foobar2000 0.9.5 beta 9 Options

[herefornow]

Hi, using Foobar2000 v0.9.5.beta8. Did a search of this thread and the Foobar 2000 forum using the word disappear. Looked up and down My Foobar settings. Checked the F.A.Q. When tagging using the FreeDB context menu, files disappear. After scanning directories, files will appear and are properly tagged. Is this the way tagging is suppose to work in Foobar2000?
Thanks.

cheers,
herefornow

[eddy@]

When tagging using the FreeDB context menu, files disappear.

You mean files disappear from playlist? Are you using foo_dirwatch?

[Andu]

Might be Facet related? I think that after doing things. Like applying RG or renaming files or tagging them Facet reloads everything and whatever is marked in Facet will appear in the playlist. That is very annoying if you just put a new folder in your library but haven't reloaded the Media Library.

[DocBeard]

Likewise, if it's an Autoplaylist, changing the tags could well result in the disappearance of files from that playlist (since the files may no longer meet the criteria that generated the playlist in the first place).

[herefornow]

eddy@ You mean files disappear from playlist? Are you using foo_dirwatch?

Yes I am using foo dirwatch. Thought this component might fix this problem. Don't remember Foobar2000 ever doing this until the .9xx branch.

cheers,
herefornow

This post has been edited by herefornow: Dec 22 2007, 23:07

[lkc1811]

I am wondering, when will the 256*256 foobar2000 icon come back?

it has been appeared in the pervious beta version of v0.9.5.


thanks

[Squeller]

Thanks for b9. The 256x256 icon is back! I'm not on Vista, but use rocketdock, which likes huge icons...

[eddy@]

The speed to convert files is faster than ever in beta 9. Thank you, the fb2k dev team.

[Squeller]

The speed to convert files is faster than ever in beta 9. Thank you, the fb2k dev team.

??? I doubt there were changes and additionally conversion speed is mainly a matter of the encoder speed, and a bit a matter of decoding the source speed.

[eddy@]

The speed to convert files is faster than ever in beta 9. Thank you, the fb2k dev team.

??? I doubt there were changes and additionally conversion speed is mainly a matter of the encoder speed, and a bit a matter of decoding the source speed.

Oops.....I don't have technical material. Sorry for any imprecise information.

[Ivanov]

Help the n00b!
How to resize this?! I can't drag it... And how I can insert splitters like Columns UI?

This post has been edited by Ivanov: Dec 23 2007, 21:58

[GeSomeone]

You can select a track in each playlist, when you switch playlists and do "shift click" (to select a couple of items from and including the already selected track), It acts weird, like it is still remembering the previously selected track in the other playlist.

Still the same in b8, this can be easiest tested right after startup.

The problem seems gone in b9, good work guys.

[4nt1]

hi - I am running the latest beta 9 and without properly testing but noticed 1 or 2 betas ago the album list component is running like a dog for me...

I have a music collection approx 500gb but the context menus even struggle to come up the memory footprint spikes to 120+ mb or RAM, this was not the case in earlier versions and renders the component un usable

it slow up happens ad soon as i right click > now I struggle to clear / scan my dead entries and I recently redid my folder structure the component is lagging badly... not sure what info you need form me troubleshooting wise.. its worked fine in the past I have xp sp2 (latest updates) p4 2.8ghz + 2gb ram should run smooth...

when i minize foobar to tray the memory footprint goes to 1mb.. just seems to be the album list not liking me...

[anonnamiss]

Help the n00b!
How to resize this?! I can't drag it... And how I can insert splitters like Columns UI?

Hi,
you need to be in Layout Edition Mode. Go to View -> Layout -> Enable Layout Editing Mode. You can resize the panels there. To Insert Splitters, Right click the panel you want to put a splitter into, then click Replace UI Element, then one of the first few options will be Left/Right or Top/Bottom splitters.

Hope that helps.

[PHOYO]

hi - I am running the latest beta 9 and without properly testing but noticed 1 or 2 betas ago the album list component is running like a dog for me...

I have a music collection approx 500gb but the context menus even struggle to come up the memory footprint spikes to 120+ mb or RAM, this was not the case in earlier versions and renders the component un usable

Yes, there's gotta be something wrong with Album List. I have rather small music collection, 186 GB, and Album List freezes Foobar for minutes everytime I try to do something with it.

EDIT: Ok, only View by folder structure does this.

This post has been edited by PHOYO: Dec 26 2007, 23:19

[4nt1]

ok yes to clairfy this only happens in view by folder...

I am also using foo_dirwatch > even with dir watchh disabled its still painfully slow and often results in nothing happening other then a screen refresh of the albumlist window... please advise what extra info you require to fix the problem

also in my media library I have 2 directories...
c:\music and f:\music

not sure if that helps

also when viewing by other "views" the right click functionality is really quick and usable and switching between tabs is also faster.. it was extra slow before

hope it gets fixed otherwise I don't use the component in any other mode but by folder list.

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also can the selection properties component please be updated to allow inline editing, I think this would be an awesome feature and quite intuitive if implemented nicely.. the fact that you can click in a field and get the typing cursor (not sure of correct name) makes you think you can type something in after you double click an entry when in fact nothing changes

we would also need to asume or decide that this is only possible for meta data and not location or general...

This post has been edited by 4nt1: Dec 27 2007, 13:12

[Peter]

Album List's folder view will be made faster in the next version, thanks for reporting the issue.

[4nt1]

thanks Peter, any idea what changed in the most recent versions to "provoke" this slow down? perhaps something similar to the decoder/encoder performance issues we saw when the project was moved to the latest visual studio?

thanks again > foobar community is the best, where else can I report a bug/issue and have it acknowledged by the dev and have something done about it my hats off to your sir - happy new year make sure you have your share of drinks - we can all wait until the new year for the next beta

[ipse]

Tagging features can be found in the Properties dialog (right-click on a selection, Properties), including automatically setting track numbers and total tracks (right-click, Auto Track Number), filling values from the file names, formatting fields by means of titleformatting, capitalizing values, and so on; all in the context menus of said dialog.

Ugh. Using right-click here is really conter-intuitive for me. I spent few days to find this message and realize that I could do all this nice things in properties dialog. Well, this may be pretty good way to go, but there should be hint in a dialog, that you could use right-click. Or a lot of users will miss, I guess.

Btw, one more feature request - could "Next track", "Previous track" buttons be added to properties dialog? It is usual for me to go through album's tracks and see is everything fine. And it is boring to do without ability to view properties for next/previous track.

[Frank Bicking]

(...) could "Next track", "Previous track" buttons be added to properties dialog?

Please see this topic. Such buttons are most likely not going to be added.

[ipse]

(...) could "Next track", "Previous track" buttons be added to properties dialog?

Please see this topic. Such buttons are most likely not going to be added.

Aha, thanks for pointing to!

But, I was unable to imagine what I should do to perform such task. So, again, UI is very non-intuitive. There definitely should be a hint that this is possible. At first glance "Properties" dialog look very dumb and non interesting, useful only for setting single value to multiple files.

And, after all, seems name "Properties" does not show up the nature and functionality of this dialog. Something like "View/Edit tags" is better, but is not best too, imho. (could not think up good name from scratch).

PS Thank you for all you efforts to make foobar2000 coolest player over all!

[Mr. Pacman]

Nice updates. Is there a chance to make the artist in the playlist appear above the album title? Developers what do you say about this? It was a very nice layout with panels ui because you can see quicker the info bout the artist and the album. Also it would be nice to select the colour for the artist and the album separately the one from the other.

[PredUK]

Sorry if it's been posted before, but can someone give me a quick guide to coding custom grouping, or point me in the direction of one please? I'm not sure how to specify what tags to group by and how to arrange the display of the tags in the header.

This post has been edited by PredUK: Dec 31 2007, 00:33

[casedawg]

Is there a way, or are there any plans, to make a playlist that contains whatever is selected in album list? I seem to remember this was possible in 0.8.3. Kind of like how Facets works with the playlist Facet selection. I know you can set the middle button to create a playlist of whatever you click in Album List, but that's not exactly what I'm going for. I want to be able to have one playlist that always has what is selected in album list, so I don't have to worry about deleting playlists after I create them.

[alvaro84]

Is there a way, or are there any plans, to make a playlist that contains whatever is selected in album list?

This is my very reason to use the facets plugin.
So yes