foo_playlist_tree, still very experimental (beta stage) Options

[cwbowron]

foo_playlist_tree is a very customizable media library, with support for hierarchical playlists as well as dynamic playlists. Dynamic playlists can be generated using the same syntax as foo_playlistgen_ex. It can operate in its own window or as a column_ui panel.

More information and downloads are available at:

http://www.bazquux.com/wiki/Foobar2000:Playlist_Tree

This post has been edited by cwbowron: Jan 4 2008, 01:47

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the panel version of playlist tree is a great idea, but i have a problem, sort of ... well, drag & drop, when draging frorm playlist to the playlist tree, works OK for me ... with the right mouse button. while i'm drging folders within the playlist tree panel i have to use the left mouse button. a little confusing. is it intended?

when i save a collection, file extension is not saved, unless i enter the file name in the following format: name.col

and i also have an idea. what about including a possibility to display database content formated according to a set of rules, specified in formatting strings, just like album list panel, or database expolrer panel display. these folders would update automatically whenever database content changes. and one could use only one panel instead of two to organize one's music & stuff. it could look something like that:



the first 14 folders updating automatically, as they were created by inserting a certain formatting string in the plugin's preferences, and the Radiohead folder staying unchanged, as long as i want, since it was created by the drag & drop method

what do you think?

ps. move up/down feature would also be useful

[cwbowron]

the panel version of playlist tree is a great idea, but i have a problem, sort of ... well, drag & drop, when draging frorm playlist to the playlist tree, works OK for me ... with the right mouse button. while i'm drging folders within the playlist tree panel i have to use the left mouse button. a little confusing. is it intended?

when i save a collection, file extension is not saved, unless i enter the file name in the following format: name.col

I had never intended dragging items from the playlist to the playlist tree so any way in which that works is a by product of other stuff. My intent was just to be able to drag and drop files from explorer and to drag and drop items within the tree.

I have noted that it doest add the extension if one is not given and that will most likely be changed in the next release.

and i also have an idea. what about including a possibility to display database content formated according to a set of rules, specified in formatting strings, just like album list panel, or database expolrer panel display. these folders would update automatically whenever database content changes. and one could use only one panel instead of two to organize one's music & stuff. it could look something like that:



the first 14 folders updating automatically, as they were created by inserting a certain formatting string in the plugin's preferences, and the Radiohead folder staying unchanged, as long as i want, since it was created by the drag & drop method

what do you think?

Not a bad idea, but it's not something I am likely to implement. If any one else want to take my code and run with it, they are free to do so.

Is there any advantage to this that could not be done using two panels, one to have your playlist tree and one to have your albumlist panel?

To give some background, I have a collection of over 700 cds... I dont want anything that automatically shows me my entire collection. I use explorer to nagivate that. What I use this for is generating categorized trees of small subsets of my collection so they are much more managable.

ps. move up/down feature would also be useful

A move up/down feature is already in it... You can move songs up and down in their playlist using drag and drop, and you can use '[' and ']' to move songs and entire trees up and down.

As far as the renaming goes, that should already work, but apparently its not working for some people... its working for me... Renaming only works for folders, not for files.

As for the trees being expanded when dropping new ones, I dont know what thats all about, I might look into it... Could be a side effect of TreeView_EnsureVisible.

[cwbowron]

I have noted that it doest add the extension if one is not given and that will most likely be changed in the next release.


As for the trees being expanded when dropping new ones, I dont know what thats all about, I might look into it... Could be a side effect of TreeView_EnsureVisible.

I fixed the extension issue. If you type in a name without an extension, .col will be added to it.

I also fixed the expansion issue. Now when you drag and drop files and folders, the expansion of other trees will not be affected.

the file, as always, can be found at http://www.bowron.us/foo_playlist_tree.zip