Hydrogenaudio Forums > Foobar2000 format strings

geovogs

Dec 10 2003, 02:51

Hi!
Please, tell me how I can set stereo for Lame 3.93 MMx in foobar2000's conversion options.
I have default joint stereo.

Thank You.
Geo.

berryblunt

Dec 14 2003, 17:56

here´s my playlist string :
-->

$puts(altcol,FFFFFF)

$if(%_isplaying%,0000F0|$get(altcol),)
$num(%_playlist_number%,$len(%_playlist_total%)).$char(32)

956500|$get(altcol)
['['%album%']' ]$if(%tracknumber%,'['#[%disc%/]$num(%tracknumber%,2)']' ,)

0071E1|$get(altcol)
$if(%artist%,%artist%000000|$get(altcol)' - ',)

007900|$get(altcol)
$if2(%title%,$upper($replace(%_filename%,_, )))
$tab(1)

0000F0|$get(altcol)
$if(%_ispaused%,' PAUSE ',$if(%_isplaying%,$if(%_length%,'['$progress(%_time_elapsed_seconds%, %_time_total_seconds%, 25,'||','-')'] PLAY ',' PLAY STREAM ')))

$if(%_isplaying%,0000F0|$get(altcol),000000|$get(altcol))
$pad_right($if3(%_length%,%_time_elapsed%,'stream'),7)
' '['|'$upper($ext(%_path%))'|']
<--

QQuxa

Dec 17 2003, 16:55

page with all the format strings and screenshots doesnt seem to be updated lately.. are there any other pages? i'd love to see some nice colors and formatting on my foobar, but I don't really have time to do it by myself:(

and many of formattings from that page don't really suite me, cost lots of my music ain't properly tagged =/

ideas?

upNorth

Dec 17 2003, 18:17

I just uploaded the next version of my "dynamic" formatting. It's not quite finished, but it seems to work ok. It's at the bottom of the page in a box called Test (next version of playlist). The reason I uploaded it is because it can work without tags, also in album mode. It will use tags, but try to guess the missing ones from filename and path. As I've said already, it's not quite finished, but you can try it.

The default naming scheme it looks for is:
artist - album\filename
If your naming scheme is something like:
artist\album\filename
you need to change this:

CODE

$puts(guessing_scheme,1)

into

CODE

$puts(guessing_scheme,2)

You can find it at the beginning of the code (the config area). This latter scheme might give strange results from time to time I guess.

Multidisc albums will work as long as an additional directory starts with "cd" or "disc" like this:
artist - album\CD 1\filename

mazy

Dec 19 2003, 17:37

i've uploaded preview of my current formatting string:

http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/strings.php?f=55

one screenshots

treech

Dec 22 2003, 20:03

I'de like to have an "album separator" thing, something like this "------------------", preferible across all the colums of the foobar window, if possible, how do i go about making one ?

i guess it's not that hard, but i haven't been able to make it break the line, everything looks really weird

nbv4

Dec 24 2003, 14:30

whats the keyboard code to get the color character? In the formating string help file, it is listed as a box, but how do I get this character from my keyboard. It should be alt + XXX, the X's being on the numpad.

treech

Dec 25 2003, 16:23

.....just copy&paste

nbv4

Dec 26 2003, 09:33

QUOTE(treech @ Dec 25 2003, 02:23 PM)

.....just copy&paste

Thats what I've been doing. There has to be a better way.

ozzimark

Dec 27 2003, 14:43

wow... after putting upnorth's window format on... i think i'm gonna actually put the time in over the break to hunt down which album most of my 4500+ songs are in just to make it look pretty

nbv4

Dec 29 2003, 09:37

^^ do a google search for MusicBrainz

ReLiK

Dec 29 2003, 16:54

Does anybody know if or when it will be possible to allow separate playlists to have individual formatting styles?

Would love to have a such a feature.

anza

Dec 30 2003, 08:39

QUOTE(ReLiK @ Dec 30 2003, 12:54 AM)

Does anybody know if or when it will be possible to allow separate playlists to have individual formatting styles?

Would love to have a such a feature.

It is already possible. At least upNorth's and my formattings use it (although both use only two formattings, "album" and "single"). It is possible to have as many formatting strings as you want. You'll only have to rename the playlists to have a character or a string that makes foobar use formatting of your choice.

nk215

Dec 30 2003, 08:42

QUOTE

Does anybody know if or when it will be possible to allow separate playlists to have individual formatting styles?

Jejeje...

You already can do that!!!

You can try something like this:

If you have:

- playlist_name_a -> string_a
- playlist_name_b -> string_b
- playlist_name_c -> string_c
- playlist_name_n -> string_n

CODE

$if($stricmp(%_playlist_name%,playlist_name_a),string_a)
$if($stricmp(%_playlist_name%,playlist_name_b),string_b)
$if($stricmp(%_playlist_name%,playlist_name_c),string_c)
$if($stricmp(%_playlist_name%,playlist_name_n),string_n)

This is what I do to display individual formatting styles in playlist!!!

Byes

* Sorry for my english!!!

aron

Dec 31 2003, 01:38

here are my formatting strings

. they're based on man's original strings. here are some screenshots:

http://shovelbeating.org/~nirvana/fb/Screen09.JPG
http://shovelbeating.org/~nirvana/fb/Screen10.JPG
http://shovelbeating.org/~nirvana/fb/Screen11.JPG

those instances show some examples of how it handles tags. what do you all think? if you would like to try it, feel free:

http://shovelbeating.org/~nirvana/fb/man3.fb2k (foo_syfm file)

look in the "extra info" tab for color/font info. if you find anything wrong with it, let me know

mazy

Dec 31 2003, 08:15

aron, do you know that i loved your preview / original man's formatting string's look and so i designed my after it.

it is here.

would you try to modify the colors etc?

cptmorgan

Jan 2 2004, 13:22

ive been trying to get a formating string to work for hours no and no luck.... when i load the config some colors are displayed but not all, also the playlist doesnt display properly either. all my mp3s are tagged correctly... only thing i can think of is my file names....

a file location looks like this :

E:\mp3\archive\Sly_And_Robbie-Ultimate_Dub_Collection-CD-2002\01-sly_and_robbie-jah_in_dub.mp3

any ideas ?

mazy

Jan 2 2004, 14:33

which formatting string? your naming scheme looks almost like for scene releases, quite common i guess ...

cptmorgan

Jan 3 2004, 10:30

QUOTE(mazy @ Jan 2 2004, 12:33 PM)

which formatting string? your naming scheme looks almost like for scene releases, quite common i guess ...

its with any format string i load.... for some reason they dont load properly. dont know why it would be my filenames because the string pulls the information from the tags.... somone figure this out for me

DotNoir

Jan 3 2004, 10:40

One thing that sprang into my little head is that if the tag are ID3v2 and you don't have the component installed...
(get from here)

I'd blame the tagging if none of the playlist formats work...

edit. to find out if your tags are really screwed, I'd suggest you to put this as the formatting string, if it doesn't work, then you have some problem with tags :
%_playlist_number%. %artist% '|' %album% |$num(%tracknumber%,2)| %title%

if you get "playlistnumber. ? | ? |00| ?"

then you most propably have something spoony with your tags... If it displays correctly, I'd go and blame something between copy and paste (if you copy the formatting strings from the formatting string page...)

gwaihir

Jan 3 2004, 10:52

Mazy,
Your formatting string looks nice. Thanks for sharing. What font do you use?

anza

Jan 3 2004, 11:00

QUOTE(cptmorgan @ Jan 2 2004, 09:22 PM)

ive been trying to get a formating string to work for hours no and no luck.... when i load the config some colors are displayed but not all, also the playlist doesnt display properly either. all my mp3s are tagged correctly... only thing i can think of is my file names....

a file location looks like this :

E:\mp3\archive\Sly_And_Robbie-Ultimate_Dub_Collection-CD-2002\01-sly_and_robbie-jah_in_dub.mp3

any ideas ?

You'll have to manually change at least the background color. You'll also need to use correct font.
And after installing the ID3v2 plugin you'll need to reload infos of all your files (select all, right click, database, reload info from files).

mazy

Jan 3 2004, 17:21

gwaihir, it's free fant called eurofurence, you can get it on dafont.com ...

i've modified it a little bit though

cptmorgan

Jan 3 2004, 18:58

QUOTE(DotNoir @ Jan 3 2004, 08:40 AM)

One thing that sprang into my little head is that if the tag are ID3v2 and you don't have the component installed...
(get from here)

I'd blame the tagging if none of the playlist formats work...

edit. to find out if your tags are really screwed, I'd suggest you to put this as the formatting string, if it doesn't work, then you have some problem with tags :
%_playlist_number%. %artist% '|' %album% |$num(%tracknumber%,2)| %title%

if you get "playlistnumber. ? | ? |00| ?"

then you most propably have something spoony with your tags... If it displays correctly, I'd go and blame something between copy and paste (if you copy the formatting strings from the formatting string page...)

i tried both what you and ansa said and still no luck.... i tested your playlist string and it displayed just fine. This is really confusing cause all of my mp3s are tagged properly and i use the correct fonts/sizes.... there any other tests i can try to find out my problem ?

DotNoir

Jan 3 2004, 19:20

Can you upload a screenshot of your foobar2000 windows somewhere?
(where the playlist is screwed...)

thanks... or send an email to me, i can host it on ftp...

dreamliner77

Jan 4 2004, 00:57

Alright, not sure if this is the right place or whatever, but I just started using fb2k today. I know I'm a little behind the curve. Anyway, From what I can guess, apev2 tages were addded to all of my mp3's to include replay gain info. Not a problem. Kinda nice actually. The question is, how do I get all the fields filled in without manually doing? Is there a script for the masstagger that will do this from the title? Similar to tag.exe?

picmixer

Jan 4 2004, 07:41

In case you have Foobar set to use APEv2 tags on mp3s in your "standard inputs" preferences, simply selecting all the files and right click to "Rewrite file tags from database should do what you want to.

Note that you will need to have the database enabled and all the files you want to modify will have to be already in the database.

aron

Jan 5 2004, 06:40

QUOTE(mazy @ Dec 31 2003, 06:15 AM)

aron, do you know that i loved your preview / original man's formatting string's look and so i designed my after it.

it is here.

would you try to modify the colors etc?

mazy i'm glad you like it. i didn't know you designed yours after it

sorry it took me some time to reply, by the way.

what would you want modified? i'm not very good yet... i still do a lot by looking at how other peoples' strings work. so i think you might be much better at it than i am. your formatting looks pretty good. i'll need to go home and check it out.

dreamliner77: i dont really think this is the right thread for your questions

ReLiK

Jan 5 2004, 08:00

QUOTE(anza @ Dec 30 2003, 06:39 AM)

QUOTE(ReLiK @ Dec 30 2003, 12:54 AM)

Does anybody know if or when it will be possible to allow separate playlists to have individual formatting styles?

Would love to have a such a feature.

It is already possible. At least upNorth's and my formattings use it (although both use only two formattings, "album" and "single"). It is possible to have as many formatting strings as you want. You'll only have to rename the playlists to have a character or a string that makes foobar use formatting of your choice.

ah yes I see what you mean now. It works a treat. Thanks very much.

edit: does upNorth's formatting allow a track to be placed in 'Single' mode based upon a tag rather than playlist/tab name or directory name? So that if i want certain tracks to be in single mode within a directory the formatting string looks for a field called 'Single', value '1'.

upNorth

Jan 5 2004, 10:47

QUOTE(ReLiK @ Jan 5 2004, 04:00 PM)

edit: does upNorth's formatting allow a track to be placed in 'Single' mode based upon a tag rather than playlist/tab name or directory name? So that if i want certain tracks to be in single mode within a directory the formatting string looks for a field called 'Single', value '1'.

In album mode you can add a singletrack tag to force the display of artist and title. If you want it to display all the info that you would have seen if you had switched to single mode, you can change this line:

CODE

$puts(enable_single_mode_view_for_singles_in_album_mode,0)

into

CODE

$puts(enable_single_mode_view_for_singles_in_album_mode,1)

OT: My system disc is dead, so I'm currently running Knoppix linux from a CD-ROM, hence I don't have access to my files or anything...

ReLiK

Jan 5 2004, 11:47

Wow, I already knew your formatting string code was awesome, but you really have thought of everything. It still manages to make me smile. Truly excellent work.

Dr PerLine

Jan 7 2004, 07:51

Hello, I have been using foobar2000 since the early 0.5 betas and I love it. I stated to mess around with formatting strings over Christmas and this humble formatting string called Blue Tank is the result. I hope you will enjoy it!

Edit: Small Update to Blue Tank

billcow

Jan 7 2004, 14:50

Cripes that's a nice one. I've seen a lot of unique formatting strings, but never one that had support for variable *and* fixed-width fonts. Well, none that use columns anyway.

I gotta post my newest config up there. Been too lazy to do it.

RedDrake

Jan 13 2004, 09:11

Just started mucking around with the scripts for the Playlist/Status Bar last night, and so far i'm really glad i decided to use Foobar instead of the bloat that WinAMP has become (thanks AOL...).

Really quite like the scripting Dr PerLine did for the Playlist, but one quick (i hope) change i'd like to make .... Blue ain't my color, how hard is it to change the color something more my style? ie, Red or Green? From what i can make out of the script it looks to use a fairly simple RGB code. Also which strings need to be changed for what's Blue to be another color?

Thanks In Advance,
RedDrake

Dr PerLine

Jan 13 2004, 12:11

It should be fairly easy for you to change the colours, if you look at the bottom of the playlist edit window you see a change color box, if you click on the [...] you get up a pallet window from which you can select a colour. This the appears in the aforementioned box and this value can then be selected, copied and then pasted over a previous colour. When the colours are in 480000|5E0000 format the first number is the normal colour and the second one is the colour when its selected. If you still having trouble try the help file included, which can be accessed by clicking on help

.

Here's a list of colours with blue in them:

CODE

And here's an alternative colour scheme in red which can be posted over the normal blue one:

CODE

// [ Colours ]

// The colours for various parts of the string
$puts(cl_artist,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_various_artist,8A8A8A|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_album,0000B7|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_title,040097|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_title_playing,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_track_number,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_trackratinghi,FFFFFF|AAAAAA)
$puts(cl_trackratingdim,000078|555555)
$puts(cl_length,0000B7|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_length_playing,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_other_info,7C7C7C|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_lines,909090|909090)
$puts(cl_gain,555555|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_bonus_track,000070|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_brackets,000078|888888)
// The colour of the background followed by the selection colour, used to hide padding of chars in variable font mode
$puts(cl_background_then_select,00004F|00006C)
$puts(cl_playlist_number,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)
$puts(cl_playlist_number_dim,03006F|666666)
$puts(cl_track_number_dim,03006F|666666)

And a red status bar:

CODE

// [ Colours ]

$puts(cl_progress,000093)
$puts(cl_progressback,000009)
$puts(cl_text,000000)
$puts(cl_length,0000B7)

And uses the folowing other colours:

Playlist background: rgb(79,0,0)
playlist selection: rgb(108,0,0)
selection frame: rgb(128,0,0)

Hope this helps,

RedDrake

Jan 13 2004, 13:28

Thanks Mate! Very great help as i wasn't fully sure which color codes went to what. About the last thing i wanted to do was sit here with Notepad swappin' colors out to see which value changed what! =)

Much Obliged for the timely assisstance, Here's to the long *FUN* hours of Coding/Scripting (or learning it, however the cookie crumbles!)

RedDrake

Zoominee

Jan 13 2004, 17:30

Hi People! This thread is really full of ideas, thanks!

Here's two questions:

1) Can I get the File size info from the file info box into the playlist? It's not called %__filesize% or %__file_size%, I tried that.

2) Using <tab> for the columns, is there any way I can specify widths for the columns? Someone earlier on mentioned using several <tab>s to make the columns wider, but there must be a better way?

Since everyone is sharing their playlist formats here, have a look at mine. Sorry, I can't make a screenshot. I use variable-width font (the default font).

My playlist shows artist on the left column, then album name and year in the middle, and tracknumber, title in the next column. On the right it shows the time, or when it's playing also sometimes the time remaining. If the track is classical (i.e. if genre=Classical) then it also makes a column for performance artist and year (which are two more tags). (So for classical files there are five columns, and for other music there are four columns, which looks a bit funny if you have them both in one playlist but i like it this way.) My background colour is almost black, and the highlight colour is dark grey.

EDIT: Sorry, the tabs didn't show. I'll put $char(9) where they are.

QUOTE

// colours
$puts(darkred,202070|2F8FFF)$puts(verydarkred,000070|2F8FFF)$puts(brightred,0000FF|2F8FFF)
$puts(yellow,00FFFF|2F8FFF)
$puts(lightblue,FFEE30|2F8FFF)$puts(paleblue,888830|2F8FFF)
$puts(greenish,208020|2F8FFF)
$puts(white,FFFFFF|2F8FFF)

// check if all standard tags are present
$if($and($and(%title%,$not($strcmp(%title%,))),$and(%artist%,$not($strcmp(%artist%,)))),
$puts(alltags,1),)

$if($get(alltags),
// formatting for files with tags:

// 'album' formatting
$puts(year,%date%)
$if(($strcmp($get(year),)),$puts(year,%year%))
$if($not($get(year)),$puts(year,'(year?)'),$puts(year,'('$get(year)')'))
$puts(album,$get(year)' '%album%[ - CD$num(%disc%,1)]
)

//if 'album artist' tag is present
$if(%album artist%,
// set 'artist' to VA for VA albums, and to 'album artist' otherwise:
$if($get(va),$puts(artist,VA),$puts(artist,%album artist%))
//if 'artist' is different from 'album artist', append the former to the title
$if($strcmp(%album artist%,%artist%),$puts(title,%title%),
$puts(title,%title% '//' %artist%)),
//no 'album artist' found
$puts(artist,%artist%)
$puts(title,%title%)
$puts(tracknum,[$num(%tracknumber%,$if($greater(%tracknumber%,9),2,1))])
$if($strcmp($get(tracknum),'0'),$puts(tracknum,),$puts(tracknum,$get(tracknum)' '))
)

// formatting for files without all the tags:
,
$if(%title%,
$puts(title,%title%)$if(%artist%,$puts(artist,%artist%)),
$puts(artist,%_path%)$puts(title,%_filename%))
$if($strcmp($get(artist),),$puts(artist,$get(white)$get(title))$puts(title,))

)

//$num(%_playlist_number%,$len(%_playlist_total%)).' '

$get(darkred)[$get(artist)]
$char(9)
$get(yellow)[$get(album)]
$char(9)
$get(verydarkred)[$get(tracknum)]
$puts(title,$replace(%title%,'(',$get(paleblue)'(',')',')'$get(lightblue)))
$get(lightblue)[$get(title)]
$char(9)
$if($strcmp(%genre%,'Classical'),$get(greenish)['('%performance_year%')' %performance_artist%$char(9)])

$if(%_isplaying%,$get(brightred)'> ')
$if(%_isplaying%,
// blink elapsed/total
$get(brightred)$if($greater($mod(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,10),5),%_time_remaining%,%_time_elapsed%)
,$get(white)[%_length%])
$if(%_isplaying%,$get(brightred)' <')

For the Status bar text I have this:

QUOTE

$puts(ext,$upper($if2($ext(%__referenced_file%),$ext(%_path%))))
$puts(codec,$if(%__codec%,$caps2(%__codec%),$get(ext)))
$if($strcmp($get(codec),),
$if($stricmp($left(%_path_raw%,7),'cdda://'),$puts(codec,CDDA),)
,)
$if($strcmp(%genre%,'Classical'),000070' '[%artist%' - '][%title%][' ('%album%')'],
000070' '[%artist%' - ']%title%)$char(9)

00FFFF
$get(codec)' '
[%__bitrate%kbps ]['('%__bitrate_dynamic%kbps')' ][%__samplerate%Hz]' '
$if(%__channels%,$ifgreater(%__channels%,2,%__channels%ch,$ifgreater(%__channels%,1,stereo,mono)),)
[ %__extrainfo%]$char(9)
005000$if2(%__replaygain_album_gain%,
000000
$if($greater($mod(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,2),0),,
'R?'))
' '
000000$if(%_time_total%,[%_time_elapsed%]'/'[%_time_total%],[%_time_elapsed%])

Have a nice day.

mazy

Jan 14 2004, 15:20

hello zoominee.

1) afaik, it's not available (only number of samples is, which can be used for approximate size)

2) i would like exact explanation on that myself ... for example i have found that $char(9) isn't exactly like $tab(). as for columns, you can make columns with their width proportional to ratio of number of $char(9) used ...

for example, consider this example:

column 1 text $repeat($char(9), 10)column 2 text $repeat($char(9), 10)column 3 text $repeat($char(9), 20)

columns have 'width' of 10, 10 and 20, meaning that total width of the first two is the same width of the third (10 + 10 = 20)

you would get the same results using widths with that ratio, for example widths of 20, 20 and 40.

problem is, that you probably want your last column to be right-aligned (so you won't have any $char(9) after it). that could affect the ratio ...

dewey1973

Jan 27 2004, 18:31

Does anyone have a new link to TAGZ.txt? The one in the beginning of the thread is dead.

upNorth

Jan 27 2004, 19:29

I uploaded it for someone a while ago. You can find it here: TAGZ.txt

dewey1973

Jan 28 2004, 14:09

QUOTE(upNorth @ Jan 27 2004, 06:29 PM)

I uploaded it for someone a while ago. You can find it here: TAGZ.txt

Thank You!

gizmo

Feb 4 2004, 21:20

anybody know how to make "OST (xxxx) bla bla bla" album like in "VA - (xxxx) bla bla bla" as various artist????

NEMO7538

Feb 4 2004, 23:18

This is my favorite playlist format.

Works with a dark backgroud, eg RGB (64,0,64)
Works with any kind of font (Variable of fixed width)
Recognizes VA albums by testing if the artist is included in the file path (so no need for special VA tagging)
Formatting (single view or full album view) is driven by testing if # is included in the playlist name
Works best with Tahoma Bold 7pt, with window sized to 1/4 of a 1024 x 768 screen
Also included is the support for radio streaming

Enjoy !

CODE

// Set Colors
//
$puts(ColNumber,$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|00FFFF,003AB3|FFFFFF))
$puts(ColArtist,$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|00FFFF,98CBCB|98CBCB))
$puts(ColDate,$if(%_isplaying%,4080FF|4080FF,7796C8|7796C8))
$puts(ColAlbum,$if(%_isplaying%,00FF80|00FF80,35CAA9|35CAA9))
$puts(ColTrack,$if(%_isplaying%,FFFFFF|FFFFFF,006BD7|FFFFFF))
$puts(ColTitle,$if(%_isplaying%,FFFF80|FFFF80,D1C4AD|D1C4AD))
$puts(ColTime,$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|00FFFF,006BD7|FFFFFF))
$puts(ColBitrate,$if(%_isplaying%,FFFFFF|FFFFFF,003AB3|FFFFFF))

$puts(ColBegMark,460170|460170)
$puts(ColEndMark,$if(%_isplaying%,00FFFF|0000FF,00FFFF|0000FF))
$puts(ColEndLine,FFD7D7|FFD7D7)

$puts(Fill1,$transition($repeat(_,20),$get(ColBegMark),$get(ColEndMark)))
$puts(Fill2,$transition($repeat(_,40),$get(ColEndMark),$get(ColBegMark)))

//

$get(ColNumber)$num(%_playlist_number%,$len(%_playlist_total%))$get(ColEndLine)

$if(%tracknumber%,

$if($strcmp($strstr(%_playlist_name%,#),0),

//album view

$if($strcmp($strstr($directory(%_path%,1),%artist%),1),
//Single artist
$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),1),$get(ColArtist)%artist%$get(Fill1)
,$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),2),$get(ColDate)'['%date%']'
,$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),3),$get(ColAlbum)%album%,
))),
//Various artist
$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),1),$get(ColAlbum)%album%$get(Fill1)
,$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),2),$get(ColDate)'['%date%']'
))
)

$tab(8)$get(ColEndLine) $get(ColTrack)$num(%tracknumber%,2).
$if($strcmp($strstr($directory(%_path%,1),%artist%),1),,$get(ColArtist)%artist%
$get(ColTrack) ¤ )

$get(ColTitle)%title%
$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),1),$get(Fill2), )
$tab(14)
,

//singles view

$if($strcmp($strstr($directory(%_path%,1),%artist%),1),
//Single artist
$get(ColArtist)%artist%
$if(%_isplaying%,$get(Fill1),)
$tab(9)
$get(ColEndLine) $get(ColAlbum)%album%
$if(%_isplaying%,$get(Fill1),)
$tab(11)
$get(ColEndLine) $get(ColTrack)$num(%tracknumber%,2).
,
//Various artist
$get(ColAlbum)%album%
$if(%_isplaying%,$get(Fill1),)
$tab(9)
$get(ColEndLine) $get(ColTrack)$num(%tracknumber%,2).
$get(ColArtist)%artist%
$tab(11)
$get(ColEndLine) )
$get(ColTitle)%title%
$tab(16)
)

// Length and Bitrate
$char(9)
$if(%_isplaying%,$transition(>>>>>>>,$get(ColBegMark),$get(ColEndMark)),)
$get(ColEndLine) $get(ColTime)$pad_right([%_length%],5,0)
$get(ColEndLine) $get(ColBitRate)%__bitrate%k

,$get(Colalbum)%_path%$char(9)$get(ColTitle)[%title%])

mai9

Feb 5 2004, 06:15

Nice playlist NEMO7538! will you add it to http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/index.php ?

one question: wouldn't you prefer to use this character "¯" than this "_" for album separator?

vip

Feb 5 2004, 06:58

looks awesome nemo, but i have a question .. for a majority of my playlist, it looks correct, but for others it looks like this http://www.destroyed.us/images/fb2kpl.png

any idea what's going on ??

upNorth

Feb 5 2004, 07:35

QUOTE(vip @ Feb 5 2004, 02:58 PM)

looks awesome nemo, but i have a question .. for a majority of my playlist, it looks correct, but for others it looks like this http://www.destroyed.us/images/fb2kpl.png

any idea what's going on ??

You just need to tag those files

vip

Feb 5 2004, 08:02

QUOTE(upNorth @ Feb 5 2004, 05:35 AM)

QUOTE(vip @ Feb 5 2004, 02:58 PM)

looks awesome nemo, but i have a question .. for a majority of my playlist, it looks correct, but for others it looks like this http://www.destroyed.us/images/fb2kpl.png

any idea what's going on ??

You just need to tag those files

that's what I though, but they are tagged :l

mai9

Feb 5 2004, 11:17

QUOTE(vip @ Feb 5 2004, 03:02 PM)

QUOTE(upNorth @ Feb 5 2004, 05:35 AM)

QUOTE(vip @ Feb 5 2004, 02:58 PM)

looks awesome nemo, but i have a question .. for a majority of my playlist, it looks correct, but for others it looks like this http://www.destroyed.us/images/fb2kpl.png

any idea what's going on ??

You just need to tag those files

that's what I though, but they are tagged :l

it happens here aswell, but even weirder

another shot

trooper

Feb 5 2004, 11:56

Hello, I have been lurking here for some time now, and have finally gotten to the point of needing assistance.

I have known of foobar2000 for some time and use it at home as well as work for my default player(why would anyone use anythng else?). I have only recently looked into customizing the screen/toolbars/etc. That of course has led me here as well as http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/index.php . Now for the n00bie questions I'm hoping to get answered.

1. I want to create my own .fb2k files that will work with the foo_syfm.dll add-in. I've tried using other peoples code in Notepad and editing to my needs. However after I save it and try to use it, foobar blows up and shuts down. Is there a preferred editing method? Does the .fb2k file need to be compiled?

2. I'm having a problem with the examples that I dl'd from pelit.koillismaa.fi . A good example is the foobarXP.fb2k config file. I get ??? instead of dots. Now I've read the help, but I'm not using Opera or any other browser. Straight IE6.0. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

3. I do have some programming backround, but was wondering if there are any guides either here or elsewhere for this stuff? Or is it merelt trial & error? (which is fine)

Thanks in advance. I'm sure I'll have more questions....

amppa

Feb 5 2004, 12:36

QUOTE(trooper @ Feb 5 2004, 07:56 PM)

Hello, I have been lurking here for some time now, and have finally gotten to the point of needing assistance.

I have known of foobar2000 for some time and use it at home as well as work for my default player(why would anyone use anythng else?). I have only recently looked into customizing the screen/toolbars/etc. That of course has led me here as well as http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/index.php . Now for the n00bie questions I'm hoping to get answered.

1. I want to create my own .fb2k files that will work with the foo_syfm.dll add-in. I've tried using other peoples code in Notepad and editing to my needs. However after I save it and try to use it, foobar blows up and shuts down. Is there a preferred editing method? Does the .fb2k file need to be compiled?

2. I'm having a problem with the examples that I dl'd from pelit.koillismaa.fi . A good example is the foobarXP.fb2k config file. I get ??? instead of dots. Now I've read the help, but I'm not using Opera or any other browser. Straight IE6.0. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

3. I do have some programming backround, but was wondering if there are any guides either here or elsewhere for this stuff? Or is it merelt trial & error? (which is fine)

Thanks in advance. I'm sure I'll have more questions....

I guess I should answer this..

1) You should use the foo_syfm and load them to you foobar, and edit there (preferences->display->title formatting). Direct .fb2k editing fails because there are variables telling the string length at the beginning of the file, and you can't edit those by hand (well, would be cumbersome at least).

2) Are you using the suggested font? If so, you probably are using windows 9x with no unicode support (and a formatting with unicode). Your only choice here would be changing those unicode letters to something else.

The browser instructions you have been reading were for formatting string maintainers, the page for "normal" user instructions is http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/index.php?ac=i

3) I don't know of any.