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Foobar Scripts

Could foobar have scripting capabilites?
It would extend its powerfull. I can thing on a lot of posibilities with scripting. I have never seen a player with scripting integrated, and foobar, with its own integrated functions, and plugins functions could take a lot of improvement with that.

For example, you can rip a cd to wav files, then open them in foobar and apply a script that:

1. Encode to MPC (diskwriter)
2. Delete wav files (foo_delete)
3. Open the Musepack files
4. Apply Replaygain to the files
5. Apply tags from freedb (foo_freedb)
6. Copy the files to you music folder (copy plugin is beeing developed I think)
7. Rename to "%artist%\%album%\%tracknumber% - %title%", for example

It is a simple example, but more powerfull things could been with scripts.
What do you think?

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Reply #1 –
That would be great. Maybe Lua could be integrated into the core? I know foo_looks uses it already, is there any reason the core couldn't have it apart from the bloat concerns?

This is really a feature request though and as such is in the wrong forum.

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Reply #2 –
There is foo_lua by foosion but I'm not fully aware of its possibilities. Furthermore I think there's a problem when using it together with ui_columns.

Regards,
The Link

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Reply #3 –
Well, sorry, I thought that as this is a posible developement feature I could post here.
I was not talking about a plugin, I thought it could be a great improvement on foobar being part of the core.

Scripts could be called from keystrokes,and would be a great way to change parameters before doing conversions, a way to load certain files automatically and perform operations... I think there would be a huge amount of posibilites with scripts on every aspect of foobar.

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Reply #4 –
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I was not talking about a plugin, I thought it could be a great improvement on foobar being part of the core.

What does it matter if its a plug-in or if its in the core? It's still going to give you the functionability that you desire.

Steve

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Reply #5 –
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Scripts could be called from keystrokes

You can assign foo_lua scripts to menu items, and in turn keyboard shortcuts if that helps you..
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Reply #6 –
One could always ask that a plugin get put into one of the bigger installers.

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Reply #7 –
well we need someone to continue foo_lua's development ... i've used it quite a lot and i'm still waiting for some new features to continue my scripts for it ...

you can execute menu items / commands from it, change selection etc, so it should be possible to do many useful things with it ...