Skipping songs, was: "Go to the next song" Options

[kabal]

Does someone know if there is an option, tag (with a right clic or shortcut) to put on a song to pass it because we don't want to listen to it for the moment? Of course, this option should stay after the close of the program. If it doesn't exist, that should be nice to implement it.

[shakey_snake]

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=30361

[fbuser]

Maybe foo_skip is what you're looking for.

[kabal]

Thanks shakey_snake and fbuser. I'm happy to see that this community is very active. Foo skip seems to be exactly what I need. I just don't understand what I have to modify to skip a specific track. I don't understand exactly this sentence...:
"Skips tracks that match user configurable title formatting string. By default skips over each track with Rating set to 1. "

This post has been edited by kabal: Nov 7 2009, 18:13

[Jack Schmaltz]

create a tag field called %skip%, any track tagged with a "1" in this field will be skipped.

[smkk]

It means you can modify the criteria of when a track should be skipped. Personally i'm using foo_quicktag to add a custom tag to the files to tracks which i want to skip.
Field name "SKIP" value "1".
The foo_skip formatting string in the advanced options>playback looks like this:
$strcmp(%skip%,1)

If you want to skip tracks with SKIP set to 1 OR %rating% set to 1, then the foo_skip formatting string would look like this:
$strcmp(%rating%,1)$strcmp(%skip%,1)
Just an example.

[kabal]

Thanks for your answer. Unhapily, I don't know how to create a custom tag. I will search later when I will find more time. I don't see on google any program to create a tag. Modify default tag, yes but no create.

For foo_quicktag, I tried it but I received the following error message:


Thanks yet!!

[lvqcl]

Thanks for your answer. Unhapily, I don't know how to create a custom tag. I will search later when I will find more time. I don't see on google any program to create a tag. Modify default tag, yes but no create.

Almost any. Foobar2000 can: go to track properties and press Ctrl+N or right-click and select "Add new field" or just double-click on free space.

For foo_quicktag, I tried it but I received the following error message:

IIRC foo_quicktag requires at least foobar 0.9.5 (was released about 2 years ago). What's your version?

[kabal]

Thanks for lvqcl and the other, now, it works!
For people wanting to use this functionalities, here are all the steps I did:
1. Take the dll of foo skip on the site: foo skip
2. put the dll on the folder components of foobar2000
3. Go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Skip track and replace:
$ifequal(%rating%,1,skip,) by $strcmp(%skip%,1)

4. Right clic on a song file on Foobar2000 and choose properties
5. Right clic on a free space and choose "add field"
6. Write %skip% (without %) and put the value 1.

It's not very fast for a solution but it avoids to hear again and again a bad song.

PS: I don't see any options to put "resolved" for this topic/subject....

Bye

This post has been edited by kabal: Nov 8 2009, 00:17

[tpijag]

There are so many ways that you can quicken this process.

One example.

Go to preferences>advanced>Display>Properties dialog>Standard fields

Add your new field, in this case, skip. You can control where the fields location within the properties dialog based on where you insert the field into the exist string. Or just add it at the end [do not forget the semi colon as a separator].

It will now always be in your properties dialog for easy edit.

terry

This post has been edited by tpijag: Nov 8 2009, 00:23

[kabal]

I configured that now!!
Thanks

[Jack Schmaltz]

how odd, iv had this component installed for a while now but never used it.
after reading this thread i decided to look for the preferences but nothing is there & when i try to use it by tagging a file it doesnt work.
iv tried removing & readding the component but to no avail, are the options definetly in the Advanced section???

thanks

[tpijag]

Advanced, playback

terry

There is also a toggle on / off for component under playback in the main foobar menu bar

This post has been edited by tpijag: Nov 8 2009, 00:55

[kabal]

[Jack Schmaltz]

defo not there guys, & i have it installed:


& i checked under Playback in the main menu, nothing there either.
im dumb struck, its rare i bring up a problem on here as i can generally figure it out but im stumped on this one, any ideas?

thanks

This post has been edited by Jack Schmaltz: Nov 8 2009, 03:43

[bubi jackson]

Hi jack,

from where do have foo_skip 1.0.0? My version and the one from official site is 0.4 - maybe that's the problem.

[tpijag]

Same here. Version 0.4

terry

[Jack Schmaltz]

haha, that was it, thanks guys.

im really not sure where i got that one from, think it was with the curacao component pack from way back.

dont know what the deal was with that but all is well now, thanks for your time

[jazzthieve]

Is it possible for foo_skip to skip not only songs rated 1 but also songs rated 2? So everything rated 1 and 2 would be skipped.

[smkk]

$strstr(12,%rating%)

[jazzthieve]

Thanks smkk.

[inkling]

For whatever it's worth, an alternative route to achieving this, without addons (well, except columns UI):

I created a filter in Columns UI that sorts my music into four categories: Unrated, Disliked (RATING < 3), Liked (Rating = 3), and Loved (Rating > 3). This way, I can easily filter out music that I don't want in any given playlist by rating it less than 3 and de-selecting the "Disliked" filter.

The filter logic is:

Name: Rating
Field: $IF(%RATING%,$IFGREATER(%RATING%,3,Loved,$IFEQUAL(%RATING%,3,Liked,Disliked)),Unrated)

(Note: I'd love a way to do this where "Liked" songs include all songs with a rating greater than 3, and Loved songs are all songs greater than 4, but I can't figure out how to create a filter that would do that. If anyone knows how, I'd appreciate it!)

A simpler filter would just sort into Disliked (RATING < 3) and Other (Unrated, or Rating > 2):

Name: Rating
Field: $IF($NOT($GREATER(%RATING%,2)), Disliked, Other)