Binding playlists to hotkeys

2009-10-05 05:46:12

Hello! I often listen to music while using different fullscreen aplications, so foobar's global hotkey feature is pretty useful.

However, I haven't found a way to easily switch to another playlist with a hotkey. In fact, I haven't found any way. Even when I've selected another playlist with the "Next Playlist" command, foobar won't play tracks from the currently selected playlist, it only plays tracks from the one I selected previously.

...Which is why I'm posting here. I'm trying to find a way to switch to a specific playlist with a hotkey, but it doesn't look like foobar supports that. Additionally, I can't seem to find a component that will let me do this.

Any help?

Binding playlists to hotkeys

Reply #1 – 2009-10-05 06:06:12

Here is command line tool, but you can't use it through foobar keyboard shortcuts, although it is a way to control foobar to play another playlist

Binding playlists to hotkeys

Reply #2 – 2009-10-05 06:18:10

Adding to what 2E7AH said, you can use foo_cmd_playlist together with foo_run.
To bind a certain playlist to a key first set up a new foo_run service like this: "C:\path\to\foobar\foobar2000.exe" /playlist-find:"My Playlist"
Then this run service will appear as a bindable keyboard shortcut.

Binding playlists to hotkeys

Reply #3 – 2009-10-05 06:21:01

I just wanted to edit my post and reply with that

to actually play the playlist:

"C:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe" /playlist-activate:"default" /play

and playback follows cursor must be enabled

Binding playlists to hotkeys

Reply #4 – 2009-10-05 07:16:26

Oh, wow! I wasn't expecting to get help so fast!

This is just what I need - well, not quite, I also wanted a random track to be played when I switch playlists. However, I just installed the foo_runcmd component and have found a way to do that. Thank you very much, I didn't think it would be possible to do this

Binding playlists to hotkeys

Reply #5 – 2009-10-05 07:35:16

"C:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe" /playlist-activate:"default" /rand

Binding playlists to hotkeys

Reply #6 – 2009-10-05 10:26:05

Another way to do this is offered by foo_scheduler:

• Create a new action list like "switch to playlist 'unrated'"
• Add the action "select active playlist" and choose the playlist you want to switch to
• Create a "menu item event" in the list of events with the setting "re-enable after done" and assign the action list created before to this event
• Now you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the new menu item which is located under "File > Trigger schedule event".

Advantage: no command lines, so independent of the fb2k location; action list can be extended to change playback order and other things.
Disadvantage: high clicks/result ratio.