Hydrogenaudio Forums > toolej's FCS stuff.

MeNerotH

Oct 26 2006, 09:33

@nyzeo Post the pic u using for track info? pleaasee ??
thx

Nyzeo

Oct 27 2006, 06:11

here they are :

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tool++ if u need anything, an image, a modification, just PM me , i would be proud to help you.

my website (underconstruction) : http://nyzeo.free.fr/v5
some arts : http://nyzeo.free.fr/asui
others : http://nyzeo.free.fr/mediabox
others : http://nyzeo.free.fr/wallv5.jpg
etc etc ...

funkfuzz

Oct 27 2006, 10:33

My first stab. There's still a lot I want to do, but it's a start!

Big props to Tool for being the Foobar Pimp that he is.

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KondzioR

Oct 28 2006, 07:48

how use png as a background ;/ ?

ryknow

Oct 30 2006, 11:10

Could someone help me, i'm stuck and dont know what's wrong with my configs. As you can see the upper info don't show correctly and alubum art doesn't show.

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tool++

Oct 30 2006, 12:37

Are you sure that top panel is a trackinfo_mod rather than a trackinfo?

How have you done your album art.

Iirc that old code is pretty buggy but meh, it worked for a lot of others so I don't see where the problem is.

musosticky

Oct 30 2006, 12:41

looks like you have the original track info panel when you need to use the latest trackinfo_mod panel

You also need to edit the Simageabs2 portion of the code to read your album art.....if its named cover and folder and the file extension needs to be considered. for exemple...

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'images\noalbum.png',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.png,)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)cover.jpg,)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)cover.png,)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'images\artoverlay.png',)

ryknow

Oct 30 2006, 15:11

Okay, now i'm one step closer

I got right trackinfo_mod but now i cant get that part where buttons (marked area) are scaled, it doesnt move up or down, just sideways and i dont know how to scale those track infos and horizontal splitters. Layouttree is now identical with tool++'s (i've checked that 5 times)
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What about those side now playing boxes? should there be code?

This is my album art

CODE

$font(cambria,12,bold,164-171-179)
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-240-240-240 pencolor-null)

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\noalbum.png',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.png,)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\artoverlay.png',)

$alignabs(92,40,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$lower($if2(%album artist%,%artist%))
$alignabs(92,55,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$font(Swis721 Cn BT D-Type,14,,138-145-153)
%album%$font(Swis721 Cn BT D-Type,14,bold,120-120-120)[ %date%]
$alignabs(92,71,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$font(calibri,9,bold,153-153-153)[$upper(%genre%)]

Does this album art work thatway that there's one folder where is all covers?
Sorry i'm little bit of newbie

Xyo

Oct 30 2006, 16:16

Hello all there.

I'm a newbie in the use of Foobar.

I think this audio player is a great one, but I can't customise it.
In an other way, I don't find the good library(ies) to custome it.

Could I have some help from u ?

Where to fine these plug ins ?
- foo_uie_browser
- foo_uie_trackinfo
- foo_uie_albumart_msn

Thanks in advance.

musosticky

Oct 30 2006, 16:57

Say you have a folder with all your album art there and you have it organised as %artist% - %album%.jpg just add

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,C:Artwork folder\%artist% - %album%.jpg

to the list of picture locations....that should work i think

ryknow

Oct 31 2006, 09:40

QUOTE(musosticky @ Oct 30 2006, 22:57)

Say you have a folder with all your album art there and you have it organised as %artist% - %album%.jpg just add

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,C:Artwork folder\%artist% - %album%.jpg

to the list of picture locations....that should work i think

ok.... heres my album art code now :

CODE

$font(cambria,12,bold,164-171-179)
$drawrect(0,0,0,0,brushcolor-240-240-240 pencolor-null)

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\noalbum.png',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Covers\%artist% - %album%.jpg',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\artoverlay.png',)

$alignabs(92,40,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$lower($if2(%album artist%,%artist%))
$alignabs(92,55,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$font(Swis721 Cn BT D-Type,14,,138-145-153)
%album%$font(Swis721 Cn BT D-Type,14,bold,120-120-120)[ %date%]
$alignabs(92,71,$add(%_width%,-107),20,left,top)
$font(calibri,9,bold,153-153-153)[$upper(%genre%)]

and here's how foobar show's it :

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Pictures are in c:\covers folder and they are in : artist - album.jpg

Wondering why it still don't show covers

ddr

Oct 31 2006, 10:02

i had some problems with the pics too, maybe it's a bad tag problem.
but now i use only the album name for the pics:

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)%album%.jpg,)

or $imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,C:Artwork folder\%album%.jpg

QUOTE(ryknow @ Oct 30 2006, 15:11)

Okay, now i'm one step closer

I got right trackinfo_mod but now i cant get that part where buttons (marked area) are scaled, it doesnt move up or down, just sideways and i dont know how to scale those track infos and horizontal splitters. Layouttree is now identical with tool++'s (i've checked that 5 times)
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What about those side now playing boxes? should there be code?

Stucked here too.

i've exported the button.fcb for the play/pause but what to do with the other 'menu' button?
and what about those side and empty track info's?!

aliendesaster

Oct 31 2006, 11:35

I'm using a highly modified version (I called EerieCream

) of tool++s columnsUI config, which is a work-in-progress, and may even use certain codes of navigator suite and others (I simply have forgotten where I've taken them from).
Screenshot #1: +++
fcs-file (v.0.01): +++
It supports: mood-tag,rating (both album+track), playcount, replaygain (both), artist, composer, ensemble, etc.. as a compromise to both support popular music and classical, release date, remastered date, production date, media source, recording types, label name, isbootleg, isdemo, issingle, (sofficial) blah blah.

coloring is done based on mood, playcount, track- and album rating tags, most is customizable (see globals tab)

I'd like to hear your suggestions, though I know that there are bugs (sortof), there are none as of yet that disturb my foobar listing experience

Do whatever you like with it

ryknow

Oct 31 2006, 15:13

QUOTE(ddr @ Oct 31 2006, 16:02)

i had some problems with the pics too, maybe it's a bad tag problem.
but now i use only the album name for the pics:

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)%album%.jpg,)

or $imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,C:Artwork folder\%album%.jpg

I think i know where the problem is....i have this album art code now and it doesnt show the albums even if they are in albumtitle.jpg

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\noalbum.png',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Covers\%album%.jpg',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\artoverlay.png',)

When i changed the middle code to this

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Covers\albumtitle.jpg',)

the code showed same album on all album cover art places. So problem is probably in tags? because program dont understand that %album% so is there any other code to describe album than %album%

musosticky

Oct 31 2006, 15:39

as a test take one album.....open its properties and copy the text field in album and rename the corresponding picture file and paste the copied value in tthe new filename

Then look at the album in the playlist view...I can only thing that either your tags or maybe your pictures filenames arent matching.

(make sure you are using the %album% tag in the imageabs2 code)

w0ng

Nov 1 2006, 10:11

I'm completely new to foobar. By completely new, I mean that I've only used WMP and Winamp in the past, with no skinning/scripting experience, and only downloaded foobar yesterday. If I can figure out how to go through your instructions, I'm sure others will figure it out soon enough.

Thanks a lot, toolej. You really help newcomers learn to customize their foobar. All I've done is use your setup, with glossy overlays. I will update future modifications once I start going through some tutorials.

Here's my very slight mod:

Thanks again, toolej! Much appreciated!

nash

Nov 1 2006, 15:53

toolej,

Can you post the single column playlist settings for configurations shown in the first post? Things like: row height, group height, item display, group display?

spex04

Nov 1 2006, 19:04

QUOTE(ryknow @ Oct 31 2006, 22:13)

QUOTE(ddr @ Oct 31 2006, 16:02)

i had some problems with the pics too, maybe it's a bad tag problem.
but now i use only the album name for the pics:

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)%album%.jpg,)

or $imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,C:Artwork folder\%album%.jpg

I think i know where the problem is....i have this album art code now and it doesnt show the albums even if they are in albumtitle.jpg

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\noalbum.png',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Covers\%album%.jpg',)
$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Images\artoverlay.png',)

When i changed the middle code to this

CODE

$imageabs2(84,84,,,,,5,3,'C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Covers\albumtitle.jpg',)

the code showed same album on all album cover art places. So problem is probably in tags? because program dont understand that %album% so is there any other code to describe album than %album%

It's because the %album%/%artist%/etc variables are encased in apostrophes, so they don't get read as tags, but read literally as %album%/%artist%/etc...

In short, remove the apostrophes (single quotes), they aren't needed, and cause the variables/tags NOT to get evaluated.

CIBERUS

Nov 1 2006, 23:23

QUOTE(nash @ Nov 2 2006, 04:53)

toolej,

Can you post the single column playlist settings for configurations shown in the first post? Things like: row height, group height, item display, group display?

i used row hight 20 and group row 7 in single playlist coulums

ryknow

Nov 3 2006, 06:10

Thanks for all the help everybody, now album art works

Does anybody know how to get picture in track info background? or how to change background color of album art/artist/album title
Just like in this picture http://nyzeo.free.fr/foobarz.jpg

tool++

Nov 4 2006, 12:32

QUOTE(aliendesaster @ Oct 31 2006, 17:35)

I'm using a highly modified version (I called EerieCream

) of tool++s columnsUI config, which is a work-in-progress, and may even use certain codes of navigator suite and others (I simply have forgotten where I've taken them from).
Screenshot #1: +++
fcs-file (v.0.01): +++
It supports: mood-tag,rating (both album+track), playcount, replaygain (both), artist, composer, ensemble, etc.. as a compromise to both support popular music and classical, release date, remastered date, production date, media source, recording types, label name, isbootleg, isdemo, issingle, (sofficial) blah blah.

coloring is done based on mood, playcount, track- and album rating tags, most is customizable (see globals tab)

I'd like to hear your suggestions, though I know that there are bugs (sortof), there are none as of yet that disturb my foobar listing experience

Do whatever you like with it

This guy knows his shit. PM him for help.

QUOTE(Nyzeo @ Oct 27 2006, 12:11)

here they are :

IPB Image

tool++ if u need anything, an image, a modification, just PM me , i would be proud to help you.

my website (underconstruction) : http://nyzeo.free.fr/v5
some arts : http://nyzeo.free.fr/asui
others : http://nyzeo.free.fr/mediabox
others : http://nyzeo.free.fr/wallv5.jpg
etc etc ...

They're awesome, a far more economical use of space

xxchrno

Nov 5 2006, 14:17

would anyone help me? i installed the skin and everything, but i coudnt play a single song! whats wrong!

, i been trying to fix this over the past 2 days but no luck... if someone can help that would be great! thanks

PrO.Cr3atOR

Nov 15 2006, 16:49

QUOTE

Stucked here too.

i've exported the button.fcb for the play/pause but what to do with the other 'menu' button?
and what about those side and empty track info's?!

I have this same problem.
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maxangelobadu

Dec 4 2006, 02:50

nice i got it to work pretty well.

one question: is there any way to have a column at the top to sort by artists alphabetically?

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(for mods like this)

BiTeLSE

Dec 5 2006, 11:09

First of all thanks for a wonderful theme. It's beautiful. Though it wasn't easy to configure all the stuff

Still I have some problem with plugin trackinfo, both the top and the bottom freeze when I play any song:

Any suggestions?

QUOTE

Core (2006-11-25 14:21:34)
foobar2000 core 0.9.4.2
foo_albumlist.dll (2006-11-25 18:49:06)
Album List 3.2.0
foo_audioscrobbler.dll (2006-05-08 19:04:22)
Audioscrobbler 1.3.2
foo_cdda.dll (2006-11-25 14:19:46)
CD Audio Decoder 2.1.1
foo_converter.dll (2006-11-25 14:20:00)
Converter 1.0.1
foo_dsp_std.dll (2006-11-25 14:20:12)
Standard DSP array 1.0
foo_freedb2.dll (2006-08-29 19:43:04)
freedb Tagger 0.5.2a
foo_input_std.dll (2006-11-25 14:19:14)
FLAC Decoder 1.1.0
Standard Input Array 1.0
WMA Decoder 1.1
foo_lyricsdb.dll (2006-07-19 23:45:52)
foo_lyricsdb 0.0.7 beta 4
foo_rgscan.dll (2006-11-25 14:18:18)
ReplayGain Scanner 2.0.2
foo_ui_columns.dll (2006-11-22 13:05:24)
Columns UI 0.1.3 beta 1v7
foo_ui_std.dll (2006-11-25 14:18:12)
Default User Interface 0.9acc
foo_uie_albumart.dll (2006-10-15 13:57:16)
Album Art Panel 0.2.5.1
foo_uie_albumart_msn.dll (2006-08-25 03:25:56)
Album Art Panel Mod (MSN) 0.2.1_8
foo_uie_playlists_dropdown.dll (2006-06-09 13:49:24)
Playlists Dropdown 0.5.7.5
foo_uie_quicksearch.dll (2006-10-15 18:56:24)
Quick Search Toolbar 2.8j
foo_uie_single_column_playlist.dll (2006-11-24 21:31:56)
Single Column Playlist Display 0.5.4 beta [Nov 24 2006 - 21:31:48]
foo_uie_trackinfo.dll (2006-09-20 19:45:06)
Track info panel 0.8
foo_uie_trackinfo_mod.dll (2006-12-02 01:31:50)
Track info panel mod 0.7.1 beta [Dec 2 2006 - 01:31:40]

ojdo

Dec 5 2006, 11:23

QUOTE(BiTeLSE @ Dec 5 2006, 18:09)

Still I have some problem with plugin trackinfo, both the top and the bottom freeze when I play any song:
Any suggestions?

Put a

CODE

// PerSecond

at the beginning of each trackinfo_mod code. terrestrial has introduced comments to mark special parts which only need to been drawn once (like background images), the readme that comes with the plugin or the plugin's thread tell you more about that. The plugin's wiki-page now also contains an explanation.

HTH
ojdo

shah

Dec 7 2006, 21:41

anyone help !

i'm also having problems with the track info panel and buttons.... how to configure it ?

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slowtalk

Dec 8 2006, 11:27

Hello, Im quite new to these things, and it would be great if someone cold help me out.

The problem that im having is that I cant seem to get the text that should be in the marked area to show.
Any thoughts?

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hybrid

Dec 14 2006, 19:41

I can't get the album art to show up for the life of me. It's driving me insane. I have folder.jpg placed in the correct path. It would VERY rarely show album art. But 97% of the time it just show the noalbumart image. Any ideas?

Also, How do I get it setup so it shows multiple album art panels down the playlist. Because I only get 1 album art of whatever is current playing and that is at the top.

piehole

Dec 20 2006, 23:32

I'm not much for words, so I made a pretty picture asking for help. Thanks in advance!

http://img.waffleimages.com/0d50a70bab1b0a...601940/help.PNG

eejadx

Dec 21 2006, 00:02

1. To display an image, use $imageabs() or $imageabs2() fonctions. More info about trackinfo fonctions in the wiki. (Link)

3. Go to Preferences > Display > ColumnsUI > Status bar/Systray tab > Uncheck 'Show status bar'

piehole

Dec 21 2006, 01:56

QUOTE(eejadx @ Dec 21 2006, 01:02)

1. To display an image, use $imageabs() or $imageabs2() fonctions. More info about trackinfo fonctions in the wiki. (Link)

3. Go to Preferences > Display > ColumnsUI > Status bar/Systray tab > Uncheck 'Show status bar'

Awesome, thanks for the help, got that working. One last question: how can I go about moving different artists around? It's kinda hard to explain so I drew another picture explaining my predicament.

http://img.waffleimages.com/aa7a9c73aa3c0b...9d4e5/help2.PNG

eejadx

Dec 21 2006, 10:04

You can select items and hold Alt key to drag them within single column playlist, but it won't solve you sorting problem.
I have posted my sort string here. You might want to try it out to see if it fixes your problem.

piehole

Dec 21 2006, 22:12

QUOTE(eejadx @ Dec 21 2006, 11:04)

You can select items and hold Alt key to drag them within single column playlist, but it won't solve you sorting problem.
I have posted my sort string here. You might want to try it out to see if it fixes your problem.

Thank you so much, got it working great now except for the portion about artists and such at the bottom which I don't really care about. Pic included for completeness: http://img.waffleimages.com/4745e29c8c6533...8063/fb2000.PNG

tool++

Jan 2 2007, 17:32

Update 2007-01-02

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toolej_xx0r-columns

gl/hf

Plastic Snake

Jan 2 2007, 18:26

QUOTE(tool++ @ Jan 2 2007, 15:32)

Update 2007-01-02

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toolej_xx0r-columns

gl/hf

Just got that rar and starting with a fresh install of 0.9.4.2, but I can't seem to get it to work at all. I set up the layout just like the png in the rar, but it doesn't look even vaguely like the finished product. I can hardly figure out which track info mod panel is supposed to do what. Any tips?

ladiko

Jan 15 2007, 20:40

hey tool++ :-)

great work - sometimesi get this

how do they do this feeling when i see the work of some people - yours belong to this!

i have one request:
higher resolution-pngs from toolej_xx0r_columns - especially
diagbg.png to fit an horizontal area - so it should be 600x300

artoverlay.png albumborder.png noalbum.png shadow.png for thumbnails 140x140 - maybe you can make 200x200 or 300x300 for people who already want more

and maybe some other colours - i am using $rgb(60,80,100) as background colour for example.

DemonCleaner

Jan 26 2007, 17:11

Hey Tool

Can you upload the "menu" button from your 'moop' view? I can't seem to find it in any of the stuff you've uploaded so far... maybe i'm just blind and you can tell me where it is... thanks, awesome config

tool++

Jan 27 2007, 19:31

Okay first I'd like to point out that in some of my setups people have just added trackinfos which are supposed to be spacers and got confused what to do with them. With those ones (that I haven't explained) just set their background to the same colours as your 3d item background, remove the line, and delete the textual contents.

Someone had some insane height. That was because you have captions for everything.

Because wolverine scares me...
(older config) Err err menu button:

(older config) Play butan:

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What else can I easily help with:

QUOTE

Refer to the stuff I said above. Set unexplained trackinfos up as spacers.

Also, this advice now applies:

AlWAYS USE TRACKINFO MODS INSTEAD OF TRACKINFOS, THEY ARE FAR MORE MEMORY EFFICIENT So if I've used a trackinfo as a spacer, use a trackinfo_mod panel (setting it up same way) and save on cpu.

Kevo

Feb 2 2007, 19:11

QUOTE(tool++ @ Jan 2 2007, 15:32)

Update 2007-01-02

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toolej_xx0r-columns

gl/hf

What VS is that?

Kevo

Feb 4 2007, 11:03

too lazy to thumbnail

Got it to work, took some work, some slight mods, thanks for the config tool++.

dizbjosh

Feb 4 2007, 23:57

i am trying to edit the colors on the playlist view by changing the hex code in the variables
but different colors come out for the hex codes.
how can i fix this?

tool++

Feb 23 2007, 11:19

Its like BGR or something rather than RGB.

I have no idea why, maybe drunk dev syndrome :S

dizbjosh

Feb 25 2007, 02:59

haha yup that fixed it
but really weird

Gatsu

Mar 20 2007, 15:59

Hi all, i have a question ¿how works the plays sistem? Always show me 00 plays
Any help is very appreciated

Edit: Fixed

potatotron

Mar 25 2007, 19:06

Thanks for this. It's nice that people are willing to help newbies make their foobars attractive.

As for getting it to work, however, I haven't been able to figure out the bottom section - I've got everything above and including the quicksearch, but getting anything below that to look like your screencaps has me stumped.

Would you mind posting some more instructions?

maced

Apr 1 2007, 11:33

I seem to be stuck. This is what I have so far.

tool++

Apr 11 2007, 17:52

You have to actually configure the panels and not just create them and leave them.

apul

May 1 2007, 13:22

Thanks toolej, lovin' the last one. Added a browser.

apul

May 6 2007, 14:58

toolej, are you there? Or anybody who can help me...
I can't find the exact code of this track info mod (the artist, title and album, the button and the menu).
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Indeed, the file uploaded on sendspace doesn't contain the suff.

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~~http://rapidshare.de/files/35401981/toolejsetup.rar~~
~~http://www.mooload.com/new/file.php?file=f...toolejsetup.rar~~
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7f5zy9

What's the exact code? Thanks in advance.