Hello!

Thank you for this great plugin.
Is it possible to start playing an item on double-click?
Is it possible for the browser to drive albumart?
And I can't find how to change the colors. Please can someone tell me?

Thanks is advance.

Finally got this plugin working, cool! I've noticed a couple bugs though, for example, there are some double-entries in the Browser list, and also it's still got old tags in there, and also tags for files that I don't even have anymore (I rescanned the media library a couple times but this didn't fix it) =)

I'm wondering about this too. How can I remove dead entries from browser?

Did you reset the browsers using Reset Browsers under the Library main menu?

To update both 'Browser" & "Albumlist Panel". I had to delete all of my playlists, run "Rescan Media Library", close down foobar, then re-start foobar. I've never had to do all of those steps to refresh the database. Whatever the the problem is, it seems to affect the database, as well as the media plugins. So, I'm really not sure if it is "Browser" causing the problem or if it might be the "Columns_UI Beta".

Hi, does this one work with last version of column_ui ?
i just cannot see them ...

thank you (this one with playlist tree panel are the best ones to play with his music collection)

Yep I did that as well.

Can I have the option to hide the vertical scroll bars? If I am the only one who wants this, then just forget it.

Thanks

I wouldn't mind hiding them, if the mousewheel / keyboard still works to navigate.

Hi, I asked a few days ago about removing items easier from the browser. I accidently added a folder to my collection, and I'm trying to remove it from the browser, but it won't let me. Last time I did it, I had to remove it from the album list and reinstall the plug in. Is there an easier way to do this?

Create a playlist with all your library but that album. Make sure the album is in no other playlists, and remove all folders from the media library (preferences). Then, click 'save all' and re-add the folder, don't click scan, and exit foobar.

When you re-run it, the album will be gone from the library, and the rest will still be there.

Hi, i've got a problem with the version 0.1.3 beta1v5 of Column_UI :
i just don't see the Browser panel in the Layout View.
Does someone have the same problem or a kind of solution ?
Tks all.

Is it normal if the possibility to add all my library to the current playlist has been removed?
I used to double-click on [All] in browser window to do so, but it does not seems to work anymore...
The only way to do that right now is to specify a Browser playlist, but it is not an option for me since I don't like to get my library updated as soon as I select an artist/album.

Cwbowron, it would be awesome to re-enable the double click action over [All] !

Its been added to the known bugs list and I will fix it soon... I probably broke this feature in fixing a crash that was ocurring...

Nice! A big thanks for a fast reply and continue your great work!

An option to have the width of your browser panels all set to equal sizes would be cool too =)

Hi all again,
I have one another question about sorting items:
I use three panels of foo_browser : genre, artist and album.
So when i simple click on one genre, the *browser* playlist is modified with the songs having the genre i clicked on.
I would like the *brower* playlist to be sorted by artist, date, album, title.
But it is sorted by artist, album, title.
Is there a way to change this ?
Must I look in foor_browser options, or in UI_columns options ?
Tks very much.

This may be an impossible request, but is there anything that can be done to improve performance in this plug in? I have a lot of tracks (almost 18000) and when I click [All] in my first panel (Album Artist) it can take up to a few minutes to load (and my foobar is frozen while it is working).

Besides this issue, I must say I love this plugin!

Thanks.

This plugin suddenly started working properly again, I decided to Recan the media library after adding an album, and after I did that I reset the Browser, and all seems fine now. =)

Edit: I also just noticed 3 "bugs":

1) If you use the arrow keys to seek forward in a track when the focus is on a browser panel, it causes both the panel and the columns playlist to blink on each key press.

2) Double-clicking on the status bar to focus the now-playing track does not work on the Browser playlist.

3) I have my columns playlist directly beneath 3 browser panels, and when I resize the playlist vertically, the contents of the 1st browser panel expands with the resize, but when I revert to my original playlist size, there is a space before the "All" entry and also after the last entry, as if there is an invisible (unselectable) entry there (reset browser fixes the former)

Cheers!

I too can't get the foo_browser plugin to work (0.9.1). Its installed correctly in the components folder, in foobar2000 I can see its preferences, but it's nowhere to be found in the ColumnsUI layout editor. I can see all my other panels, just not the Browser panel(s).

- foobar2000: 0.9.1
- columns_ui: 0.13 pre-alpha 17v6
- foo browser: 1.1.5

Any idea?


Btw, is there also a foobar2000 0.8.x version of this plugin available and if so, where can I get it? I still have 0.8.3 running parallell with 0.9 because I use some components that aren't ported yet.

foo_browser 1.1.5 requires 0.1.3 beta 1 or higher.

How do I get foo_browser to list ARTIST but if there is an "ALBUM ARTIST tag then ALBUM ARTIST"? I would like to list songs that are in Various Artist CDs to only be listed under Various Artists rather than their own name. Otherwise I have a thousand listings for artists that I only have one song from and it is impossible to use foo_browser to find my CDs by artist.

Thanks for any advice.

Try putting this in the Artist format field in the Browser settings:

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)

Use %album_artist% as it is already remapped.

cwobrown could you please put version numbers in the filenames of the zip archives and on the wiki so that it's easier to see if there has been a new release? Roaming through the entire thread can be tiresome if you haven't been around for a while.

http://wiki.bowron.us/index.php/Foobar2000:Browser:Changelog

Always has the latest releases and what has changed.

Hello,
I'm sorry if this has been already discussed, but I couldn't find it. Can I sort artist panel in browser so, that for examples "The Beatles" will be treated as "Beatles" - sorted under B? I want the sorting engine to ignore the article. Ithink it should be possible to do it, but I don't know how.

I use an %artist sort order% tag since there's no way a script can tell the difference between a band name (The Beatles => Beatles, The), a person's name (John Coltrane => Coltrane, John), or in some cases both (The Dave Brubeck Quartet => Brubeck Quartet, The Dave). If you don't want to go through the hassle and you're only worried about 'The xxx'-type names, you can use:

Hope that helps.

I tried this formattin string in uie_trackinfo nad it works as expected. Bu if I enter this as a sort criteria in browser's artis panel, it doesen't work. I have no idea why.

Nad I have one more request - in my native language (Czech) there are some special characters lik š,č,ř,ž etc. (I hope it will be displayed correctly). In our alphabet Č is between C and D, Š is between S and T and so on. Would it be possible to add a function for custom characters order? Windows natively sort czech letters correctly.

i use this code for sorting artists with 'The '. What does inserting nothing at space 4 do? Does it erase everything before it?

edit: just tested it, it does. Never would have guessed it.

I tried putting the strings in both formatting and sorting field in Browser's configuration. It doesen't work I even tried putting there:
It does nothing. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Edit: After playing with it some more, I noticed, that it doesen't make any change whatever I put in Formats and Sort Criteria windows. I can only change Headers.

I have a problem. I had an album both as archive and extracted in a folder. So obviously the browser added all of the titles twice to the playlist when I chose that album from the album column. But now I've deleted the archive but I still can't get rid of the duplicate entries. Rescaning the library didn't help. Is there a way to get rid of them?

I use a separate browser panel "Codec" as my first panel, and that works perfectly for me.

Release 1.1.6

Great work
thanks cwobrown

but
this version (Release 1.1.6) useing

when foobar exit and excute now
previous playfocus not remeber(always reset first track)
and when background(not active windows) playing .... playfocus out..
next track return firsttrack

previous version no problem

last version seems to have a bug in it, it updates itself constantly. (wich causes foobar to lose focus of the now playing song, plus if you have it on auto-activate it keeps on switching to the browser playlist)

its abit annoying really

still love the plugin tho

I think it was related to the libray callback i added that refreshed the browser on add, deletes or modifys from the library. I put out an updated 1.1.6b that only refreshes on adds or deletes from the library.

Release 1.1.6b

* Refresh only on files added or removed, not on modified

works like a charm now! thank you

Found a bug in 1.1.6b:

Hide horizontal scrollbars doesn't seem to do anything...I normally don't have any horizontal scrollbars, so checking this option doesn't have any effect. However, when I restore foobar2000, horizontal scrollbars DO appear, but the option to hide them still does nothing... (it only makes them "shorter" =)...if it helps, here's my columns ui layout (maybe the locking function is causing the problem):

Horiz. Split-
Vert Split-
-Buttons (locked)
-Playlist switcher
-Album Art (locked)
Vert Split
-Horiz Split (locked)
-Browser Panel
-Browser Panel
-Browser Panel
Columns Playlist


Other than that it's working fine over here. Now we just need the same coloring options that columns UI has =)

Cheers!

it works for me, its just that you have to resize them a bit (just pull the edge or something) to make them "refresh" and they'll disappear

Have you tried to re-select the tag for that panel with shift+right click?

Surely, IMHO, checking "hide hor scroll bars" shoud get rid af them even without having to refresh the panels...

OK, i decided i'd, you know, bite the bullet or whatever and upgrade to the new Columns UI today, so i did that, and i got all the new panels and junk, but i'm having some issues with yours.... (edit: Had a problem with PLT but i figured it out, so never mind there.)

Well, for Browser, everything pretty much works OK as far as i can tell, but you evidently did something to the edge styles, and now they're all messed up. :/

First of all, you changed the edge styles themselves i guess. Like, for example, 'Sunken' in the new version isn't the same as 'Sunken' in the old one. I don't really know how to complain about this, because every. single. panel. ever made for foobar uses completely different edge styles, so i don't know which one is the 'real' one. In any case i rather liked 'Sunken' in the old one, which caused the panels to display the way they should be displayed according to my visual style -- none of the edge styles in the new version do that. They don't use the visual style, they just kinda make up their own way of doing things. I don't know.

Anyway i settled on 'Grey' since it's the one that looks best, but now i have another problem. The scroll bars are messed up; they get chopped off on the sides and bottom.



This happens with all edge styles, not just the grey one. And no amount of resizing or refreshing or whatever will fix it. I have horizontal scroll bars disabled in that screen shot, but if i enable them, those get cut off across the bottom too.

This is with 0.9.1, Columns 0.1.3 beta 1v5, and Browser 1.1.6b.

please advise~

Happens here too, using the latest version

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT !...

... but ...

... unfortunately not enough. You have to specify selection text color and inactive selection text color too.

Be thankful for what you get... and don't use phrases like "have to"...

I believe what you meant to say was

"GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!

It would also be super great if you could add selection text color and inactive selection text color"

You don't have to assume that everybody here speaks english as a mother tongue. Making myself understandable in a foreign language is difficult as it is, even without having to consider all its subtleties and intricacies.

I do not meant to be impolite. My appologies, if you got offended by my clumsy choice of words. Just blame it on my "being foreign" and my apparent lack of skill with languages.

Sorry.

We'll just chalk it up to your English being good enough to make me think you might be a native speaker...

The reason I responded like I did that many times people do think they are entitled to new features and such and it can be frustrating.

But, at any rate... The next version will have options for changing the color of the selection's text.

It took me a while to get foo_browser running as I wanted, but now I wonder how I did without foo_browser. Many thanks, cwbowron, for this great component. It makes dynamic generated playlists so simple even my parents can use it and like it

I understand the component is still in development so there are probably features you intend to implement later on. I've done some thinking too (to my own needs of course) and it would be great if you could add following features to foo_browser:

* Empty output shouldn't create list value: A formatting like $if(%field%,,NA) will lead to 3 values in the browser list: [All], NA and an empty line. I think it would be nice if the empty line wouldn't be shown in the browser. If you want them to show you could still put a space in the formatting string so the empty line shows (it's not empty due to the space, but it looks empty).

* Extended support for multiple values per track: Right now the browser can either use a TAGZ style (%field%), or a multiple values style (field). However, you cannot perform any foobar formatting scripting on the multiple values style. For example (a very stupid one); $if(%field%,Y,N) works, but $if(field,Y,N) doesn't). In my humble opinion it would be better to execute the formats for each value found. Thus, if you have $if(%field%,Y,N) as formatting and there are 3 %field% tags in the file, the formatting should be performed 3 times - once for each found %field%. In this example it would be a bit stupid, but I have some pretty good use for it.

* Unlinked browsers: In the current version browsers appear to be linked to each other. If you select an artist in the first browser list the following browsers are updated and show only information about the selected artist. Although that is nice it sometimes becomes frustrating because changing a field can reset a lot of other browsers. I have browsers like Genre, Mood, Tempo,... But when I simply add a genre to the selection, all other browsers are reset to [All] and I have to set them again. It would be nice to have to option to exclude certain browsers from this 'link'. So when Genre, Mood and Tempo are unlinked and you change the genre, the Mood and Tempo browser keep their content and selections.

* AND functionality for multiple selections: Right now when you select multiple items in the browser it performs a logical OR. For example, select 'Rock' and 'Punk' in the Genre list and the browser will load all files with either Punk or Rock as genre. But sometimes it can be useful to do a logical AND instead of OR. Think about files with multiple value tags. For example, I use a tag %instruments% in which I put the key instruments of a track. There can be multiple instruments per file. Sometimes I'd like to select all files with a Spanish guitar and a trumpet. Right now this selection returns all tracks with either a trumpet, or a guitar beacus the logical OR. With a logical AND only the files with both a guitar and trumpet would be returned.
How this should be implemented in the user interface, I don't know. Maybe a button below the list that switches between AND & OR? And of course an option in the preferences for each list to show the button (because not everyone will want that) and set a default behavior (AND or OR).


Those are (I believe) features that would enhance foo_browser's functionality and usability in a great way. It would be really great if we could see those features in a future release.


There's one more feature I'd like to propose, but it shouldn't get too much priority. I think it may make things needlessly complex although it could be used for some cool stuff:

* Ability to create multiple values per track: What's the idea? Have the output of the formatting string scanned for a specific delimiter symbol and split the output by that symbol to multile values in the browser list. A very simple example would be an %artist% field containing 'The Beatles'. In a sorted list you'd find this artist under T, with a little formatting you can have it appear under B. But what if we could avoid all confusion and have it shown under T... and B! For example:
$if(
$stricmp($left(%artist%,4),The ),%artist%|$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4)),
%artist%
)
returns "The Beatles|Beatles" when a name that starts with "The " is encountered. If foo_browser would just scan this output for the occurance of |-symbols, then split by it, you could have multiple values per track (|-symbol just taken as example).


I hope I made my ideas clear and I hope cwbowron sees the same advantages in them as I do. And who knows, maybe we'll see these ideas in foo_browser one day. I certainly do hope so

Keep up the good work!

guess because of the left padding the selection-bar is not rendered to full left side. can this be done without touching the padding? that would be great!



and the 1px rendering at right side scroll-thing... i guess it´s not my theme causing this. can something be done about this either? (edgs-style is gray in the screeny)


and another thing: very cool to have the option to set the color for selection (focus/non focus). would it be possible to change text-color for focus/non-focus selection either?

thank you for reading the thread