Updated to split large album titles into 2 lines.
See my last post for script and screenshot.

hi,
is it possible to display :
1- "track number in playlist/total tracks in playlist", like "0008/2561" for example.
2- "total album lenght" in the AlbumList, like "Thievery Corporation - DJ Kicks (56:13)"

thanks

My previous link to code is:

"http://www.freewebs.com/nuhi/foobar/code.zip"

you need to paste it to new window...damn this free web site.
Thanx picmixer.

nuhi - I am really enjoying your code, but unless I bump the terminal font (as specified by your file) down to size 6 (too small for my eyes), it is fairly bold, and not as pretty as your screenie. Are you really using a different font?

Maybe it's because i'm using 800*600 resolution on my ancient 15" monitor...

Ok, gonna change it...updating

15:14: Updated

Font now is Lucida Console, report me any bugs or disslikes...thanx

"http://www.freewebs.com/nuhi/foobar/code.zip"

(script reports if you miss a certain TAG so that you can ad it to a file intead of blaiming "the code" )

Based on Daelus' / Jan S. script.
Work on win 98 , 800*600 resolution, font andale mono 8 or all mono fonts (not use terminal!).
Code
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Modified
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Melomane, could you make a real-size screenshot (and link to it; not post it directly)?
It's hard to see how good it is otherwise.

So far so good, looks terrific. Thanks for the update.

I'm using nuhi's code and I have two problems:

1. CD's with less than 4 tracks don't show all the info I want. It's probably unavoidable, but I thought I'd mention it.
2. I have a CD where the first song starts at 13 so the other tracks aren't in the playlist. This ends up removing the Artist, Album, etc. info. Might be unavoidable too.

KDC, might that second album be Korn's Follow the Leader? Why don't you just change the tracknumbers with the "auto track numbers" feature of the masstagger? This way 13 -> 1, 14 -> 2 etc.. Or then just rip the 12 first tracks and add them to your playlist? After all, as they're only 5 seconds of silence (if it's the Korn's album) their file sizes will be quite small.

Nice, though I had some issues:

1) the spinner makes the status bar move, I replaced it:

$select($add($mod(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,3),1),'> ',' > ',' >'))

2) untagged files display is b0rk

3) any way to left align the track list?

4) how to make distance between MPC xxkbps and xxx Hz smaller?

2)
Howso?

4)

Remove some spaces here.

You don't see anything...

The only time when you should see nothing is if you have %tracknumber% but not the rest that is needed for a nice display. If tracknumber is not found it will display the %_filename%.
Last line in the script:

Maybe you should use %title% instead of %tracknumber% here.

my format string based on nuhi's kickass design

uses %various%, %disc%, %discname%, %lasttrack%, %version%, %bonustrack%, %lyrics% tags
-doesn't leave a gap if no disc number or name is present

screenshot

script

Edit:
has no error detection for missing tags

These scripts would be perfect if there could be a way to make them work with albums which have less than 4 Tracks.
I don't know how to force the formatting for each album to be 4 lines even if there are less tracks

@ tama

Can you show me how you got your status bar like that? I think its cool

the status bar i have at the moment was posted by foosion on page 15 of this thread

page number depends on how you have "Number of posts to show for each topic page" set up in your "board settings".

lol i see
don't think it will be a problem for most users

edit:
though i could be wrong...

Hello...
How could I have the value various artist when album contains various artists ? (like in Melomane's screenshot)
I have tried "$if(%va%,Various Artists), but it doesnt work

You mean if there's no %artist% tag in the file?

will display %artist% if present otherwise it will display "Various Artists".

probably a silly one, but how would i detect if the 'song' is a stream?

$if(%station%,...
will not work since there are quite some of them without proper tags...)

Why would I want to have a value "various artist" in the playlist when tag %artist% is missing ?? ^^ If i had wanted that, i would have asked for "unknow artist" not "various"...

No i mean sometimes, an album can be performed by various artist, like a "compile" (sorry i cant say it in english...), and so i would like to have in the playlist the "various artists" value... Do I need to create a "various artist" tag ? ...

tama, good job rookie

crap, now i must make something new...not possible...need more command strings...peter help

The playlist formatting only works with one file at a time so it was no way of nothing if there are different artist on the album. so yes; you need some tag that indicates that there are several artists.

The way I do it is to check if %_time_total% is present.
E.g.:

Ok thank you Jan.S

This is what I'm currently doing. It is based on Jan S's formatting and is currently REALLY everything but finished (just tweaked the code, for example it shows files without album/track number differently). I can't finish it (I have to use +s and -s etc) as I'm not home for two weeks and the OS on this computer is Win98... Edit: Oh, and that's also why the tracknumbers are so fucked up I just used "auto track number" on all albums that I have here

EDIT2: I think I have done the basic stuff now. Now I'll only have to wait two weeks to get home so I can start making it look better (like all the other formattings (tama's, nuhi's and of course Jan S's )

New screenshot

If you use Jan S's formatting, try this:

Change the 6 in this line to 4


then replace the formatting for tracks "track 2" to "default" with this:



That should do it. Actually that's just a copypaste from my own formatting, which is slightly modified from the Jan S's one, so I'm not 100% sure if it'll work, as I don't remember how things were in Jan S's formatting, but I think it should work.

ah, nice, tnx B)

Here's my "album-by-album" formatting. It's based on Jan S's formatting (as I couldn't figure out how to it by myself ) but I've modified it quite a bit (forth and back, so it might not be so different anymore, but at least I've gotten it to look what I want).
You need to use font "lime" in order to get it to show up properly. If you use something else, it'll look REALLY ugly
You also should add a %lasttrack% tag (no matter what value you give to it) to the last track of the album if you want it to show up like in the screenshot. It'll work without the tag, but will not show up as intended.
And if you want to show a comment about the album, add a %comment% tag at least to tracks 3 and 4 of the album
(Screenshot should show what you need to know... except for the correct track orded of the cds )
(Code. At the bottom of the file is a "sort by..." string that sorts the playlist quite well IMHO.)

EDIT: Damn.. Just realized I still have to finish the code again when I get home, as lime doesn't support scandinavian letters etc, which I need when I get home. Damn. I think I'd use Lucida Console, if I only could get my hands on all the symbols it has on this w98 machine..

My current "work in progress".
Screenshot
Playlist code
Status bar code
Font: Lucida Console

Thx to Daelus, tama and nuhi for the "base" of my design


Btw, does anyone know of a font like Lime that supports all the symbols that Lucida Console does?
Lime works fine at size 6, but it hasn't got norwegian letters and the needed symbols...

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Added code for Status bar.
Added thx to Daelus.
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Wow, nice.

And a nice Statusbar too. Could you plz give me the code?

BTW, I want to thank all of you for these awesome playlist-"skins".

Best theme so far here.... but Lucida doesnt work.... used lime but its very small, so im using drif font from the fonts package of blackbox and works nice with 1024x768

Liked the way it handle VA albums or tracks without tag!
Thanx great work

I gave up completely Daelus's genre script, because there are two problems:
playlist search/sorting don't work fine.
when playlist is random , display is too random...

Is it possible to know the value of a field in the [current playlist number -1] ?
if possible that would open large possibility of formatting.
PETER?

New formatting full compliant to defaut settings:




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Script

EDIT: add to various artist album this tag: VA value: "Various Artists"

I know of the problems if you use radomized playlist or search, but as I see it you got to choose between readability when having alot of complete albums in the playlist, and a playlist that works great with your "my top 200/partylist".
This could be remedied to some extent, by adding presets, which I would love, but I don't know if Peter can see a good reason to do it. Another nice feature would be to override background colors and such in the formatting code.

As for you "memory" function I'm pretty sure the answer is no. If it had been possible we would have seen alot more complex playlist designs in this thread.

I don't want a "memory " function but the possibility to know value of a field refered to value of playlist number;
I.E.

if %album% (current %_playlist_number%) = %album%( current %_playlist_number% - x)
when ....
if not ....

i think it is necessary to add new function

@upNorth
hey!
i'm using your playlist code and i've got a problem:
how to sort tracks by number (it's hard to exlpain)
i mean that if i have an album with more than 10 tracks
it shows as: "1 10 11 12 2 3 4..."
i want to organise it to look normal, like:
"1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11..."etc.
could you tell me how to do that?

I sort my files with this

heh....thanks DotNoir
now everything is ok...

@damjanek
I've only used the my shortcut key for "sort by path" until now. Don't know why I didn't miss the sort by artist/album/tracknumber, because it is quite useful.

After some testing I found this to work pretty good:

But in the end it depends alot on your filenameing and tagging. The string above will put all Various Artists albums at the bottom, assuming you have set the "VARIOUS" tag which is needed, if you want the playlist to display as intended.

Hope this was of any help

[edit]
Better post late than never...
Now you got me hooked on optimizing sort strings, to catch every strange formatting an lack of tags
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i've tried your string, but it made some chaos in my playlist......now i'm using
by DotNoir, and it works fine....but if i'll find some mistakes in your code, i'll tell ya
thx for help

Someone with a decent webspace (and preferrably plenty of free time ) should make a centralized repository for playlist formatting strings. The problem with this thread (as I see it) is that there isn't a standard format for the formatting strings. Whoever sets up the site would (in my mind) need to (at a minimum) come up with a consistent way of seperating the playlist strings and associated fonts, colors, etc. in a text file. Preferrably with translation of special characters to $char(xxx) encoding, actual links/downloads of the fonts used and screenshots, although those would be iceing on the cake.

Any takers?

is there anyway to add a sort of background pattern, non-graphical, to foobar2k.

Kind of like the foobar2000 text to the right here?
screenshot

whoa thats pretty cool, I wasn't expecting something like that.... I'm thinking more along the lines of this:

screenshot
code

no fancy coding stuff - just fancy coloring.

for idvah:
The "$if($greater(1,$mod(%_playlist_number%,2))..." part sets up alternating colors based on playlist index. "$puts(space,...)" sets a variable to be used in place of a space for padding purposes. In other words, if you use "$repeat($get(space),x)" as I have you will get a pseudo-adjustment for the background color.

upNorth:
i'm going to have to ask you to post that foobar text thing. totally cool.

The transition in your progress bar is cool, could you give us the code? I'm not in the mood for trying to figure it out myself

upNorth propably has a better way of doing this, but I figured a way to get the foobar2000 text there... Here's a screenie for you. And yes, I still haven't bothered to change the track numbers to what they're supposed to be it's completely the same for me what they are here, as long as they're right at home.

Next thing is to tweak the colors and the characters I just quickly made that one with #s.