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Foobar2000 and Total Commander

When opening Foobar2000 from Total Commander by dragging a directory to the Foobar2000 button in my Total Commander button bar, Foobar2000 has problems sorting the incoming files ('sort incoming files' enabled). The problem is that Total Commander uses the short (DOS) filenames to parse them in the commandline.

Is there a way to avoid/correct this problem?

Foobar2000 and Total Commander

Reply #1 –
I use total commander as well..  I don't drag n drop directorys though, I just right click and either 'add to playlist' or 'queue in playlist'.  fb2k then orders the files perfectly.

Foobar2000 and Total Commander

Reply #2 –
I got it to work with a tool called lst2str.exe, but it seems Foobar has an important limitation: the length of the commandline. When adding - for example - 12 files to the commandline which should be loaded into the playlist, only 2 are added. When using DOS names (no long file names) 5 files are added. This means there a limit to the characters in the commandline of Foobar.

Peter, can you look into this limitation and eliminate it??

Foobar2000 and Total Commander

Reply #3 –
I suggest that you use "Enqueue in foobar/Play in foobar" context menu options.

As for the maximum length of the command line, this is a limitation of windows, not foobar, IIRC.

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Reply #4 –
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I suggest that you use "Enqueue in foobar/Play in foobar" context menu options.

As for the maximum length of the command line, this is a limitation of windows, not foobar, IIRC.

On the Total Commander forum, I read this is a limitation of certain programmes - for example - Winamp (and apparently fb2k), but not all programmes have this

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Limitation was/is within the tool I used to parse the files into fb2k (tool called lst2str). Sorry for bothering you with this one...