Toaster for Fb2k, The port of the Winamp Toaster plugin Options

[shaneh]

Discussion about the Toaster plugin, continued from:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=275216

Current version is 0.1.6 (http://www.myplugins.info), updated 5/03/2005


The Toaster plugin is a port from the Toaster for Winamp plugin:
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=138586
and http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=207630

As the port was done in about 20 minutes, there is still quite a bit of development to be done to get it working smoothly under fb2k.

FAQ
Where is the Foobar 2000 0.9 port?

Porting to fb2k 0.9 would require a fair amount of work, due to the fact Toaster is not native unicode. I am planning a complete rewrite of Toaster, which should be a lot nicer. It should allow tiling custom skins, progress bars, buttons etc, and proper skin packaging support. So I wont bother porting this version of Toaster across, as it needs to be re-written anyway.

This post has been edited by shaneh: May 12 2006, 00:31

[shaneh]

Maybe so, but if you want to keep statistics in the main database (AFAIK, the database is part of the player), then you have to update it with fields similar to how the 3rd party plugin works. This data is then potenitally written to the file. I think most people would want to use this database than a 2nd, or sql server or whatever.

Regardless of whether the 3rd party plugins which put this info in the DB in the first place are or aren't part of the package, the main db has the ability to write non-standard tags to files you play. Which AFAIK *is* a feature of the player.

This post has been edited by shaneh: Feb 22 2005, 02:21

[saratoga]

Regardless of whether the 3rd party plugins which put this info in the DB in the first place are or aren't part of the package, the main db has the ability to write non-standard tags to files you play. Which AFAIK *is* a feature of the player.

Writing nonstandard tags is a very useful feature, and allowed by the spec in most tag formats (and when not allowed, they are not written). What possible reason could you have for not wanting them?

[Skates]

Regardless of whether the 3rd party plugins which put this info in the DB in the first place are or aren't part of the package, the main db has the ability to write non-standard tags to files you play. Which AFAIK *is* a feature of the player.

Writing nonstandard tags is a very useful feature, and allowed by the spec in most tag formats (and when not allowed, they are not written). What possible reason could you have for not wanting them?

Exactly the point, cover art maybe unstandard with APEv2, but as you say unstandard tags are very useful. So whats the point of not supporting cover art tags?

Seems like your backstepping from your previous statements...

This post has been edited by Skates: Feb 22 2005, 22:26