is it possible to get an updated version that has the rotate image function within it?

Hi, I've got a problem on how groups are created.

If I sort my groups by %artist%, I would expect to have only one group for each different artist.
But instead, there are multiple groups for the same artist created. Could it be that more than one group is created because the songs come from different albums... that wouldn't make sense as I have them just sorted by %artist% and nothing else :/

How can I prevent single columns from further sub-sorting of groups, so that I have one group for one artist?

SCPL does not sort, it only groups. You need to develop a functional sort string from either:
File> Preferences> General> "Sort incoming files by:"
-or-
Edit> Sort> "Sort by.."

For reference here is my own current sort string:


Once you have developed a working sort string you can then place your attention to the SCPL group by function. SCPL will group entries together but it will not sort your entries to fit those groups.

Thank you, it works

My problem is with certain keys no matter if I minimize it or not.
My spacebar no longer can be used for Play\Pause
My arrow keys can no longer scroll through my playlists
My other keys seem to still work however

I'm sticking with this version though because of the excellent job in reducing the memory used!!

Thanx Terrstrial

So I use albumart in the playlist, I do the thing where you put the album cover in the image of a cd case and I've seen many others do this too. Well, when you have albumart that is not a 1:1 aspect ratio you end up with half an empty cd sticking out which is kind of ugly so I whipped up a bit of code to fill in the space with white but only when the albumart is present. This way you still see the empty cd case when no art is available.


* this is for art in the itemlist not the group headers.

Love your plugin but can isn't there a way to make it when you select several songs with ctrl click and then rightclick that your selection doesn't go away?

stampgevaar: keep holding ctrl when you right click

hehe nice didn't figured that out myself

is there any chance to get total time of items in the grup?

I request the feature to add "dead lines" (an item row that takes up space but has no song there and is skipped over when playing) for layout purposes.

Pretty much, I want to display the full album art even if there isnt enough items in a group to display the whole thing.

I'm not sure how this would work, maybe some variable in the coding to say where to put the dead rows and how many. But hey, its a thought. It's probably been requested before too...

A minimum group size has already been suggested somewhere in the thread which was an interesting idea. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement.. from my no programing skills at all point of view.

Oh yeah I remember that being requested, just didn't know what a minimum group size was.

It all makes sense now. >_<

Hello, everyone!
I try to read all of 45 pages in this topic but I can't...

Please help me, I just want a one simple thing in my playlist.

before someone help me:

...
audiotrack 13
audiotrack 14
audiotrack 1
audiotrack 2
...

after that:

...
audiotrack 13
audiotrack 14
Artist - Album
audiotrack 1
audiotrack 2
...

no color themes, one column.

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sorry for my english...

For the time being you could add the Location "silence://1" and blank out the track info if its %path% starts with "silence:".

@ Fresh: What you want to have is 'Group Display' (I guess the different tracks do not belong to the same album) and furthermore I guess you want the tracks to be grouped by album.

Group by: [%album%]


Group Display: [%artist%] - [%album%]
or
Group Display: $align(center,middle)[%artist%] - [%album%]


hope this helps

please terrestrial update single columns with the rotate flip stuff from trackinfo...

Where i must write this?
...
I'd like to see my playlist like in first post...

I have installed these components:
Trackinfo Mod
Single Column Playlist
MS Visual C++ 2005 Runtime Library
GDI+ - only needed for Windows 2000

but nothing haven't happenned...

First of all you have to read.
As you found the 1st post, you should use the given link, it refers to the wiki.
The only thing which is somewhat stupid is that it refers to the history of that wiki, therfore you have to use the 'foobar 2000'-link at the top-left of the referred page - you'll check it out.
You will have to 'install' ColumnsUI and after some times of reading and simply trying you could understand what this configuration-thing is about.
Don't ask for service, better give yourself some service.. become fresh

edit: typo

Hey this helped me to solve a problem
Now I added in Group by [%artist%] - [%album%]
I had some problems that headers from other albums didn't appear in playlist when sending albums to playlist
Thanks

I've a request.

Could you add the feature that the group display will be removed if no code is set? It's because I want have a simple layout "%artist% - %title%" with no headline. I could do it with Columns Playlist, but i would miss the skinning-thing .

btw: Is the sourcecode somewhere available for download?

If the result of group by is "!noheader!" then no header will be created, for any of those groups. I personally group by %album% or "1" depending on the playlist name, that way there is a header for the playlist in single mode.

hey there ...this plugin is the bomb I really love it ...thx for that

the only real major problem I sometimes have with it is that I can't sort/move tracks around in a playlist by hand

will this be possible in the future?

hold down "Alt" and drag tracks

hah

thx a bunch

There is a variable for group index: first group has index of 1, second group has index of 2. I cannot remember the name of that variable.
Is there/I would like a variable that would return the total nubmer of groups.
I will use is with foo_skip to calculate the average group size, and skip some songs in groups that are above that average

Such a thing does not exist AFAIK. And if it does, I'd like to know the name too.

Displaying the same image twice with different scaling seems to fail the second time.

yep I said that a few pages ago

Isn't it possible to do buttons in the single column playlist ?? would be very nice to do ratings, search for info etc

hopefully in the next release

%_itemcount% and %_itemindex% are the ones I use to calculate if a row is the top row or the bottom row of a group. I forget which is which.


Will the introduction of per-second strings in the trackinfo mod panel carry over into single column? That might reduce the resources a bit when using images in the playlist. For example, I can't image that the typical way to display album art in the playlist is particularily optimized if it has to render an image x times per spanned row. This plug-in could use some speed tweaks, though I still can't give it up because of it's rich features.

Speaking of features, this plug-in really has taken foobar to the next level of configuration options. I'd say this place is only about average when it comes to taking criticism, so I always try to mention something positive.

Off topic:

i have a bit of a problem with my code here, i'm trying to use a noalbum image and a cover overlay image, and it does work when i go to settings and use apply, but if i, for example, right click a directory and play in foobar then my noalbum and overlay images don't work. not sure if it is because i'm, using the same dimensions for all images.

any help would be appreciated.

here's my Group display code:

$if(%album%,
$imageabs(,,images\album.png,),
$imageabs(,,images\album2.png,)
)
$if(%album%,
$imageabs2(100,94,0,0,,,4,6,'images\nocover.jpg',NOKEEPASPECT)
$imageabs2(100,94,0,0,,,4,6,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)album.jpg,NOKEEPASPECT)
$imageabs2(100,94,0,0,,,4,6,'images\artoverlay.png',NOKEEPASPECT),
)

$imageabs(113,94,images\bar_artist2.png,)
$if(%album%,$alignabs(113,2,1000,60,,)$font(impact,40,textalpha-25,255-170-30)%artist%,)

$alignabs(113,65,1000,20,,)
$font(calibri,11,glow-32-32-32,255-170-30)[%artist%]
$if(%album%,$font(calibri,11,glow-64-64-64,255-255-255) • $font(calibri,11,glow-32-32-32,255-170-30)%album%,
)
$if(%album%,
$alignabs($sub(%_width%,406),75,400,20,right,)
$if(%genre%,
$font(calibri,8,glow-64-64-64,255-255-255)
$if(%genre%,%genre%,'('Unknown Genre')')
$font(calibri,9,glow-32-32-32,255-170-30)• ,
)
$if(%date%,
$font(calibri,8,glow-64-64-64,255-255-255)
$if(%date%,%date%,'('Unknown Date')')
$font(calibri,9,glow-32-32-32,255-170-30)• ,
)
$font(calibri,8,glow-64-64-64,255-255-255)%_itemcount% track
$if($stricmp(%_itemcount%,1),,s)
$font(calibri,9,glow-32-32-32,255-170-30)•
$font(calibri,8,glow-64-64-64,255-255-255)%codec%
$if(%__replaygain_album_gain%,
$font(calibri,9,glow-32-32-32,255-170-30)•
$font(calibri,8,glow-64-64-64,255-255-255)AlbumGain:
$if(%__replaygain_album_gain%,%__replaygain_album_gain%, '('not available')')),
)

Do you mean %_itemcount% and %_itemindex% ?

%_itemcount% = total number of items in the current group
%_itemindex% = the position of the current item in the current group
%list_total% = total number of items in the playlist
%list_index% = the position of the current item in the playlist

how long until single columns is updated to be in line with track info mod - I would love the rotate function stuff to be implemented.. pls

IMHO the way to move tracks in a playlist is extremely unintuitive.

First, i had no clue at all how to do it. I searched the config pages if there is an option. After about 5mins, the idea crossed my mind, that it may work in combination with shift, crtl or alt. Only that way (trial and error) i found out how it works. If i would be less experienced with computers, i probably wouldn t have found it at all.

I once had the same problem. Here's the answer I got:

While i agree to an extent, This plugin is clearly not for computer-illiterates as it requires some pseudo-code understanding at the very least.

absolute path worked, thank you

sooo, is there any way to sort the stuff on the plugin without re-adding/manually moving the items?

Nope, no built-in sorting system yet. You can specify a custom sorting string in foobar preferences though. It works.

where in the preferences?

Preference > General > Sort incoming files by

This is what I use:

is there a way to get the total time of the tracks in the group? like the length of an album to be displayed in the header?

doesn't work if the files are already there though . what i do is i use the Album List plugin(not the column), i rescan the media library, i empty out the whole playlist, and then i just add all my songs from the Album List. the thing is, the album list is really picky when it comes to different album dates. eg, two CDs of the same album. on the first one the date is 1982 and the second one is 2005. so it doesn't order it right

It's weird.. Because it works perfectly for me...

I'm using Album List panel too. At first, I thought this "sort incoming files by" option was only meant to sort new files added to the library. But after some investigation, I noticed that the option have an effect in the way files are displayed in SCP. For instance, if you take the string I posted above, remove %date%, then try to send files from an artist from Album List to the playlist (i.e. SCP), you will see that albums are displayed in wrong %date% order. Put back %date% in the string and everything works. This is how it sorts my files:



I tried last week playlist tree and I took note that "sort incoming files by" does not have an effect on the way files are displayed in playlist. I guess it is a "feature" from Album List...

Maybe I'm missing something, but let me know anyway.

Go to the "Edit > Sort" menu. The first one is your default custom sort string, the others are common sorting schemes. Select the one you want, and it will sort your current list. I had just used it, so I know it is working (for me at least).

ty. that is EXACTLY what i was looking for

Just a quick report, pressing Page Up when you're on the first playlist item crashes foobar. 0.5b/Nov 24 build. Thanks.

Fixed in 0.5.4 beta, thanks.

doesn't happen here...

edit: using 0.5.4 btw