The bug I had with the video is reproduceable, I have already made it three times with 2 other videos showing that problem and the complete build and layout, do you want me to upload them ?

edit: I was wrong

Thanks for your reply, I do mean the album list, can you tell me where I place that code so I can try it?

Thanks agian

musicmusic. Is it possible that you could add margins (2px, left & right) to the volume and progressbar. If they are placed next to a border the slider get too close at the start and at the end. Currently I've solved the problem by adding an empty horizontal splitter to the right. I should probably have one on the left also but I feel it's less important.

I see what you mean sort of. It would be sort of possible to have a similar command in buttons toolbar when I add "dependent layouts" feature.


Can you upload the foobar2000.cfg file that does that? Can you describe briefly what exactly you are seeing as well?

It looks related to foo_uie_albumart.

I'll take a look at it.

One 'hack' that you can use to get around the margins thing is to add a 2-pixel-wide trackinfo panel with the colours set to match your window. :shrug:

when I try to resize the album art, clicking makes the album art to become smaller and smaller with a dark grey background even if I go on the right with my mouse, and when the album art is too small, it takes the whole space (huge black background filling the whole foobar window). And then when I go to my layout, several panels are "Hidden" while they should not, and even when I uncheck hidden, they do not appear again, the album art always take the whole space and I must restart a new layout


http://eolindel.free.fr/images/foobar/foobar2000.cfg

If you need other .cfg when the album art does not take yet the whole space, just tell me

BTW, since I'm currently developing foo_uie_albumart, I'll take a look at this bug, too. (though my knowledge of the ui_extension sdk is limited, so I'm not sure how much I'll actually be able to diagnose)

Also, what version of Windows are you using?

Not sure if this is doable, but I've been looking for a different default action when playing a file. Basically, when I start playing a file, I would like the current playlist to be sent to replace a "Queue" playlist. This would basically mimic the fuctionality in mediamonkey which I really like because it automatically stores the current playlist so it is not replaced by browsing the library, searching, etc. and lets you easily edit the queued songs. Obviously, this would not be the default behavior, though, and would only be an option.

Feature Request:
This is purely for the looks. It would be cool if it was possible to make the components have the toolbar look. Like in the image below... dotted gripper and gradient background (this is different depending on the theme). This is only possible at the top in the menu toolbar currently.

musicmusic, i have a feature request . i was thinking - it would be nice not only show / hide columns according to playlist's name. i would like to be able to switch between views (i.e. different sets of enabled / disabled columns) for example from dropdown list. i would use 'views' like album mode, single mode, detailed mode etc.

what do you (and others) think?

Really good idea!

Concerning showing and hiding splitters I have a suggestion (I previously suggested). How about adding the possibility to add a shortcut to show/hide elements,splitters of the layout?
I find it very hard to target the toggle area. It's so small, that I most of the time have some "resize-arrows" shown..

Feature request: "Lock this playlist view to current playlist."

Example of usage (read: the first thing I would do):
Add two instances of the playlist view panel, lock one to the playlist containing the enqueued tracks. Switching to another playlist in the playlist switcher now only affects the "main" playlist view, and not this locked one.

If achievable, this would eliminate the "need" for a dedicated foo_uie_queueviewer. Paired with autoplaylists, users could have panels showing dynamic lists of e.g. their current "Top 20", alongside their actual playlist.

I didn't quite understand everything you described, but have you checked the "Enqueue incoming files..." and "Always send to playlist..." options under "Preferences -> General"?

Could someone please tell me how to filter columns based on genre. I want "ensemble" & "subtitle" columns to display only when genre = classical or chamber if possible.
Thanks in advance.

That's only for adding files from the commandline I think. If anyone has tried mediamonkey, you'll understand what I want. This would probably require a completely new component, though. It's really pretty simple. It would just need to make the current playlist replace the queue when anything in it is played.

Not possible. But you could use other columns for that.

E.g. see here: http://minnit.de/etc/fb2k.png

that would be nice, but as it is now, the core and columns_ui doesn't really support multiple playlist's views (plus you have playing and active playlist), things could get really nasty. not to mention that you can't have separate configuration for the other view (though you could enable / disable columns based on the queue playlist's name).

Actually, I really wasn't even looking for the multiple playlist views function. I really just thought the queue viewer could be a normal playlist that can be accessed through tabs, the list, etc.

actually that's the case at the moment, though you can't make any changes to the playlist. what i would like to see is support for accessing queue information from the formatting (and indicating it in the playlist view).

I don't know the current limits of the core itself and UI Columns, regarding playlists. You're right about the problem with no separate config for each view, and you point out the solution I had in mind. But, I do realize that this would most likely lead to requests for separate configs.
After thinking about it, maybe this approach isn't the right one. Maybe it would be better having a multi purpose panel, with a more light weight formatting config. The idea, whether it's currently possible or not, in this way or that, is to have one single panel component with a large degree of flexibility, supporting multiple instances. Add them wherever you want, containing things you find useful (e.g. queue, history, top 20...).

Exactly. As for the stuff that upNorth is talking about, multiple playlist views would be a nice feature to have, but it's not personally what I was looking for in my request. What I wanted, I think, is a lot simpler than it is being made out to be. A plugin (or feature built into columnsUI) would simply copy the current playlist and name it "Queue" as the default action when playing any file.

Just to clarify. The idea/request i posted yesterday, had no relation to alphaex32's. It just happend to be posted on the same day.

musicmusic please add ability to take previous and next item info in the list. something like this:
$prev(%tracknumber%) show previous item tracknumber
$next(%tracknumber%) ...
$if($prev(%tracknumber%), ... , ... )
etc...
it be usefull for many peoples 8)
p.s. sorry for my poor english 8D

this has been discussed many times and it's probably not going to get implemented anytime soon. there's some idea of "grouping" by lyx, which may make it sometime later.

the problems are mostly because playlist items get processed in not exclusively sequential order etc ...

maybe there is another way to separate non-album tracks from album?
http://doctordeath.org.ru/files/temp.png
my foobar looks bad without it 8\

But in fact somewhere the information is stored, what on such position such song why to not use it, for definition of properties previous/following tracks?

p.s. it's writing using online translator 8)

With some more changes to my config it seems this idea might not be the best solution. Perhaps if the whole splitter had margins that would be better. That would set offset for all elements.

The bottom image have an empty buttons-field on the left and an empty vertical splitter at the bottom creating a 2px offset from the edges. I'm hoping this can be fixed in a future version of your amazing plugin.

I continue to mistreat resizing actions:

with this layout:

(My album art panel is locked)
http://eolindel.free.fr/Foo_mini/Image2.gif


When I expand my "playlist management" tab when the "Main tab" is open, buttons impose the width of the main tab (approximately: one third of the screen for the Pl management tab, one third for the main tab, one third for the album art which is put out of the "display window" of foobar /picture) , when I try to resize the Pl management tab: the album art become smaller and smaller and fits the "display window" of foobar. (picture) then when it is too small, it is shut down, (picture,picture ). But when I see my layout, the album art panel is still here, clicking on apply doesn't make it appear again, and it is not considered as hidden picture (No way to make it appear again closing my tabs and trying to re expand the panel, it is obviously totally shut down)

I have to remove the panel and recreate it in my layout

I hope I'm clear

I'm not sure whether I understand your problem. Do you mean that the album art panel is resized when expanding one of the autohide panels, although your album art panel is locked?

I've tried to reproduce this but couldn't confirm. Maybe one of other panels is locked too?

Yes But the other autohide panel(i.e. "Main") is locked because of the buttons toolbar

Quite funny, reducing the size of the "Main" tab (when it is opened) made it appear again but resizing the album art panel becomes erratic

musicmusic. Is it somehow possible to extract png's from a fcb file. I downloaded fcb file in the foobar button thread but I'd like to change the color of the buttons inside. But I have yet to find a way to extract them.

usually, they are stored in the folder "images" of foobar

Awesome. Thanks.

Maybe placing the toobar buttons (locked) above the autohide panels, i.e. including a vertical splitter (buttons toolbar / autohide panels) would work ?!

Yes, but it's not what I want

Why do you lock your autohide panel "Main"? To center the buttons?

I don't lock the Main panel, There is a fake button created (I used custom text and put the right number of spaces to get it centered when the main tab is opened) and the buttons toolbar is auto locked.

mazy wrote:



I had an idea that i posted in navigator suite but i think it was the wrong thread! So let me repeat it here.
Because i don't know if it realizeable at all i didn't mean the idea as a request.

The idea was:

The mode is determined not only by name of playlist but also by sorting. So if f.e. i sort my displayed albums by title, mood or other trackrelated fields the sorted playlist is displayed in single mode. if i then sort the playlist by - let's say - genre/artist/album it is displayed in album mode again. In combination with Lyx's idea that would be great.

What do you think, musicmusic?

Just upgraded to the latest version and all my settings (including playlist & sidebar layouts + all custom toolbars) were gone. WTF?? "Thanks" to such radical changes in fb2k world every 0.0.0.x version changes I have a habit of backing up everything before doing any "upgrades", but even now Import & Export doesn't work.

Yup, there was a change at some stage breaking the prior config.

The fate of a foobar user?

Unfortunately We are the alpha-testers. =/

musicmusic, next time you drop any backward compability PLEASE warn about this. I don't have much time to dig deep inside changelogs and this last upgrade was a forced one required by another ui component.

Well, the latest version is labeled as beta, and there were alpha and even pre-alpha version before, so this isn't all that surprising.

As far as I remember, he did post a warning about this when the new version was released, and the change log entries about the compatility break are written in bold.

I meant the overall situation with revolutional development in fb2k world and poor backwards compability. I lost my setting numerous times and had to start from scratch almost every time. It's absolutely no wonder why there is still so many 0.8.x users: they need STABILITY and don't have much time to search & reconfigure everything.



Do the regular users read changelogs? =]

do the regular users use columns ui? if so then yes they should..

How do i make the albums appear under the album column, artists under the artist column and title under title album? I can't get it to work.

It appears that you have "Artist - Title" entered for the TITLE tag on many of your songs, it looks like you need to clean up your library and ensure all your artist names are under the ARTIST tag and titles under the TITLE tag. If I am mistaken please provide more information about your setup.

And how would i do that? Is it in preferences?

The tags are stored individually on each of your mp3 files. There are many ways to edit these tags, the easiest of which would probably be to right click on the file in your playlist and select "Properties.." from the menu. There is an extension called foo_infobox that makes things a little easier on the eyes, and there are many other 3rd party programs for editing tags on your files. If you are unfamiliar with metatags I would suggest googling for "ID3". Put the name of the artist into the artist field, the name of the song in the title field, the name of the album into the album field, etc. Foobar heavily relies on proper tagging for most of it's advanced features so I would suggest you familiarize yourself with the concept and clean up your library.

Just a quick request. When you drop files into a playlist using drag+drop, I would like an option to "Move files here" instead of only "Add files here."