foo_custominfo, New component for "database-only tags". Options

[Russell777]

Sorry if i'm asking something stupid ,but can this plugin add values besides from the context menues?
(i mean by titleformatting from let's say trackinfo or columns ui playlist column?)

This post has been edited by Russell777: Jul 25 2006, 22:22

[mazy]

no, that's not possible atm, though i think that custom function for this could be added. i don't see much use for it though, maybe just for the masstagger.

on a sidenote: custom info works perfectly with foo_skip

[unabatedshagie]

Any updates to this excellent plugin?

[q-stankovic]

A little bug:

I created a command that places a skip tag (foo_skip). I wanted to have this command directly in context menu without any submenu so i created following name: "Skip". But i get a submenu with the name "Skip" that contains a command with the name of an arbitrary track ( )

It seems to me that in current version we have to create submenus in context menu

[Infernus]

works fine here with these settings:

Display Name: Custom Info/Skip Track
Field Name: SKIP
Value: 1

[mazy]

A little bug:
...
It seems to me that in current version we have to create submenus in context menu

confirmed, top-level context menu commands not supported correctly.

[foxyshadis]

Any chance of adding the custominfo menu items to the keyboard shortcuts list, so we can turn them into hotkeys?

[unabatedshagie]

Any chance of adding the custominfo menu items to the keyboard shortcuts list, so we can turn them into hotkeys?

They should be accessable from the keyboard shortcuts page, just type in custom into the search box and you should find them.

[unabatedshagie]

Im trying to create an autoplaylist which only shows songs that don't have %rating% tags.

I can get autoplaylist to show if I want tracks with a rating greater than 3 using

CODE

%rating% GREATER 3

but I can't get unrated ones to show.

I have tried

CODE

%rating% MISSING

but it returns every track. I then tried

CODE

NOT %rating% IS ?

which returns nothing.

Any ideas how to do this?


Also could someone show some examples of what these are used for?

- $cinfo(X,Y). Returns value with field name X and index Y. Similar to $meta(X,Y).
- $cinfo_num(X). Number of values in field X. Similar to $meta_num(X).
- $cinfo_sep(X,Y,Z). Returns all values in field X separated with strings Y & Z as in $meta_sep(X,Y,Z).
- $cinfo_list(X,Y). Returns all custominfo values for current track using Y as a separator between field name and value, and X as separator between field/value-pairs.

[foosion]

Use the following to check for the absence of the rating tag field:

CODE

rating MISSING

[unabatedshagie]

Use the following to check for the absence of the rating tag field:

CODE

rating MISSING

Doesn't seem to work, it still bring up every track. Would it make a difference that I am storing the rating using custominfo?

None of the tags I have stored in custominfo work in the autoplaylist.

This post has been edited by unabatedshagie: Aug 12 2006, 21:15

[foosion]

Doesn't seem to work, it still bring up every track. Would it make a difference that I am storing the rating using custominfo?

Yes, it would. Sorry that I overlooked this possibility. In this case try

CODE

NOT "[%rating%]" IS ?*

%rating% alone would result in a question mark, if the field is not defined, the brackets cause the result to be the empty string in that case, and ?* tests for any string that is at least one character long.

[unabatedshagie]

Doesn't seem to work, it still bring up every track. Would it make a difference that I am storing the rating using custominfo?

Yes, it would. Sorry that I overlooked this possibility. In this case try

CODE

NOT "[%rating%]" IS ?*

%rating% alone would result in a question mark, if the field is not defined, the brackets cause the result to be the empty string in that case, and ?* tests for any string that is at least one character long.

Thanks, works perfectly now

[Fermion]

0.1.2
- bugfix: commands in context menu root were not working correctly (thanks, q-stankovic)

[q-stankovic]

0.1.2
- bugfix: commands in context menu root were not working correctly (thanks, q-stankovic)

No!
When i choose as Displayname "Skip" i get following: Context menu->Skip->Skip

[Fermion]

0.1.2
- bugfix: commands in context menu root were not working correctly (thanks, q-stankovic)

No!
When i choose as Displayname "Skip" i get following: Context menu->Skip->Skip

Hmm.. I think it's because you've created the Skip-command before the new version, and foobar uses the context menu path it has already saved with the old version. If this is the case, there are couple of solutions:
1) editing context menu manually (Display -> Context Menu)
2) resetting whole context menu (Display -> Context Menu -> Reset Page)
3) using different display name like "skip" or "Skip " or "/Skip" instead of "Skip"
4) I could update GUIDs for all the commands, but then everyone would have to reconfig their keyboard shortcuts etc.. :/

[FofR]

I am wondering if a custominfo for ARTISTS not TRACKS is possible? i.e. a second SQL database for artist entries. Thus if for example U2 are playing and I want to write some custom info, e.g. In biography custom info: "U2 are great" I'd like this to be accessible whenever any U2 track plays.

The reason I want this is to store information such as similar artists, biography, discography etc. To store this in each individual track entry would be quite painful.

[FofR]

*bump as no one replied*

[bytemastr]

Can you write in a hook that will cause foo_custominfo to save the custom entries when the Save All button is hit in the configuration pane? It appears that the only time foo_custominfo commits the changes to disk is when FB2K is closed, which can be quite problematic if FB2K crashes (or the machine) and one has been making lots of custom entries as the songs play.

Alternative to that, could you export the save function up to a level where we can assign it to a hotkey and invoke it when needed?

Thank you in advance.

[bytemastr]

Let me correct myself ... If one stores the custominfo fields in the FB2K config file, Save All will save them along with the rest of the settings.

If one stores the custominfo fields in another format outside of the FB2K config file, Save All will not save the fields to that separate file.

For the time being, I'm perfectly happy storing my fields inside the FB2K file, however it may be beneficial to have the other formats save at the same time a Save All is called--if that's even possible--I haven't inspected the SDK in some time to see if there is even a way to do this.

Can you write in a hook that will cause foo_custominfo to save the custom entries when the Save All
[...]

[thuan]

Somehow when I click on the remove dead entries I only get "Remove dead entries failed. Press cancel to disable foo_custominfo or ok to ignore and continue." Any idea? I use foobar0.9.4 and custominfo 0.1.2 with SQLite DB.

[Infernus]

Somehow when I click on the remove dead entries I only get "Remove dead entries failed. Press cancel to disable foo_custominfo or ok to ignore and continue." Any idea? I use foobar0.9.4 and custominfo 0.1.2 with SQLite DB.

Same here, but since many fb versions. I think this was only a idea of the author but never implemented. Even doesn't work with txt-file

[PokéParadox]

Any plans on adding a custom tag editor?
This would be very useful for files that don't (and should not) support tagging.

[mazy]

Any plans on adding a custom tag editor?
This would be very useful for files that don't (and should not) support tagging.

it would be best if this could have been integrated to default foobar's properties dialog (as for example playback statistics are). i have no idea whether there's any way (service) to do so, it should be though ...


Fermion, i have few requests

• way to remove just one given value from field (in case of multiple values). syntax could be like "-FIELD". this would come handy in case of fields for mood (conbined with buttons in track info panel mod for example) etc.
• support for album-wide custom tags.
  
  with the introduction of single column playlist and other components, i would really like to start adding album-related tags without adding them to each track.
  
  this could work on directory / referenced file basis. if track uses subsong or referenced file, custom info would be linked with that file (and it would be easy to get from given track to this information). in case of no referenced file / subsong, it could use path (without filename) for example.
  
  i would welcome input from other users / developers on this topic ...

[neothe0ne]

Any plans on adding a custom tag editor?
This would be very useful for files that don't (and should not) support tagging.

I was ironically coming to this topic to request something amounting to the same thing, involving a Pokemon GBS emulated audio format no less. How exactly are custom tags stored in the text file? If I understand properly, the format in the txt file is:

file://[filename]
0
1
4 [number of characters of the custom tag title]
TEST [custom tag title]
3 [number of characters in custom tag entry]
abc [custom tag entry]

And repeat.

Is this right?

If I want to add title tags to about 30 files which do not support tagging, do I have to create 30 individual context entries in the Custominfo dialog in Properties, or can I just directly add file entries in the txt file without using foobar?

This post has been edited by neothe0ne: Oct 6 2006, 23:24