foo_browser, Playlist Tree break off Options

[cwbowron]

I broke off my playlist tree browser into its own component, and changed the way it works a bit. It now offers browsing in a similar fashion to iTunes. This should be considered a BETA release.

* foo_browser adds 5 panels you can add to your columns ui layout, one each for Genre, Artist, Album and Title. Additional panels can be created in the preferences menu
* By default, foo_browser shows the selection contents in its own playlist named "*Browser*"
* Adds "Browse" to context menu which will populate all the panels from your selections
* initially foo_browser will show entire library.

screenshot at http://foobar.bowron.us/foo_browser.png

More info: http://wiki.bowron.us/index.php/Foobar2000

This post has been edited by cwbowron: Mar 26 2007, 14:22

[lav-chan]

Hm, i got a crash. Here's what happened.

- replaced the DLL with the new one

- ran foobar, my panels were missing like you said

- went into preferences, lower-cased the header names and changed the formatting of the artist and #title panels

- went into Layout and re-added the four panels

- hit Apply, hit Save All

- crash

It gave me a crash log, if you want me to post that i will. (Don't want to clog up the thread if i don't have to.)


After restarting foobar, though, the panels appear to be working the way they should. I set my artist tag to $if(%dbartist%,%dbartist%,%artist%) (dbartist is a tag i use to basically make the album list look better) and that's working great. Everything looks awesome.

I did notice one inconsistency though. In the genre panel, tracks that don't have a genre tag show up as '<MISSING>' right under the '[All]' item. Tracks that don't have an album or title tag, though, show up as '?'. It should be one or the other, for consistency's sake.


Very trivial feature request: It'd be neat (although not life-or-death necessary) if we could change the name of the 'all' and 'missing' entries in the panels. :x




Continues to be a great plug-in, though. Good job.

[cwbowron]

I did notice one inconsistency though. In the genre panel, tracks that don't have a genre tag show up as '<MISSING>' right under the '[All]' item. Tracks that don't have an album or title tag, though, show up as '?'. It should be one or the other, for consistency's sake.

The issue with the consistancy is because when using a "%tag%" format, the result comes directly from the formatting... if you use "tag" it checks to see how many of those tags exist and uses all of those, if none are found it uses "<MISSING>"... as a workaround, I changed the default album tags to use $if2(%artist%,<MISSING>) so that if the tag doesnt exist it will show up as MISSING too...