Oh sweet! Cheers man!! Didn't think to look there. I tried out every damn option in the Preferences menu though. Lol.

My beast of a Foobar is almost complete

This extension is gold! Seeing the current track without having the player on top.

any word on when this thing will get updated to work with vista?

AFAIK it works with Vista fine. What problem are you having?

no playback if the .dll is in the components folder. maybe i somehow got an older version? will check.

EDIT: weird... it works now. sorry for the false alarm!

Tried to use %foobar_path% variable in the Filenames textbox to point at "no cover" image, but failed. Does foo_prettypop support this variable? In that case what should I do? Below is my current textbox:

So, I had to change it that way:

Hi, I don't have any image into my folders so how to show the cover implemented into the mp3 tag?

Thank you, I can't find the answer...

UP please

Hey guys, is there anyway to prevent the plugin from truncating names and titles with an ellipsis? It doesn't look good and it always does it to short titles rather than long ones for some odd reason.

If this plugin is still being developed, in the future I'd like to see the ability to have a completely transparent background, align the album art left or right, and maybe some simple text effects such as outlines and glows. Just some thoughts...

I don't think that's a built in variable (??), it's not listed in titleformatting help.

Doesn't support getting album art from data embedded in the files. That was a limitation of the Foobar SDK at one point (and probably still is, but I admit I haven't looked lately).

That sounds strange, you mean it truncates when there is plenty of free space on the window? It should only truncate when the window would otherwise be larger than the maximum specified width. Perhaps you can post of screenshot of the problem?

Aye, I agree with all of those. Unfortunately, I have lost interest at the moment and only critical issues (like needing to be updated to work with Foobar at all) will probably be fixed. Sorry

It's obvious that it isn't. I suggest that it should be.

hello,
I use pretty pop up for a long time already
very nice and working just fine
yet I wondered if it is possible to choose (import or so) a backround instead of just a color ?
is there a way to do that ?

As I understand it, the album art panel currently uses the SDK to get album art out of tags. I could be wrong, not being a developer, but the panel does read the info out of my tagged files, so I assume it's using the SDK.

I'm one more on the bandwagon of people who would love to see PrettyPopup have this feature, as you can probably tell.

Nope.


I'm not so sure, I thought it was reading the tags directly itself bypassing the SDK. The fact it had trouble with unicode filenames kinda confirms this.
I'm crossing my fingers 0.9.5 exposes a common album art interface. This nonsense of all components doing it differently is a mess.

how can i do with the configuration to make popup show one line of length of the song now playing?

You can use many of the titleformatting fields to show song length information. Like %playback_time% or %length% or $progress(). Just edit one of the four lines in configuration.

I personally love prettypop. Thanks for your work on this great plug-in.

A have an interesting feature request which no one else has seemed to mention since I get no results when searching for it in this thread. I'd like to see customizable pop-up display delays on a per-song basis. Picture this: You have combined the intro of an album into the album's first full-length track. It would be kind of neat to delay the display of prettypop until the full-length track actually starts. You input a decimal value into the track's "PRETTYPOPDELAY" tag and prettypop does just that.

Also, if I made a small donation for your work through PayPal to the contact e-mail address on your project's site, would you get it?

This is a pretty targeted feature... I think if anything, I'm more inclined to remove current features rather than add specific features like this in the future.
I appreciate the gesture, but my components are just fun experiments so donations are not something I'm really interested in. Good to hear the component is useful though

I know this may be solved from other components, but the pretty pop-up is the most closer to what I'm looking.
I'm looking to wirte a google gadget to display current track, just if I can read an XML with the song data. Did you have ever considered to write the outcome of prettypop in XML, with the information displayed?

Hello there. Firstly, i want to thank you, FrozenSpoon, for such a nice component!

Secondary, i want to suggest some feature: can prettypopup refresh dynamic data /before/ actually displaying it?

I have popup with 'seek bar' (like [---+---]) in it, and if i invoke popup in a middle of a song, there is an a significant delay before 'bar' displays actual 'knob' position.

Also, it do not refresh on a 'pause' action, so while i replace '+' knob to '|' when track is paused, popup still displays it as '+'.

Hi! frozenspoon,
It's not a critical issue.. but is it possible to have rounded corner?

Not entirely sure this is still being maintained. FrozenSpoon will no doubt clear that up, though.

Well, there probably won't be any more features added to the component... but it's still maintained in the sense that any critical bugs that cause the component to fail will be fixed.
There will also hopefully be an update for the 0.9.5 SDK assuming that the API allows access to album art data.

Hi,

Is there possible to have a list of pattern rather than ";" separated patterns?

That pretty hard to read after (well, it pretty much the same than my PATH env. variable on Windows, which is very long...))

Also, an option to see the path used to search for a valid image would be a plus

I agree the art string can get quite obnoxious when it's long. But, whenever the 0.9.5 SDK comes out, I'll be doing away with it in favor of foobar's built in art finding anyways.

how would one display the total remaining time in the playlist in pretty popup? not the remaining time in the queue -- that can be done with cwb_hooks, but the time until the current playlist ends?

I'll confess, as someone did earlier, to not having read the entirety of posts in this topic, but I've "searched" kind of extensively both within this topic and on the forums generally and I haven't found anything -- not really even anyone asking the question, which kind of surprises me. So forgive me if I'm asking something trivial or redundant.

Help?

Like this?
[%_time_elapsed% / ]%_length%

So the problem is that both of those fields, %_time_elapsed% and %_length%, refer to the individual track being played. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I'm not sure what the difference is between %_time_elapsed% and %playback_time% -- both seem to give the amount of elasped time for the track being played, and %_length% gives the total length for the track being played.

What I'm looking for is a way of giving the amount of time remaining in the whole playlist. For example, if I've got a playlist like

1. track 1 3:00
2. track 2 3:00
3. track 3 3:00
4. track 4 3:00
5. track 5 3:00

and track 5 is the last track in the playlist, then when track 3 has been playing for 1 minutes 45 seconds, I want a field that gives 7:15 at the total remaining time in the playlist (and counts down with each passing second), so I know how much longer I've got in the album, audiobook, etc., that I'm listening to.

Thanks for the shot at it, though. ...

Does that mean you will also be getting rid of the ; separators

The reason I ask is that a lot of my album covers are formatted as %album artist% - %album%.jpg
This works most of the time unless there are any invalid characters in that filename, so I have them automatically replaced i.e. any : are replaced with ;

But I have a problem with prettypopup not being able to find the cover, and when I try to make a string that redirects it to the right file, it stops working since it takes the ; as a separator.

This is what I want to use:


I've used the following string in other programs like chronflow and it works fine (it separates each location by line)


Is there any way I could get these album covers to work in pretty popup?

I don't think this is possible, foo_prettypop or not.

Yeah. I think it's silly every component defines its own langauge for getting art. Hopefully the 0.9.5 SDK provides a call to get the art making per-component art configuration obsolete. But I thought the SDK would be out months ago.

You may want to try using in place of the semicolon. Haven't verified that this works, but seems like it should.

Thanks, it works perfectly

Any chance of getting an option for the background to be transparent?

Otherwise, this plugin is awesome. Thanks.

Any chance of you rebuilding the plugin source against the latest SDK? A bit after the last release (June 2006) an SDK update was issued to resolve a few matters with Vista.

That sums up my immediate impression. thanks for this one!

Is it me or does the plugin not always work in vista?

Hence why i asked for a recompile, Since the SDK has been later updated to support Vista better.

I'm having a problem where for some reason the infowindow is always the bottom-most layer on my screen (Win XP). This means that if I show the popup w/a hotkey or on song change, even though it is visible, it's always behind whatever window I have open (e.g. web browser, Word, etc.). Does anyone how to change that?

Thank you.

Can Pretty Popup display cover art that is embedded in files? All my files contain art, but I can't find a way to get it to display in the popup.

no it cannot

I will see what I can do about rebuilding with the newest SDK to fix Vista problems. Unfortuately last time I tried I had lots of issues, but since apparently Vista problems are actually starting to show up (why didn't they earlier??) it needs to be done.

FrozenSpoon: I believe newer Foobar builds now reject plugins built against old, known SDK versions that have potential crash issues and such.

I second the request. The latest beta (0.9.6 beta1) refuses to load the plugin at all.

I need this too, to completely make the move to 0.9.6.

Well, As said, FrozenSpoon is working on it, Give the guy a break

Hi,

I have a feature request :

The actual version is not able to display image that are embedded in the track file (such as mp3 with such thing). It seems that foobar does have some way to read them, as Column Ui use it to display an image when it is found in the mp3.

However, on Pretty Popup it fails as it does not support it.

Well, I would LOVE to have your machine then!

This "always on top" is very annoying once I want to play a game or similar. Since there is no "minimize" button, I will always have to CLOSE the popup, then reopen it again, possibly by key combination.
But sorry, that's no real good solution.
And it is also no good solution either to use fade-out. I have this turned off, because I do WANT to have this permanently on screen; just i'd like to be able to layer other windows on it without setting itself on top all the time.

It should be possible to toggle "Always on top" functionality (on / off).
Currently, I work around the problem by moving the popup out of the screen area, and then moving it back in once I quit the full-screen app or game.

Yes, it needs to be updated to the API present in 0.9.5+ to grab art data. I still plan to release a new version "kinda soon" that uses that API.
I'd probably recommend turning off auto-pop and then having a key combo to show the popup so you could show it only when needed in this case. However, adding an option for ontop-ness is easy enough so I'll consider it.

Man, I love this plugin. About the best thing I added to foobar, allowing me to skip several tracks and find out what's playing.

I just registered to post here to discuss a few issues.

I got the popup not showing problem by shifting the popup too low in a higher resolution.
(That is, I increased the resolution, dragged the popup to lower right corner, and then decreased resolution.)
Basically, the popup appears below the screen.

Similar to previous descriptions, the popup reappears in correct position when foobar is restarted.
This might be one reason for the weird bug.
(The position of the popup should be bounded to the screen instead of simply recalling the previous position.)


By the way, can we have more lines in the next release? I don't want to conjure up something like
to show all that info in the popup (the other 3 lines are taken by the artist, album and title)

That line of code is what I'm currently using, but I'm sure audiophiles will want to display other stuff like composer, encoder etc.


Just a minor issue, but can you include popup preferences in the context menu? It would be much easier to access there.

As for an alternative to truncation by ellipses, I think a word wrap option would be nice. I don't mind a little less screen space if it means more pretty popups.

Anyway, this plugin does what it says(and more) and has not caused any bugs for me. Keep up the good work!

not working with v0.9.6 (srsly, why haven't anyone complained abt this yet?)
pls, is there someone out there who can update this thing to the latest SDK?

Read the thread next time. just the last one or two pages would have been fine, as you would have seen FrozenSpoon's response.