How do you get browser to show Artist And Album at the same time... http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c276/sai...h_tabs_full.jpg at the bottom this guy has it.

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That would be nice.

I'm new to this component. I cannot figure out a way to stop the playlist from populating every time I click an artist in one of the browser panels. Rather I'd like for it to populate when I double click an artist. Is this even possible? If not the option to do so should be implemented, please!

That image shows foo_uie_tabs in the bottom right corner with 3 browser panels each on a separate tab. One for genre, one for artist, and one for album.

Is anyone using foo_browser on Vista RC2 successfully? I've setup my design partly on XP/Vista, but while setup with no problems on XP, it's totally unusable in Vista. I get "Bad Allocation" on almost every action I take. Often i'm unable to start fb2k - Only deleting my database.fpl file could make it start up again.

Edit: I think the problems are somewhat related to foo_playlists_dropdown (I've had my issues with this one on XP too). But I wonder why the problems remain after removal of the plugin, and things aren't back to normal before the Media Library has been deleted and rebuild.

Final edit: Columns UI author has announced that Vista causes random crashes with fb2k. However to my experience, foo_albumlist (same author) is causing the most instability

I am using foo_browser and love it!

I have one question. I can click an artist, and the album browser is refined. I can click an album and the playlist is refined. That is great.

I would really like to be able to doubleclick either the artist, or the album and for the 'play button' to be activited. Is there any way to do this?

Yes, there's an option for setting the double-click's function in the preferences. If it isn't there, then you need an additional component which I forget the name of. On the other hand I've had mixed results from trying to do it, so it may not be faultless (I can't check because I'm not at home)

Yup, double-click function list doesn't include 'Play'.

So here's my vote/request for that

I think this relies on the functionality of foo_utils to work, and it should appear under "Edit/Send to Current Playlist and Play"

It was working for me before, but now its still repopulating everything and not leaving off on the song that I left it at!

Hmmm.. under foo_utils there is "send to playlist..." but that invokes a new window asking for the target playlist, when I select one it still doesn't play.

All I want is simple 'play' the playlists are already acting perfectly

I'm solving that with the "play after current"-feature of my foo_uie_queuemanger
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....oo_queuemanager

I love the plugin, but when it sorts the playlist, it does so by track title. I dont really get the sort dialogue in the prefs menu.

Is itpossible to show more than one Tag in one browser panel? E.g. i want to show the tags %artist% and %featuring% (multivalue) in the panel for the artists and dont want to have seperated panels.

thx

%<artist,featuring>%

THX alot !!!

Has this been recompiled to work with Vista?
And does anyone have a way to sort the Artists to just ignore 'The' but still allow it to display the Artist as 'The ___'?

It hasn't.

use

(in your sorting field)

Hmm..alright well thanks for the Sorting code, guess I'll have to use Playlist Tree for now because foo_browser really doesnt like Vista.

I think it's a question of time. I am sure the develloper will compile this plugin so that it will work in Vista.

Oh maybe not

Thank you cwbowron! I love this plugin (maybe because I secretly love iTunes?).

Hi and sorry if this has been discussed.

Is it possible to display a multi-artist tag like "artist1 vs. artist2" in both a1 and a2 menus instead of its own?

I don't know that it is directly, but there is a script built in to foobar2000's tagging system that splits "artist" tags into several ones (e.g. if there's an "and", or a "," or a few other sets of characters it will become two tags at that point.) This then sorts correctly.

Is it possible to make a browser-panel that sorts the files after directories?

You should be able to accomplish that with either
%directoryname%
-or-
$directory(%path%,n)
depending on your needs. see the titleformat_help.html file in your foobar directory for more details.

Tank you, but tbh, i dont know where to put this. Anyone can tell me?

Before starting to use a plugin it is always a good way to get familiar with it. So take a look in context menu, main menu and especially foobars preferences page. I am sure you will find it there!

I have the default 3 browser panels, Genre, Artist, and Album. Say I select Electronic from the Genre list. All of the artists tagged as Electronic show up in the Artist panel and all of their albums show up in the Album panel. When I click on an Artist I want it to just display that Artist's albums in the album panel, but it just keeps the entire list of all electronic albums. Is there any way to change this?

Go to the preferences and choose for the album panel a precedence level which is higher than the level of the artist panel

Still doesn't work


Genre has a precedence level of 1, Artist 2, and Album 3

I have tried it with Album at 2 and Artist at 3 and it doesn't make a difference.

Any ideas?

Try setting artist and album to the same number, for example 2.

Keep in mind that you need to refresh the browser panel settings by shift+right clicking on them and selecting their criteria after you make changes to the precedence levels.

That doesn't work either. I wonder if this is a bug or just the way it was intended to behave..

Here is a screenshot of my browser

I know that selecting the artist on the browser will display all of that artists albums in the playlist, but i would like to be able to choose from that artists album in the album panel without having to go through all artists' albums.


edit: I have been refreshing the contents too, and even restarting foobar after making changes to precedence levels.

I have my "Genre", "Artist", and "Album" windows set to "1". When I select a certain genre, it then shows only the artists and albums for that genre. When I then choose a certain artist from the new list, it only shows the albums for that artist in the "Album" window.

Not sure why it won't work for you. Btw, I am using version 1.2.2c. Also, my "0" window is "Codec".

Hmm, well for whatever reason, its working correctly now. Guess i must've been doing something stupid. Thanks for all of the help

btw kockroach, there is a version 1.2.3 available now too http://wiki.bowron.us/index.php/Foobar2000:Browser

I feel like a complete doofus. I have columns_ui 0.1.3 beta 1v7 installed, using fb2k version 0.9.3.1, but the panels simply don't show up for me. Under Preferences -> Media Library -> Installed Media Library Viewers, the "activate" button for Browser is greyed out. Album List works, though not as a panel. Any quick ideas on what I've done wrong? I can't seem to get anything to pop up as a panel.

sti3: Are you adding your panels to your layout from:
File> Preferences> Display> Columns UI> "Layout" Tab

No do I need to do that? I thought when you installed the foo_browser component its panels would automatically pop up if the browser was activated/selected.

The only things I have in that layout tab are playlist sidebar (default) and playlist tabs

EDIT: I got it to work after googling this exact phrase and finding this page: http://www.teqnilogik.com/tutorials/foobar2000_itunes.htm

However I want to be able to clear all filters. I seem to be stuck on a certain filter. Refresh Browser contents?

not got foobar on me but off memory. if u have the genre as the left panel & album as the right and set to browse it doesnt but if u change it to album and genre it does?

any1 else found this odd behaviour

What is the code for sorting without 'the'?
and more importantly, can someone put it somewhere easily findeable

check the previous page of this very thread.

i used ";" and it worked for me few weeks ago.
but i started using foo_browser again today and it doesn't recognizing 2 artists...
what's the problem ?

I'm trying to do something like cYmoZz was earlier but I've hit a road block.




This is how my music is generally set up in the directories.


This is how the browser is set up. I've highlighted the problem folders. What I'm trying to do is get the panels to say

ROOT NAME | ARTIST | ALBUM (YEAR)

Only problem is with the folders named "Disc #" start to mess up the way that the panels show up. I've tried a few $if statements but none of them really work to well.

plzkthx

Is it possible to exclude items entirely from a panel? I don't want to display all items which has %skip% tag. I tried the following without luck: $ifequal(%skip%,1,,$if2(%artist%,<MISSING>))

Where is the %skip% tag stored? Is it actually a tag within the file, or is it a custom tag stored elsewhere (only used in fb2k)?

I tag tracks I don't want to be played (could be interludes/intros on albums, or other tracks I find improper to be listed) with a "1" in a custom field called %skip%. It's also used by many people using the foo_skip component.

How does the sort-feature work? I tried putting


In there to remove the 'The ' in the artist name but still, when I refresh the panels all artists starting with The are stuck down there in the same place.

*edit*

Now I found out how to refresh properly. Now my problem is that all artists are in some sort of random order, except for the "the-albums". Why is that?

*edit again*

Solved it by

I didn't see it in the feature requests and I'm still wondering... Is Drag and Drop being planned for implementation?