (very frequent fix).

What I added compared with your great help is :
  • Only triggers in foobar2000 (but same known problem : I don’t check if there is selected lines in fb2k first as it would require difficult code with ControlGet that I have no clue about)
  • Waits for specific windows instead of relying on sleep timers
  • Using sendinput is both faster and safer than send

So if someone can help me with my ALBUM ARTIST problem and test if selected problem, you’re very welcome.