Hi,

Thanks for this component, very usefull !

Is there a way to play the selected genre, album, artist... by pressing the enter button like in the album list panel ?

Aren't the browser panels slower than the browser playlist?

Not when your playlist is being populated by 30,000+ tracks.

Since I never received any response to this issue, I am still wondering if anyone is experiencing this same problem?

I'm sure people have read your message. It's quite narcissic to quote yourself...

In any case, If you're talking about what I think, it's normal and I doubt anyone will care.

First, I merely quoted myself for the purpose of posting the issue for which I received no response. I was wondering if this issue was specific to me or a generally known issue with browser. Second, your rather rude reply is certainly unjustified. Third, I take strong issue with respect to your contention that no one cares about a display glitch in this plugin. Obviously, I care. Also, I would suggest that a lot of other foobar users care a great deal about the appearance of their foobar, which is clearly evidenced by the fact that some of the most popular threads on this forum are dedicated to tweaking the appearance of foobar, and the messages contained therein demonstrate the substantial efforts people make to correct even the smallest display issues related to foobar and its components.

Yes, it is a small bug. I added it to the known bugs list which you can find on the foo_browser homepage at http://wiki.bowron.us/index.php/Foobar2000#foo_browser

I don't always respond to every posting here, but I usually add the bugs people post to that list. Same thing with feature requests, so if you want to know if something is a known bug or a requested feature you can check out that page.

Thanks for the reply. At least now I know it is nothing on my end.

Im trying to figure out the behavior of foo_browser. I want to basically use it to browse my library to get to songs more quickly, then add those files to a queue or playlist. Currently it seems that whatever is selected in the browser IS the queue/playlist.

I have my fb2k set up much like a traditional winamp/itunes. I have the artist/album/genre columns on the right over a columns playlist panel, which I basically want to use as a library panel. On the left, I have a panel that I wish to use as a playlist queue.

I hope I was clear. Can anyone help me?

For some reason the link in the initial post isn't working for me, would someone please upload it for me?

my website was down for a bit. should be working now.

Hi. Great component, I just added it and works great

One newbie question: I copied this string (or whatever it's called) from this topic: ['('%date%') ']%album% and now my albums show "(2001) Album"
How can I do it so that it shows "2001 - Album"

I tried ['%date% - ']%album% but then the date does not show, only the album
help please? thanks

I think

[%date% - ]%album%

is what you're after. The two quotes (') have fouled things up.

Cheers,

c0utta

ah! that was easy...

Thanks

Well I was playing around tweakng my foobar and came up with a browser panel that lets me pull all the different remixes of a given song from everywhere in my library and dump them on a playlist. It all hinges on a song title ending in '(remix name)' so there's bound to be a few songs out there that dont work. But still I like the column and thought I'd share. Here's the code:



I use this in conjunction with other panels such as Artist. Though I suppose if you used it on it's own it would give you all the remixes of all the songs with the same name regardless of artist.

I would like to make a feature request.

Under the current foo_browser there is an option in the preferences pane called "Browser Playlist" that allows us to define the name of the playlist foo_browser uses to display it's results. This field already supports TAGZ, so we could for example enter "%genre%" and foo_browser will display it's results in a playlist named after the genre of the song. The problem (as I see it) is the fact that the TAGZ is only evaluated during the first result. So in this genre example, if your foo_browser resulted in a bunch of songs with different genres.. all songs would appear on a playlist named after the genre of the first song. What I would like to request is that this TAGZ filtered destination playlist be re-evaluated for every entry. So that, continuing with the example, the results would all appear gouped on separate playlists each named after the songs' genre.

My primary intenton would be to whip up some code to split my albums and singles into 2 separate playlists, each dynamically filtered by multiple foo_browser panels.

Thank you so much for making foo_browser.
It is a truly useful component.

Here is the way I am using foo_browser.

First a close up:



And the complete view:


(click for full version)

Thanks for a wonderful component, finally any thoughs to switch from foobar to musikCube or wxMusik are gone :-) One question however: Isn't the count for the number of albums etc. one too high if there are files which miss the album etc. tag? IMHO "<MISSING>" should not be counted as an album.

EDIT: Another great thing would be to be able to drag & drop entries from the browsers to playlists.

I need help making a query that shows the most played tracks within the last 7 days. I know $ifgreater($cwb_datediff(%cwb_systemdatetime%,%last_played%),7,,%play_count%), but don't know where or if that is even right.

That'S not possible
%play_count% stores the times the song has been played - since you first played it.

There is no way to get the times you played a song within the last seven days.

How come every time I double click a file, it loads it to "default" playlist but starts playing the first song in the first artist of my *browser*?

Irritating, anyone know why it might happen? Only started after I started using foo_broswer.

File> Preferences> Media Library> Browser

[x] Automatically Activate


Have you tried (un)checking this box?

I installed foo_uie_browser, but I'm having some problems.



As you can see in the picture I set the %ALBUM ARTIST% as Amon Tobin, then I set the %ARTIST% tag on a track per track basis. However, this presents a problem.



When I click on Solid Steel it only lists the tracks by %ARTIST% = Amon Tobin and %ALBUM% = Solid Steel. It also lists the different artists as completely separate artists. Is there any way to make the Browser component work with my directory structure (like Album List)?

this component does not currently support multiple values per field, this is documented on the component's main wiki as a feature request.

if you would like to parse directory structure you'll need to change your browser panel source to something using $directory(%path%,n) depending on your structure instead of %artist%.

How would I go about doing that? I don't see any such option in Browser settings.

File> Preferences> Media Library> Browser

Under "Panels" select the header you want to modify, click [Edit], then change the "Format" line to parse your directory structure for the desired information. [OK], [Save All], [Close], then Shift+RMB on the panel and refresh the source.

Thanks very much, solved. I saw SOOOOO SICK of hearing track 1 of "Adrian belew" every time i opened a file

Hi folks,

A while back, someone posted a piece of code that lists artists such as "The Beatles" into "Beatles" (meaning that they are higher up on the list). I was wondering if anyone could point me to the direction of this code? I sued to use it in past installations, but I forgot to note it down when I installed the new beta

My browser sort stuff for Artist is this :


It also works for french articles. And sorts artists from albums before artists from single songs.

Feature requests

1)

In a panel, we can easily select more than one item with ctrl or shift keys.
But, in this way we are getting an "OR" among the selected items: isn't there a way to easily get an "AND" instead? By now I have to set up many panels with the same tag but with lower precedence to get that result. Maybe two radio buttons on top of each panel (if wanted) with "AND" and "OR" and then process the selection with the chosen operator.
(My usage of this is mostly with the performers info: quite often I'd like to select only those tracks where plays together say, Miles Davis + John Coltrane + Bill Evans etc.)

2)

Can we have an option to lock a precedence level for a specific panel? (Maybe beside those radio buttons above...) In this way, we could just load different headers to get different lay-outs and we know which the panels precedences are by their position. I tried with columns UI lay-out change but it's too slow to be useful. By now I would have to set up a list of headers each of them with all the different precedence levels and then load "3 performer" after maybe "2 title" and "0 genre" and "1 rating".
With all my tags the list would be endless (and for a wife it would be easier not to have to pay attention to the numbers)

Thanks.

That works perfectly, many thanks

Whatever I put in the Sort field is ignored. For instance, %date% (or date) in the Album panel causes no order change. The Format field works perfectly.

Component version is 1.2.2c.

I know this was a problem in older versions, but now it seems to be working properly for the majority. I assume there's something wrong with my configuration.

Sorry if the answer is obvious or something, but I did search and found no clarification (only an unanswered question about the same thing). How to make this work?

EDIT

My bad. I now see you have to Shift + RMB click the panel and select the new (or edited) sorting behavior to put it into effect.

Would there be a way to include "static panels" as well? Something like in playlist tree.
Really nice if we could have one panel with for example "Sorted by Artist, Album, Genre" or maybe "Albums (which would show artist/album in the other 2 browsers), Single songs (which would show year/artist in the other browsers).
You understand what I mean?

LOL

I had that happen as well and I swear the first song of whatever it was, was the most annoying song EVER.

how have you put tabs ?

edit: forget it, found how

foo_uie_tabs.dll be sure to get the v0.2.4 as it has many improvements over earlier versions.

OK, thanks

I've started making my things with this impressive plug-in, but I have some troubles then.

I've made 5 browsers, the first one select the album genre, actually "Classical" or "Modern" (as the Classical mp3s have got their own folders), then selection of the date, then selection of the artist, then selection of the format (LP, EP, single, OST, etc.), and then selection of the albums.

But I don't like the way the things appear in my playlist. I want it to appear in the directory alphabetical order. For the moment it appears in the order alphabetical order, but including subfolders.

Then singles and LPs for example aren't not put together if they have the same artists, as a single will be call [Singles]/Artist - Disc, when a normal LP is not into a proper folder but the main one.

I would like also to keep the normal alphabetical order for the browsers.


Another problem, browser makes foobar freeze a little bit when I start it (I've got 1 GiB of RAM), and same thing each time I try to change a value in the browsers.

I found that when I select an album in my "Album" Browser panel, that it properly displays the order of the tracks in the default "Browser" playlist. However, if I right-click the same album and select the "Playlist Tree-->" and choose any of the "Add to", "Send to" or "New" playlist options, it does not properly sort the tracks within an album (it appears to be random as it is different each time fb2k is closed then re-opened). To double check, I select the same album in a "Album" based Playlist Tree query and it display properly. It seems that there is something up with the right-click link to PLT in Browser.

EDIT: Nevermind. It seems that it wasn't refreshing my sort changes. All is well now.

1)
hmmm, same here

hmmm, different here, all is still a mess
I've been playing around with all kind of settings lately, so maybe also some sort changes I better would not have done. Any hint what might have caused the mess?

EDIT (for other newbies that might read this one day): As a newbie I just now found that sorting and formatting the panels are different things. Filling the sorting option of the individual browser panels just with "*", which I understand just refers to the formatting string, seams to result in difficulties with the 'playlist tree' commands like 'add to'. Putting proper strings in the sorting option now helped getting the desired order when adding files from browser to active playlist.

2) Oh and one more thing: any shortcut to refreshing the browser so that I don't have to use the library-menu-command? Maybe somehow possible to get it into the context-menu?

Thanks
hifish

For 2), you can set this in Preferences: General: Keyboard Shortcuts.

Is there a way to integrate a search with foo_browser? By this I mean in the same way as iTunes, where searching automatically trims the browsing panels (i.e. you browse the results of a search.)

Bug: Using keyboard to navigate the panels which foo_browser shows (i.e. pressing 'e' to jump to the first item starting with 'e', etc..), causes a keyboard shortcut to be performed aswell, whilst using foo_uie_single_column_playlist. I.E., I bind 'X' to play, and if I press 'X' whilst using the foo_browser panels, then it searches the foo_browser panel, generates the playlist, and because of 'X' being binded to play, plays the song. (may not be your problem)

spex04, is your 'X' shortcut a Global hotkey? If so, then it is not a problem with foo_brower.

Nope, I thought that at first, but they are just regular hotkeys.

hello,
a little question:
i tried to put in the artist column %artist%+%album artist%.
i tried different combinations like

and it gave me %artist%+%album artist% but... if i have an album of bob Dylan and a soundtrack that has song of Bob Dylan - it didn't display the song from the soundtrack - but it did displayed the %album artist% of the soundtrack.

whats the right code for it?
thanks...

Request: Browser with trackinfo_mod code. (I requested it there, too, but maybe here is a better place)

I am against that! Why? Although i would use it!

The browser is a media library viewer and i would be happy if its origin functionality would be improved everytime Chris puts time and work in it. Not every component must represent the new foobar style. But sure: it is up to Chris to decide in which direction he likes to develope his two ml viewers.

I thought of two versions of the browser component (one normal like it is now and one with the ability of showing pictures and different font sizes). And not only chris can programm components, maybe someone else could programm "foo_browser_mod".
I don't use the "new foobar style" because it's nearly useless for me, but foo_browser_mod would be very usefull for me. For example I could display artists which I like more bigger than others, and selecting albums by clicking on their cover would be very nice.

I'd like to see the ability to alternate the background for a couple of rows rather than just having one plain background.

Also the ability to align the list using the padding method.

And finally, somehow get the fonts to look smoother, because currently i'm using the same font in my browser as my playlist and yet they look completely different because the browser font is quite jaggy.

Hey Cbowron. I was wondering if you had it in the works to emply drag and drop from the Browser into the playlist.

Playlist Tree already has this functionality, however, even in the .9 version the songs actual are just added to the playlist, rather than going where 'dragged.'

Just being nitpicky, of course. Keep up the good work, your components are the best