I like the option to scroll the window title in Winamp. So I wrote the following code to do something similar in foobar2000:

$puts(t,[%artist% - ][%tracknumber% - ]%title%$if(%artist%, *** ,))
$puts(l,$len($get(t)))
$puts(n,$mod($mul(%playback_time_seconds%, 3),$get(l)))
$trim(
$if(%ispaused%,$replace($get(t), *** ,' [Paused]'),
$right($get(t),$sub($len($get(t)), $get(n)))
$left($get(t), $get(n))
))

Feel free to use this script, but it has several shortcomings, and I was wondering if there was any way around them.

1) I couldn't find a way to change how often the window title is updated. Is there a way to do this?
2) It relies on %playback_time_seconds%, so the title won't scroll when foobar is paused. Is there another variable I could use, or is there a way to store 'static' variables that persist over different evaluations of the script?

Thanks in advance for your help.

do you mean like scrolling it more, or less, than once every second? you can use the $mod() function to make the scrollbar slower, but unfortunately once a second is the fastest you'll get it to scroll with time elapsed seconds. You *may* be able to script something that involves a VBR MP3's bitrate, as the bitrates can be updated more than once a second; it works nicely with my garble script.

as for scrolling when its paused, I dont think its possible. cwb_hooks has a var to get the systemtime, but i dont think that works when the track is paused. If it does, then you can use that. If it doesnt, I think thats the closest you can get, sorry.

Edit - heres my scrolling script for trackinfo_mod:



yours is a little nicer looking. I might edit mine to make it a little better looking.

I wanted it to scroll more often, maybe 3 times a second, so I could take out the $mul(%playback_time_seconds%, 3) and make it a little smoother. But I couldn't get the %bitrate% trick to work. Thanks for the tip though. Oh well, it's not too bad as it is and it pretty much does what I want.