Yes, Track Finder is in this DLL. I had thought about releasing it as its own component, but it uses a lot of the same code that they might as well both be together.

Until I get a toggle in there, you can always click on a playlist tab and select track finder to do navigate all the entries in the playlist.

I'm having some issues with drag and drop locking up fb2k. Is anyone having similar issues?

I'm having a hard time figuring out what the problem is because it works fine when i run it under visual studio, but then conks out when running standalone.

Drag and drop from what? I drag all my audio files to playlists before playing them / converting them. I have browser and playlist tree installed, but only use playlist tree. And it's not set up to my preferences, yet.

By the way, the reason I wanted a toggle was to set up a keyboard shortcut to quickly navigate to a track.. say f4, which could pop a fast list to find a track, quickly.

Just realised that using $replace(%_path%,E:\soundtracks\,,\,|) as a query does not work perfectly. I thought it was ok until i saw that in the "Soundtracks" folder created there was also "E:" with all its content inside....

Does someone knows how to get rid of it?

I was successfully running 2.0.3 yesterday, and I installed 2.0.3b today and I cannot get any of my queries to show any results. I am running windows 2000. Is there a new setting that I am missing?

I fixed the problem? I had to re-enable show root and then quiery results showed up.

Hi!!I'm italian and my english is very bad!!I have this problem when I has install this plugin in my foo2k(version 0.9):
When I go with the mouse on "album list" and click with the right button and go to "track finder.." the program crash and appear this message on my blocknotes:

Illegal operation:
Code: C0000005h, flags: 00000000h, address: 0176E440h
Access violation, operation: read, address: 00000000h
Call path:
entry=>app_mainloop=>contextmenu_item_node::execute
This is the first crash logged by this instance.
Code bytes (0176E440h):
0176E400h: FF FF 8B 54 24 2C C6 44 24 1C 01 8B 4C 24 10 8B
0176E410h: 01 8B 40 0C 52 8D 54 24 10 52 FF D0 C6 44 24 1C
0176E420h: 00 8B 4C 24 10 85 C9 88 44 24 24 74 06 8B 11 8B
0176E430h: 02 FF D0 80 7C 24 24 00 6A 00 74 44 8B 4C 24 2C
0176E440h: 8B 55 00 8B 52 10 8D 44 24 10 50 57 51 8B CD FF
0176E450h: D2 C7 44 24 1C FF FF FF FF 8B 4C 24 0C 85 C9 0F
0176E460h: B6 F0 74 06 8B 01 8B 10 FF D2 8B C6 8B 4C 24 14
0176E470h: 64 89 0D 00 00 00 00 59 5E 5D 83 C4 14 C2 0C 00
Stack (0012F310h):

etc. etc.

What is my error?

Is there a way to restore the old tree that I had with 1.7.x? Because I haven't found a way to import the tree from the .col yet.

No, I have not included any way to import collections from 1.7.x.

It would be possible to write a small program possibly in perl or emacs lisp program to convert them, but I do not plan to support the old file format in 2.x.x natively because that file format was a hack to support files that I had created in another tool and was not very robust.

If anyone with programming experience would like to take a stab at it, i can furnish code in C to read the old format and to write the new format.

I have a bug to report with Trackfinder.. If you try to use it on a large group of files (2000+), it crashes foobar after a few seconds, and makes the system unresponsive. Maybe you have a memory leak or something, but I didn't see resources go up in the taskman. A solution would be to check how many files are listed, and cut the number to a lower one prior to listing.

I am having a problem, and I have a suggestion.

First, the problem. I cannot get my tree to save and restore and have to re-load my pts file each time I re-start foobar. I have removed the tree and re-added it. I then exit foobar, and it asks me to save the restore file which I do. I then restart foobar, and the tree does not re-load my restore file.

Second, it would be great if you could include in the playlist tree choices which show up on either the main or context menu options for button configuration to close all open nodes. This way a user could bind this command to a button which would be convenient way to close all open nodes.

There is a limit to the number of items that you can add to the internal menu stucture in windows, and its exceeding that and crashing. Is it actually crashing foobar2000 or is it just causing it be unresponsive for a long time? I've not seen it actually crash myself, but i have seen it take a long time to try to generate the menu structure, then fail to actually be able to show the menu. When this happens there should be an error message on the console.

I plan to add a variable that controls the maximum number of tracks for which track finder will work



Try setting the auto save/restore file before you exit. Right click on any empty space in the panel and select one of the first 2 options.

Hi all,
I used to play with playlist tree on the 0.83 version of foobar.
I'm testing the 0.9 because now playlist tree is implemented .
But it seems very different for the qweries :
label : @format<@quote<@playing<%artist%>>>
query : artist IS @playing<%artist%>
format : '@icon<1>'['['%date%']'] %album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2) %title%

does not seem to work anymore !
what must in change ?
any examples somewhere ?
thanls a lot and thank you for this great extension which is a must have.

http://foobar.bowron.us/using_refresh.png

i hqve a problem using $replace(%_path%,E:\soundtracks\,,\,|) as a query, it does not work as i thought it would. I saw that in the "Soundtracks" folder created there was also "E:" with all its content inside....

I dont really understand why, does someone see anything that could help me. I tried a lot of things like using substring or right without success

You are replacing "E:\soundtracks" but the actual files are apparently "E:\Soundtracks". Its a case sensitivity issue. Try using $replace($lower(%_path%)...

I am not sure(i am at work ...) that its "E:\Soundtracks" so i ll try it this evening. from now on i ll use $replace($lower(%_path%)

Thanks for your quick answer cwbowron

After verification, the problem is still there. it was not a problem of case.
My request is $replace(%_path%,E:\soundtracks\,,\,|) and the folder exact name is "soundtracks".
I dont understand

I just grabbed the plugin an hour or so ago and I absolutely love it. However, I have a question.

I'm trying to make a set up similar to what a user did with the old version, namely http://img447.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop2iv.png

In trying to get the Now Playing: ARTIST folder, I realized that folders don't have the option to be updated whenever a track starts. So what I've done for now is to make a query with the critera "artist IS aoweifjavjwe", which should never occur. However, this seems like a hack solution... can I set the source to be none, rather than the database?

Edit: Also, is there a way to check to see if something is playing? If nothing is playing, my "Now Playing" folders go a bit wonky sometimes.

The answer to your question is about four posts above. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=386591

Thanks for reading what I wrote!

Seriously though, anyone know what I can do about this? I can post specifically what I'm using for my 4 queries, or take screens if necessary.

Edit: Now I'm also having another problem. As the screenshot I linked to indictates, I have a Now Playing folder with a few subfolders. Well, sometimes when the artist changes, and sometimes when just the song changes, everything below the main "Now Playing: ARTIST" folder disspears and I have to reload. This is probably linked to the general saving error that's happening, but I tried the solution that was posted earlier and while that saves my config in between foobar loads, it doesn't when the query updates when a new song loads. Could this be because I'm using a query that updates on new song loads that has subqueries?

Edit: Just confirmed that if I switch to a field that doesn't update everytime the artist changes that the subqueries aren't deleted every time. If my problem isn't clear, I can post screens, or someone can hit me up on AIM, my SN is Fitret.

Release 2.0.5 for use with ColumnsUI 0.1.3 beta 1

That was not a long wait!!!

EDIT: i still have the problem with $replace(%_path%,E:\bands\,,\,|) which shows also E: (not due to case); anyone see a reason or another way to do it?

One another thing is that i am trying to make a more from... request.
it works perfeclty except that the label is @format<$playing('%artist%')>.
When i open that query the playlist name is "@format<$playing('%artist%')>@refresh"
is it possible for it to be the value of %artist%?(library playlist name is %_name%)

Hi, One thing that i don't know how to do:
- a querie with the top 150 most played songs
- one with the last payed songs

Ooups, it's 2 queries...
Tks for help.

Re oups : one more quesiton.
I have songs with multiple genres (Jeff Mills in Electronique and Techno) and i would like to create a querie sorting artists by genre.
If a do this, Jeff Mills is no more in Electonique or Techno, he is classified in Electronique, Tecnho.
Is there a way for classify him in both genres or (if not possible) in the first one ?

zlebandit: you can find what you want here http://bowron.us/smf/index.php?topic=179.0

Tks, but it's for the 0.83 !

yeah but you can just take a look at the file and adapt it. It is really easy

cwbowron: i almost managed to resolve my problem about E:/ still appearing using $replace(%_path%,E:\bands\,,\,|) by using
$if($strcmp($left(%_path%,9),E:\bands\),$replace($substr(%_path%,10,$len(%_path%)-9),\,|),)

I still have a last problem. the fact that i use a $if() make that if the condition returns false it does nothing which here mean put the track. As a consequence i see well all my directories but after that i see alllll my songs.

Is there a way to tell him not to add the track if condition returns false?
I think i might also use the criteria to do the if but i cant find the syntax rules for playlist generator

I am having a problem using the @drop source directive. What I am wanting to do is to show the contents of my New Music directory. Inside this directory I have Artist Folder\Album Folder\Files. I used the following in my query: @drop<H:\New Music\> for the source. and @default for the format. What is produced from this is the tree showing the ARTIST Folder, with the ALBUM Folder under it, but the music files are not included, and consequently, the music files are sent to the playlist.

What I am getting:
+New Music
+Artist 1
Album1

What I am trying to get:
+New Music
+Artist 1
+Album1
File1
File2

I have been able to get this to work by changing the format to:%artist%|%album%|%filename% but I would really like to have it list the files as they are in the directory, as that would allow me to not have to worry about tagging the files correctly to get them to show. Am I doing this incorrectly? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I currently have a simple Top 200 most played tracks query. What I want to do is cut it in half and have a Top 100 query (1 to 100) and then a Top 101-to-200 query. Top 100 is easy to do obviously, but I don't know how to stop the Top 101-to-200 query displaying the first 100 tracks.

Is it possible?

Hey cwbowron

I found next bug, but don't define this is a bug of foo_ui_columns.dll or foo_playlist_tree.dll.

When I change layout of colums (add or hide any panels) I lose last query in my playlist tree.

For example - I add console panels and lose last query, then I create last query again and hide console panels - lose last query. This bug not only with console panel, I see it with any panels.

May be the playlist tree panel saves its config only when foobar is closing, so when you change the layout the playlist tree panel reload itself without your query being saved. Not sure but i think that after making a query, if foobar crash the query is lost.

When I create all querues of my playlist tree I save it and create its backup in another folder. This playlist tree saved on exit from FooBar normally.

I work with this playlist tree on any next start of FooBar and I dont lose its configuration.

Then I start FooBar and only if I change layout of columns - I lose last query in my playlist tree.

this is what i use, it just displays the files according to the filenames.
Source:
@drop<F:\Music\New Albums>

Format:
$puts(tree,$replace(%path%,\,|))
$replace($get(tree),F:|Music|New Albums|,)

Population order:
%path_sort%

gob, that works perfectly. thanks so much for your help.

Release 2.0.6

New Features

* Main menu items for:
o Collapse Tree
o Track Finder on Current Playlist
* Local processing of space and enter
o Renamed "Mouse" preferences to "Mouse and Keyboard"
o Added options for Space and Enter keys in Mouse and Keyboard preferences
* Added option to enable/disable keyboard shortcut processing in tree
* Local Functions / Variables:
o $parent
o $hidetext
o %_displayname% - similar to %_name% but will process away @icon<>, etc.

Bug fixes

* Track Finder maximum (default 4000)
* fixed @icon<x> in Library playlist name
* fixed FAKE node bug (Edit a query before expanding it, click ok)
* search will now always search the last active tree, not the first tree
* Proper storage of save / restore filename when shutting down

Thanks Cwbowron for this update. I would like to use your plugin but i am stuck with my query in order to see my folder tree.
i tried something else as i said in this post http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....29435&st=1175&#
but not exactly what i want, could you help me with it?

I hope this has not already been asked and answered (I could not find anything)... so if it has, I am sorry. Is there a way to set how the Libarary Playlist is sorted? When I click on a query (for example... Decade... 1930) the files get sent to the Library Playlist, but are not sorted in the playlist according to the General Settings of "sort incoming files by:" settings. I have tried various things, but none of them have worked, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I dont want to say something wrong but i think that when you choose a query, it is sorted in the playlist as it is sorted on the query. So you have to look a the format in you query.
At least that is what it seems to do here

Thanks carmenm, that seems to be what is happening here. After changing the Population Order, and unchecking "sort by display name" everything works fine.

EDIT - what I said above didn't seem to fix it... I'll try to mess with the query format to see if it will work. I am a bit confused as to what controls the playlist sorting... i.e. is it the query format, population order, or both, etc.

Hmm. When I updated to latest version (from the 2nd latest) it disappeared from my columns ui layout, and I can no longer add it back in.

NM - Wrong columns ui version.

Well, after messing with this some more, I am stumped. Again, I am sorry if this has been covered somewhere else, and my knowledge of formating is not too great either. My problem is the display of Various Artists albums and the Artists. All my VA stuff is tagged with %Album Artist% = Various Artists and %Artist% = "Track Artist". What I am trying to do is to have all the %Artist% tags (i.e. Track Artist and CD Artist for non-VA albums) show in the Tree. So, for example if I expand the Tree for Decade, 1930, I would like it to show all the %artist% tags (track artists for VA albums, and artists for non-VA albums). But, I would also like to have this to be sorted in playlist properly, by sorting by %Album Artist%, instead sorting by %artist%.

Here is what I am getting:

Query Format:
%decade%|%album artist%|%album%|%codec%|$num(%discnumber%,2)|[$num(%tracknumber%,2) - ]%title%

Population Order: @default

This shows up in the Tree as:

+Decade
-1930
+Artist
+Various Artists

This is properly sorted when sent to the playlist.

However when I use this:

Query Format:
%decade%|%artist%|%album%|%codec%|$num(%discnumber%,2)|[$num(%tracknumber%,2) - ]%title%

Population Order: @default

This shows in the Tree as:

+Decade
-1930
+Artist 1
+Artist 2

When this is sent to the playlist, the Various Artists albums are broken in album view because it is sorted by %artist% instead of %album artist%


I have tried changin the Population Order to sort by just %artist% and have the Query Format use the %album artist%, since, on the tutorial page it says that Population Order is the "order to fill the tree." But this does not seem to work.

Again, I am sorry if this has been covered before. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be wonderful. Thanks.

The order of the playlist that is created from Send to Library playlist should be the exact order things are in the tree.

if your tree looks like this:



Then the playlist should just basically be a flattening of that to:
f1
f2
f3
f4
f5
f6

thank you cwbowron for enabling support for the enter key. new version works great.

hi cwbowron,

I must have overlooked an option in the configuration window... can doubleclick on a tree node start playback of selected file/s in it?
(i am using v2.0.6)

Thanks,

Amit.

I set my doube click option to "Edit/Send to current playlist and Play"

which is added to the context menu by foosion's utilities.

I also have a "Play" option in my context menu that is probably from foosion's utilities too that could be used to play an item.

Release 2.0.7

Thnak you cwbowron , it s becoming really powerfull!!

is this only for 0.8.3?

Hi, i'm playing with this 2.0.7 and i have a question:
if a querie returns 0 results, i would like the node not to be shown, so i tried to put this in the format :
@quote<@format<$if($greater(0,%_itemcount%),@hidden2 ,)>>%artist%|%album%|[$num(%tracknumber%,2) - ]%title%
But it doesn't seem to work...
Can you help me please ?
After, i'll try the coulours !!