Thanks. How do you move the browser cats(artist, song, etc) to the top though like http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4015/foobar5sp.jpg

Hi,
This is what i have done : format : %<genre>% but it just shows the first genre even if a song have multiple genres ....

Any ideas ?
I have some albums whose genres are Electronic and Minimalist.
With the 1.1.6b, i had both genres appering, now, i just see the first one : electronic and my format is %<genre>% ....
Any solution ?
Tks a lot, I someone has a 1.1.6b, can he upload it so that I will put it waiting for a solution ! My wife just loves her minimalist music !!

For that to work you need the format as just genre, with no % signs. I may be wrong since I've only just reinstalled it and before that I haven't been able to use Windows for months.

display : %artist%
sort by : $replace(%artist%,The ,)

Not working still. I might be doing it wrong though. I put in under both format and sort and nothing seems to work.

yeah i did the same thing at BigRobb and it doesnt work. I reset my browsers and rescanned my library after, but to no avail.

Hold down shift and right-click in the Artist panel, reselect Artist to activate the new sort criteria.

Anders

Mister cwbowron , have you got a solution for my problem. I just can't find a solution !

As it seems there is no solution for my poor problem, could someone upload the previous version of foobar (1.1.6b) . this would be very nice !

I am testing a tagging approach to my library that relies on multiple STYLE tags.
For instance:

Genre: Rock
Style: Acid Rock\Heavy Metal\British Metal (meaning that in this case I have 3 STYLE tags)

Now I want to have 2 browsers being one for the genre tag (that is always unique for every item of the library) and another for the STYLE tag (that may not be unique).

I tried the following approaches for the STYLE panel:

style (approach 1)
%style% (approach 2)

Approach 1 shows me in the panel only the first STYLE tag and ignores the others (in my example only Acid Rock would appear).
Approach 2 shows me all tags, but comma separated in the same line and that is not exactly what I had in mind... What I wanted is it to show me all STYLE tags, one after another, and when I click in for instance Acid Rock it would display in the playlist all files tagged as Acid Rock.

Does anyone know if this is possible with the current version or if there is any interest in adding this feature to the plugin?

I think instead of having 2 genres...you should put 1 genre and maybe add a %style% tag...

Hi,

I think I noticed another problem with browser 1.1.7 -- mp3 files, which get double-clicked from within windows explorer, do not get played by foobar anymore. It's somehow difficult to explain, so I'll try it this way:

Steps to reproduce:
1) goto Preferences -> Browser and make sure "Automatically Activate" is checked.
2) close foobar
3) locate any mp3 file and double-click it.

Expected behaviour:
- foobar should launch (provided it's the default player for mp3 files) and the double-clicked file should get played.

Current behaviour:
- foobar launches, but the double-clicked file is not played. The very first file from the *Browser* playlist is played instead.

You probably have foo_Browser set to automatically activate the playlist when browsing. You can try turning that off and seeing if the problem still exists...

Hi zlebandit,

I also have the same problem with multiple genres and multiple artists. I already reverted to the previous version. Get it from here:

http://www.iaido-frankfurt.de/ifkxdrg/foo_browser_116b.zip

Should have better support for %<tag>%

Hi cwbowron,

you mean step 1) from the list I posted? Yes, I always have "Automatically Activate" checked. If I unckeck it, then it works as expected, i.e. the double-clicked file is played.

But I assumed the double-clicked file should always be played, regardles of the state of "Automatically Activate", no? Otherwise, the notion of "default player" is somehow pointless. Or am I wrong?



Great! The problem with the multiple genres/artists is gone.

Thank you, cwbowron!

Cool, this fixes my other problem. I leave "Automatically Activate" enabled, but I disable "Populate on startup", thus I have no more problems with files from the console.

Thanks again.

HI all, and tks cwbowron for this new version where everything works fine.
Multiple tags are OK, @skip option works pretty well.

Thanks again.

PS : I'm just thinking of something that could improve foo_browser. When I browse my playlist with foo_browser, it browse in the playlist I've specified (*Browser* by default). When I play an album, I like to browse the playlist, but if the album played was found with foo_browser (so in the *Browser* playlist), when I browse during playing, at the end of the song, the next song played will be the one where the browser stopped at the end of the previous song (not sure I'm clear !). It would be great to be able to send the album that I want to listen to in ANOTHER playlist than *Browser*. So that I can continue to browse my collection as i listen to an album. In fact, two playlist would be choosen in the options : the one for browse and the one to send selection by double clic for example.
What do people found of foo_browser think of that ?

thanx cwbowron. Now my multiple style tags work in the expected way.

Maybe we could have a "Browser - selection" and a "Browser - playing" automatically created playlists. When I'm browsing the result will be in the "selection" one. If there is a track playing from the "selection" playlist, that playlist will become the "playing" one and from then on the browser should create another "selection" playlist without disturbing the "playing" one. Not sure how to deal if I stop playing tracks though...

Just an idea.

Yes, something like this : a Browser list to browse, and another one to play. Elements from the browsers are automatically sent to the second playlist by double clicking...

It's too heavy for me.

maybe memory leak? playing time goes further, it becomes heavier...

and finally screen crashes.

(using foobar 0.9.1, Columns UI 0.1.3 beta 1v5, AMD Palermo, XP SP2)

Hi Chris,

I'm having major problems with foo_browser 1.1.8. I'm not sure what's going on, but I cannot get foobar2000 to play. It starts up, but seems to hang. Even my font's change size in the playlist and foo_track_info. I can't even get into preferences to check the settings. When I revert back to 1.1.7 all is right with the world again. To sum up, the best I can say is foo_browser 1.1.8 is making foobar2000 hang, and hang, and hang some more.

Same here. Computer freezes when activating foo_browser.

Even with the older versions I had a loading time of a half a minute or so (for populating).


WinXP Sp2, 800mhz, 32mb grafic, 384 MB Ram




JD

Fabiospark wrote:


A good idea!



Hmmm? I think to avoid copying content from one playlist to another and to handle this problem just by renaming of playlist a solution could be to delete that playing playlist on stop.

Zlebandit wrote:


I guess you come from Winamp and miss the playlist editor where tracks are sended to from media library! What you need would be something like "user defined playlist" known from playlist tree 1.7.xx. Perhaps Chris will see a usage for that and could implement it into Browser or Playlist Tree or in a seperate plugin.

Yes, you are right, I come from Winamp about 4 years ago ! And I always found great this way to manage with the media library . I went to foobar because you can make it just like you need it (for tags especially).
And you are right too, the solution is 98 % here when I see what foo_browser can do . And the possibility to browse your playlist during playing is really worth it !

The aim of my posting was to clarify that you and fabiospark are talking about two different features. I would be happy to see both of them but fabisparks idea is a little bit more important for me.

Let us see what the future will bring!

I confirm that foo_browser is hanging foobar.

Hanging here too...

can anybody give me more information about their setups that are freezing... what do your formats look like?

foobar v0.9.2 Beta 4 w/ Standard Components

All I added was the latest versions of foo_ui_columns, foo_uie_trackinfo, and foo_browser...

This was a clean install, and when trying to configure the browsers after adding them to my layout, foobar2000 completely hangs and all settings are lost.

Do you have the problem if you use foobar 0.9.1?

What about if you don't use the trackinfo panel?

Hi Chris,

I believe my hangs were with both with foobar2000 0.9.2Beta3 & 4. My configuration has the latest Columns_UI, Albumart 176a, Trackinfo 0.8, albumlist panel 0.2.1 beta4, ui_explorer 1.04.6a, playlist dropdown 0.5.7, along with standard toolbar stuff.

Browser 1.1.7 is working perfectly with all of these plugins. Yesterday, I tried Browser 1.1.8 here at work, and I had to restart the computer because my all my programs that have dropdown menus were messed up (either words but no color or color and no wording.) It seemed as if everything had to be redrawn. Very strange behavior.

I hope this info helps you out.


Hi Again Chris,

Ok, I can confirm that Browser 1.1.8 works perfectly with foo_uie_trackinfo 0.8 removed. So, who needs to fix what?

I'm gonna call it a track info problem. I have foo_browser running with track info panel v. 0.7 and that seems to running fine.

This is my track info panel setup... very sparse:

http://foobar.bowron.us/trackinfo.png

Do you have problems if you use track info without browser, but with other panels?

Well, I thought everything was OK, but as soon I closed foobar, then tried to restart, foobar crashes. Upon removing Browser 1.1.8 it starts right up with no problem.

Hello,

From the test I've done it doesn't seems related to the presence of Trac info but from the use of more than one panel of foo_browser at the same time.

Foobar2000 v0.9.1
Columns UI 0.1.3 beta 1v5
AlbumArt panel 0.176a (also freese without it)
Track info panel 0.8 (also freese without it)
AudioCDWriter 2.0
Special info box 2.0.0
Monkey's Audio decoder 2.0
Playback statistics 1.0

Windows XP SP2
Kerio 4.1.3
AVG

Hope this can help.

Hi,

here is my bug report:

Using foobar 0.9.1 on Win2kSP4 with these components:
http://www.iaido-frankfurt.de/ifkxdrg/foobar-components.gif
and these browser settings:
http://www.iaido-frankfurt.de/ifkxdrg/foo_...er-settings.gif

The problems began immediately after updating to foo_browser 1.1.8, so I'm afraid it may be a foo_browser issue. The problems appear randomly and there are no certain steps to reproduce them, but they are invariably triggered by a click on a browser panel.

The player does not crash or hang here, but the appearance is severely distorted. A Screenshot:
http://www.iaido-frankfurt.de/ifkxdrg/foobar-borked.gif

The music plays further, the buttons "play", "pause", "stop", etc. are working. The Ablum List panel is working, the spectrum analyser is working, but a second, frozen copy of the analyser appears in the upper left corner (cf. screenshot).

The browser pannels themselves appear to be working - when you click on them they change their contents -, but they are painted mostly white-on-white.

The Track Info panel and the Playlists appear to be frozen - they display either trash or the background of some other window, but this is appearance only. When you double-click on the supposedly frozen playlist, the track starts playing, which is supposed to be there.

All in all, it looks like some kind of window re-paint problem in my case.

The same happens to me if I try to resize the columns ui playlist by dragging.

It seems to me, that the memory leak is here again. The above steps are valid (again).

I am very pleased with the latest version, except for one bug, which is that the sort order is ignored.
My sort string for ARTIST is but it sorts it as if it was *

Edit: Small feature request, it would be very very nice to be able to assign an action to single click as well as double click.
PS. I have the 'Brower Playlist' set to 'Everything', which is a read-only autoplaylist, which stops Browser from modifying it, So for me single click does nothing except create a slight pause. Double click is set to Edit/Highlight in Playlist.

Thanks for the info...

if you uncheck "Use custom colors" does that help anything?

The crashing happens here when I add three new browser panels to my layout at once, and then it crashes when I do the Shift+Right Click.

I did a test to see if I added and configured a browser panel one by one, and that worked without crashing.

Here's a summary fo the layout that I was using:



Hopefully that is of some help...

Same here.

One by one and didn't crash at all.

After having same problems of freezing,and was not sure where was the issue,I reinstall a complete foobar but same freezing
and I found this page about last 1.1.8 so I tried back the 1.1.7
and Everything is back in order! with 4 Browser-Panels

Hi Chris,

You are absolutely correct, it is the "Custom Selection Colors". Unchecked, everything is working perfectly. I use 6 panels and all is working smoothly. Even closing & restarting foobar many times, everything runs as it should. No excess CPU usage nor re-drawing issues. So, it looks like the main culprit has been isolated.

This shoudl fix the issues with the custom selection colors.

Thanks to drbeachboy for testing.

i have a question =P

to chose the artist what i want to listen i use the foo_browser plugin
how can i make the name of artists go to the right of the browser colum???
(like when i chose the alignment: right to one colun (like the title colun for exemple))

Thanks you very much for debugging so quickly.
Everything seems to work for me.