It relies on the number of items in the group, as grouped by SCPL. %_itemcount% is a SCPL variable, not really a tag.

I just made a now playing screen:



F10 switches between this screen, and bbmartini's playlist config.

I still want to do some kind of pause-indication, but I'm not sure how I should do it..

That's awesome, can I get the code, and how do you set it to switch on keypress?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=51912

Looking before asking questions is actually quicker, believe it or not.

Thanks a lot!

Here you are, but there's still some work to be done (pause-indication, more flexibility (as it is now, everything is positioned absolutely, so the foobar screen needs the exact same size...))

The screen consists of just one foo_uie_trackinfo_mod panel:


Other settings don't matter.

Images: here. Put them in %foobar%/images/NP/
Components needed: foo_uie_trackinfo_mod and foo_cwb_hooks (for next song information)

And then adjust the size of the foobar screen until the background of my config fits exactly... As I said, it needs work.

EDIT: if you find any bugs or errors, please let me know.


Yep, either of those methods should do the trick; I used the foo_uie_tabs method, btw.

heres the babysteps progress ive made on my foo. im wondering if it would be that hard to get rid of the basic grey background.. it seems that others have done it, but ive no idea what it entails. how can i do that?

If that's possible outside of theme's id like to know as well

In the mean time here's my main console at the moment - a big thanks to the foobar community - without your posts and tips i'd have got nowhere...

thats a nice touch Valdoran, heres my quick change

How much better can foobar get?
Every day I troll the appearance thread gathering ideas and inspiration.

So much creativity and the best I can do is steal a piece from each person.
Oh well, it least it looks cool!

is there a way to shorten text? i have some long titles and currently im using the cut function, but it goes it by number of characters. is there another way to do it to make a more even appearance?

switch to a smaller font?

bbmartini:
$alignabs(4,4,100,10,,)

If you adjust the third and fourth parameters (100,10) you can define the width and height for the text to appear in by pixels. This will effectively cut the text evenly.

Just did a complete rework of my trackinfo mode. Damn it's pretty!

ooh, pretty. Any chance of uploading that data for this edit?
And what VS is that?

Alright, got it. I had a differnt version of the plugin. But I can't get it to switch back and forth using 1 key only, any tips there?

Luna Element 5

Where do you put your album art? I have mine at ARTIST\ALBUM\folder.jpg/png/gif ... How do I edit the albumart snippet for this? Thanks.

I place my album art in the directory with the music, either named by %CDID%.jpg or %album artist% - %album%.jpg. If you grabbed my code from the configuration distribution thread search the code for a block like this:

Now change that $puts(album.art,) line to this:

hi guys, i was wondering if its possible to, rather than have a color for the playlist background, just make it transparent(something like this), using either the default ui or columns ui. if its not possible with either of those, is there another way to do it?

as far as I know there is no color designated as transparent for columns ui. I think this is a nice idea however I do not believe it is possible unless columns ui adds such a feature.

I tried to replicate it



Here's the code:


and reflect.png is available here:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/5381/reflectar3.png

hmm, ok in that case would you be able to tell me how would i replicate this or is that picture edited in some way?, sorry for any noobishness im new to the whole appearance customization aspect of foobar.

In that image its not the playlist that is transparent but the whole of foobar. You can set the transparency of the window from the UI Preferences.

My new "Now Playing" tab; layout by ojdo but somewhat modified:

Normal display (clickable):


Extra info the first/last 30 seconds of a track (clickable):


And when the song is form a doubble CD (clickable):


Half the beauty is finding good artist images though...

Thanks a lot. Works like a charm.

thanks purple, I do see that now, thanks for pointing that out!

hi all
cant seem to be able to download from bandongo and rarhost sendspace due to ISP restrictions

anyone mind uploading
bbmartini's images
moglenstar's icons
and Valdoren's images too

really sorry but would appreciate the help

all the configs look really nice!

My images
Bbmartini's

The moglenstar link (this one) doesn't seem to work anymore.

By the way, I'll be removing these archives in a few days, so get them fast if you need them.

A long time ago, I set up up Foobar ver .8.3 exactly the way I wanted, I haven't been back here or even thought about changing it since. I come in here for the first time in probably over a year, and I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. Amazing job guys, it looks like I have my work cut out for me to get with this whole ".9" thing. Give my a few weeks and maybe I'll be posting my screenies here too .

Could you tell me how you made it? addons/config

hi Valdoren! much appreciated!
umm. i notice in ur images, there's a pause image.

really sorry to sound demanding but is it possible to update the code for the now playing menu when u figure the code for the pause please? it's really nice!
much appreciated!

Yeah, sure:



With the pause-image, it's best if you don't have the fake-shining-thing (overlay.png), because when two semi-transparent things are on top of each other, it looks ugly.
If you still want the overlay, remove the slashes in front of "$imageabs(60,30,\images\NP\overlay.png,)"

I just removed the whole next track thing and replaced it with "Paused" if it's paused or not.

ok so I pretty much got this all setup the way i want it now.

only problem is i cant get the rating to show up for the life of me.

Haven't used foobar in years so any help on this would be great.

make sure u change the
$if(%rating%,
$ifequal($num(%rating%,2),00,$imageabs(5,7,/images\rating_stars\rating0.png,),)
$ifequal($num(%rating%,2),01,$imageabs(5,7,/images\rating_stars\rating1.png,),)
$ifequal($num(%rating%,2),02,$imageabs(5,7,/images\rating_stars\rating2.png,),)
$ifequal($num(%rating%,2),03,$imageabs(5,7/,images\rating_stars\rating3.png,),)
$ifequal($num(%rating%,2),04,$imageabs(5,7,/images\rating_stars\rating4.png,),)
$ifequal($num(%rating%,2),05,$imageabs(5,7,/images\rating_stars\rating5.png,),)
,$imageabs(5,7,/images\rating_stars\notrated.png,))

notrated.png to your directory -it's quite commonly missed out

on the other hand, anyone know to use these icons to rate
they appear on mine but have no effect...

PS:thanks valdoran for the code!

awesome thanks. Of course it was still set for hearts which are not available for download right now.
changed it to stars and all works now.

thanks for the help.

I made major changes:



Code is borrowed from bbmartini (single column) and Valdoran (trackinfo) and tweaked to my needs. Cheers guys/gals and thanks for the code.

Here's mine.

so how do i fix that?

Hey, I'm very new at this foobar thing, and I'm trying to find a nice SCPL configuration to use. This is about the 10th person's SCP that I tried and this is the first one where the images and everything just worked. Thank you very much for posting this and I have to say it's beautiful!

I think I have made some minor improvements in the display. With the code changes I made, the year and track duration line up relative to the right side of the window instead of a certain amount of pixels. I was wondering if there was a way to move the album art to the same type of alignment: relative to the right side of the window. This would help if sometimes you wanted a wider or narrower window, and it would be less likely for the album art to overlap a long track name. Here's what I was imagining with the albumart, showing the improvements I made with the year and track duration...



Here is the code for the right-aligned year and track duration.

Item Display


Group Display



Can anyone please share how to do this? Thank you!

edit: I'm very sorry if someone has already explained how to do this in detail, but this thread is huge and not that organized. I'm very new to this and I'm not really a programmer so lots of the documentation is very hard for me to understand.

I'm running into a bug using playlist tabs together with bbmartini's trackinfo_mod and SCPL code.

Here's what everything looks like when it's running normally:


But then if I close the caption on the Playlist tabs panel, it resizes so that you can see one item on the playlist, then locks. If I put the caption back in, then I can resize the panel so it takes up the majority of the foobar windoow, like it should:


Is there any way I can use playlist tabs in this configuration?

This is the first time showing my 9.0, now with SCPL (mucho thanks eejadx for his brilliant coding on that).

Any suggestions for improvement/clean up etc?

My only comment is that you rated In The Nightside Eclipse waaay too low.

youre right

hi, first post so far ;-)



need to change the buttons.

thx to moglenstar and all others ;-)

whenever i click on the album list my single column playlist updates the information, so next song is not the playlist that was playing but what i've clicked on album list... how can i disable/change this behaviour?

I like your buttons more. Could you give them to us, pretty please?

It's set to show stars based on play_counter, so I just haven't listened to it enough, haha. I love that album, and pretty much ALL of emperor's material.