[seemingly abandonware] Columns UI, alternative user interface Options

[alexinc]

seems to work fine in ng-mode! made me switching right now... guess its just a matter of time, when you will include it in columns? thx!!!

still searching for a way to use tab stacks on pre-defined folders. any ideas or workarounds?
my file-structure looks like

x:\music\singles\artist\xyz.mp3
x:\music\albums\artist\album\xyz.mp3

and i would love to have 3 tabs linked to singles, albums and both... filters doesnt seem to do the job!?

[bwat47]

I love the win7 thumbnail integration in the newest version.

[musicmusic]

Wow, thanks for the update and the possibility to set up artist pictures for artwork view
Unfortunately i can't access it with right-click on the panel...

Oops sorry.. Try 0.3.7.1

guess its just a matter of time, when you will include it in columns?

Columns playlist is obsolete.. It doesn't get new features.

[tedgo]

Thank you
Since artwork view now switches images with left-click too (when did you implemented it? I always had only the "hand" without function so far...) i can replace my own made cover WSH panel mod

[musicmusic]

when did you implemented it?

It's done that for a long time (always I thought), anyway that was what the hand was for..

This post has been edited by musicmusic: May 10 2009, 23:25

[tedgo]

Never worked for me...
I still thought "what's that hand for when click does nothing"
Really...

But haven't tried it since about 0.3.6.7, though

[musicmusic]

I haven't changed anything there for a while.. But it wouldn't have done anything if active track only had one type of artwork.

This post has been edited by musicmusic: May 10 2009, 23:33

[tedgo]

I tried it again and now i think i know the reason:
I haven't set up artwork view but use foobar's in-built artreader mode, because more than half of my music's collection has embedded album art and the foobar artreader doesn't recognizes additional externals.
So i think it never was your fault, but mine

This post has been edited by tedgo: May 10 2009, 23:42

[s33m33]

MusicMusic, thanks for the update. Love autocomplete for inline editing.

[elenhil]

I have a question about the Filter. Is it possible to have a field sorted other that alphabetically? For example, to have a list of albums sorted chronologically?

Also, why does entering multiple values in %genre% like "Classical, Opera" produces two entries ("Classical" and "Opera") in the corresponding Filter panel while entering similar values in %style% produces a single new "Classical, Opera" entry?

This post has been edited by elenhil: May 11 2009, 18:32

[soppman]

hi2all, i was wondering about the possibility to show artwork only the "filter results" playlist and not in the others, while artwork looks great ofcourse with complete albums its a bit messy with alot of several artists looking like this.

http://78.108.54.10/martin/columpl.jpg

best regards
soppman

[Bollerkopp]

I have a question about the Filter. Is it possible to have a field sorted other that alphabetically? For example, to have a list of albums sorted chronologically?

Hi,

try someting like that:

CODE

['('%Date%')']   [%Album%]

Greets

This post has been edited by Bollerkopp: May 11 2009, 19:28

[bionx]

can anyone help me out with this?

I wanna enlarge the columns playlist as you can see according to the arrows,anybody knows this?






and also columns playlist does not look in splitter settings,ist weird or smth?



thanx in advance

[2E7AH]

hi2all, i was wondering about the possibility to show artwork only the "filter results" playlist and not in the others, while artwork looks great ofcourse with complete albums its a bit messy with alot of several artists looking like this.

You can try with limiting the playlist view grouping only to filtered playlist:

preferences > cui > playlist view > grouping: edit group by double clicking the script and select "show only on playlists" then enter "filter *"

or you can right click the title bar and deselect "artwork"

[alexinc]

after having the columns ui-cracks in here, i decided to continue posting in here again...

now using $if($strstr(%path%,Albums),%album artist%) on filter, how it comes, the filtered list shows the wanted results and right number of albums in brackets behind the "All" node, but having the complete database on playlist-view when selecting "All" node?

is this the expected behaviour of the all-node in filters, a bug or wrong code in syntax of my filter???

thx i.a.!

[chiwou]

because you select "All Artist"?!

[elenhil]

I have a question about the Filter. Is it possible to have a field sorted other that alphabetically? For example, to have a list of albums sorted chronologically?

try someting like that:

CODE

['('%Date%')']   [%Album%]

Actually, I do not want the list to display dates before album titles. I just want a sorting criteria separate from the sorted content.

[alexinc]

because you select "All Artist"?!

isnt it (the ng-playlist) supposed to show only "all" artists, that were filtered - as the number in brackets seems to reflect and its listed in the filter-window???

This post has been edited by alexinc: May 12 2009, 10:02

[musicmusic]

Columns UI 0.3.7.2 released.

This fixes a rare issue with Item details panel, with it encountering invalid UTF-8 characters - apparently when listening to certain radio streams - causing the panel to get stuck in an infinite loop (eventually crashing).

This post has been edited by musicmusic: May 14 2009, 21:39

[elenhil]

Musicmusic, why does entering multiple values in %genre% like "Classical; Opera" produces two entries ("Classical" and "Opera") in the corresponding Filter panel while entering similar values in %style% produces a single new "Classical, Opera" entry?

[fbuser]

This is probably not a ColumnsUI issue. Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Display -> Properties dialog -> Multivalue fields and check if STYLE is defined there. If not, add it there. Already tagged fields are not affected by this change. You have to retag them.

This post has been edited by fbuser: May 15 2009, 09:45

[TomBarlow]

I think your filter panel must be looking for %<genre>% rather than %genre%, but it's looking for %style% rather than %<style>%. I think if you put just the field name, as in 'Genre', it looks for %<genre>%.

[elenhil]

I think your filter panel must be looking for %<genre>% rather than %genre%, but it's looking for %style% rather than %<style>%. I think if you put just the field name, as in 'Genre', it looks for %<genre>%.

Brilliant! It worked!

[novembre]

I think I've found a bug/glitch: in Filter Preferences, enter a quite long string in Field, enough to make the text clip, then double click the right column header separator to make the scroll bar appear. Now try to edit another Field, which has to be very short: the string to be edited is not visible in the box, because it scrolls to the end of the longest string.

This post has been edited by novembre: May 15 2009, 21:54

[durch]

I see many great fully modded skins in this forum that pretend to use Columns UI as fundament. But how do I learn to create such awesome user interfaces? I'm new to foobar2000 and played around with Columns UI and even Panel Stack Splitter, but I don't see options for using self-made skin graphics and how to embed them smoothlessly into the program. How did all those guys get so much out of Columns UI? The Columns UI Wiki won't help me.