It works very well!
I have had no crashes with version 0.1 beta8!

If you don't like strings you can use import to import other peoples settings!
Look here:
A thread in this forum with settings
and here
spase Columns Formatting Site

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Neksus

Hi there,

Haven't been reading this thread for a while, I got the latest build and trying to catch up again. So sorry if these issues already passed:

When choosing "sort selection only when clicking header" it doesn't sort anything when there is only one file selected (obviously). Could you make it so that when this is the case, it acts like if there was no selection made, ie, sort all files.

In the right-mouse menu where you can en/disable the columns, can you move the bottom bit where "preferences" and "edit this column" reside up, I got so (too) many columns that I have to scroll all the way down every time I want to make a simple change.

Also, a semi-huge thank you for changeing back the ctrl-leftmouse selection behavior thing...now if only I could use it to de-selcet aswell....I'd say leave the alt-selection thingie for those who don't care about changeing their behaviour patterns

musicmusic,

When double clicking the sidebar playlist seperator, instead of toggling between enable/disable can you change it so it toggles between the minimised width (probably 0) and the last width?

Reason being at present: doubleclick to minimise then you can't resize the sidebar width.

cheers...

Ok.


Ok I guess that makes sense.


Hahahahahahaha Yes that is a brilliant idea. It will be back anyway since you asked, but on mouse up like windows explorer/standard listview.



Actually resizing from hidden is broken, it does resize it but doesnt show it, so you still have to double click it again. This was working correcly originally but I commented out that line of code for some reason ..

I don't see any benefit to changing it to work how you describe, it should be transparent to the user (after the bug is fixed) anyway..

musicmusic: what all info is saved in the .fcs file besides just the column string? Anything?

What exactly do you mean aside from the "columns string"?

Most of the UI-related settings are stored; here is complete list of what a file can contain which Im sure you can decipher into some common english..


CONFIG_COLUMN is a column, CONFIG_NOHSCROLL is auto-resizing mode, PLIST is playlist sidebar, the rest are fairly straight forward..

All of those are do not have to be in an fcs file, but the only ones you can currently prevent from being in there are the status bar/window title and systray strings.

Aside from settings, nothing else is stored, if that is what you are getting at..

rc1:
- "Enable double clicking to rename playlists" works when "Enable middle/double clicking to add playlists" is not enabled.
- fixed minor bug where focus was taken away from foobar on startup temporarily
- fixed playback buttons padding on right
- added tooltips on playback buttons
- menu dsecriptions on status bar
- fixed resizing hidden playlist sidebar
- consistent sizing of total length of selected tracks on status bar
- return of ctrl-click, death of alt-click
- option for alternate playlist selections model, which is more like standard ui / original columns ui behaviour
- sort sel only option only effective when when selection is greater than 1
- header context menu rearranged a bit
- renaming active playlist correctly updates shown columns
- seekbar improvements: increased accuracy; can press escape to cancel seek
- in tabs/sidebar, playlist keyboard shortcuts no longer executed

Also available from spase's site.

My mirror also updated!

0.1 RC1
foobar2000 page

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Neksus

ohh good

one thing (last time I tried with b8 it didnt work) , could you enable shift+click on the seekbar to behave like the standard ui (i.e. instant seek)

and, when you wheel-click the seek region, it's doing something weird ... not happening with the standard ui ...

thanks again, your work is very appreciated

nIRV

RC1 Bug Report: Seekbar doesn't work for files that are 54:37mins and longer. Tested in the following manner:

1) Test file: A Nero Digital movie containing an AAC audio stream that is 1:34:13 hours.

2) Playback is fine but realised seeking doesn't work.

3) Tried default UI - Seeking works.

4) Tried columns UI beta 8 - Seeking works.

5) Created a cuesheet in this format:


6) By trial & error, found that seeking for TRACK 01 fails at 54:37.

Problem is that I am unable to reproduce using a 'real' audio file, as opposed to an audio stream in a movie (don't have an audio file that long as I am a single track guy ).

Despite this, great work with columns UI

1. Ok Ill add it for RC2.

2. It just gives it the focus (standard trackbar behaviour) ? I know its not a useful behaviour, but I didnt think people would actually middle click it anyway.. I will change it in RC2.


Ooops, please redownload.. Thanks for the report.

I've lost my 'B'

Fixed, please redownload.

My mirror updated!
Message:
My mirror will have the newest version within 1-10 mins after muscimusic has made a released!

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Neksus

post 0.1 suggestion

a) expend the sidebar possibility (i.e. not just a playlist list but could be album list too, container for history component, etc. who knows)

b) offer the possibility to put the tabs under the playlist

I'd like to see ctrl+a support in the config page, as the formatting strings tend to get bit long and as I edit them always in TextPad I need to copy-paste them all the time.

Neksus, can you add 'VA' as second various artist indicator to your azrael theme? (V.A. is already there, but i dont use that)
and if it is in various artist mode, is it supposed to show the album name?
Because it showed me only artist and title so far

musicmusic: request please:

enable dragging of tracks off of playlist to folder copies the files to that folder

edit: upgraded to latest columns, works fine w/ ctrl click, thanks

how would i add albumlist to the side or explorer?
also how would i add a column to show time elapsed?

Read one of your post from the referenced thread saying that right-click doesn't work for you. However, for me (using RC1) I get a context menu allowing me to either 'Copy Here' or 'Cancel'. Alternatively, ctrl-click and drag directly copies the tracks off the playlist.

Similarly, copying tracks between playlists works the same way.

IMHO, ctrl-click and drag works better than the left-click and drag using the default UI as, with the default UI, the arrangement of the playlist gets messed up if the mouse veers off from the horizontal position of the track(s) I wish to copy.

I don't know what you are asking about albumlist, but it is its own window, there is no way to change that.

I have my 'length' column set to display time elapsed / total length:

if you only want it to show time elapsed then just have it display:

but then the column will be empty when that track isn't playing. So you could do this:

and then it will always display the lenght, and show the time elapsed on a playing track. hope that helps!

how would i make albumlist appear in its own window?
i have that same code for the length column but for some reason it doesnt display elapsed time

My formatting string is made to work best when people have tags!
It does not guess anything and it never will so if there's no album tag it does not display a directory name or something else!
Use various tag as Various Artist Identifier!
Just mark the album in question in foobar2000 and add the tag various and set the value to anything!

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Neksus

Ok.


As already mentioned, use ctrl+drag.


You can't right now.


Go prefs / display / show dynamic info.

Could this be a bug?
Picture up works as it is supposed to be; it goes to the top of the page and then scrolls all the way up to playlist number one.
But picture down only goes to the end of the page and then does not scroll.
I use xp sp1, fb2k 0.8.1 and ui rc1

Edit: Sorry; restarted and everything works again.

well according to ndrake, albumlist has its own window
maybe you could clarify that?

upnorth

where can i find the hybrid, dynamic code?

hello neksus

i have a request for you:


1. can you make in azrael sepparate columns for artis and albums ?
2. can you not change colors if i have or not track;s numbers ?


thank's

thats ok for me
my only problem left is that your theme does not work correctly when my track fields are like this: 01/10, 02/10, ... instead of just 01, 02, ...
is it possible that 01/10,... tracks will also work?

Umm I will try to see if I can get 01/10 tracknumbers working!

[edit] Fixed in latest version! All kind of tracknumber styles are supported now!
These are: 1/1, 10/12, 1 of 1, 12 of 12 and so on! I tried with the different styles the FreeDB search has as options and they all work!
[/edit]

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Neksus

1) Azrael 1.x was like this
see here Old Versions
2) ?? What do you mean?

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Neksus

i mean, that, if music has a track number, the colors of that track is changing.... so, i want, if you can to modify the azrael in order not to change colors...

You want it to display as a single list?
Add -s- anywhere before or after the playlist name!

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Neksus

rc1 is nice work!
musicmusic,
once again I'm asking you to make toolbars remember their positions after re-enabling them
and also make seekbar if dragged too far from it to return back (not only ESC key). emm, I hope you understand what I'm saying. It is done in this way in default UI
thanx for the great ui!

question:

is there any possiblity to control content of tooltips in foo_ui ?

for example:
in my playlist i have short info about files (no., title,artist,album)
and i wish that tooltip show me rest of information: bitrate,time, and stuff.

to be clear, im talking about playlist tooltip, not tray tooltip
Any possibility to do this ?

that tooltip thing is a very good idea ... in fact it should be in the core of foobar just like other formattings ... but if we have it only in columns for now, goood

it should allow multiple lines, and colors ... with selectable background and border color (not fixed colors)

i tried to find information about it in the thread, but couldn't find any info on that in the changelogs, so:

was the problem that colour-codes dont work in global strings fixed? (i mean, fixed without using the old(slow) method of parsing global strings). That is the only single thing which keeps me back from switching to ui_columns.

- Lyx

In the menu, go to Components and click Album List. A window pops up. Is this what you want integrated into the sidebar? It's an interesting idea.

Components/Albumlist ?


1. Yes Ok.
2. Maybe, Im not sure.


Not right now. Maybe in a future version.. (post-0.1).


No. It is beyond my control.

All I could do is remove any char 3s myself, you would still have to reinsert them in your other strings.

well anybody know of a way to add explorer/albumlist or something like that to the side cuz foo_tunes has it, the string for bitrate, and track #, how to add # of the song in the playlist with the artist in the same column, and how to change the color of foobar, like in azrel

I noticed a bug with the columns-UI plugin.

It caused other plugins data not to be saved. Examples : I used DS2 output, and tend to change it from one sound card to the other, as this is easier than pluging the headphone in and out -> I left it on one sound card, and on next foobar start it was on the other again.
Another example is visualisation plugins: I tried with both "simple spectrum" and "simple stereo" vis, and they both could not save window positions.
There was also a problem with saving the playlist tabs (some appended trackks disappeared, and had to be appended again)
Even ColumnsUI config was not saved (noticed on "put dropped files at the end" setting).

Noticing this, I changed the UI back to default, where everything worked OK. Then, I changed back to ColumnsUI, and the above mentioned errors were gone for one start and then back again.

I'm using F2k 0.8.1, ColumnsUI RC1 with Azrael formatting string, WinXP SP1.

I'm stuck with the default UI until this is fixed

Hrm..

Sounds like it is crashing or terminating prematurely or something for some reason

Can you reproduce it with beta 8? It is available on spase's site.
And also can you reproduce it on a clean install?

Thanks.

I will try both and report back.

edit: http://columns.outerspase.net is time-outing on me right now

edit again: clean install (foo_null and foo_vis_stereo as extra components to test) gives the same results. Still waiting for spase's site to come back.

It is also here.

Thanks.

OK, update:

Beta8 and RC1 give the same results even on a clean install, but only the window position and size of foo_vis_stereo and foo_vis_simple_spectrum are not saved, everything else I checked (like foo_osd) is.
I the mentioned vis components are not compiled against a recent SDK, I'll check if that helps.
Strange, though, works fine with the default UI.

Ideas? I can send you the source of vis_stereo if you wish to give it a look.

[edit] Recompiling foo_vis_stereo did not help. Though I can't say I knew what I was doing, I only did vis_stereo for fun, hacking foosion's simple_spectrum [/edit]

Ok. So the only problem is the window positions?

I could only get simple spectrum to save its window position if you close foobar whilst the simple spectrum window is not shown. This was no different with the default ui and columns ui.

Are you seeing something different ?

Well, with simple spectrum, I see the same as you. (On the clean install, don't know what was wrong with the "un-clean" install so it did not save anything, but that's another story)

But, foo_vis_stereo has a different behaviour on the default and the columns UI. Window status is saved with "default", and not saved with "columns". You can check at: http://kalmark.fw.hu/foo_vis_stereo.dll

Ahh, reproduced. It needs to be closed from the x buttons etc. to reproduce (not foobar2000/restart like i was doing..)

But hrrm :/

I will look into it later, your source would probably help.

You can get it from http://kalmark.fw.hu/vis_stereo_source.zip

It is possible that my code is the one which is buggy! But it's way beyond my abilities to check this, sorry. It was quite hard even to recompile for 0.8.1.

You should destroy the vis window in the on_quit handler, if it is shown, so that read_window_placement() is called in the WM_DESTROY message handler. You should also call on_quit from on_system_shutdown, if you're not already doing this.


As for foo_vis_simple_spectrum, you should check that you have version 0.1.3. (If you don't have it, you can get it here.) This version of simple spectrum should remember the window position when you close fb2k, but not when you shut down Windows while fb2k is running (and simple spectrum is active).