Stupid question:

When ever I use a playlist, it never preserves the background color from the pic. How do I make my background anything but white?

You're probably looking in the Title Formatting preference page. Instead go to Display and select the "Playlist Background Color" button.

i like your set up a lot, but it comes in all screwed up when i just copy and paste what you pasted in your post. could u just strait out copy and paste what you have in foobar into a post here for the playlist and status bar.

and yes i downloaded and installed the LIME font

here is tha' stuff, i mean THE stuff

screenshot (copy and paste the link in a new window)
http://www.freewebs.com/nuhi/capture.jpg

Playlist Background:
R:0
G:36
B:72

You must use TERMINAL FONT on both, playlist and status bar code !

Playlist
::::::::



Status Bar
::::::::::::

I like that one a lot nuhi, but somehow the chars are not displayed correctly for me.. can you (or somebody else) tell me how to find these?
Thanks

I'm not sure if the Terminal font is UTF-8 compatible. IIRC, it was meant to reproduce the standard DOS character set. Just an advisory for people who want to use it.

Have you changed font to Terminal on playlist and status bar ?
Nivo if you could send me a screenshot here or on mail nuhi@softhome.net
so that i can see what's the problem.
Maybe it's those which I didn't decoded from sign to $Char(*) code.

Edit: You can access all characters for a specific font in Character Map program.
Just type charmap in Run section of windows and run it.

Canar which font do you recommend so others don't have any issues ?

Nihu, i think it depends on the pc you're using or something like that.... i just tried it on a different pc and it looked quite different then again, with other caracters not showing up.

However, i can fix it with your charmap tip... have been looking for that for a while now, so double thanks

ok

next time i'll post a proper version,with Terminal encoded chars, without that $char(*) thingy.
It will work then but it cannot be pasted on forum though, there will be a link to it in a text file.
I think i saw it earlier someone else did it.

yeah, much easier that way
well.. for me at least.. tho i do get the hang of this editing this way

Same here....

I absolutely want to use your wonderful colors and layout 'cause I think they're the coolest ones around (no kiddin' (w00t) )

And yes - I also installed the Lime-font (installed it in Control panel -> Fonts)

Let us know!

This is my desktop:
image (146kB)
And here my config:
foobar.cfg

They are based on other's configs.

Statusbar Arcade Productions presents

---=== PACMAN 4 Foobar2000 ===---

created by samadhi97 & foosion




font: Verdana, 8pt

Use $puts(pacc_pacman,00FFFF) (instead of $puts(pacc_pacman,FF0000) ..) for the maximum degree of authenticity

only one rule for ya: Enjoy!

The Legend returns! Will he manage to escape the Ghost?

For those of you asking about this this setup:

Hmm.. I did straight copy and paste, can't imagine why it got messed up? I'll try again:

PLAYLIST BACKGROUND COLOR: Hue 75, Sat 28, Lum 106 / Red 103, Green 126, Blue 100
PLAYLIST SELECTION COLOR: Hue 74, Sat 30, Lum 134 / Red 132, Green 156, Blue 128
SELECTED ITEM FRAME: Black
Playlist font is Lime, of course

PLAYLIST


STATUS BAR

Thanks a lot, Pootify!

Works perfectly now!

800*600
album name / n° track is red when replaygain is not apply.
album with various artist display name of artist in playlist and "various artist" in album list (required tag "va=various artists")

playlist: background color rvb 255/255/249 , selection 128/136/168 text and item frame: black

$num(%_playlist_number%,3)$if(%_isplaying%,0000FF|0000FF -> , | )
800000$caps(%artist%) -
$if(%title%,' ['
$if(%__replaygain_album_peak%,,
$if(%__replaygain_album_gain%,,0000FF))
[%album%[ #[%disc%/]
$if(%__replaygain_track_peak%,,
$if(%__replaygain_track_gain%,,0000FF))
$num(%tracknumber%,2)]'] ']
800000%title%
,800000%_filename_ext%)
$char(9) |
$iflonger(%_length%,4,%_length%,%_length%¨ )
_________________________________________________
statusbar:

$if(%_ispaused%,0000FF PAUSE,
[$upper($ext(%_filename_ext%)) ][%__bitrate% Kbps ][%__samplerate%Hz ]$if(%__channels%,$ifgreater(%__channels%,2,%__channels%ch,$ifgreater(%__channels%,1,stereo,mono)) ,)[ %__extrainfo%]
$select($add($mod(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,4),1),'-','\','|','/'))
// setting
$puts(count,115)
$puts(gone,'|')
$puts(c_gone,808080)
$puts(pill,'|')
$puts(c_pill,FFFFFF)
$puts(cursor0,-%_time_remaining%)
$puts(cursor1,-%_time_remaining%)
$puts(c_cursor,C10000)
// computation
$puts(pos,$div($add($mul(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,$get(count)),$div(%_time_total_seconds%,2)),%_time_total_seconds%))
'{'
// display gone
$get(c_gone)$repeat($get(gone),$get(pos))
// display cursor
$get(c_cursor)$get(cursor$mod(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,2))
// display pills
$get(c_pill)$repeat($get(pill),$sub($get(count),$get(pos)))
'}'
%_time_elapsed% / %_time_total%
_______________________________________
album list
tree:
[GENRE-ARTIST-ALBUM]$if($strcmp($substr(%genre%,1,4),Jazz),Jazz,$if($strcmp($substr(%genre%,1,9),Classical),Classical,Modern))|$if2(%va%,%artist%)|[%album%][ { %date% }]$if($strcmp($substr(%genre%,1,4),Jazz),$substr(%genre%,5,40),$if($strcmp($substr(%genre%,1,9),Classical),$substr(%genre%,10,40),[ - %genre% ]))|%title%$if(%va%, -- $caps(%artist%),)
sorting:
[GENRE-ARTIST-ALBUM]$if2(%va%,%artist%)|%album%|$num(%disc%,9)|$num(%tracknumber%,9)

Hi, I'm working on the albumlist

My music is laid out like this
[Drive]:\music\[Letter of Alphabet]\[Artist]\[Album]\(if multiple CDs)[CD #]
Example:
E:\music\B\Bob Dylan\Blonde on Blonde
E:\music\B\Bob Dylan\The Essential Bob Dylan\CD 2

Currently, I have



This works fine for situations like the first example, but for the 2nd example, it doesn't look as nice
My aim is to have something like this for the album list



Does anyone have any idea how to do that?

If I try this for the Tree Hierarchy

I get a syntax error, because of the '|' in the 3rd argument of the $iflonger statement

Any help?

First, I'm from Croatia so my english is bed, if you find something wrong I'm sorry.
I love minimalism, so I came up with this:

TITLE FORMATTING

playlist:


system tray:


window title:


status bar:


COLORS (RGB)

playlist text color: 0 0 0
playlist background color: 255 255 255
playlist selection color: 130 165 190
selected item color: 50 100 125

Here is the screenshot

Foobar! (60kb), it's pretty minimal but with some snazzy colouring.

Apologies for the horribly messy code, tried to clear it up but I kept breaking it so in the end I left it

Playlist:


Status bar:


Fonts:
Playlist: Lucida Console 8pt
Status bar: Tahoma 8pt

Colours (RGB):
Text: 205 205 205
Background: 0 0 0
Selection: 0 0 0
Frame: 50 160 50

Basically this huge lump of code gives a nice colour blending between tracks on an album, while single tracks get random colours chosen from those used for blending. In my set-up, the tracks are all shades of blue, selecting tracks turns them a shade of green. The currently playing track is white and tracks with no replay-gain (track or album if applicable) are shown in red. Any field that's too long to be shown gets cropped and '..' added to the end so you know there's some missing. Just take a look at the picture for a better idea

That is very cool, exactly what I was looking for

Here is the slightly modified setup, hope you like it:

TITLE FORMATTING

playlist:


system tray:


window title:


status bar: (modified)


COLORS (RGB)

playlist text color: 0 0 0
playlist background color: 255 255 255
playlist selection color: 130 165 190
selected item color: 50 100 125

FONT

tahoma, 8pt

screenshot

Pootify, where can I find that Lime font?

Lime font:

http://www.desktopian.org/bb/

right side, under Additional, "Blackbox font pack (for Windows)"

Here, fixed it, and made it more tolerant to bad Tags.

Enjoy

Screenshot

Code & Instructions

This doesn't work at all for me.

It only works if you use the font "Terminal".


btw, does anyone know if there is a way to inser newlines in the playlist?
I didn't find any information about this....

this is my string:

That's what I did.

I didn't notice anyone showing their album list format strings, so I figured I'd reply with mine. Basically, I wanted all of my game, anime, and movie soundtracks to display and sort only by the album, while everything else should be sorted by artist. Ideally, album would be a branch of the hierarchy under album, but I couldn't get the | to work inside of the if statement, so I just set one branch to "artist - album."

Tree hierarchy:


Sorting order:

So far the Lime font is the only one I found that produces these nie dots instead of the ù's show in some strings in this thread. However the only problem I hav with it is that Foobar does not want to set it to a larger font size than 8. Would like to do that though. Does anyone know a sollution to this?

Here is my playlist string, wich is a modified version of pootify's and Skibby's in one. The coding is probably not the most elegant, but it works fine for me:


////////////////////
//// Config ////
////////////////////
// Colors
$puts(plnum_col,$if(%_isplaying%,11118E|363636,B0B0B0|363636))
$puts(artist_color,$if(%_isplaying%,11118E|DFAF00,000000|000000))
$puts(title_color,$if(%_isplaying%,11118E|BFAF00,FFFFFF|FFFFFF))
$puts(album_color,$if(%_isplaying%,11118E|DFAF00,000000|000000))
$puts(date_color,$if(%_isplaying%,11118E|DFAF00,000000|000000))
$puts(track_color,$if(%_isplaying%,11118E|DFAF00,FFFFFF|FFFFFF))

// Spacers
$puts(album_spacer,')')
$puts(track_spacer,*)
$puts(tag_spacer, ù )
// Additional options
// 1 = true, 0 = false
$puts(display_playlist_no,1)
$puts(display_date,1)
$puts(display_file_info,1)
$puts(display_time,1)
/////////////////////////
//// End config ////
/////////////////////////



//////////////////
//// Tags ////
//////////////////
// Artist
$if(%artist%,
$puts(artist,$get(artist_color)%artist%),
$puts(artist,$get(artist_color)$caps2($padcut(%_filename%,$sub($strchr(%_filename%,-),2)))))

// Title
$if(%title%,
$puts(title,$get(title_color)%title%),
$puts(title,$get(title_color)$caps2($substr(%_filename%,$add($strchr(%_filename%,-),2),$len(%_filename

%)))))

// Album
$if(%album%,
$puts(album,$get(album_color)%album%),
$puts(album,$get(album_color)$if($strcmp($strchr($directory(%_path%),-),0),
$directory(%_path%),
$substr($directory(%_path%),$add($strchr($directory(%_path%),-),2),$len($directory(%_path%))))))

// Date
$if($stricmp($get(display_date),1),$if(%date%,$puts(date,$get(date_color)'('%date%')'),))

// Tracknumber
$if(%tracknumber%,
$puts(tracknum,$get(track_color)$num(%tracknumber%,2). ),)


//////////////////////////////////
//// Display artist info ////
/////////////////////////////////

//make playlist number black if playing
$if(%_isplaying%,000000|000000>>>>,FFFFFF|FFFFFF$num(%_playlist_number%,3).)

ù $get(artist) ù $get(album)$get(date) ù $get(tracknum)
$get(title)

///////////////////////////////
//// Display file info ////
//////////////////////////////
$char(9)
$transition(
$if($stricmp($get(display_file_info),1),
$pad_right($get(tag_spacer),1)
$pad_right($upper($right(%_filename_ext%,3)),3) $pad_right(%__bitrate%/$div(%__samplerate%,1000),6)
$pad_right($if(%__replaygain_track_gain%,T, ),2)
$pad_right($if(%__replaygain_album_gain%,A, ),1)
)
$if($stricmp($get(display_time),1),$pad_right(%_length%,7)),
11118E|11118E,000000|000000)



Playlist Background Colour: 24 53 107
Playlist Text Colour: 142 17 17
Selection colour: 0 64 128
Selected Item Frame: Black


Thanks Pootify and Skibby fotr those nice setups.

artwitz's fonts are bitmap fonts, not true type, they only contain one size

bitmap fonts can contain multiple sizes but you'd have to draw every character for every size, the characters of true type fonts are rendered rather than pre-made and can therefore be of multiple sizes

Thanks, that about explains it.

my strings, simple and fast:

Playlist #1: basic

//simple complet
- $num(%_playlist_number%,3) : [%artist%] $if(%title%,[[%disc%/]- $num(%tracknumber%,2) : ]%title%,%_filename_ext%) [- %album%] $if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|FFFFFF)[%_length%]

sorry, cant write the (alt+tab)

Playlist #2: if you listen only to full albums (ie: tracks from different albums must not be mixed; track 1 from each album must be in the playlist; for following tracks from the same album, artist and album are hidden except when playing or selected with cursor)

//albums entiers uniquement
$ifgreater(%tracknumber%,1,$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|FFFFFF>| ,B58C8E|FFFFFF)%artist% - %album% -,$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|FFFFFF>| )%artist% - %album% -)
$if(%_isplaying%,,)
$if(%title%,- [[%disc%/]$num(%tracknumber%,2) : ]%title%,%_filename_ext%)
$char(9)$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|FFFFFF%_length% <|,%_length%)

colors:
playlist background 162 52 151 (otherwise ,B58C8E must be changed to the same color as the background)
playlist selection 160 240 120
font: whatever, maybe you'll need to put some spaces in the appropriate areas...

Status bar:

[%artist% - ]$if(%title%,[[[%disc%/]$num(%tracknumber%,2)]] : %title%,%_filename_ext%) [- %album%] | $ext(%_path%) @ [%__bitrate%kbps - ][%__samplerate%S/s ]$if(%__channels%,$ifgreater(%__channels%,2,%__channels%ch,$ifgreater(%__channels%,1,stereo,mono)) ,)[%__extrainfo%] %_time_elapsed%[ / %_time_total%]

does someone know a way to show in foobar2000 the tag type used in a song? (already know how to do this with replaygain and bitrate, but can't find any doc on tag type)

thx

Here's my "ByAlbum"-Playlist script :

Screenshot

use Lucinda Console Font, 9pt
Playlist text : Black (0,0,0)
Playlist Background : 180,178,204
Playlist Selection : 10,36,106

Playlist Script

and have fun with yours albums

Am still looking for a TTF(sizeable) Font that will allow me do display a dot in the vertical middle of the line. Similar to Pootify's setup. Would anyone know where to find one, or how else to achieve this?

Hello there, complete noob here, downloaded foobar yesterday and I must say it sounds amazing with my revo. I love it! Much better than winamp.

I had a go at a string and I must add that it is based on one I found in this post but I can't remember whos so my apologies , feel free to speak out if its yours!

Here goes



Its all spaced out purely for ease of editing.

It works well I think and I like it, it changes colour on pause and the track thats playing is black, although the second square bracket on the album name [album] refuses to change colour, I've tried everything I can think of and it either messes up the whole string or has no effect whatsoever. Any ideas!?

Let us know what you think

Thanks

Tom

This is the best script I've seen so far. With a translation and some minor adjustments this will be my favourite.

i agree... well done Daelus

Based on Daelus' script.
* Fixed width
* Translated
* Displays different fields at the side (artist, disc nr., format, replaygain)
* uses %_filename% instead of %_path% for tracks without tags
* pads zero on tracknumber
* added %__compression%
* removed lines after title
Screenshot
Script

Great

I just had to try Screenshot Script
I made it from scratch, looking at Daelus' screenshot. Fixed width also, like Jan's.

what font are u using there gaffa?

mine has a bunch fo question marks all over it!

Just "Courier New".

By the way, I forgot to add some %_isplaying% modification.

Edit 1:
I couldn't sleep anyway: Screenshot 1 (Script), Screenshot 2 (Script)

The first script could be optimized

Edit 2:
So I cleaned up the second one: Script. Edit 3: And made a somewhat cleaned up mixture: Script.

Daelus script + Jan S mod has me by the balls. I love it, thanks you two!

now i feel stupid, no matter what my formatting doesn't come out right on jans or gafas script....

instead of having cool lines or whatever i have a bunch of stupid questionmarks....

im so confused....

EDIT: ok, when i copy your script, i get a bunch the strange characters that you use like "||" or "||=" turn into "??" so how do i get those cool characters....

idoes it have to do with the fact that im using beta 10 which seems tobe ascii only, and not unicode....i think it might!

Updated...

Shot

Code

p.s. it is not based on Daelus script...you can see my previous posts.

@nuhi

The link to your code does not seem to work. Maybe you could just copy and paste it here. Looks very nice.