I want to see how you guys are tagging your music. Like title, name, track and etc. I'm not sure where to start and I'm sure you guys will lead me toward the right direction .

Go here:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/show.php/showtopic/4899

Or here:

http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/index.php

screen (30kByte GIF)

Like with most things, the right direction is the direction you decide to walk for yourself.

Most people seem to prefer having properly, and completely, tagged files. Many playlist formatting strings assume that you do have properly tagged files. And yet, as those willing to make playlist formatting strings get more comfortable with the tools at hand, formatting strings are starting to show up with systems in place to "guess", as it were, relevant information from nothing more than the file name.

When it comes to the formatting string itself, well, that is entirely a matter of personal taste. Some like them colorful. Some like them plain. Some like an overabundance of information. Others just want to know the name of the track.

Most people can find a formatting string they like over at the official Foobar 2000 formatting string repository. But even if you don't find something that turns your crank, you can always dive into the formatting yourself and make something that delivers what you want. That is one of the fundamental aspects of the Foobar experience. If you aren't happy with what is already there, there is nothing stopping you from shaping it into what you want.

After looking at it, how should I configure EAC to output a file name with a artist/album/title? What order should it be in? artist first? Or Album first? Or what? Can I also output the duration of the song? Or maybe you guys can give me a commonly used naming scheme and I'll just follow that . Thx

http://www.rewindthemovie.com/imageupload/....50.32%20AM.jpg

There is a screenshot of my Foobar. I got it from the above site that has format strings: http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/index.php That one.

As for EAC setup... take a look here: http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/EAC/index.html

http://sws.pcc.edu/student/CS160_ssubrama_...t04/foofuck.gif

wow, now that's a bad gif

Can you guys just provide me a good commonly used naming scheme that I can use? I just want to copy it and paste it into EAC. Thx

My screen (~60KB)

As for the naming scheme, I use this:


For VA albums it's:


Many people like to have the tracknumber also in the filename, but I think it's easier to find songs from Windows Explorer, when they're in an alphabetical order.

Here is mine :

here

+ non regular font
+ plenty of infos

- a bit too dark

Hi man,

That's a nice font. What is it?

man,
What font is that? Looks pretty nice...

Edit: I guess I'm not the only one that was curious...

actually id love to see that turned into a config file man, thats totally awsome.

if you dont mind, could you possibly release that using Tagz config swapper?

Anza i really like your formatting string for the playlist can you post it here or/and in the formatting site?

Thx, Kurjak

The font name is 'FuturaA Bk BT', bold.

I chose it because it remains small but "thick" at the same time, allowing to set a low-contrast interface with still readable letters.

Here's my foobar. I like it simple

my foobar

here's mine:
http://www.radiokdug.com/foo2.htm
just gives you
{folder} artist - album - 01 - song comments - stereo mode - length

sgt, here's my EAC filename string: %A - %C - %N - %T
which gives you
artist - album - 01 - song.mp3

if this gives you filenames that are too long (for you and your system, cds etc) you could try
artist/album/01 - song.mp3
or
artist - album/01 - song.mp3

@Sgt_Strider: You might find this thread helpful: File Name Art

@Speek: I actually learned something from the screenshot of your simplistic formatting
IIRC elapsed time was not available for playlist formatting the last time I tried.

By the way, this is mine
(the same without transparency : http://seeschloss.net/foobar.png)

The status bar formatting comes from http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k (the name is 'hybrid' IIRC), the playlist formatting comes from myself

Oh, and the file name formatting I use is always Artist - Album - Track - Title
(And my collection is organised this way : M:\A\Artist\Album where 'A' is the first letter of the artist name)


figured I could register after all the time I spent reading this forum

Mine.

screen 1
screen 2
screen 3
screen 4

and man, i really like yours, please post it to formatting strings site

this is the same look I have for both foobar 0.6 and 0.7 - now it is about the only look I can tolerate for a media player now after using it for so many months.
unchanged screencap from 3 months back.
can dig up the source of the formatting strings that I modified from that rather large thread if anyone actually cares.

the background behind the transparency is from that classic movie High Society.

I like columns - especially for classical music.

Click here to see my screen

Here you can see my screenshot of foobar2000. (53511 bytes PNG)

Being the ungrateful lazy sod I am, I stll haven't migrated to a columns layout even after zZzZzZz kindly implemented Unicode character width support ages ago.

Mazy: What Windows skinning thing are you using, and what's that thing in the taskbar on the 1st screenshot? foo_tbar? Where do I download???

http://www.soundware.org/images/foobar.jpg

I'm using the following naming scheme "%A-%Y-CDtype-%C\%N-%T"

How come when I'm playing the wav file on foobar, the screen looks like this:
http://members.shaw.ca/sgt_strider/foo.PNG


I thought it's suppose to display the name of the artist, album, and etc.?

Edit: changed IMG tags to URL.

Mine

I use the 2-bytes characters' version of dynamic format with Osaka font.

hello ...

it's 'envision edited' for windowblinds 4 ... skin called envision edited and tweaked (a lot! ) by me, especially for vertical taskbar etc.

the thing at bottom is great toolbar application called truelaunchbar ( www.truelaunchbar.com ), which is mainly for menus etc ... it has media plugin for controlling same players, foobar is one of them. it gives me metadb leaks but i can live with that


edit: btw - just for your information, that edited skin hasn't been published

You are all lamers
Here is my configuration: http://www.nic.fi/~lhahne/temp/foobar.png
Note! I'm running it on Windows Xp. I don't have any fancy skins installed.

Ps. The config is the default of foobar2000 0.666 or something. And yes, I'm still using it.

Only l33ts use skins!!!

http://members.cox.net/rstotts/foobar.png

Here's mine.

The default playlist title formatting in foobar is set to display the filename if there are no tags present. You are playing a .wav file, so there are no tags present and your filename only contains the track # and track title.

Rob

Voila!

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/n2j3/d_top/foo.png

http://membres.lycos.fr/viveztigrou/hpbimg/foo_rox.png

foobar rulz!

Edit: Changed tags from IMG to URL.

ooops i see no-one put directly images online
sorry , the next time i will make a link

because since you use WAVE perhaps?
there are no tags unless you chose to APEv2 tag them. What you need to do is some nice playlist string to show your WAVE files correctly.

I"m a little confuse...In EAC, I thought I already got the naming scheme to display the thing. Will encoding it into FLAC allows the tags to be viewable or what?

http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/screenshot.../fb2k_13_40.png

Edit: changed IMG tags to URL.

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I am very proud of my small foobar window

Mine

http://mitglied.lycos.de/myck79/foobar.png

I like your foobar display, Schinkentoni...
Willing to post your strings?
Danke,
Tom.

I like it too

Playlist : Lucida sans unicode, size 8

$if(%_isplaying%,0000BF|0000BF$num(%_playlist_number%,4) 000000|000000· 0000BF|0000BF%artist%A6A6A6|A6A6A6..............................................................................................................$repeat($char(9),3)0000BF|0000BF%title% A6A6A6|A6A6A6$if(%album%, $char(187)$char(187)%album%$char(171)$char(171),)A6A6A6|A6A6A6.......................................................................................................................................................................................$repeat($char(9),7)0000BF|0000BF%__bitrate% kbps $if(%__extrainfo%,$lower(%__extrainfo%),cbr)000000|000000·0000BF|0000BF$ifgreater(%__channels%,1,$if($stricmp(%__mp3_stereo_mode%,stereo), $abbr(%__mp3_stereo_mode%) , $abbr(%__mp3_stereo_mode%))
, $abbr(%__mp3_stereo_mode%)) 000000|000000· 0000BF|0000BF$num($div(%_length_seconds%,60),2):$num($mod(%_length_seconds%,60),2) Min.,A6A6A6|A6A6A6$num(%_playlist_number%,4) 000000|000000%artist%A6A6A6|A6A6A6......................................................................................................$repeat($char(9),3)000000|000000%title% A6A6A6|A6A6A6$if(%album%, $char(187)$char(187)%album%$char(171)$char(171),)A6A6A6|A6A6A6.........................................................................................................................................................................................................$repeat($char(9),7)$transition(%__bitrate% kbps $if(%__extrainfo%,$lower(%__extrainfo%),cbr)·$ifgreater(%__channels%,1,$if($stricmp(%__mp3_stereo_mode%,stereo), $abbr(%__mp3_stereo_mode%) , $abbr(%__mp3_stereo_mode%))
, $abbr(%__mp3_stereo_mode%)),000000|000000,A6A6A6|A6A6A6 ) A6A6A6|A6A6A6 $num($div(%_length_seconds%,60),2):$num($mod(%_length_seconds%,60),2) Min.)




Status bar : mono 0755, size 6

::: $lower(%artist% - %title% $if(%_ispaused%,0000BFPAUSED,$select($add($mod(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,3),1),%__bitrate%kbps [%__extrainfo%],%__samplerate%Hz,$ifgreater(%__channels%,1,%__mp3_stereo_mode%,mono))) $progress(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%_time_total_seconds%,25, $div($mul(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,100),%_time_total_seconds%)'% ',$repeat($char(187),1)) <> %_time_elapsed%[ / %_time_total%])


works only with mp3, due to the '%__mp3_stereo_mode%'. Files must be tagged, or you get an '?'

That is a very nice playlist string.

Since I don't only use mp3s, I've been trying to modify it a little so that it will also show the codec of each track. Unfortunately, other than basic formating, the strings make about as much sense to me as Sumerian cuneiform. So, I was wondering if someone who does "get it" could post a modified string that also shows each tracks format? It would be really cool too, if it showed the three letter extension instead of the full name, ie. ape instead of Monkey's Audio, mpc instead of Musepack.

Thanks,

Rob

Everybody likes the "dynamic" string! me too

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jahearn79/im...ges/foo_dyn.png

http://users.volja.net/smoker/pub/foobar2000.png