Thanks, works.

1) how do you find different album covers for two differnt albums from one artist? (nevermind thats your trouble not mine)

2) if you use such path as given up first i would suggest to use ' ' i use code such as this an it works:
$imageabs2(38,38,0,0,38,38,93,4,'images\bands\'%album artist%'.jpg',)
but my artist photos are realtive to foobar you have to use absolute path if you use windows document folder.

3) everytime you experiment with imageabs2 code restart foobar.

I have my whole music set up by artist, not by album, so i just have one art for each artist, and i arrange by artist, but thats beside the point.

$imageabs2(38,38,0,0,38,38,93,4,'images\bands\'%album artist%'.jpg',)

your code, im guessing the first two numbers are the size of the image, what do the other ones do, im trying to learn this, so that i can figure it out on my own, and not have to ask here everytime something doesnt work.

P.S. I have moved my albumart to

images\albumart\%artist%.jpg

and i put that in your code, put your code in my foobar, and nothing showed up... any idea what im doing wrong?

Is letter-spacing available? This would provide quite a few more options when it comes to usable fonts. eg I like to have a small font in upper case with some letter-spacing.

Another idea (dirty but maybe working okay?) is:

1. Use calcwidth to find out the width of the string
2. If the width is bigger than desired maximum width, then:
3. Calculate how many percent the width was bigger than desired max width.
4. Count number of characters in string.
5. Reduce the number of characters proportinally to how bigger the width was compared to the maximum width (plus reduce a little extra for safety)
6. Add three dots.

If anyone gets me..

i already posted about this in a reply to your post in the appearance thread....

ya i didnt check there till just now,

and i didnt know why i was using the $replace , it was just given to me by someone else ,
so anyway, i have now moved my album art so that i can use relative paths'
album art is located here

C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images\albumart


$imageabs2(122,122,,,,,6,2,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.png,)

so how would i change your code ^^^ to fit my needs, since you said i dont need the $replace anymore?

This already may have been asked before (but HA doesn't support a thread search):

Pressing ENTER does not play a track? Any way I can achieve this?

short explanation i was talking about in appearnace thread:



im not quite sure how these works : srcX, srcY, srcW, srcH i just know that the code above works the way i need .

im not quite sure what you are trying to achive. pls expres your needs more. you're reffering to %artist%.jpg as album cover but i guess you need to show artist photo somewhere. am i right? do you need to place that image in group header or next to your item rows? cause code looks different depending on this. the code i was posting for you i use in group row. Dont mind the relative/absolute path just use the one youre used to both works quite fine.

that is the current code that i am using for my images, and they are displaying, but i want to clean the code up, i was told that i dont need the $replace, and since it is in my application data foobar, i should be able to use relative path's, how can i modify this code to achieve this ?

Eh, gotta get going to work, but this one seems ok at the moment. It just calculates the width of O, which seems to be the widest character.

here you go....

ok i did put that code into my foobar, and it does not work

Have you tried the Search Topic button at the end of the page? Or do you mean something else?

Alessandro

i did test the code before i posted. i even created the folder/filename structure so it's the same as yours....

you did restart, didn't you....

I Most definately did restart lol , ive been told that too many times, this is killing me that i cant get it to work!!!

it doesnt make sense that this code works:
$imageabs2(75,75,0,,,,3,3,$replace($replace(C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images\albumart\nocover.png,',',),?,),)
$imageabs2(75,75,0,,,,3,3,$replace($replace(C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images\albumart\%artist%.jpg,',',),?,),)

and then this doesnt:
$imageabs2(75,75,,,,,3,3,'images\albumart\nocover.png',)
$imageabs2(75,75,,,,,3,3,'images\albumart\'%artist%'.jpg',)

its just being simplified.. is there something small we are missing?



ill explain everything out of how i have my music set up, ,just in case it will make a difference,

i have all my music located in:
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\My Documents\My Music
and my music is saved in this format: %artist% - %tracknumber.mp3

i have all my images for my foobar stored here:
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images

and my album art is located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images\albumart
and my album art is saved in this format: %artist%.jpg
this is because i organize my music by artist, not by album, and i have all the correct tags, so that it works for me, i just set the album tag to be the same as the artist tag, so that i did not have to change all the code that people posted, since they sort by album,

anyway, thats where everything is stored, i still have no idea why the shortened code doesnt work

AFAIK, you can't use relative paths with $imageabs2(), they only work with $imageabs(), so you'll have to keep the whole path in the code.

so can i just get rid of the 2 in $imageabs2(), and then everything will work ?

or should i just have the code like this?
$imageabs2(75,75,,,,,3,3,'C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images\albumart\%artist%.jpg',)

kuz i think that i have tried that, and it doesnt work ..

well sort of..... just been testing and you can't use your profile directory with imageabs2. but having the a folder as subdirectory of the main foobar2000 folder works.

so just copy over your 'images' folder to \program files\foobar2000\ and that should do it.

...or add the path back

$imageabs2(75,75,,,,,3,3,'C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\foobar2000\images\albumart\%artist%.jpg',)

so would this be adding the path back ?




edit: marc , you were right, i moved the folder, and now the clean code works,

ok so now it works. but what a strange setup to have. do you have multiple albums by the same artist? it's going to show the same image for every one. surely you'd want to have individual art for each album?

but then i suppose it's good in a way that we don't all think the same......

I've overseen that one for years, thanks!

But it didn't bring me a result for my question. So, is it intended behaviour, if I press <enter> that nothing happens? Or something wrong here?

no i only have one album for my artists.. but now i have the code, and it works, thanks for all the help

any chance to show the album art with imageabs2, files from different folders with different filennames?
right now i have $replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg)

though i have many files that are not named "folder.jpg".
*.jpg doesn't work =/

maybe anyone know of a good mass file renamer?

Request: a function like $setheaderrows(rows) for the group header, so I can do:

That works great.. almost! For some reason the dots don't display. Otherwise, perfect.

er or add, and maybe increase 8. Bleh.

<newb> so ive been reading over different configurations and am starting to get a grasp on being able to make this look the way I want. My issue is that I am not understanding the concept of how this works with playlists.

I have 3 playlists currently (Singles/Incomplete , Full Albums , and New Playlist)

I can switch between the 3 by right-clicking and choosing, and the display actually changes so i can see whats in the playlist, however i cannot actually play anything except what is in New Playlist.

help me pull my head out of my ass, please.</newb>

BUG. Marking a track and pressing <Enter>: Nothing happens.
BUG. Arrow up does not jump over the group description. If the groups height is 2, I have to press the key three times in order to reach the last track of the previous group.
BUG. A visual glitch: On top of the panel, it doesn't refresh 1 or 2 pixel height. E.g. if I minimize fb2k and bring it up again, this horizontal line shows exactly what was in the window(s) under fb2k.

W2K here and fb2k0.94

can somsone please tell me how to make use of having 2 rows of the group row.. I want to put more stuff on the second line but i dont know how to move it to the next bow down..

either enclose a linebreak in 's or use $char(10). I use the latter.

thats great worked like a charm

now for the next trick - its currently displaying the album art if there is a folder.jpg image in the directory - which works fine but I also need it to detect for folder.png and then if neither of those are detected it needs to display my no cover art in a specific location data\misc images\nocover.png

would really appreciate some help - my config is almost perfectly the way i want it...

Do:


But it messes up with some aspect ratios.

yeah i tried that and it works for most
as i think i read before this component doesnt do wildcards does it?
otherwise I could have it display folder.*
that would help

thanks for the info though... i already had thought of it right after i posted -

I don't know if it has been brought up before (probably?) but I think clickable elements would be a great idea. I think it should be able to separate between single or doubleclick, and it would be sufficient to refer commands to menus.

Ideas of usage:
1. Single click on rating stars in the playlist to rate song.
2. Clickable "no cover art" images to download cover art (ie. via foo_run and coverdownloader)
3. Double click on album header to open directory

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Another idea of a function would be inline editing (middle click) to edit displayed tags directly in the playlist.

I'm still convinced that somehow columns could be integrated into this. It would basically be like columnsui, but each column has trackinfo_mod code editing. The columns wouldn't apply to the groups though, which would just span over all of the columns and have a single codebox. Group sorting (and whether or not the headers are shown) would then be defined by which column is currently selected for sorting. This would give us back the flexibility of sorting with the power of the single_column features. It would also simplify integrating inline tag editing. I know this would be a major undertaking, though.

I guess you could temporalily fix that by coding a AutoHotkeyScript, that simulates a double-click on the marked entry. I'm not quite sure what amount of work that would be, since I only started using AHK myself a week ago - but it is truly a very capable little tool!

I've went thru this thread for like a hour but still haven't managed to get my cover art into the playlist. But after reading more carefully, I am just wondering, for the newest/current version of this component. Is album art still limited to C:\ ? or of subdirectories of the foobar directory ?

As in, it doesn't have the ability to take paths from where the albums are actually are (this is where my art is)

on its not limited now. search for imageabs2 in this thread. youll find bunch of codes and posts i presume

Any ideas why

doesn't work?

What code do I need to display the album art if all the art is stored in H:\_Artists And Artwork in this format %artist%_%album%.jpg

Try using:

one question:

I have an autoplaylist with various single mp3s (my rated ones), is it possible to have 2 different column-configs like it is in columns_ui? (there i use one for album view, and another one for my autoplaylists).

Well after like long hours I semi got it to work (albumart, only some times it fails to even draw/missing parts of the playlist), after changing the code around to drawing with the listindex it seemed to work better but both ways still kinda glitchy/laggy (a64 2800+, 1gb ram /w 2500 songs) but overall very nice plugin!

Edit: Only if you put in albumart related code into it, otherwise its great.

I hope a better implementation of album art will work later on but great work ! hope ya keep improving it

Bug (minor): Search for something which give results, using foo_uie_quicksearch. Playlist is generated, with correct results, but isn't automatically switched to (set in quicksearch preferences), like as with normal columns.

Bug (minor): Using keyboard to navigate the lists which foo_browser shows (i.e. pressing 'e' to jump to the first item starting with 'e', etc..), causes a keyboard shortcut to be performed aswell. I.E., I bind 'X' to play, and if I press 'X' whilst using the foo_browser panels, then it searches the foo_browser panel, generates the playlist, and because of 'X' being binded to play, plays the song. (may not be your problem)

Bug (major): Use foo_browser to generate a playlist, works as expxected. Search for something which give results, using foo_uie_quicksearch, which generates the new playlist with correct results. Switch to playlist, using the playlist context menu, which works as expected. Play track by double-clicking, which works as expected. Switch back to browser playlist (which was generated by foo_browser before), which works as it should. But then, when you try to play any track from the playlist (the one foo_browser generated before), it plays a track from the foo_quicksearch playlist (specifically, the first one from the group after where the cursor was in the quicksearch playlist). Regenerating the browser panels fixes this, and the browser playlist then works as normal again.

Bit confusing to explain, but I tryed to detail all steps..

like this:

$imageabs2(65,65,0,0,65,65,2,2,H:\_Artists And Artwork\%artist%_%album%.jpg,)

[No reaction on pressing enter]



As this computer is controlled by a remote control and girder, I solved the problem by sending the event to a (hidden) columns ui playlist. (I couldn't use "foobar2000.exe /play", because I have assigned this also to winamp).

Doesn't work

Is somewhere comprehensive manual for scripting functions and macros for this pluging on the internet with explainig what parametrs and what for are used??

PS. Plugin is great but I dunno what to do with it without any help