To be fair, the bug had already been reported by PogusMagnus.

tru, but

(1) that was a few pages ago, not a few posts ago

(2) he struck out twice (with the feature suggestion that cwbowron said one post before he'd implement next version), not just with that one bug

so there

Hi all and tks cwbowron for this 1.1.6b which works really well.
I have a little question about what is happening when youy have got for example multiple grenres (Electro\Hip-Hop) or artists(Stan Getz\Bill Evans) for a song.
When I tag those files with the masstager, i just see one genre : Electro, Hip-Hop.
I would like to know if it is possible to have to song in the both genres (Electro and Hip-Hop).
Tks for your help

lav: pages, schmages
Just type 'genre' into the Formats column (as opposed to '%genre%')

hey come on folks, u don´t wanna tell me u never lose concentration by surfing this forum and searching for infos, news, solutions.

sorry guys, u all rock! i´m not in coding. u know, the english man in new york.

foobar rox

lol

Tks Silverbolt, you are right, i can now see the problem:
i can't have multiple genre with an album in APE format and cuesheet in it.
It just does not work !
So the problem is not foo_browser.
If you have a solution for those cuesheet, i'm interrested !
Tks

Is there any solution to this if I use complex formatting strings?


Or am I fxcked?

No, i'm pretty sure Browser stops doing that fancy separating thingie if it detects that you've used any TAGZ in the format string.

Im having some trouble with the browsers.

I just installed the latest version, but i can't put the browsers in Columns UI layout, they dont show up under panels, so there is no way for me to put them on. Ive been going at it for awhile and I have no clue how to fix it. Anyone else have this problem or have an idea on how to fix it?

To explain more: I go to Columns UI-> Layout then right click on splitter go to insert panels and then go to panels and the browser panels arent there. I didnt see the question answered on any other page, so I figured id ask.

Update Columns UI?

That's why I'd love to see foo_browser use a different approach on TAGZ vs multiple values like I described in my previous post.

Right now you can either use TAGZ and read only 1 value per field from each file. Or you use the notation without % and foo_browser will read all values for that field but without any further processing possible.

In my humble opinion it would be better and certainly more logical if foo_browser would read all values for a specified field and perform the formatting on each value. This would of course raise a problem with formatting constructions where multiple fields are used (for example, %genre% and %artist%). If these fields have quite a few multiple values, foo_browser would have to process all possible combinations between those fields which obviously would cause a performance hit and probably give results you don't want.
A better way would be to specify just one field for each browser on which foo_browser will check for multiple values. During processing foo_browser would read each value for that %field%, and then process the formatting string for each value while substituting %field% by the value and read other %tags% as normal.

I'm not sure I made my idea clear enough, but I really believe this (and some other things I previously mentioned) would improve foo_browser's usability.

Of course, all I can do is request such features, propose ideas and hope the developer finds them worthy enough to think about


I had the same problem, and from the help I got and other people's same experiences it turns out this is almost always caused by an incorrect verion of foo_ui_columns. Just make sure you get the latest versions from both foo_ui_columns and foo_browser and all should be fine.

Release 1.1.7

Wow thanks! Don't forget to catch some sleep every once in while

I'll try the new version later today, but in the meantime: thanks again for the incredibly fast feature implementations!!

cwbowron, FYI, you are probably my favourite foobar developer.

Nice improvements on 1.1.7 This plugin just keeps getting better and better!

I agree. Can't live without it, especially since its so quick and convenient when trying to find a particular song.

I just kindly ask that an option be made to hide the vertical scroll bars. Then it would be 100% perfect, instead of 99.9% like it is now!

Thanks

The option to skip certain output is great. I really appreciate it!

However, I can't seem to figure out how the %<tag>% works - Or I don't understand its meaning (more likely ). For example; I have 4 files with following tags:


As browser formatting string I have %<test1,test2>%. This leads to following situation in the browser:


Is that correct? Wouldn't one expect:


Or am I wrong?

[Corrected some typos]

many thx for the updates! indeed this plugin rules.
still got no 100% full draw of the selection bar across the entires line. am i the only one?


any ways to add line spacing feature? and one question about drawing position of selection bar. possible to place the bar verticaly middle possition in relation to text of the entires line?

besides this, any chance to see someday something like this for albums:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=44509

keep up the great work and big THX!

Edit: Double post Removed

There's a few kinks in the %<tag>% format right now, I think.

You are right in the way that it *should* work.

Hi and tks cwbowron for this new version. This plugin is getting better and better.
But on the 1.1.6, i had solved my problem with multiple genres : the songs appeared in both.
But now, it just take the first genre of the tag.
How must I do to make it appear as on the 1.1.6 ?
Tks for help

Uh, when I updated the plug-in, it disappeared from the window and I can't add it to a splitter.

Any help?

Make sure you use the latest version of foo_ui_columns.

This new version is incredible, with the addition of the @skip feature I think it beats the iTunes navigation by far.

The only thing I miss is an option to update current playlist instead of a predefined one, because sometimes I like to browse my collection while playing a browsed playlist.

Thanks for foo_browser, cwbowron!

I've just updated my foobar to 9.1, last collumn_ui and browser.
I sill do not find how to display the genre and artists panels.

cwbowron, Could you complete your wiki page with some screenshots to explain how foo_browser may be configured.
Moreover, why is your signature not a link to that page? It should be possible in this forum, isn't it?

Eric: Check following screenshots:

HTML in signatures is disabled in this forum AFAIK to prevent sig abuse.

thanks, it works!
I had to reinstall collumn_ui ...

Now, it is possible to diplay the horizontal splitter for the browser panels only if the *Browser* playlist is selected?
Goal is to hide the browser panels for other playlists.

Great plugin. One question though:

How can I get the sorting to ignore case?

Like I have music from "At The Drive-In" and "At the Drive-In", but they show up as different artists because of the different way "the" is cased.

I know that I can do that by making everything uppercase, but I didn't want that either.

Thanks!

And what about the following as formatting string?


That should capitalize every first letter of each word, without touching other caps. It's not perfect either, but I think it should help you in most cases.


I must say I haven't tried it for myself, but I don't think that is possible at this point. I don't think there's support in foo_columns_ui for that (yet).

Was this issue mensioned before 'cause my app is crashing all the time while trying to set genre browser block by shift+right click.

Not perfect, but exactly what I wanted. Thanks!

Hi all, I just re-question you about the problem i have with multiple tags (like genre in particular).
I would like the songs which have multiple genre appear in both genres .
This worked pretty well woth the previous version of foo_browser, and it was just written "genre" in the format panel. What must i write now ?
tks in advance

Now, in columns UI you can create and choose different layout presets. With the browser panels is quite easy to think to use this columns UI feature: different preset for different combinations of the panels. But it doesn't work because the dependancies are fixed in the list in the preferences page and are layout unaware. It would be the best integration with columns being able to set the dependances in columns UI layout page too, maybe with just a numbered order and it would be nice being able to assign the same order number to different panels with different tags at the same time.

occurs also twice by me. Then, I reset the panel to genre in the column_ui and it works.

I'm trying to get this sorting tag to work in foo_browser:




Is there any way you can make it so it says "The (artist)" but still sort it alphabetically by "(artist)" in the panel?

I allso tried to set genre browser from col_ui preferences but nothing happened. I can assing artist or album browser the same way without any problem.

I just wanted to say thank you for such a useful component. The ability to use multiple browser lists to dynamically filter my playlist on the fly has been one of the biggest reasons I have swtiched to foobar. Keep up the good work!

Are there any plans on extending the functionality of this component to work with shoutcast or other sources outside the regular media library?

Grats for your plugin, you did a great job. But, I was wondering if you could add a feature in your request list... The possibility to associate an action to the middle-click button.

It would be awesome

foo_browser run quite good by me.

But I sill have a huge performance problem: foobar takes 30 s to load (Startup time : 0:28.144223), and then, foobar uses more than 100 MB in RAM !

(3 years old computer: duron 2 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM)

Do you think about performance improvement?
As said before, could it be possible to load the browser playlist somehow in order not to freeze the startup of foobar (like in another thread) ?

I've read through this thread (and forum for that matter) I dont know how many times, but I cant find a working conclusive answer to the whole "The" prefix issue.

Can somebody explain what exactly I need to do in the n00best way you can possibly explain, what and where to apply the code to make my artists browse panel appear like so:

Audioslave
The Aquabats
The Beatles
Catch 22
CAKE
The Mars Volta

The bolded for emphasis .

Haha i do apologise for my n00bness with fb2k, very impressed with it though thus far, and particularly this plugin.

Cheers
-kieran

Sort by : $replace(%artist%,The ,)

Hi all, I just have a question you about the problem i have with multiple tags (like genre in particular).
I would like the songs which have multiple genre appear in both genres .
This worked pretty well with the previous version of foo_browser, and it was just written "genre" in the format panel. What must i write now ?
tks in advance

* multiple tags using %<tag>% like playlist tree

He was literally talking about it one post before you posted that question the first time.

I updated foo_browser from 1.1.4 to 1.1.7 and then Browser Panel strangely disappeared. I installed foobar 0.9.1, reinstalled it and reinstalled foo_ui_columns few times - but no, I still can't see Browser Panel in foo_ui_columns's Layout's Insert panel menu. And the best thing is that I replaced the old, working version of foo_browser with new, unworking one.

What should I do?

What version of foo_ui_columns are you using?

Too old.

Thanks, upgrading foo_ui_columns helped.

How do you install this after you put the DLL in your components dir?

You have to enable it in the Columns UI layout section. Right-clicking around in there will allow you to add the pnels.