Navigator-Suite Feedback, questions, bug-reports or just chatting Options

[Lyx]

Intro
This thread is for feedback, bug-reports or just chatting about "Navigator", a playlist design for Columns UI.

The layout is very modular and can easily be adapted to suit your needs - here is a screenshot which shows a few possibilities of what you can do with it:


Description

• usually just works, no matter what you throw at it
• (optional) advanced tag-guess-code
• modular layout: you can enable/disable most columns without screwing up the design
• Singlemode and Albummode (with configurable priority). No last-track tags necessary for albummode(with an obvious naming-scheme Albummode even works with no tags at all!).
• supports the following non-id3v1-tags: discnumber, album artist, conductor, performer, publisher, style, play_counter, first_played, last_played, rating, album rating, encodedby
• multiline display of comment-tags in albummode
• efficient and flexible use of available space in albummode - no line gets wasted.
• advanced playback-stats(requires a standards-compliant play_count-plugin (not the one available from the fb2k-site))
• basic inline-metadata editing capabilities (edit your tags right in the playlist)
• "Metadata-Matrix"-column for a better overview of which files in your collection have which tags
• intelligent column-based sorting of files: sort by completeness of tags, sort by rating+genres, etc.
• very easy to configure
• comes with multiple premade color-schemes and the ability to easily create your own ones
• includes an advanced copystring which makes use of the same tag-guess-code. Amount of copied data easily configurable.
• can be made to occupy less than 25% screenspace on 1024x768

Download
Current version for foobar 0.9.x:
 Navigator_v1.4.3.zip ( 97.89K ) Number of downloads: 21801

Old version for foobar 0.8.3:
 Navigator_v1.3.2.zip ( 66.64K ) Number of downloads: 1676


Important!: You need columns_ui for this to work.


About feature-proposals
I currently have no interest in feature-proposals. This is because i consider the 1.x.x line of Navigator finished. Bug-reports however are welcome.


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Changelog:

1.4.3 (foobar 0.9.x compatible)
- fixed display of singles in albummode for tracks with no ARTIST
- the "artist & album"-column now uses ARTIST instead of ALBUM for inline-metadata editing
- added new colorscheme by 4nt1

1.4.2
- moved albummode STYLE-display into a seperate line
- Tracks which have TOTALTRACKS=1 are now also considered singles
- fixed inverted colors in albummode when displaying: performer, conductor, publisher

1.4.1
- fixed wrong upload (STYLE didn't work)

1.4.0
- compatible with foobar 0.9 and the coresponding ui-columns (no need for legacy mode)
- improved performance by making use of new ui-columns style-features to reduce codesize
- sorting by all kinds of playback-stats works correct now
- added full support for the recently standardized STYLE-tag
- added basic support for inline-metadata editing
- redesigned hybrid-mode
- fixed statusbar display-errors when using RTL-languages
- when enqueueing audio-cds, albummode is now automatically activated
- properly honors the new field-remappings
- many bugfixes and code cleanup
- misc changes to the how-to docs
- probably some other stuff which i forgot


1.3.2 (foobar 0.8.3 compatible)
- bugfix: "daily plays"-column did show wrong values.
- last version for fb2k 0.8.3


1.3.1
- bugfix: in the "daily plays"-column, tracks which were played today the first time would show strange ratios
- finally replaced the ancient screenshot with an up-to-date one


1.3.0 - full support for the new playcount-plugin
- added "plays per day"-stats (new playcounter-plugin required for it to show up). You cannot sort by it yet.
- added first_played-column (new playcounter-plugin required for it to work).
- moved replaygain-indicators from the metadata-matrix into a seperate column
- dropped configurability of the seperator-char, since almost nobody used it anyways
- sorting-code polishing: you can now correctly sort by multiple columns (like for example first sorting by the album-column, and then sorting by rating)


This post has been edited by Lyx: May 21 2006, 15:19

[mazy]

thumbs up!

great work lyx, i like how easy it is to set it up and / or set custom colors (as you compute the rest; there are some limitations because of that's the pay-off for the ease of it).

and i can see that it would greatly benefit from possibility of new non-track specific section in columns ui. btw, have you done any test with that color calculations disabled to see what impact it would have on speed of the string?

because of your tag guessing it's one of few strings i can actually use (the other ones being old plisk's one with custom changes or mine, which is not actually available for columns ui).

so once again, nice work!

edit:
dano - lyx is waiting for his account on that strings' site ...
lyx - i'm with you on that issue with play_date. it would be better (for general configs) to have only one standard form

This post has been edited by mazy: Feb 14 2005, 15:35