Okay I decided to start.

In this thread, we make configs for, and with (<-important), newbie users.

Some users want to customize title formatting, but give up. They say it's complicating.

I think TAGZ is like a source code, but we don't need knowledge for programming (we only need interests).
I quote two good comments (by upNorth and Lyx).
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=273399
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=273404

You can ask questions or requests and we will make some example code about them, but what is important mostly is that you should try your own code. No matter how it looks. Writing your formatting is encouraged.
Lucky that in "General" section attachment is disabled, we can only paste code here. So, you have to copy them and paste to your own if you want it. You can modify it, and learn from it. Try to find the answer and show us your fb2k looks.

Here is "for beginners" section, so TAGZ functions in here will be limited to simple ones. %album artist% or something like that ("Tag-Standards") will not be used. If you want some advanced, this is a nice guide.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=31530

I'm not an expert (I've been keeping code simplicity, in other words I must be lazy ), so from here I can also learn more about TAGZ.

Not really sure that this question belongs in this thread, but I can't find a better thread at the moment so...
If i declare a var in globals, like for instance $puts(blah,0), and export it, can i then use $add and $sub to modify the value of 'blah', and will this new value remain after that column has been displayed?

hmm, "0" in $puts(blah,0) is text, so I'm afraid it can't be used in such situation.

Just a quick comment for those who think that they need to be programmers to understand TAGZ:

I'm actually very bad at abstract maths - not just that, i'm bad at abstract and complex systems in general. Almost every non-macro programming-language looks like hyroglyphs to me and i just cannot get into it. I do have a quite good sense in logic and intuition, but that only works as long as i can imagine it in my head.

Start small and simple instead of trying to achieve right away what the big popular formattings do.

- Lyx

Hmm, that's it. (because I'm also bad at maths ) Thanks for comment

Any such functions will not amend the value of the variable. These functions take values and return results. The values used are not altered by the function.

So:

$put(blah,0)
$crlf()
$add(blah,10)
$crlf()
$get(blah)

... will return:

0
10
0

If you wanted to add 10 to blah use the $add function and allocate the result back to blah, so:

$put(blah,0)
$crlf()
$put(blah,$add(blah,10))
$crlf()
$get(blah)

... will return:

0
10
10
It will persist for any column, but not for the next row.

My suggestion would be this: trial and error.

The copy command is an easy place to test. If you are unsure how a function operates or whether a combination is possible try it - you won't break anything! Copy your existing copy command to Notepad for safe keeping and have a play. Make the code as simple as possible (i.e.: only test one line if possible, not ten at a time) and see what happens. It's a lot more fun if you can work it out for yourself.

Edit: 1. I suggest the copy command for those, like me, who are using Columns UI and don't want to keep messing with their title, tray or status bar text - but I guess other areas will allow you to test more quickly. I don't use the copy command for anything but testing, so that's my test area of choice. 2. Keep an eye on the Preview text box when entering your code in Preferences - this will give you an immediate view of the result of your code.

@ Synthetic Soul

nice explanation (about function) I've never used it, so it's interesting.



Yes, that's because I want to make another config.

just a quick guideline for posting codes (example) :

Length column Display tab :

Bitrate column Display tab :

like this.

Colour codes are also accepted.

Heh bugga cos i was wanting it to persist for the next row.... oh wells thanks for the explanation.

I thought you probably meant row. I was a little disappointed to discover this also - it is slightly limiting. In some instances you just have to be a little bit more inventive, but in others you're simply scuppered.