No, .NET Fw 2.0 is a part of 3.0, so this is not the problem. Currently, I don't have Vista installed and I study and have a job, so you can imagine how much time I have for fixing it :/

Any programmer here ?

Hmm alright i understand if your busy.

I wish I was a programmer

Hello - any chance to have a fix one of these days for the "show only when foobar is minimized" ?

Understand that foo_title is not your primary job.... anyway some suggestions just in case

suggestion : handle double click on foo_title and let us chose what to do.
I'd like to have foobar maximise when I doubble click on foo_title.

suggestion 2 : fade in / out timer. Instead of a single timing, would be great to have a timing for each. I'd like to have an almost immediate reaction on mouse over, but see it smoothly fade out when I move mouse elsewhere.

Great work - I love it.

I have also a problem with Windows Vista Ultimate 32 Bit:

Foobar starts with this plugin but it does not play songs anymore!
Please fix thix!

yea, whoever can update this thing to vista will be a hero

I do still plan to work on this project... had it almost building a few months back. However, I plan run Vista when hell freezes over, so I can't help out there. If anyone interested in fixing the Vista issues just needs help checking out the files, I have done that and I can lend a hand, but you'll have to do the hard work yourself. Quiark, sorry for not having contributed yet, but we just had our first son... busy times!

Matt

would it be possible to use the old skins from the previous version of foo_title?

It should be possible. Which skin are you having problems with ?

Hi there, great job on this foo_title. But... Since I installed it, everything is fine except That the songs are't playing anymore even when I disbale the plugin! Any idea?



PS I'm on Vista

This is an nice plugin for foobar 0.9, but it doesn't work at all with Vista Premium and that's bad.

The DirectSoundCreate(...) issue is what makes this plugin not to work with Vista.

Hello Quiark,

any chance you take a look at the issue with "show foo_title only when foobar is minimized" ?
does not work on XP with version 0.7

also, is it possible to display a button (or image) based on titleformat scripting ?
something like :
<normalImg src=$if(%isplaying%, "pause.png","play.png")/>
I coul'nt make it work
the goal is to have a single button toggle for play/pause.
Would be also useful to display appropriate button for mute, or to play an "animation" image only when playing.

I have exactly the same issue. Anybody? (I am using updated drivers and window Vista)

Yeah, it is not compatible with WIndows Vista, that is the problem!
Would be very nice if someone could fix this!

You could run a 30 day test version of Windows Vista as a virtual machine to test it.
Would be very nice!

Just noticed an issue with the update to 0.9.5... they added Random playback order back, and now I can't make a foo_title button that does just Playback/Random (which I find helpful in Shuffle(albums) mode; it goes to the next album). Playback/Random is the menu command for that, as opposed to Playback/Order/Random. My button did have an action of "Random", but I think for ambiguities, the first menu option name that matches wins, and Playback/Order comes before Playback/Random. However, Playback/Random doesn't do anything. Is there a different format I should use instead?

I need to check out the latest code (I know, ~6 mo. old already... my first child is almost 5 mo. old, though... I'm busy!), maybe it would be obvious how to fix it?

I can't get it to work with the /command:<name> commandline switch either.

It's all done in CManagedWrapper::DoMainMenuCommand (ManagedWrapper.cpp) which calls mainmenu_commands::g_find_by_name (mainmenu.cpp) from the SDK. This function looks like this


so it seems it picks the first menu command that matches. It would be nice if the commands could be entered using Menu/Submenu/Command syntax, but that would break compatibility with existing skins.

I wonderd whether the possibility is an progress that it is able to switch from "Allways on top" to "Pin to desktop" so other windows will overlay foo_title...
this would be really great for desktop skinning!

Greetz plissk3n

//edit:
Is there the possibility to display more than the "folder" artwork?

I have some Covers named: folder.jpg most of them are called
rise_against_-_the_sufferes_and_the_witness_a.jpg or
rise_against_-_the_sufferes_and_the_witness_front.jpg

is there a way to have variables like "*front, *a, folder"
and is there a seperator like","?

Pin to desktop is already there, only it's called z-order and it's in the preferences of foo_title.

The album art layer can display only one image.

Heyja! Thanks a lot!
Seems that i had an old version found in the web... now i can use it a lot
The next two weeks i will be rename my coverartworks into folder.jpg so goodbye for a while

Are you working on a Vista compatible version?
You could test it with a virtual machine and a trial version of Windows Vista...

I'm not currently doing anything about the Vista problem. No time.

It's a pity.
Would be so easy to test with no money and a short amount of time...

I don't think it's the testing, per se, that is time consuming. In fact, you all say it doesn't work well with Vista... great, testing done! It's determining what is wrong that is time consuming. Say, you probably have Vista... now just get a trial version of Visual Studio and debug the code (which is freely available)! I use foo_title every day and even have Visual Studio installed... if I was forced to use Vista, I may have done the debugging already... but I don't plan on using Vista and I don't have time to look into something that doesn't affect me.

If you feel that debugging problems introduced by a new version of Windows is easy, you should know how to fix this.

I have a feeling that it will be a rather tough issue - when I had Vista RC1 installed, it ran fine for me. It will be something related to the fact that I combine purely C++ foobar and C++/CLI and COM in foo_managedWrapper.dll in a rather strange way.

Great component, no more bringing up Foobar after a song change to find out what song is playing. Thanks.

I found a few bug though, I think. All related to streams. I have foo_title set to only show for a few seconds after a song change. However, when the song/title of a Stream changes, it doesn't show. Of course because it's still the same stream, but it would be nice if it'd show on a stream title change as well. Secondly, if I turn 'Show before song ends' on and play a stream, it'll display continuously, probably because a stream doesn't have a length. Is there anything you could do about this behaviour?

Also, it would be great if I'd be able to dock it on the right side and have it expand to the left if a songtitle is too long.

Yes, it could be certainly fixed somehow, but just as the vista bug, I'm afraid I wont' be able to get to it in the near future.

No problem, just saying so that if you ever get to it, you'll have something to do.

For those with Vista that want something to replace this, try this:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=54451

I know you can't get to it, but wanted to report it anyway. It appears that foo_title makes my Windows XP shut down cancel: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=60824

If I have the component set to always display in combination with 'only when new song starts', shutting down windows will cause the plugin to switch to display 'never'. And then I can't shut down windows, unless I manually exit foobar.

Yes, something like this happened to me as well.

Hi, I'm using foo_custominfo to rate my music.
Is there any possibility to update the %rating% with foo_title?
eg in <action>
RATE 1
RATE=1
RATING 1
RATING=1
doesn't work at all.

Is it possible? and so yes, what am I doing wrong?

The stuff in <action> must be a menu item, therefore this is not possible.

Thanks for the info!

@Quiark:

First off, thanks for this great plugin, yeeaaaaahh!!!

Now, when i minimize foobar to tray without foo_title he only 'eat' 10MB of RAM, then with foo_title enabled consumed RAM stays the same as it be on window maximized (from 40MB to 120MB ~).

Why this behavior?

Can you fix it?

Thanks in advance.
(sorry my bad english...its like growing from my ass..., i know this..)

p.d: Still you develops this component?? Some new features??

I was never really concerned about memory usage. After all, it's .NET, which just eats a little bit more memory. On the other hand, I don't think there is any memory leak either, because most of the code is managed. As for minimized/maximized foobar, there should be no difference, because foo_title is only working with it's own window and is completely independent from the main window. You may have measured the memory before a garbage collecting was done or you maybe didn't consider the memory that was currently on the swap.

I don't currently develop this component, so there is nothing new. However, the code is open, so anybody can do something And because it's mostly in C#, I think it should be pretty easy

mmm...i don't think so...
I have measured the memory at every step.
I have the swap file disabled in my O.S..., i don't have swap file at all.., i have 2 GB of RAM on XP.., i don't need swap file...


well..:

Foobar maximized: from 40MB to 120MB ~ (with a lot of coverflows, obviously...)

Foobar minimized to tray: 10MB ~

now..:

Foobar maximized with foo_title: from 40MB to 120MB ~ (nothing changes...)

but...:

Foobar minimized to tray with foo_title: from 40MB to 120MB ~ (the same....)

As you'll see, RAM still charged when foo_title is enabled and send foobar to tray.

Why?

Understand me?

I like foo_title, but i want to minimize foobar to tray like without foo_title with only 10MB in RAM too.

Greetngs.


EDIT: Problem solved. Perhaps, cause' I had done the change between foo_ui_panels component from the 'buggy' from 14,2 version to 14,9...i don't know...

Sorry for waste your time...

with album art what formate dose it read?
i know .png works because thats what my no cover art is,
but i have many files that are mixed between .jpg and .jpeg and some are not showing up.

For image reading the .NET framework is used. However, when looking for an album art image, only the following extensions are tried: jpg, png, bmp, gif.

So the solution is to rename the jpeg files to jpg.

Thanks Quiark

I got a new machine and switched to Vista. I really miss foo_title!

the "now playing" gadget is nice stuff, but I prefer by far foo_title.

any chance to have a fix for foo_title on Vista ?

Not exactly what you want.
But CD Art Display is a nice little program.

(Yes, it's an external program, but on the other side I think it's running more smoothly and "just working")

Is possible for foo_title to show cover images from a folder inside the folder of the musics, like Artwork/*.*?
I use this in Album Art Panel and work.

Ok, I found in this thread the answer.

Great find dude. That is much better than the other one. best Alt to foo_title on Vista yet

I'm pretty sure that this may already have been answered, but is there a way to have two instances of this running? If not I would like to request it.

Not possible at the moment. I was thinking about it too.

Ok, I just installed Windows Vista and have been able to reproduce the problem. Now the difficult part - to fix it:)

Its interesting that it ran just fine in Vista RC1.

i hope you can get this nice plugin working good in vista. i too miss ths plugin. Good news you have vista installed now

Waoh, I never thought that this moment could become true
Glad to hear!

Quiark is still working on a release, but if you get the latest source from SourceForge, you can compile foo_title to work on Vista! This is great news, and soon we will all be using foo_title again. Thanks to Quiark for the updates.

Note: I can't say when a new release would be available... please be patient.

So the problem with Vista turned out to be a small one. So grab your foo_title 0.7.1 from sourceforge

0.7.1
- foo_managedWrapper works on Vista again
- auto restoring on top position every now and then
- foo_title no longer prevents Windows from shutting down
- skins are now also loaded from the user profile directory (if enabled in foobar)

foobar2000 0.9.5 required

Thanks Quiark for the Vista port

However, i have an issue with option "foo_title enabled only when foobar is minimized"
I tried hard to reproduce :
1. If I close foobar when it is minimized (from systray) then, at next start, it will restart minimized. foo_title behaves as it should : foo_title shows or hides when i further minimize/maximize foobar
2. If I close foobar when it's maximized, at the next start foobar will start maximized, but foo_title will not behave properly : never show when i minimize foobar

I run foobar 0.9.5.2 on vista.

EDIT : oops. Even when i do 1 above, after a minimize/maximize/minimize, foo_title will not show anymore. It works only once actually.