foo_uie_single_column_playlist, single column playlist viewer Options

[vonmeth]

I knew the png thing, which is why I tried it out, but I didn't know about the hard drive thing. My foobar is on a different drive than my MP3s, and I plan on keeping it that way. I'm assuming that (hopefully soon) the plugin will be updated to load art from other hard drives?

Yeah, that is how it is for me, seperate 200gb hard drive for music. Thus the reason I just batch converted my art to png, and batch resized to 100x100 and renamed to album and put into the app dir .

EDIT: infact, terrerstrial do you plan to release the source code?

I also have a seperate 200gb drive for music. Maybe I should do this... did you do it in photoshop? I know how to resize and change to png in batch mode, but not how to rename the file based on the directory structure. (All of my music is Artist\Album\music.mp3)

You will have to get a new program for batch renameing. Simply type in "batch rename" into any search engine and you will come up with many results. Just look at the faqs/info on the programs to see if they support that sort of renameing process. I think the first result from google actually did, but not sure.

I'm just going to wait till I can change the drive.

[Imperecedero]

amazing plug in, really amazing, anyway i can't get any image shown. I'm completely sure that the path is correct "C:\Archivos de Programa\Foobar2000\images" i have a spanish winXP, could be this the problem?????

In my other pc, i can't even get the dll load, i'm missing something like the png lib or .net framework???

[acedriver]

Hoping someone can help me out here. What part do i change to get a black selection bar instead of white?

CODE

$if($strcmp($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),1),
$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-45-45-45 pencolor-null))

$padding(2,0)
$font(Calibri MOD2,8,,$if(%isplaying%,85-217-255,170-170-170))
[ %tracknumber% ]$replace(%title%,'(',$font(,,bold italic,204-204-204)'(')

Cheers

add this:

$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-0-0-0 pencolor-null),)

[Yotsuya]

I am trying to accomplish something but am not having much success, does anyone have any suggestions? I have a playlist full of online radio stations from shoutcast and other sources. I would like to use this component to group them by genre.

The core of the problem stems from the fact that online radio stations contain several genres in the %genre% tag and there does not appear to be any practical means to modify meta information. I attempted to parse the %genre% tag into predefined genres for grouping with the following code:

CODE

$if2(
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jpop),JPop,)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jrock),JPop,)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanese),JPop,)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),anime),Anime,)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanimation),Anime,)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),trance),Trance,)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),techno),Trance,)
,Other)

I placed this code in both the "Group By" section for grouping and the "Group Display" section to display the appropriate genre but everything seems to get grouped into the Other category. I have tried changing the $if2() into an $if() and duplicating the genre parsiing with no success. I tried several other approaches using cascading if statements again with no success.

Can anyone suggest an alternative approach to grouping online playlists by genre?

This post has been edited by Yotsuya: Sep 7 2006, 02:54

[Nova5000]

Absolutely marvelous plugin!

I, too, cannot get images to show up. The path is correct to the best of my knowledge and I have the necessary library's.

Cheers,

Nova

[sHsIkuA]

hi the updated version fixed the blank display problem , thanks! but why the playing song is always like updating something , blinking (but not clearly visible)

i hope its just some bug though thanks terrestial for the awesome plugin

[Yotsuya]

When specifying an image with this plugin, the path must be relative to the foobar directory. For example:

If you foobar resides in:

C:\Program Files\foobar2000

and the image you would like to display is:

C:\Program Files\foobar2000\images\picture.png

You should specify the image as:

images\picture.png

[Krpano]

How can i change the frame selection color on the playlist ?

Actually is black.
:|

[Yotsuya]

Krpano you can change the color of the frame for the row that is currently selected by combining %_selected% and the pencolor parameter of the $drawrect() function. For example you can place this code in the "Item Display" box:

CODE

$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-null pencolor-233-233-233),)

Note that if you have any other $drawrect() functions or $imageabs() functions you will need to keep in mind the order in which they are drawn. I would suggest placing the above code after any existing $drawrect() functions.

I assume that by the "frame" you are referring to the outer edge of the current row. If you would like to fill the entire header row then use brushcolor instead of pencolor, and place the code in the "Group Display" box instead of the "Item Display" box.

[Krpano]

thanks you..

[Sword]

thanks for the great plugin

This post has been edited by Sword: Sep 7 2006, 22:27

[Zurman]

Amazing plugins... Could be the one that will make me switch to 0.9.x

[peercortsa]

ok am i missing something because i thought we are able to hit the configure button in the columns ui layout tab but it isnt highlighted when i add it in and click on single column playlist view so basically i cant do anything with it

[Yotsuya]

To configure the playlist, right click on the playlist and choose "Settings..." from the top of the popup menu. I do not know why the configuration is not available from the ColumnsUI Layout tab.. perhaps the author is planning on allowing multiple instances of the component.

[peercortsa]

To configure the playlist, right click on the playlist and choose "Settings..." from the top of the popup menu. I do not know why the configuration is not available from the ColumnsUI Layout tab.. perhaps the author is planning on allowing multiple instances of the component.

oh duh thanks the funny part is i probably would never have figured that out myself thanks again

[peercortsa]

is there any way to make the group display go more than one row

[Yotsuya]

Back in post #27 terrestrial indicated he may be changing things:

EDIT: and configurable header height would be great also biggrin.gif

The listview limits the size of rows to be the same, but I think I may be able to make the headers occupy 2 (or more) rows.

However in the meantime you can increase your row height then use $align()/$alignabs() functions to make the row twice the height and then place text either on the top (first line) or bottom (second line). Just remember that all header rows and item rows will be the same height so you might want to come up with something to fill in the extra space on your items such as using a larger font or adding info about the track on the second line.

[pirlouy]

Request: ability to delete playlist elements (with Suppr hotkey). Ok, I know it's in the todo list, it's just a reminder.

Thanks for this nice plugin.

[sHsIkuA]

er, about the blinking issue, any update ? or I am the only one who got this issue?

[Yotsuya]

.. my foobar does not blink. Can you be more specific? Maybe a screencap and/or code?

[sHsIkuA]

sorry, i dunno how to take a animated screencap

but its the now playing item , it will like blink (something like updating) once in a while , a few seconds gone than it is back

only the playing tracks though , dont know what is happening

and here is my code

Group by

CODE

$if(%singletrack%,,%artist%)
%album%

List

CODE

$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-207-210-216 pencolor-null))
$if($strcmp($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),1),
$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-212-215-220 pencolor-null)$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-207-210-216 pencolor-null)))


$padding(2,1)
$font(,,bold,100-100-100)
$if(%singletrack%,%artist% | %title%,
%tracknumber%    %title%
//%play_counter%      
)
$if(%isplaying%,    Ω)

$align(right,)
$font() $rgb(100,100,115)%play_counter% times |  
$rgb(100,100,125)%length%  
$font(Mangal,8,,) $repeat($rgb(105,105,105)$char(9733),%rating%)
$repeat($rgb(137,160,160)$char(9733),$sub(5,%rating%))

Group Display

CODE

$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-193-197-203 pencolor-null)

$padding(4,1)
$upper($font(Verdana,7,,)
$font(,,bold,85-85-85)$if(%singletrack%,Singles,
$align(left,top)$font(,,bold,85-85-85) %artist%
// '['%date%']'
$padding(1,0)
$align(right,top)$font(Century Gothic,7,bold,55-55-55)%album%

)
)

btw, i am using 0.9.3.1

updated : weird, i revert back to old version of single column ui, the blink is gone

This post has been edited by sHsIkuA: Sep 9 2006, 03:48

[Yotsuya]

I dont see anything that would actually make it blink, however the first section of your list code is having the component draw the background many times for selected items, using alternating colors if they sit on one of every other line in your playlist. This may be causing the blinking effect under low resource conditions. Try changing it to:

CODE

// Modified code
$if($strcmp($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),1),$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-212-215-220 pencolor-null))
$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-207-210-216 pencolor-null))


// Existing code
$padding(2,1)
$font(,,bold,100-100-100)
$if(%singletrack%,%artist% | %title%,
%tracknumber% %title%
//%play_counter%
)
$if(%isplaying%, Ω)

$align(right,)
$font() $rgb(100,100,115)%play_counter% times |
$rgb(100,100,125)%length%
$font(Mangal,8,,) $repeat($rgb(105,105,105)$char(9733),%rating%)
$repeat($rgb(137,160,160)$char(9733),$sub(5,%rating%))

If that doesnt fix it you can probably put the first $if() as the fail condition of the second $if().

[sHsIkuA]

I dont see anything that would actually make it blink, however the first section of your list code is having the component draw the background many times for selected items, using alternating colors if they sit on one of every other line in your playlist. This may be causing the blinking effect under low resource conditions. Try changing it to:

CODE

// Modified code
$if($strcmp($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),1),$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-212-215-220 pencolor-null))
$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-207-210-216 pencolor-null))


// Existing code
$padding(2,1)
$font(,,bold,100-100-100)
$if(%singletrack%,%artist% | %title%,
%tracknumber% %title%
//%play_counter%
)
$if(%isplaying%, Ω)

$align(right,)
$font() $rgb(100,100,115)%play_counter% times |
$rgb(100,100,125)%length%
$font(Mangal,8,,) $repeat($rgb(105,105,105)$char(9733),%rating%)
$repeat($rgb(137,160,160)$char(9733),$sub(5,%rating%))

If that doesnt fix it you can probably put the first $if() as the fail condition of the second $if().

thanks man, gonna try it later, need to go for exam now

[Yotsuya]

:: Sorting Online Radio Stations by Genre ::

Awhile back in this post I asked for some help getting my online radio playlist sorted by genre. I have had some limited success and would like to share the results.

As mentioned before, online radio stations from shoutcast and other sources usually contain many genres in different order in the %genre% tag so simply grouping by this tag is not a practical solution. What we need to do is parse the tag and place each station into predefined genre groups. After quite a bit of experimenting I whipped up this code to accomplish this:

CODE

$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),goa),Goa,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),trance),Trance,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),techno),Trance,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),anime),Anime,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanimation),Anime,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jpop),JPop,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jrock),JPop,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanese),JPop,
Other))))))))

On the end of each line you see on the left the word to search for in the %genre% tag (notice everything was sent to lower case because $strstr() is case sensitive) and on the right is the name of the predefined genre group. You'll need to create a line like this for every genre you want to group. Because of the nature of the cascading if statement, you'll want to place the most specific genres first. If a station would fit into more than one genre, it will be placed into the first category on the list (i.e.: "jpop anime" would be placed into the anime group). The last line is the name of the group where we lump all the stations that dont fit in one of our predefined groups and a bunch of end parenthesis to close the cascading if. If you add more lines for groups you'll need to make sure the parenthesis count increases accordingly.

The next major hurdle I came accross is that even though the above code will group consecutive playlist entries, it will not combine identical subgroups into one large group. In order to achieve proper grouping we need to sort the playlist. Unfortunately I could find no automated way to accomplish this, however we can manually choose Edit> Sort> Sort By... from the foobar menu and enter this variation of the above code:

CODE

$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),goa),Goa,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),trance),Trance,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),techno),Trance,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),anime),Anime,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanimation),Anime,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jpop),JPop,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jrock),JPop,$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanese),JPop,$char(255)))))))))|%codec%|$num($sub(1000,%bitrate%),3)

This is essentially the first chunk of code with the linebreaks removed and a few more parameters at the end to polish off the sorting.
---
Here is my current playlist setup for reference:

Row Height: 24

Group By:

CODE

$if($strcmp($left(%path%,7),http$char(58)$char(47)$char(47)),
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),goa),Goa,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),trance),Trance,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),techno),Trance,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),anime),Anime,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanimation),Anime,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jpop),JPop,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jrock),JPop,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanese),JPop,
Other))))))))
,
$if(%tracknumber%,%album%%discnumber%,)
)

Item Display:

CODE

// Backgrounds
$ifequal($mod(%list_index%,2),0,
$if(%tracknumber%,
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-140-186-236 pencolor-null)
,
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-130-164-209 pencolor-null)
)
,)

$if(%cwb_queueindex%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-58-110-165 pencolor-null),)
$if(%isplaying%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-10-36-106 pencolor-null),)
$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-null pencolor-233-233-233),)

// Side Art
$puts(art.width,35)
$puts(art.height,128)
$puts(art.num,$add($div($mul(%list_index%,%_height%),$get(art.height)),1))
$puts(art.offset,-$sub($sub($mul(%list_index%,%_height%),$mul($sub($get(art.num),1),$get(art.height))),%_height%))
$imageabs(0,$get(art.offset),images\frames\dark stone\frame.left.png,)
$imageabs($sub(%_width%,$get(art.width)),$get(art.offset),images\frames\dark stone\frame.right.png,)

// Track Number
$padding(50,)
$align(left,middle)$font(tahoma,10,,)
$if(%tracknumber%,
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,10-36-106))
%tracknumber%$font(,,,233-233-233).
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,0-0-0))

// Title
$alignabs(75,,%_width%,%_height%,,)$font(tahoma,10,,)
$if(%title%,$trim($left(%title%,$sub($strrchr(%title%,$char(40)),1))),)

$if($strrchr(%title%,$char(40)),
$font(,,,233-233-233) $char(40)
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,10-36-106))
$substr(%title%,$add($strrchr(%title%,$char(40)),1),$sub($strrchr(%title%,$char(41)),1))
$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(41)
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,0-0-0))
)
,
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,0-0-0))
$if($strcmp($left(%path%,7),http$char(58)$char(47)$char(47)),
$align(left,top)$left(%title%,60)
,
$alignabs(50,,%_width%,%_height%,,)$font(tahoma,10,,)
[%artist% - ]%title%
)
)

// Subtext
$alignabs($if(%tracknumber%,75,50),14,%_width%,%_height%,,)$font(tahoma,7,,$if(%isplaying%,233-233-233,10-36-106))
$if($strcmp($left(%path%,7),http$char(58)$char(47)$char(47)),
$if2(%url%,%path%)
,
$if2(%codec% ,)$if2(%bitrate%kbps,)
)

// Queue Indicator
$font(tahoma,10,,)
$if(%cwb_queueindex%,
$alignabs($sub(%_width%,$calcwidth(%cwb_queueindexes%),150),,%_width%,%_height%,,)
$font(,,,233-233-233)Q
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,140-186-236)):
$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(91)$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,140-186-236))%cwb_queueindexes%$char(47)%cwb_queuelength%$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(93)
$if(%isplaying%,$font(,,,233-233-233),$font(,,,0-0-0))
,)

// Length or Codec
$if($strcmp($left(%path%,7),http$char(58)$char(47)$char(47)),
$if(%bitrate%,$align(right,top),$align(right,middle))$font(tahoma,9,,$if(%isplaying%,233-233-233,0-0-0))
[%codec%]
$align(right,bottom)$font(tahoma,7,,$if(%isplaying%,233-233-233,10-36-106))
[%bitrate%kbps]
,
$align(right,middle)
$font(tahoma,10,,$if(%isplaying%,233-233-233,0-0-0))
%length%
)

Group Display:

CODE

$if($strcmp($left(%path%,7),http$char(58)$char(47)$char(47)),
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-0-0-0 pencolor-null)$padding(4,0)
$font(tahoma,7,,233-233-233)
$align(left,middle)
$align(left,middle)$font(tahoma,12,bold,140-186-236)↘ $font(tahoma,12,,233-233-233)
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),goa),Goa,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),trance),Trance,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),techno),Trance,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),anime),Anime,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanimation),Anime,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jpop),JPop,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),jrock),JPop,
$if($strstr($replace($lower(%genre%),', ',' '),japanese),JPop,
Other))))))))
,
$if(%tracknumber%,
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-0-0-0 pencolor-null)$padding(4,0)
$font(tahoma,7,,233-233-233)

// Disc Number
//$if(%discnumber%,
//$align(center,bottom)
//$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(40)$font(,,,140-186-236)Disc %discnumber%[ of %totaldiscs%]$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(41)
//)

// Title
$align(left,middle)$font(tahoma,12,bold,140-186-236)↘ $font(tahoma,12,,233-233-233)
$if(%album artist%,
$if($strrchr(%album artist%,$char(12300)),
$font(,,,140-186-236)$char(12300)$font(,,,233-233-233)$substr(%album artist%,2,$sub($len(%album artist%),1))$font(,,,140-186-236)$char(12301)
,%album artist%)
,)

$if($and(%album artist%,%album%),$font(,,,140-186-236) - $font(,,,233-233-233),)
$trim($left(%album%,$sub($strrchr(%album%,$char(40)),1)))

// Genre & Year
$font(tahoma,7,,)
$align(right,top)[$char(91)$font(,,,140-186-236)[%genre%]$if($and(%genre%,%date%), - ,)[%date%]$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(93)]

// CDID
$align(right,bottom)$if(%CDID%,$char(91)$font(,,,140-186-236)%CDID%$font(,,,233-233-233)$char(93),)
,
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-166-202-240 pencolor-null)
$drawrect(0,4,0,4,brushcolor-140-186-236 pencolor-null)
$drawrect(0,10,0,4,brushcolor-130-164-209 pencolor-null)
$drawrect(0,$sub(%_height%,8),0,4,brushcolor-140-186-236 pencolor-null)
$align(center,middle)$font(tahoma,10,italic,0-0-0)
~ Singles ~
)
)

Images Used:

frame.top.left.png, frame.top.png, frame.top.right.png


frame.left.png, frame.right.png


frame.bottom.left.png, frame.bottom.png, frame.bottom.right.png
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FEATURE REQUEST: I would like to request that this component add a field where we can enter a custom sort string, and then I would like for the component to automatically apply that sort any time the playlist changes.

This post has been edited by Yotsuya: Sep 9 2006, 08:45

[sHsIkuA]

Yotsuya, tried ur method, still the same

guess I'll use the old version for awhile

What version u using?