Thanks to the awesome TAGZ library, awesome stuff is possible. I can make song titles look the way I want.

This is what I want:

automatic title formatting based on the amount of data available.


Which basically means I start with the following:
if (album is by various artists)
%album% [Disc %discnumber% ]%tracknumber% / %artist% / %title%[ - %version%]
else
[%artist% / ][%album%[ [Disc %discnumber% ]%tracknumber%] / ])%title%[ - %version%]

if (album name is longer than 20 characters)
$abbr(%album%,20) instead of just %album% and so on.

to pad tracknumbers with zeroes
$tracknumber%()

if artist differs from performer
$if2(%performer%,%artist%)

if title is unknown
if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%)

which ultimately gives me:

Tell me what you think, please. I'd love to see other people's strings too. : )

edit: updated string to work on recent versions of foobar2000, minor additions too.
Hey folks, use QUOTE instead of CODE for formatting strings, please. CODE can cause display problems for other people.

edit2: I've since switched to this:

Ok, I got mine ready thanks to some help from you people, and I´m sure, one of these days I´ll be able to toggle different formats with my number keys ;-)
I´m too lazy to put comments on the string, just copy/paste and try yourself, feed it a couple of folders and you´ll see!! My background is black and my selection bar is yellow.

This is what I currently use. Haven't had time to had l33t coloring or anything though.. (I'm hoping to see italics/bold/underline formatting sometime in the future )



I also think it would be cool if some sort of functionality would be added to the Tagz stuff to where you could even script conditional entries in the playlist. For example, some of the cd's I have contain "subsongs" within a track, which are delineated by subindices. Since Ape2 (yes, I use MPC almost exclusively for my audio library, although the idea could easily work with Vorbis comments) defines an "index" tag, it would be cool if you could script something in tagz to where it would scan the index tag, and per entry, you could add a new playlist item.

Say:



on the playlist it could look like:



I think this sort of functionality could have all kinds of other potential uses as well.

At any rate, I think this Tagz stuff is great... definitely one of fb2k's killer features :B

Btw.. I edited the first 2 posts so that the display would wrap correctly

If you guys want to use a monospace font then just do a quote block but with [ font = courier ] (without spaces) inside the quote block, then end the font tag before closing the quote. It makes it much more pleasant to read the thread when it wraps properly

The scheme gives a nice, not-entirely-saturated rainbow color going from left to right. The specialized fields I used are 'featuring', for featured artists (I'll expand it to include other things, possibly, like 'presented by'), 'subtitle', for the bracketed part of a track title, and 'version' for the mix name for electronic stuff (like "[Maas Remix]") The other bit is that all the symbols that aren't part of the field are black, so you can see exactly where the fields begin and end.

On a side note, when ClearType is enabled and the Trebuchet MS Bold font is used, FB2K is not displaying the right side of some characters.

@Dibrom: When you add an index, does FB2K treat the different sections as subtracks the way it does with ZIPs? Or is this just a feature request?

$num(%_playlist_number%,2). [$padcut(%artist%,30) - ]$if(%title%,$padcut(%title%,40)808080 - [$padcut('['$if(%tracknumber%,Track[ #[%disc%/]$num(%tracknumber%,2) ],)from %album%'] ',45)] [- $padcut($if(%__replaygain_album_gain%,FF0080%__replaygain_album_gain%,A00000%__replaygain_track_gain%),19)800080 $num(%__bitrate%,3)kbps ][$num(%__samplerate%,5)Hz][ - %comment%],%filename%)

here is my string (use Courier New or some other fixed width font):



it looks something like this:

<link removed>

basically it does playist # (padded to 4 characters... for now), then %artist% (or "Unknown Artist"), then %title% (or filename), then %tracknumber%, or null, then %album% (or "Unknown Album"), then genre (or null)

personally i think this is good because i can resize the window to a fairly small size, and still have artist and title, or make the window bigger and see useful information...

also for this screenshot, here is the status bar:

and here is the title bar and system tray tooltip: (same thing)

they are pretty self explanatory... artist if it exists, then title, or filename if there is no title.

EDIT: changed "%filename%" to "%_filename%"
EDIT 2: added bit about using a fixed width font

Here is my Playlist string:


Album in blue and Track number in red.
Still working with the strings, so maybe I get a few hints here.

B)

I don't think it does anything with the index tag.. so yeah, it's a feature request, though I'm not requesting a feature based implicitly on the index tag, but moreso a generalized ability to script conditional playlist entries. This could be used for many things really.. the index thing just happens to be one of them.

Playlist font: ProFontWindows Size 7,
Text color RGB: 219, 219, 219,
Background: black,
Selection color: RGB: 83, 83, 83

That's it. I like it

EDIT:
My new string:

The code is a bit messy, due to my tweaking, but it gets the job done.

Tweaked and changed code samples from this topic to fit my needs.
Thank you all I used code from



EDIT:

Link to Screenshot

I like it simple...:



Screenshot

Regards, fileman.

<rant>This thread is bloody hard to read, are the forum's markup facilities that hard to understand?</rant>

I seldom use foobar, but I found the default display schemes too confusing even for occasional use.

In the playlist, I just like to have artist and title because anything else wouldn't make sense when I have my whole collection (which doesn't only consist of complete albums) loaded.

Playlist:



System tray tooltip:



File info display: default


Status bar (this one's really good IMHO):



Window title:


This is what it looks like.

Sorry for the line breaks in the [CODE ] elements, but that was the only way to preserve all the whitespace (it gets stripped out when put inside a [QUOTE ] or the normal post area).

[EDIT] Wow spase, you've just given me a great idea. I had never thought about mimicking columns like that, that of course would be the optimal solution! [/EDIT]

glad i could help :-)

Foobar2000 really needs a new script language with support for variables. It's a pain of in the ass to make "dynamic format strings" with the current script language. Just look at the complexity of the script code needed for determining if an artist/song/album should use %original-language-xxx% or just %xxx% :

Gee, this is great! This made me realise how good foobar2000 actually is, I'm really starting to like it now.

I think this is much improved compared to the minimalist scheme I posted above (because, as spase pointed out, it can just be turned into an ordinary "Artist - Title" display if you resize the window).

Scheme used:


Thanks again for the "inspiration".


The only thing I miss is a function that displays the values passed to it only if *all* of them exist, not just one (which [] does), badly tagged or tagless files could be handled better then.

I leave the thing the way it is... "factory" default.

I tried the above to make my playlist number only in courier. How could you do this with the below string?

$num(%_playlist_number%,2). $if(%artist%,%artist% - %title%,%_filename%)

He was talking about forum functions, not foobar2000

This thread is excellent, thanks for the many idea's.

But!

Looking at Spase's screenshot I see all the column's are lined up, justified to the left. When I cut and paste the string into my Foobar, only the first two column's are .. what am I missing?

You've got to use a fixed-width font such as Lucida Console or Courier New for it to work properly.

Ofcourse. D'oh!

Thanks.

Well, for what its worth, I only use a simple %artist% - %title% for the playlist. But for the status bar I use



I like it because the separators make it clear, and they're only displayed if they're available.

This page is really wide because of some [code]s, better put long code in [quote] maybe everybody .
Anyway, useful thread!

:angry: ..... it seems that you (SK1) have a serious problem, I suggest that you visit you psychiatrist before posting a link to porn :angry:

Edit: Please don't make links to that. While this may not be the HA forum and the rules are more lax here, this doesn't give you license to link to anything you want. That link was not appropriate for the forum, and had nothing to do with HA or Foobar2000. Remember what we were talking about on IRC... --TrN

http://www.bonustrack.net/images/foros/foobar.png

If the Track have replaygain album i show the * if not i dont show anything.

sorry my english

Sure thing.
bigahoona, remember to read the warning on pages first they do have a warning.

I suppose you find yourself very funny……….. your link hasn’t any kind of warning….
so, visit porn if you like but stop bother others with this crap
that’s all I have to say

here is my string:

Playlist:


System tray tooltip:


Status bar:


Window title:

I'm extremely sorry this has offended you. It was meant as a joke. And that page does have a warning, you can check it out again if you missed it, it's in big letters on top of the page.
By the way, here's the definition of porn by babylon.com:
n. literature or pictures describing sexual acts and intended to cause sexual arousal (Slang)
adj. pornographic, showing or describing sexual acts and intended to cause sexual arousal (Slang)
That page shows no -sexual- act, and definately causes no sexual arousal. So it definately isn't porn.
Anyway, sorry for any discomfort this has caused you, i will not make such jokes again .

playlist:
which looks like this:

Just some colours that i'm used to looking at (from mutt, irssi...). I didn't bother with conditional operators, it's ugly enough as it is.

I've got the fields displayed in this order so I can sort by display name.



font: franklyn gothic medium
playlist text colour: white
playlist background colour: black
playlist selection colour: grey or white

mafe: what font are you using?

Everson Mono Latin

http://www.dafont.com/en/search.php?nq=1&q...Latin&Submit=Go

Thanks..

I always tell others about how simple I like my Foobar2000, maybe now I can show you:


The strings are all default except for the following two:

File info Display:
Window title:
voltron

I don't know if anyone else has, but I also realised today you can get a proper line separating those column things with this character (instead of "|" ):



It won't look right in title formatting but will when displayed.

edit: i can't get the forum to display it properly, but you can get it from ms word 2002, press 2502 followed by Alt+X. Or you could hold Alt and press 9474, but it will only work in word it seems. Then copy&paste to foobar title formatting.

Cheers Musicmusic, you've helped once again!!

I had been trying to remember my old Alt+ascii codes from my years ago BASIC programming days when a working knowledge of such codes was required info for creating title screens and menu boxes etc., but they didn't seem to work in the modern game.... the old 9474 cut/paste however has sharpened up my foobar playlistage considerably,

Yep, few potential delimiters can be found in 'character map' for any particular font.
For 'courier new' it could be: ░ or ║ or ╬ as well.

9553 is the business. My ignorance astounds, I assumed that the character map was left for dead with Win98, and its been there all the time (in XP) in my accessories/system tools folder,

cheers,

Inspired by your work :



Noob question : where can i find associated code for colors ?

You can find colors code just in the same window where you format your strings...
just in the bottom of the windows, there's a color code generator...

i did not even notice that either.. well word does the same thing anyway

This is my setup - it is very similar to default, and I use these colors because they are one inverted to other:

Font: Tahoma; Playlist text color: 808080

This is updated for 0.5 b14 which handles it a bit different.

Updated strings for b14, try this!

PL:


Status bar:


Window title:


Thanks to them from whom I took some ideas.

Hey, I guess you took ideas from my status bar for yours then

Anyway, I've got a new string (b14) now (im guessing the forum will mess up some of the characters):

playlist


tooltip, window title,


file info


statusbar


Playlist font: Monofur point 8

Playlist text colour: 202,202,202

Pl background: 55,56,65

selection: 148,149,163

item frame: 205,205,205


The idea behind the playlist string is when foobar is in normal size (not maximised) it will display artist, title, album, length. but when its maximised it will display everything else, i find it very useful!

edit: where thers a &#9474 it needs replacig as describe earlier in this thread

I myself got a little title formatting...
(It's the basic one + some colours and less controls because I always check my music tags so there won't be any error...)




As you can see, that's a very simple but usefull title formatting for the playlist...

I've also modified the system tray a little :


Just try it !

it uses both selected item colors and playing item colors...

I use 216 - 217 - 222 for playlist selection color...

Ok I just love the basic scripts, so here's what I created to suit my needs!



Let me know if anything is screwed up with it on other systems, also is their a way to right justify the track length tag?

Also is their a way to set the number of character padding, by using the window size of foobar? Then I could modify it to look the same on all systems!