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Idec Sdawkminn

Oct 3 2006, 22:25

Just out of curiosity, what do you guys this of this one?

Neverender

Oct 4 2006, 01:26

This is my first config--at least, the first one I've built so close to entirely from the ground up. Before this, I cobbled together a few chunky elements of FCS files every once in a while.

I made a point of resisting the temptation to copy/paste someone else's completely awesome work to see where my own tastes would lead me. And they led me to nearly tearing my hair out trying to coax what I wanted out of tagz. I mean, I'm fairly handy with programming in general, but thinking in tagz almost made my eyes bleed.

I'd really appreciate any suggestions or opinions, but mostly, I'm just here for the catharsis of sharing my hours of work with likeminded individuals. You guys are my support group!

Oh, first post on the HA forums too. Hello.

edit: Forgot to re-enable my track numbers before I uploaded the screenshot.

...Just Elliott

Oct 4 2006, 02:31

Got asked for my foobar config, so, here it is.

Single Column Playlist:

Row height 16, header rows 5, no edge, background 255-255-255

Group by %album% %discnumber%

Item display:

CODE

$ifequal($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),0,$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-240-240-240 pencolor-null),$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-255-255-255 pencolor-null))
$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(0,0,,,brushcolor-215-215-215 pencolor-null))
$if(%isplaying%,$drawrect(0,0,,,brushcolor-215-215-220 pencolor-null))
$if(%_focused%,$drawrect(0,0,,,brushcolor-null pencolor-0-120-200))
$padding(2,2)
$align(left,top)$rgb(0,120,200)$if(%album%,%tracknumber%.,%artist% -)[%track artist% -] $rgb(0,0,0)%title%
$align(right,top)%length%$imageabs2(,,,,,,$sub(%_width%,100),0,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating$if2(%rating%,0).png,)

Group display:

CODE

$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-235-235-235 pencolor-null)
$imageabs2(75,75,,,,,3,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,cover.jpg),)
$imageabs2(75,75,,,,,3,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,../cover.jpg),)
$padding(85,5)$font(,13,,0-120-200)$if2(%album%,Single Tracks)[ '('Disc $num(%discnumber%,1)')']$char(10)
$font(,10,nocleartype,0-0-0)$if(%album%,%album artist%,Not Applicable)$char(10)
$if(%album%,%bitrate%kbps %codec% / Album Gain: %__replaygain_album_gain%,Not Applicable)$char(10)
$if(%album%,%date% %genre%,Not Applicable)

Font: 7pt Verdana

Trackinfo mod 10pt verdana

Minimum height 96, resize to minimum

Background 235-235-235

No edge

Update every second

CODE

$if(%isplaying%,
$padding(5,5)$font(,13,,0-120-200)%title%$char(10)
$font(,10,nocleartype,0-0-0)$if2(%artist%,Unknown Artist)$char(10)
$if2(%album%,Single Track) ['('disc $num(%discnumber%,1), ][$if(%discnumber%,,'(')track $num(%tracknumber%,1)')']$char(10)
$if(%genre%,[%date% ]%genre%,Unknown Genre)$char(10)
Rating:              / $if(%play_counter%,Played $if($strcmp(%play_counter%,1),once,%play_counter% times),Never played)

$puts(rating,$if(%rating%,%rating%,0))
$button(54,75,0,0,13,13,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating$get(rating).png,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating1.png,r1,)
$button(54,75,13,0,13,13,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating$get(rating).png,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating2.png,r2,)
$button(54,75,26,0,13,13,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating$get(rating).png,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating3.png,r3,)
$button(54,75,39,0,13,13,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating$get(rating).png,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating4.png,r4,)
$button(54,75,52,0,13,13,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating$get(rating).png,C:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\foobar2000\images\rating5.png,r5,)
$align(right,top)%_time_elapsed%[ / %length%]
,$padding(5,5)$font(,13,,0-120-200)No track playing)

CODE

Vertical Splitter
+--Track info mod
+--Horizontal Splitter
    +--Buttons
    +--Seekbar
    +--Playback order
+--Single Column Playlist View
+--Horizontal Splitter
    +--Menu
    +--Playlist dropdown

Supports Various Artists and Singles (remove the %album% tag).

It's messy but it works.

Holocaust

Oct 4 2006, 02:51

Okay, I'm still having quite a bit of trouble getting all of my album artwork to show in my single column playlist. Any ideas?

Here is my Foobar:

As you can see, my artwork exists as displayed by the Album Artwork Panel. Every bit of album artwork is named folder.jpg

Here is my group display:

CODE

$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-70-70-70 pencolor-null)

$font(calibri,12,glow-175-175-175 glowalpha-50,240-240-240)
$imageabs2(100,100,0,$sub($mul(%_height%,%_itemindex%),$add(%_height%,4)),,%_height%,4,,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg),)
//$imageabs2(,,,,,,,,'images\backg4.png',)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\images\noalbum.png',)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)cover.jpg,)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.png,)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\images\artoverlay.png',)
$alignabs(90,45,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$if2(%album artist%,%artist)
$alignabs(90,58,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$upper(%album%)
$alignabs(90,72,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$font(,8,,)'('%date%')'

And yes, I've tried all kinds of different variations (as you can see by the commented lines.

What is weird is, large amounts of my artwork DOES work, but everything is exactly the same (filenames and what not). Also, the line $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,) will display artwork FINE in trackinfo_mod. I have absolutely no idea why this isn't working.

EDIT: Okay, this has to be a bug, because I just made my group display COMPLETELY empty excpet for the line $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,) (which displays the artwork perfectly in trackinfo_mod) and still nothing was shown.

...Just Elliott

Oct 4 2006, 03:01

Make the size smaller. That's all you can do, really... I think its the aspect ratio retaining thingymabob messing up. :/

callisto

Oct 4 2006, 03:14

QUOTE(Holocaust @ Oct 4 2006, 09:51)

What is weird is, large amounts of my artwork DOES work, but everything is exactly the same (filenames and what not). Also, the line $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,) will display artwork FINE in trackinfo_mod. I have absolutely no idea why this isn't working.

EDIT: Okay, this has to be a bug, because I just made my group display COMPLETELY empty excpet for the line $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,) (which displays the artwork perfectly in trackinfo_mod) and still nothing was shown.

I've got the same problem and I have really no idea how to solve it.
using this code: $imageabs2(107,107,,,,,25,$add(32,$mul(-25,%tracknumber%)),$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)%artist% - %album% - '['%date%']' - Front.jpg,)

Holocaust

Oct 4 2006, 03:30

QUOTE(...Just Elliott @ Oct 4 2006, 04:01)

Make the size smaller. That's all you can do, really... I think its the aspect ratio retaining thingymabob messing up. :/

Yeah, this thing has to be bugged. I finally got some of the artwork that wasn't working to display by increasing the display size to 250,250. But the image it displayed was nowhere near 250x250 pixels big. More like 50x50. Also the location of the artwork was completely wrong. It was acting as if my artwork was in the lower right corner of a much larger transparent image. Also, when I changed the code from 85,85 to 84,84, all of the artwork that WAS working, immediately disappeared.

I guess there are still some kinks to work out in the .jpg resizing department.

carmenm

Oct 4 2006, 03:38

QUOTE(Snowsfall @ Oct 3 2006, 18:29)

mmyea

Man i love your config would it be possible for you to share it?

blaxima

Oct 4 2006, 03:41

QUOTE(Holocaust @ Oct 4 2006, 04:51)

Here is my group display:

CODE

$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-70-70-70 pencolor-null)

$font(calibri,12,glow-175-175-175 glowalpha-50,240-240-240)
$imageabs2(100,100,0,$sub($mul(%_height%,%_itemindex%),$add(%_height%,4)),,%_height%,4,,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg),)
//$imageabs2(,,,,,,,,'images\backg4.png',)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\images\noalbum.png',)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)cover.jpg,)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.png,)
//$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\images\artoverlay.png',)
$alignabs(90,45,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$if2(%album artist%,%artist)
$alignabs(90,58,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$upper(%album%)
$alignabs(90,72,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$font(,8,,)'('%date%')'

If it was a bug than no one would be able to get it display.
First off this is the code I use with zero problems

CODE

$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album art.jpg,)
$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album art.jpeg,)
$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album art.png,)

Secondly, when you make adjustments to the size of the image you have to restart foobar for the changes to show properly(that could be considered a bug)
and judging by your pic you'll have to increase the group rows if you want an image that size to fit

tomthomson

Oct 4 2006, 03:48

@Holocaust
Restarting foobar everytime you change the sizes in the imageabs2 function should solve the problem of disappearing pictures.
single_column_playlist caches the images but doesnt update the cache when changing the sizes in imageabs2

tool++

Oct 4 2006, 04:05

QUOTE(Snowsfall @ Oct 4 2006, 01:29)

mmyea

That is: Shit hot.

I'm presumin' that style needs window backgrounds/3d objects to be dark (which is why your spacers look decent).

QUOTE

very nice tool.. . think you could post a zip file please???

Just get winrar or somethign o_o

shard13

Oct 4 2006, 04:08

My updated foobar, definatly loving this slim design. Only problem, is I need to find some new buttons, the button set I have doesnt have a button for open, wich I use alot.... oh well

tool++

Oct 4 2006, 04:22

I forgot to note the size of things:

Row Height:15
Group Height: 6

Thoight I'd forget something ¬_¬

QUOTE("Vonmeth")

Thanks to tool++ for the bbLean skin.

Thanks, - do try the bbleanskinmod as you get pretty arrows that I drew

QUOTE("Recoil")

Snowsfall and tool++ you are my heroes

Thanks man, it's always nice to feel loved :]
I currently have mad respect for: Mazy, Snowsfall, and Fofr

QUOTE("musosticky")

Nice tool thanks a lot. What VS is that too?

The VS is united, which is really nice actually - however, it has some really annoying colours (like makes 3d objects dark?!) and so I hacked that stuff out. I didn't want to include the hacked vs in my release as that is a "clean" file, and hacking other people's stuff without permission is rather grey area.

QUOTE("Holocaust")

And yes, I've tried all kinds of different variations (as you can see by the commented lines.

What is weird is, large amounts of my artwork DOES work, but everything is exactly the same (filenames and what not). Also, the line $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,) will display artwork FINE in trackinfo_mod. I have absolutely no idea why this isn't working.

EDIT: Okay, this has to be a bug, because I just made my group display COMPLETELY empty excpet for the line $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,) (which displays the artwork perfectly in trackinfo_mod) and still nothing was shown.

Try closing and reopening foobar - it has to re-resize everything or some shit.

Okay I had another play with my config and made it like this:

And as some people were asking for a desktop pic:

...Just Elliott

Oct 4 2006, 04:38

badoing++

musosticky

Oct 4 2006, 07:35

Tool.......you're so fucking annoyingly good. Love the work appreciate the effort you went through to release it to the masses and I'll be playing around with this for about a week. thanks

snively

Oct 4 2006, 08:46

tool: there are a lot of track infos in the layout that have no code in the layout.rtf. are these for spacing or...?

and in this picture, the bar under megalomania .. is that a custom progress bar? if so it looks a ton cooler than the other one.

Idec Sdawkminn

Oct 4 2006, 09:38

QUOTE(Neverender @ Oct 4 2006, 00:26)

This is my first config--at least, the first one I've built so close to entirely from the ground up. Before this, I cobbled together a few chunky elements of FCS files every once in a while.

I made a point of resisting the temptation to copy/paste someone else's completely awesome work to see where my own tastes would lead me. And they led me to nearly tearing my hair out trying to coax what I wanted out of tagz. I mean, I'm fairly handy with programming in general, but thinking in tagz almost made my eyes bleed.

I'd really appreciate any suggestions or opinions, but mostly, I'm just here for the catharsis of sharing my hours of work with likeminded individuals. You guys are my support group!

Oh, first post on the HA forums too. Hello.

edit: Forgot to re-enable my track numbers before I uploaded the screenshot.

It looks good, man. The only thing I'm missing from your display is the genre. I know exactly what you mean by wanting to share hour's worth of work to others who intimately know the program and therefore can understand and appreciate what it takes to get it looking a certain way. Friends and family may think it looks nice, but for all they know it can be a skin you downloaded. Or even if they know you did it yourself, they may view it as a lot of the controls being GUI-based instead of string-based. The only real fullfillment is to show it to people who know the program and its limitations. How many days did it take you to get it like that?

Raven.am0k

Oct 4 2006, 09:44

QUOTE(Ken-chan @ Oct 3 2006, 21:06)

am0k (Sorry, I used the nickname Raven before, I prefer to call you am0k), the red is a tad bright on my screen. Unless it's a bit less bright on yours, I'd suggest trying to match the red in your wallpaper. Then again, you've got more experience than I do

Auf wider schn...Sorry, that's just lame. And my german is really bad.

Well okay

then am0k

It might be a little bit bright, but i´ve got a flat-screen so it´s very dark. It´s perfect for my eyes.
And if you saw, i´m a "tray" user

so i don´t see it all the time.

greets Raven.am0k

cartman(2vd)

Oct 4 2006, 09:46

QUOTE(snively @ Oct 4 2006, 16:46)

tool: there are a lot of track infos in the layout that have no code in the layout.rtf. are these for spacing or...?

and in this picture, the bar under megalomania .. is that a custom progress bar? if so it looks a ton cooler than the other one.

no its not progress bar .) thats top 5 pixels from another group (the gray background) and small top part of some booklet...

Yotsuya

Oct 4 2006, 10:19

QUOTE(Holocaust @ Oct 4 2006, 04:51)

CODE

$imageabs2(100,100,0,$sub($mul(%_height%,%_itemindex%),$add(%_height%,4)),,%_height%,4,,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg),)

QUOTE(callisto @ Oct 4 2006, 05:14)

CODE

$imageabs2(107,107,,,,,25,$add(32,$mul(-25,%tracknumber%)),$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)%artist% - %album% - '['%date%']' - Front.jpg,)

Both of you are using code intended for Item Display in your Group Display. While headers do inherit the propertis of the first item in the group, using %tracknumber% and %_itemindex% in the group display is bound to give you unexpected results.

As blaxima indicated you should be able to get away with something simple like this:

QUOTE(blaxima @ Oct 4 2006, 05:41)

CODE

$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album art.jpg,)
$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album art.jpeg,)
$imageabs2(85,85,,,,,1,1,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album art.png,)

tool++

Oct 4 2006, 10:30

QUOTE(cartman(2vd) @ Oct 4 2006, 16:46)

QUOTE(snively @ Oct 4 2006, 16:46)

tool: there are a lot of track infos in the layout that have no code in the layout.rtf. are these for spacing or...?

and in this picture, the bar under megalomania .. is that a custom progress bar? if so it looks a ton cooler than the other one.

no its not progress bar .) thats top 5 pixels from another group (the gray background) and small top part of some booklet...

Pow.

And yea, the non-mod trackinfos dont have code in the layout rtf, but they're ridiculously simple consisting of things like [%artist%] etc.

Ken-chan

Oct 4 2006, 10:33

QUOTE

I personally find the white to be brighter since it is more in contrast with the black background than the red is. I think the red looks good, though I do prefer blue. Anyway, the reason I am bringing this up is that your comment confuses me. I don't understand why you would suggest picking a more dull color. I would find the display more dull if the red in the wallpaper was picked.

I've been told that my display hurts people's eyes. Is this perhaps why one would pick a shade of a color that is not as bright? If so, it also confuses me how the brighter colors can hurt people's eyes. I sometimes stare at my display for a while and it never comes close to hurting my eyes. In my confusion I've shown my roommate, my best friend online, and my family my display and none of them claim it hurts their eyes. However, many people on forums say it does. Is everyone's monitors set with the colors too high or something?

I personaly don't like using bright colours, simply because they come off exaggerated. After seeing a lot of very newbie applications, you recognize $rgb(255,0,0) pretty easily. (If it wasn't this, it was something close) It has a very 'newbie' feel accross it, and I think many forumers (Especialy experienced people) dislike it for being used too much. Too bright a colour can also simply be bland.

Another reason is that is distracts me a lot.

I'd have some stronger points against this, but I don't have the time.

Also, the reason why certain configurations are loved is, imo, style. Stylishness is something that needs to be simply recognized by an individual, and is different for everybody. The users here like the style it had, apparantly, and I like it as well. Simplisticness, and well chosen colours, truely make it look 'good'. For some people, at least.

Others, like you, like other stuff.

tool++

Oct 4 2006, 10:39

Yaeh I prefer slightly less saturated colours, off hues.

I rarely use colours like 255-0-0, etc, it just looks crude and painful. Even if you're doing a dark-and-red layout, I'd use something like #c82222, #333333, #444444 (I cba to think in RGB >.<).

Yaeh I prefer slightly less saturated colours, off hues.

I rarely use colours like 255-0-0, etc, it just looks crude and painful. Even if you're doing a dark-and-red layout, I'd use something like #c82222, #333333, #444444 (I cba to think in RGB >.<).

Ken-chan

Oct 4 2006, 11:05

I wonder: What is the best colour convention standard?

hue, rgb, hex, or what?

Personaly, I think rgb is the easiest to remember and use, hue is the hardest, and Hex merely throws me off because of the hexadecimal system. That's doesnt mean I dont understand #FFFFFF (Or #FFFFFFFF for some people, like Quiark, the author of foo_title. This sytem works fine as well, alpha rocks), but it does mean that it requires my brain to think for another moment. It's annoying to read Hex for humans, or so I believe. Decimal is easier.

By the way, what's a nice, free font that doesn't come with Windows, that looks good in pure caps for displaying artists, albums, and titles? I want to use nicer fonts, but it's not easy to find a good one.

One of my experiments:

IPB Image

HOLOCAUST

Would you be able to share those wonderful background images you have? You know, with the dark/light thingy, and the diagonal line. It's the Vista style, but it looks awesome.

Idec Sdawkminn

Oct 4 2006, 11:11

QUOTE(tool++ @ Oct 4 2006, 09:39)

Yaeh I prefer slightly less saturated colours, off hues.

I rarely use colours like 255-0-0, etc, it just looks crude and painful. Even if you're doing a dark-and-red layout, I'd use something like #c82222, #333333, #444444 (I cba to think in RGB >.<).

Yeah, bud, except in the hex ones, it's bluegreenred, not redgreenblue, unless it has been changed in v0.9.

I suppose I just don't have an eye for style. Ah well.

Holocaust

Oct 4 2006, 12:00

QUOTE(Yotsuya @ Oct 4 2006, 11:19)

words

As stated in my edits, I used a line exactly like that (but with folder.jpg instead) with NOTHING else in the group display box and it acted in the exact same manner. I've also tried closing/reopening foobar after changing the sizes, and still nothing.

Most of my album artwork images are 300x300, but as I said, when I told it to display as 250x250 it showed up as a MUCH smaller image (closer to 50x50).

Somebody earlier in the thread stated they solved some of these issues after resaving all of their artwork as .png files instead, so their must be some issue with the .jpg resizing code that is causing this. Unfortunately for me, resaving all of my artwork is not a solution whatsoever (I have over 49,000 songs in my library right now). I can't test much right now, as I'm away from my home PC.

vonmeth

Oct 4 2006, 13:07

"I finally got some of the artwork that wasn't working to display by increasing the display size to 250,250. But the image it displayed was nowhere near 250x250 pixels big. More like 50x50."

You must restart foobar for it to display correctly. Was the image a full image of the art work or just a chunk of a corner of it?

"Also the location of the artwork was completely wrong. It was acting as if my artwork was in the lower right corner of a much larger transparent image."

Other coding is probably messing with it.

"Also, when I changed the code from 85,85 to 84,84, all of the artwork that WAS working, immediately disappeared."

I did the same, and yes it disappeared, but when I restarted foobar, it appeared again.

If you are having problems, visit the components thread and post there, not here.

Russell777

Oct 4 2006, 13:07

I think i've finally settled down:

vonmeth

Oct 4 2006, 13:12

QUOTE(Holocaust @ Oct 4 2006, 12:00)

QUOTE(Yotsuya @ Oct 4 2006, 11:19)

words

As stated in my edits, I used a line exactly like that (but with folder.jpg instead) with NOTHING else in the group display box and it acted in the exact same manner. I've also tried closing/reopening foobar after changing the sizes, and still nothing.

Most of my album artwork images are 300x300, but as I said, when I told it to display as 250x250 it showed up as a MUCH smaller image (closer to 50x50).

Somebody earlier in the thread stated they solved some of these issues after resaving all of their artwork as .png files instead, so their must be some issue with the .jpg resizing code that is causing this. Unfortunately for me, resaving all of my artwork is not a solution whatsoever (I have over 49,000 songs in my library right now). I can't test much right now, as I'm away from my home PC.

Make sure you are useing the latest version of single columns UI.

I use the EXACT same coding you use, $imageabs2(85,85,,,,,10,5,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,), without any probems.

cartman(2vd)

Oct 4 2006, 13:50

minor tweaks to tool++ setup... its still not working as it should... im waiting for new single column playlist and hope

marc2003

Oct 4 2006, 14:08

i see lots of people having the bitrate displayed in their group headers. have you formulated some code to average all the tracks in your album? because using just %__bitrate% will only read that info from the first track.....

...Just Elliott

Oct 4 2006, 14:09

QUOTE(marc2003 @ Oct 4 2006, 21:08)

i see lots of people having the bitrate displayed in their group headers. have you formulated some code to average all the tracks in your album? because using just %__bitrate% will only read that info from the first track.....

If all your tracks are encoded the same (which of course they are, legal album buyer, right?

) then it'll be a good enough average, IMO.

blaxima

Oct 4 2006, 14:36

Removed image

marc2003

Oct 4 2006, 14:40

QUOTE(...Just Elliott @ Oct 4 2006, 21:09)

If all your tracks are encoded the same (which of course they are, legal album buyer, right?

) then it'll be a good enough average, IMO.

you not heard of vbr?

blaxima

Oct 4 2006, 14:49

QUOTE(marc2003 @ Oct 4 2006, 16:40)

QUOTE(...Just Elliott @ Oct 4 2006, 21:09)

If all your tracks are encoded the same (which of course they are, legal album buyer, right?

) then it'll be a good enough average, IMO.

you not heard of vbr?

Take it somewhere else please. This is the appearance thread. 132 pages and only half seem to have actual shots of foobars

We really need to link to posts from this thread into a more appropriate thread for discussions

Lorraine

Oct 4 2006, 15:07

I spent ages making everything all beautiful using a single column playlist and headings and artwork and overlays and all of that stuff and then I decided that I'd quite like to go back to a simple look again.

So I did. Back to columns, back to nice and clean and simple looking.

Thanks to everyone for all the bits and pieces 'borrowed' for this one.

Idec Sdawkminn

Oct 4 2006, 15:49

QUOTE(Russell777 @ Oct 4 2006, 12:07)

I think i've finally settled down:

Wow, that's a really nice one. It looks like it's not even foobar.

Well, here's my display again. I just got all my music re-tagged and ReplayGained. I still need some better buttons and perhaps something else on top.

The song playing reminds me of Chrono Cross.

Neverender

Oct 4 2006, 16:02

QUOTE(Idec Sdawkminn @ Oct 4 2006, 08:38)

It looks good, man. The only thing I'm missing from your display is the genre. I know exactly what you mean by wanting to share hour's worth of work to others who intimately know the program and therefore can understand and appreciate what it takes to get it looking a certain way. Friends and family may think it looks nice, but for all they know it can be a skin you downloaded. Or even if they know you did it yourself, they may view it as a lot of the controls being GUI-based instead of string-based. The only real fullfillment is to show it to people who know the program and its limitations. How many days did it take you to get it like that?

Four days of messing around for maybe an hour to an hour and a half a day, foobar on one monitor and tons of HA wiki pages open in tabs in Firefox on the other monitor. Learning experience!

With regard to not displaying genre; I can't personally stand the idea of genres in general, poorly grained control and too subjective. I'm sure to someone out there, every single song on my playlist either falls under "rock" or "techno." At the other extreme, genres are too ridiculous and hard to remember, and STILL quite subjective. Intelligent progressive tech-dub-step-house? No thanks.

I did tweak the typography a bit and expand on the metadata displayed in the upper right: to wit, here's a screenshot including genre.

I'm happy with my end result, but I think this is a good stopping point. No more tweaking for now. ;P

OT, and I'll be breaking it off into a separate thread shortly: my friend has been raving about Amarok and sent me screenshots of the smooth Last.fm integration, and I think I might try and make a similar artists panel for Foobar. If anyone knows of anything along those lines already or would be interested in seeing it, let me know.

djrandom

Oct 4 2006, 16:05

So I've tried my hand at this game. I've straight up stolen things to get this, but it's been so long, I don't remember where I got it. I hope I haven't offended anyone.

Oh, and there's that awesome PrettyPop stuff as well...

Idec Sdawkminn

Oct 4 2006, 16:12

QUOTE(Neverender @ Oct 4 2006, 15:02)

With regard to not displaying genre; I can't personally stand the idea of genres in general, poorly grained control and too subjective. I'm sure to someone out there, every single song on my playlist either falls under "rock" or "techno." At the other extreme, genres are too ridiculous and hard to remember, and STILL quite subjective. Intelligent progressive tech-dub-step-house? No thanks.

I just look the band up in Wikipedia and put what it says in the opening paragraph. If it's not there, I look over on the right and use the first one.

marc2003

Oct 4 2006, 16:20

it's a shame i haven't got a creative bone in my body. my foobar is displaying everything i want. it just looks crap compared to most of the other stuff in this thread. ho hum......

disturb

Oct 4 2006, 17:14

QUOTE(Neverender @ Oct 4 2006, 16:02)

QUOTE(Idec Sdawkminn @ Oct 4 2006, 08:38)

It looks good, man. The only thing I'm missing from your display is the genre. I know exactly what you mean by wanting to share hour's worth of work to others who intimately know the program and therefore can understand and appreciate what it takes to get it looking a certain way. Friends and family may think it looks nice, but for all they know it can be a skin you downloaded. Or even if they know you did it yourself, they may view it as a lot of the controls being GUI-based instead of string-based. The only real fullfillment is to show it to people who know the program and its limitations. How many days did it take you to get it like that?

Four days of messing around for maybe an hour to an hour and a half a day, foobar on one monitor and tons of HA wiki pages open in tabs in Firefox on the other monitor. Learning experience!

With regard to not displaying genre; I can't personally stand the idea of genres in general, poorly grained control and too subjective. I'm sure to someone out there, every single song on my playlist either falls under "rock" or "techno." At the other extreme, genres are too ridiculous and hard to remember, and STILL quite subjective. Intelligent progressive tech-dub-step-house? No thanks.

I did tweak the typography a bit and expand on the metadata displayed in the upper right: to wit, here's a screenshot including genre.

I'm happy with my end result, but I think this is a good stopping point. No more tweaking for now. ;P

OT, and I'll be breaking it off into a separate thread shortly: my friend has been raving about Amarok and sent me screenshots of the smooth Last.fm integration, and I think I might try and make a similar artists panel for Foobar. If anyone knows of anything along those lines already or would be interested in seeing it, let me know.

Could you please post yoour single column config ?
I usea are04 too, and it fits sooo nicely...

cheers

eejadx

Oct 4 2006, 17:21

My latest.
Almost identical to CepiPerez's

freeb0rn

Oct 4 2006, 17:36

Here's my modification of Tool++'s layout.
The bar at the top is the progress bar. No need for buttons since foobar is controlled through the bbFoomp blackbox plugin.

Still working out some details/shifting stuff around, but it's mostly a new color scheme.

kyller

Oct 4 2006, 17:36

QUOTE(FofR @ Oct 2 2006, 20:24)

This is my result after an hours play with the new columns playlist release:

IPB Image

What Visual Style is?

CepiPerez

Oct 4 2006, 17:43

QUOTE(eejadx @ Oct 4 2006, 20:21)

My latest.
Almost identical to CepiPerez's

Nice! I like that!

By the way, I was reading the code of the playlist and I think this is the problem:

CODE:
...
$if(%isplaying%,
...
$alignabs(268,-1,$sub(%_width%,318),12,,)%title%
...

This number sets the height, change it to 20 or more.
Let me know if it works.

Neverender

Oct 4 2006, 17:45

QUOTE(disturb @ Oct 4 2006, 16:14)

QUOTE(Neverender @ Oct 4 2006, 16:02)

...

Could you please post yoour single column config ?
I usea are04 too, and it fits sooo nicely...

cheers

Sure, here you go:

Row height 20, group rows 5, background color is (20,20,20), font is AvantGarde LT Medium, 8pt.

Item display:

CODE

$if($greater($mod(%track%,2),0),$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-30-30-30 pencolor-null))
$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-SYSCOL-13 pencolor-null))
$if(%_focused%,$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-null pencolor-SYSCOL-6))
$if(%_selected%,$textcolor(143-209-223),$textcolor(SYSCOL-9))

$padding(90,0)

$if(%isplaying%,$drawrect(,,,,brushcolor-130-130-130 pencolor-null))
$put(progress,$muldiv(1000,%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%length_seconds%))
$if($greater($get(progress),0),$if(%isplaying%,$drawrect(,,$muldiv($sub(%_width%,180),$get(progress),1000),,brushcolor-159-214-226 pencolor-80-80-80)))
$if(%isplaying%,$textcolor(80-80-80))
$align(center,middle)$if(%isplaying%,$div($get(progress),10)%%)
$if(%isplaying%,$textcolor(0-0-0))

$padding(25,0)

$align(left,middle)$if(%isplaying%,%playback_time% / )%length%$align(right,middle)[%track artist% - ]%title%  $font(,7,bold,)%track%

Group display:

CODE

$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-81-81-76 pencolor-0-0-0)
$imageabs2(87,87,,,,,10,7,images\nocover.png,)
$imageabs2(87,87,,,,,10,7,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,)

$font(,15,shadow,231-231-222)
$alignabs(110,4,$sub(%_width%,220),30,left,top)
%album artist%
$alignabs(110,38,$sub(%_width%,220),25,left,top)
$font(,11,shadow,)
%album%  
$alignabs(110,75,$sub(%_width%,220),25,left,top)
$font(,10,shadow,)['('$left(%date%,4)')']

$alignabs(-110,10,%_width%,18,right,top)
$font(,10,bold,)encoding$font(,10,,): $lower(%codec% - %bitrate%kbps)
$alignabs(-110,30,%_width%,18,right,top)
$font(,10,bold,)[tracks$font(,10,,): $if($meta(totaltracks),$meta(totaltracks),$meta(tracktotal))]
$alignabs(-110,50,%_width%,18,right,top)
$font(,10,bold,)$if(%genre%,genre$font(,10,,): $lower(%genre%))

the SYSCOL references left in there (I built it over the default) make it less portable, anyone who isn't using area04 will probably have to find appropriate explicit values to replace those.

I think I got everything, hope somebody finds it useful.

edit: fixed progress bar problem
edit2: progress is now accurate to a tenth of a percent, smoother progress bar animation

eejadx

Oct 4 2006, 18:28

QUOTE(CepiPerez @ Oct 4 2006, 19:43)

Nice! I like that!

By the way, I was reading the code of the playlist and I think this is the problem:

CODE:
...
$if(%isplaying%,
...
$alignabs(268,-1,$sub(%_width%,318),12,,)%title%
...

This number sets the height, change it to 20 or more.
Let me know if it works.

Yeah, well, I eventually fixed the problem by changing the value of every variable one by one

It was the height indeed. I should have had figure it out... Thanks anyway!

BlindSeer

Oct 4 2006, 19:46

Here's an idea. I created a foobar sidebar by chopping off the titlebar and border using AutoHotkey and displaying just center slices of album art in the playlist.

It's not very attractive right now, but I think it's a good concept. Maybe someone more visually-inclined can run with this and make something sweet.

eejadx

Oct 4 2006, 19:59

Small update. I find that the slim progress bar in wmp11 looks sweet, so decided to make something similar for my config.
As clean and simple as possible.