sry for all the comments....

I tried puting the decade in a different panel # in the browser settings and that didn't help. FYI

oh nm it's not supposed to work backwards. lol (could it?)

Actually, that formatting produces the same results as my initial format string. It's listing all the artists of a track as one entry in the list as opposed to keeping them separate.

I think my initial description is inexact.

I'd like to maintain the separation of artists afforded by using the multi-tags format 'artist,' but have the list sorted to ignore the 'The ' prefix. For example, if a track has the artists "Bongo, Alamo, The Bills & Acro" in separate ARTIST tags, I'd like to see the list display:

Acro
Alamo
(The )Bills
Bongo

I enclosed 'The ' in parantheses as my initial attempt trimmed the text, but perhaps that can be optionally shown. My intention is so that I can browse songs an artist performed on without having the list show the entry "Bongo, Alamoa, The Bills, Acro" and have that track excluded from being browsed.

I don't know if that's any clearer, but it's okay. I don't need my list sorted so, just thought it'd be nice if I were able to.

Thanks again for your efforts.

Oh, i thought you were saying the opposite. I actually would like the same thing. :/

Release 1.0.7

how to sort playlist view created by Browser?

Cool beans, thanks for the option to rename the play list (and the better sorting, although i still wish it'd use the default one from general preferences wink wink wink). And the auto-activate option, that's rad too.

Questions, though:



I can't figure out what you mean by 'formatted using the first item in the list'. Can you explain?


This is cool i guess, but could you explain how somebody might use %_browser_panel% in a formatting string?


Also, feature request: Would it be possible to define a middle-click action for items in the browser panel? I personally would love it if middle-click sent the contents of the item to the active play list. Drag-and-drop would be an alternative, i guess it could accomplish that just as well. (I don't know if you can easily enable drag-and-drop using that list control, though, i'm not really a programming expert or whatever.)


Great job though, it's almost perfect.

puts the various artists at the top of the artists list. the '''' is there to help put it at the top.

For example if you wanted to make the browser playlist name dependant on the genre of the files... you could use "%genre%" as the browser playlist name and the "%genre%" tag will come from the first item in the list of handles for the items sent to the playlist, but its not necessariyl the item what will show up first in the playlist.



As a simple example, you might want to browse the items in a different playlist depending on what you are browsing... so you might do something like this: (note I havent tested this)

Hello!
How I get these browser panels aligned top of the foobar, now they are on left.
-> Now looks like this

-> But I want same kind of layout like in offical screenshot.

I'm new whit foobar (started using it yesterday), so I might miss something obvious... so please bear me

Thanks!

I know what mimeryme is talking about and I'd like to be able to do the same thing. Basically, you would need to be able to use more than one string for each column so a single file could be defined by more than one item in the browser. I, for example, want to do this with the "mood" tag that I've been getting from AMG. You would have to parse the tag between commas. For example:
"Energetic,Confident,Aggressive" would be parsed and each mood would be seperated in the list:

Energetic
Confident
Aggressive

This would most likely make the browser very slow, but it would be useful for having multiple genres, artsts, etc. on a single track. The only way I could think to do this would be to create a new tagz character that would seperate the strings (maybe "+").

Bug.

Put %genre% in playlist name box, then deleted all the existing playlists.
When I click on an item in a panel I can see a new playlist (named from the genre) is created but no tracks are shown.
Select in a panel an item with different genre and you see a new playlist is created but not shown (I unchecked auto activation). If you activate the new playlist you see tracks in it and if you select the first one now you can see tracks in there too.

FQ. It would be nice if with a Ctrl down, the click on an item would add it (them) to the last activated (or maybe the last created) playlist.

Better would be if the *browser* playlist would be a separate Playlist view with its own tabs etc.

Thanks.

(Of course, as a PLT long time users, I wonder if, one day, we well have panels showing the different sublevels of a PLT node having PLT as the top panel...)

Am I missing something? (1600x1200)

Where can I find that filter thing?

Where do we have to put those strings about browser_panel?

Thanks

Yes, I was able to reproduce this. It looks like the problem is this... If you create a playlist that becomes the active playlist by default (i.e. its the only playlist) but never directly activate it, it never displays its items.

I am implementing a work around so that if the browser playlsit is the only playlist it is automatically activated.

Hello
First of all, I have to thank you for your great job
about this plugin, very useful. It is my favourite / guest star plugin for 0.9

I have one suggestion :
Even if it is possible to change colors in the different lists,
there is no way to change fonts size / font.

Well I know that it is not very important for you,
but in my case, that should be a nice feature !

Another problem: the browser seems to take capitalization into account, when foobar does not. Any particular reason for this? It's annoying having three different items with different capitalizations..

Consider it a feature that helps you maintain consistant tagging.

Well is there any good reason for this? Nothing else in Foobar takes capitalization into account, why should this particular plugin? Shouldn't the standard foobar database stuff be, well, standard?

EDIT: Another issue: titleformatting doesn't take spaces into account for some reason. So ['('%date%')' ]%album% gives me '(date)album' instead of '(date) album'

@killmaster : use ['('%date%') ']%album

Is there any way to have the plugin faster? has this already been requested? -- it's quite slow on a large collection of music...

Also another request : to allow click and drag to select multiple albums, etc.

Currently, Click - shift-click works, but not click-drag.

Quite slow is an understatement hehe

There should be an entry for foo_browser in the 0.9 components sticky.
The new sort ordering works great (makes it better than iTunes, especially for last-name-first artist sorting). Have one request though: any shot at allowing a user-defined font?

Release 1.0.8

Good stuff, thanks.

cwbowron, just wanted to know if you have taken notice of the horizontal scrollbars bug? I mentioned it a couple of pages back...not pushing....just wanted to make sure you know its there

Terrific updates! Thanks again Chris for this excellent plugin. The sorting options work a treat!

Can we have "Double-click action" and "Middle button action" exactly like in Album list panel?

tnx for your work!

Well, very good job ! Thanks a lot !!!!

Thinking of this:

Browse playlist = %__codec%

Browser panel 1 = Genre

When I click on an item in the genre panel (but maybe in the others too), it would be useful to get one playlist for MP3 and one for wavpack each one with the its encoded files..., wouldn't it?

Maybe a checkbox in the preferences to switch it on or off.

Of course not just for codec.

Maybe also the last two panels instead of the browser playlist(s).

(I'm imagining a graphical way to set the dependancies among panels - somenthing like that MS Query structure window... or LabView wires, if you know it.
Each panel would have one input and n outputs and we could tie them with wires. The browser playlist(s) would be special panel(s) with just the input.
In this way, the same panel outputs could be wired to more than one panel input...
Maybe too much.........................................

So i'm trying to make use of the sorting options and i thought it'd be handy to ignore punctuation (like quotation marks and parentheses) in the browser list. I can't think of a reliable way to achieve that, though.

Does anybody have any ideas aside from a bunch of this kind of stuff?

$if($stricmp($left(%title%,1),$or($or($or($or(<insert every possible punctuation mark>

No idea. The best would be to ask the dev' to do it ;-)

On my Artist Browser, the list is getting pretty long amd I get lazy scrolling. Is there a way I can get it to be sorted alphabetically like this with a dropdown menu inside of it?

-A
--AC Newman
--AC/DC

-B
--Beatles
--Black Sabbath

etc

I use this code to do it in AlbumList although I'm not sure how to make it with browser.

There's no way to do that, but you could make one panel show the first letter and then filter all the artists that begin with that letter into the next panel.

I figured you could do it that way. Problem is I'm a complete n00b at these scripts. Can someone show me what to put for each browser?

Feature request:

Is it possible to add support for custom colours for the selected items? Right now the browser panels have the standard blue/grey bars of Windows. Changing their colour to match the colour of ColumnsUI would be terrific. Please, have a look at the screenshot to see what I mean.

Hiding the scroll bars would be nice, too (or making them toggleable / resizeable) -- you can scroll with the mouse wheel or enter the first letter on the keyboard anyways (right?)

I'm doing this from memory, so i haven't tested it, but i think this should work.... In your first panel (the letters), you would just put something like this in the format field:

$upper($left(%title%,1))

The $upper() will make sure you don't get duplicated letters (e.g., separate entries for 'a' and 'A'). Take it out if you don't want it to work that way.

And then in your second panel (the artists), you'd just put your standard artist entry (you could just use %artist% if you don't want to do anything fancy).

If you have any artists that start with punctuation marks, you'll probably run into the same kind of annoyance that i did.

How the banana do you make the panels show at the top of the window?

Columns UI wiki.

a BUG? playback follows cursor (its unchecked in playback menu) when i switch to another playlist from any Browsers panel

Just two small feature requests.

1. Would it be possible to add a border type option (ie: sunken, grey or none)
2. And also, could you please add a non-focus selected background. I get this when I select something and then click away from the browser.

Otherwise, a rock solid component!

I would think the $replace function might be your friend:



or the $strchr



You would still have to enumerate all the punctuation characters though.

If there were a way to get the character code as a number from a character it might be easier but I didnt see any way to do that in the base title formatting documentation (i.e. the reverese of the $char() function).

placing browser at the top of foobar
hey there, i wrote a little tutorial for everyone who is having trouble getting the foo_browser component to appear at the top of the foobar screen. useful for anyone who is new to fb2k and hasn't had much experience with columns_ui.

Wonderfull...

Request: Would it be possible to add a kind of "master searchbar" like in the Winamp MediaLibrary?

--> The search results of the searchstring should be shown in each defined panel depending on it's own filter.

Perhaps not very easy to implement... But perhaps in future realese.

Would it be possible that double clicking on an item in the album list panel triggers the browse action (iTunes mimick) ?

I got it to sort out most punctuation marks, but for some reason it won't ignore bullets (U+2022). Any idea why? :/

First of all: Thanks for the great plugin.
And second... my inglish is no good... sorry.

I have one little problem, i want to list the fisrt level of directories under my music folder. It goes like this:

F:\Music\_News
F:\Music\Anime
F:\Music\Classic
F:\Music\Countrie
F:\Music\Jazz
F:\Music\Movies
F:\Music\Musicals
F:\Music\Oldies
F:\Music\Otros
F:\Music\Rock & Roll
F:\Music\Rock Nacional
F:\Music\TV

The code im using:
$replace($substr(%_path% ,10,12),_Ne,_News,Ani,Anime,Cla,Classic,Cou,Countrie,Jaz,Jazz,Mov,Movies,Mus,Musicals,Old,Oldies,Otr
,Otros,Roc,Rock & Roll,TV\,TV)

Works really good with the exception of "Rock & Roll" and "Rock Nacional" that gets listed under the same name.

Anyone knows a better way of doing that?
Thanks in advance.

Couldn't you do this?

$left($substr(%_path%,10,$len(%_path%)),$sub($strchr($substr(%_path%,10,$len(%_path%)),'\'),1))

Thanks a lot!!!
It works like a charm.

Really... thank you!!!

Release 1.0.9 - Added a selectable double click action.

You should be able to choose any context menu command to run when you double click an item.

Don't ask for middle click, alt-double click, shift double click, control double click options... I want to keep this fairly simple... any thing that can be accessed by double clicking can also be selected from the context menu, or consider adding hotkeys if you want multiple options..

Changing the selection color requires overriding some of the functionality of the list view so I doubt that is going to happen anytime soon...

Hm, that's cool....

Does foobar not have an 'add to active play list' feature? All i can see is 'send to playlist' (which is annoying because that box pops up and then you have to select from the drop-down list).


edit:
Never mind, i think i just needed foo_utils. Awesome, thanks for adding that.