this looks really nice.
but unfortunately i have a little problem with it.



As you can see the upper line with stereo information und such is invisible.

This is my definition part:


I am using the background color $rgb(129,136,147)
All required plugins are installed (at leat i think so).
The fonts are also installed.
I have just copied the code from version 1.2.
There is also the part "//Stereo Encoding Tagtype///" inside the code.

Just copy pasted the code from the post and put your settings:

As you can see everything is kicking.Try to re-paste the code,also check in the charmap.exe if the fonts
such as "franklin gothic medium" and "lucida sans unicode" are installed on your pc.If you are running
win 2k see Squellers post about installing the fonts (i'm not familiar with win 2k).This is really odd...

this is what i call mysterious. i tried to reinstall the fonts. but 2 seconds after i deleted them they were back again (perhaps it was windows file protection) and now everything works. hmpf.

Glad to hear that

Awesome !!!!...

I need something to enable/disable what to display on the panel?

At this stage no,you have no choice which features are enabled and which aren't.(Unless you want to mess with
the code a little).Maybe it will be implemented in further versions.

Yes. truly awesome work! I also could never settle on a track info panel until this came along. It's just so cool!

Hi to all,please make an effort and provide me with your %mood% tag examples for the final version.

I'm still having issues. There is some problem with the alignment:



could someone please point me to a possible solution? thanks.

Well,I must tell you i'm shocked by this sight.I don't know but no matter how much i resize the window i can not
destroy the alignment.Try to re-paste the code,i'll check it later.

repasted the code and same problem

Just out of curiosity:what version of foobar are you using (i know it's a 0.9x series) but what exactly?
See in the authors topic (of trackinfo mod panel) it says so maybe that's the problem,realy can't think about something else.

0.9.3.1 is the foobar version.
Maybe this has anythig to do with my display settings. I'm on 1280x1024 on 19' LCD monitor.
That's not it. Tried different settings and none worked.
my trackinfo mod is 0.5 beta from 17/8/2006.

(it must be located at ...windows\system32\) But on the other hand without it
you woudn't be able to use this panel in a first place.I dunno...

http://www.sendspace.com/

the runtime is there. I installed .NET 2.0
man this is really strange...

2 beto:I'm realy sory,but there's nothing i can think of right now.
2 tool++:I added one more link (see the first post under Version 1.2)

Russell777, I think version 1.0 and 111 should still be posted, I'm using ver. 1.1.1 because I like the short look, and the long one doesn't fit into my config, ver. 1.0 I think also looks great, I kept them both, but I feel some people may be missing out not having seen the two prior versions.

thanks anyway. I'll try one or two things I have in mind once I figure out how you handle positioning in your code.
Hopefully I'll be able to make it work....

Here's an idea... How about having a artist/title/album section to the right, which scrolls when they're too long..?

Something like:

Artist
Title
Album

..?

Id quite like the option to change the overall font of the text but still keep it in proportion. I know i could do this manually but the code is a little confusing to me

Thanks for this great trackinfo panel. I like it a lot and it helped me replacing like 4 other panels up there in my player which were essentially doing the same but in a baaad way. xD
And about the artist/trackinfo stuff requested up there, i already modded mine a bit to show that and a progress bar. Also changed it to show the last-played time with the official playcounter and modified the "hot-ness" rating a bit to not show any more (5 stars that is) because i dont use the un-official playcounter nor do i tag my mp3s with any ratings... so its dis-functional for me.
Looks like this then:



If someone really needs the code for this i might post it but my bet is everyone else could achive what i did there a lot better than me.

I HAD the same prob. And my monitor is on same resolution as yours ...
-But since I fixed the code a little it appears in it full beauty ...!! -THNX Russell !!

... is the "evil" line ...!! (Search in Wordpad ;-) )
You can try to exchange the given "14" with a "12" and see if it works ...

AFTER that go to the "Played Time" Sequence:Here you can put each 3-digit-number a little bit up (steps by 1).

I hope it will help ...!!

________________________________________________________________________________________

And to be in the Leage of Suggest0rs:
- Russell, have you seen the //$if(%_time_total%, above as a quote of your code ...?? . . . <<---- ...!!

- I like the functions of the 2nd one but nessesarily more the size of the first ... ---> Perhaps you could implement a smooth blink-script (not too fast) that switches between the Codec-stuff and the Rating/Playcount ...??
. |
. |___-> The Name-Stuff (spex mentioned) would fit there as a 3rd instance to switch between as well

- And the Rating-RANGE should be "easy customiseable", too (like the colors, eg ) ...!!

________________________________________________________________________________________

I am already impressed ...!!

Well,where do i start?

Version 1.1.1 is exactly the same as V1.1.2 except for bad alignment,as for V1.0 i'll post it after fixing it's alignment issues.

Ok,but it will be a little complicated (and probably enlarge the code size x2) so to avoid doing it for
every version that will come out before we settle all the issues down i will not do it for now,it will be in the final version
i believe.

That's a good one,I'll put it as an option (you will be able to switch between "show all" mode and "blink" one)

Yes it's a "must",but since there's no native support for scrolling it will be done using "home made" scrolling
effect that will take place once in a second (not very smooth)

dont really know how to solve this problem :/

using v1.2

any ideas?

thx for your help


e:/ great script! nice work!

1.Does it happens to every track?
2.If not,what is the length of the track in the image?

damn it, there is another problem


as you can see, the play-symbol isn't correct. could be related to a wrongly installed font. which one is responsible for the symbol?

another really odd thing is the playcount-number. the second parentheses is shown after the second number, not after the third... i have just copied and pasted the code. 5 minutes ago again, but with the same result.

thanks in advance.

edit: font installation under windows makes me mad... did it again and now it works.

VERSION 1.3 is out (see the first post)

Thanks for the cool display.

I tweaked mine a bit so that rather than the date of the last play, it displays "today", "yesterday" or the number of days its been since the track was played.



requires my foo_cwb_hooks plugin.

First of all you welcome,second as you've probably seen i also make an intensive use of your plugin
in the later versions.(Thanks for it)

hm, i got some drum-n-bass sets in my playlists and they are often >60mins.

so, i tested, and, the mistake is corrected, if the "playing moment" (i got a bad english.. sorry) of the current mp3 is above 10mins

and, it happens with every mp3 file i have in my playlist unless it reaches the 10mins


e: perhaps, it's because some tracks are displayed with eg 1:30:40 length in the playlist, but i'm not sure

I'll check it.

hm, also the complete file length works correct if the track is above 10mins long


e:\ as long as the track is not longer as 60mins

In one thing you're right:there's no support for tracks bigger than 60m,but it's not a bug,but was designed this way.About the files with length<10m,can you tell me please how their %_time_total% displayed
in lets say playlist view?Could it be something like 0:01:23?

in my coloumns setup, i have %_LENGTH% instead off %_time_total%, as i can see

Your problem can be reproduced if these line in the code are screwed up:

Try to repaste the code

hm, repasted it, but the problem is the same /:

perhaps i have to activate database or smth? because i dont use this feature...
looks like your last player and rating system needs this, or is it independent from that?

Does anybody else experience the same f!@k up?
Cos here everything is working fine,and i use the same exact code as you do:


what smth is?

hm, perhaps the plugin list helps and there is some kind of conflict?
and, i dont use the media library..

(win xp sp2 pro btw)



e:\ used the new v1.3 code

There was a minor problem with the scrolling
(probably you didn't even noticed) It's been fixed.


I don't have an answer yet,sure this aint no plugin conflict,i'll let you know.

The symbolic font used for trackinfo can be somewhat harmful (check the album title in the image below,
actually it's "flick of the switch" and not the f!@# of it!)

Why my Home stereo display look so ugly and wierd, and i don't mean to the width??




I installed the fonts, and i have some of them before.

Since yo're using a white background,change your "active" to a dark shade (0,0,0) and "back"
to something like (170,170,170)
P.S.It's been answered 4 times before,so next time please spend some time to read the posts before asking,
enjoy.

looks great bu got a problem:

i installed fonts and plugin but got this "unknown command" error
can you help me?

Try repasting the code.

Version 1.3.1 is out (see the first post)
It looks and acts exactly like V 1.3 but has slightly improved scrolling and auto characte encoding detection.
So if you want to use the LCD font,but have files in your library which tags are written in:
East european lang.,Hebrew,Arabic,or Japaneese and\or all the east asian languages you can use it,
and at the moment unhandled characters are detected the font will auto switch to "Arial unicode ms"
Don't forget to download the new archive.Enjoy

Wow, thanks for adding ability to change colours. This keeps getting better and better.

This is how I'm using it:



It doesn't like Monkey's Audio:



It's not important. I only have like 60 APE songs in my library. Just a heads up.

Oh my,finally one post without complaints! Bless you!

Great job Russell

Ok so now thats two good ones

Now, WHY no WavPack??

Pleeeeeeeeeease

Two in a row?Unbelievable... (Thank you) If you send me a Wav pack file i'll see what i can do (i don't have any).
BTW:what's the problem with it? (russel777@gmail.com)