Wow. Thanks fooruncle!

I NEVER would have thought of clicking on that little icon in a million years!

I'm with you, it should be in the fonts page in preferences where it belongs because, well, it's a font setting!

since the new 0.9.5 betas, the option to hide keyboard shortcuts in the menus, seems to be gone.
used to be under preferences/display.

I don't know whether this is a regression, since I haven't tried this with previous versions (or whether it is a bug at all). With version 0.9.5 beta 8, when I try to remove metadata associated with audio CD tracks using the "Remove tags from files(s)" command in the context menu, I get errors like Could not remove tags (Invalid path) from:
"cdda://01397A2E,01". The audio CD is still in the drive (and playable).

Are other people having this problem? Is this menu item not intended to work with audio CDs at all?

I'm using group headers for my playlist. They show Artist, Date, Album and Codec. Is it possible that if I have an album with various artists that the header says Various Artists rather than splitting the album up into several groups?

Set the "Album Artist" tag of such albums to "Various Artists".

Still the same in b8, this can be easiest tested right after startup.

this is great.

but i have one little request: it would be nice if i could hide the column headers in the playlist.

Fixed in beta 8-- Thanks!

Mark

Actually, That still happens here with beta8. Not that it matters, though.

I use foobar2000 with foo_playlist_tree.dll component.
With playlist_tree I create random queries by using $rand() function in "Population Order" field.
When I use command "Refresh Queries" I get new random list of songs.
Last working version for creating this queries is 0.95 beta6.
Now command "Refresh Queries" not work in 0.95 beta7 and 0.95 beta8.

For queries without using $rand() function command "Refresh Queries" work normal in last beta.

I use last version of foo_playlist_tree.dll.

Yeah, the $rand() function apparently got removed in Beta 7. There's a short discussion of this at: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=59707

FB2K 0.9.5 has some great features - seems like a huge jump forward from 0.9.4.*, which was already a really good base.

There is, as is traditional, just one little thing that bugs me - in 0.9.4.*, the progress slider in the toolbar can get input focus. This means that I can scan through a series of tracks using just the cursor keys and Return, since left/right will jump the play position forwards and backwards. I use this an enormous amount to check for glitches in CD rips and it saves a lot of time. In 0.9.5 beta 8, I have to wave the mouse around trying to jump through the track by clicking along the progress bar.

Any chance of getting left/right to skip forwards and backwards through the track, probably by some percentage of total track length? Then 0.9.5 would be my new best friend

Preferences -> General -> Keyboard Shortcuts
'Seek back by XY seconds' and 'Seek ahead by XY seconds' for left and right key?
Where XY may be 1 second, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes

I'm talking to myself now...

Finding that "Ctrl+A" didn't work either, I had a look around the preferences and realised that a bunch of the keyboard shortcuts I'd previously taken for granted weren't defined. Using those, it's possible to set up all kinds of seek actions with the left/right keys. Could be neat to have a percentage-based seek option there too, but there's certainly no regression in functionality with the previous release as it stands.

So, new best friend it is, then!

(Post script - spotted bimbel's reply once I submitted the above - yes, that's the trick, many thanks).

Can you please make the Preferences window open center screen instead of the top left corner. Thanks!

i noticed that in the beta 8 the Album Art is no longer blinking[probably loading] when i select other tracks from the same playlist, thanks:D

Is Random (in the playback order listbox) working properly in beta 8? It's now behaving the same as Default for me. In prior versions, if I set Random and hit the key I have associated with Next track, it would go to a random track. Now it goes to the next track in the playlist. Shuffle (tracks) seems to be functioning properly.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to use $rand()

Doesn' t work for me either.

foobar2000 FAQ

Bind the "Random-button" instead.

Why does the behavior described in the FAQ make any sense? Isn't the idea of Random order that the order is random and that the next track will be played at random? In other modes, the Next command goes to the next track indicated by the Order listbox.

A couple of remarks/questions:

- It appears that tracks are added to playlists unsorted (using Send to Playlist from the Album List). Only autoplaylists use the sorting string in Preferences > General > Sort incoming files by...

- When using Shuffle Albums, albums by Various Artists will play only one track and then jump to another album (or do I need to fill in Album Artist for this to work correctly?). It would be nice if Shuffle Albums would play tracks according to the way the playlist is grouped.

- Is it possible to create a 'tab' or a different alignment in the Grouping string? I'd like to have a divider like this:
Artist - Album (Date) [aligned left] --------- Codec / Bitrate [aligned right]

- Is it possible to exclude articles and other small words (a, the, and, on, in, from, etc.) from the Capitalize option? A configurable option in Preferences would be great for this function.

Concerning random order & next track action I'd like to request revival of action "Next/Random Track (Based on playback order)".

I think it has been requested already but I would like to add my voice to request a more customizable grouping headers in playlist view, and in other places in general (metadata properties).
Is it impossible to show text in a given panel with 2 different font faces with current architecture? If showing more than one font face at the same time it would be nice at least being able to customize background color, format (bold, cursive, ALL CAPS) and point size.
Also the grouping headers background does not change colour when you click on them and stay selected, they only get framed around. A different background color state for the headers when selected and frame the whole playlist instead of just the header would be much more visually clear to represent the whole playlist or group as being selected.

This is a little graphical mockup of what I'm talking about:



compared to how it looks in reality:

Autoplaylist item create with album list (with always sorted) are sort using "sort incoming files by" but doesn't remember it. am i correct?

If it is, it's a shame cause you cannot create multiple Autoplaylists with different auto sort string.

Converter + DSP bug!?

When I use the converter to create mp3 or m4a the cmdline-program (lame.exe, neroaacenc.exe) gets high cpu priority if the DSP-processing is enabled and SSRC or SRC resampler ist used. This nearly stops your PC.
If PPHS is used instead the priority of lame.exe is correct (lower than normal).
Bug or feature? (I'm using beta 8 + XP, but seems to exist also in older versions.)

Hi, using Foobar2000 v0.9.5.beta8. Did a search of this thread and the Foobar 2000 forum using the word disappear. Looked up and down My Foobar settings. Checked the F.A.Q. When tagging using the FreeDB context menu, files disappear. After scanning directories, files will appear and are properly tagged. Is this the way tagging is suppose to work in Foobar2000?
Thanks.

cheers,
herefornow

You mean files disappear from playlist? Are you using foo_dirwatch?

Might be Facet related? I think that after doing things. Like applying RG or renaming files or tagging them Facet reloads everything and whatever is marked in Facet will appear in the playlist. That is very annoying if you just put a new folder in your library but haven't reloaded the Media Library.

Likewise, if it's an Autoplaylist, changing the tags could well result in the disappearance of files from that playlist (since the files may no longer meet the criteria that generated the playlist in the first place).

Yes I am using foo dirwatch. Thought this component might fix this problem. Don't remember Foobar2000 ever doing this until the .9xx branch.

cheers,
herefornow

I am wondering, when will the 256*256 foobar2000 icon come back?

it has been appeared in the pervious beta version of v0.9.5.


thanks

Thanks for b9. The 256x256 icon is back! I'm not on Vista, but use rocketdock, which likes huge icons...

The speed to convert files is faster than ever in beta 9. Thank you, the fb2k dev team.

??? I doubt there were changes and additionally conversion speed is mainly a matter of the encoder speed, and a bit a matter of decoding the source speed.

Oops.....I don't have technical material. Sorry for any imprecise information.

Help the n00b!
How to resize this?! I can't drag it... And how I can insert splitters like Columns UI?

The problem seems gone in b9, good work guys.

hi - I am running the latest beta 9 and without properly testing but noticed 1 or 2 betas ago the album list component is running like a dog for me...

I have a music collection approx 500gb but the context menus even struggle to come up the memory footprint spikes to 120+ mb or RAM, this was not the case in earlier versions and renders the component un usable

it slow up happens ad soon as i right click > now I struggle to clear / scan my dead entries and I recently redid my folder structure the component is lagging badly... not sure what info you need form me troubleshooting wise.. its worked fine in the past I have xp sp2 (latest updates) p4 2.8ghz + 2gb ram should run smooth...

when i minize foobar to tray the memory footprint goes to 1mb.. just seems to be the album list not liking me...

Hi,
you need to be in Layout Edition Mode. Go to View -> Layout -> Enable Layout Editing Mode. You can resize the panels there. To Insert Splitters, Right click the panel you want to put a splitter into, then click Replace UI Element, then one of the first few options will be Left/Right or Top/Bottom splitters.

Hope that helps.

Yes, there's gotta be something wrong with Album List. I have rather small music collection, 186 GB, and Album List freezes Foobar for minutes everytime I try to do something with it.

EDIT: Ok, only View by folder structure does this.

ok yes to clairfy this only happens in view by folder...

I am also using foo_dirwatch > even with dir watchh disabled its still painfully slow and often results in nothing happening other then a screen refresh of the albumlist window... please advise what extra info you require to fix the problem

also in my media library I have 2 directories...
c:\music and f:\music

not sure if that helps

also when viewing by other "views" the right click functionality is really quick and usable and switching between tabs is also faster.. it was extra slow before

hope it gets fixed otherwise I don't use the component in any other mode but by folder list.

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also can the selection properties component please be updated to allow inline editing, I think this would be an awesome feature and quite intuitive if implemented nicely.. the fact that you can click in a field and get the typing cursor (not sure of correct name) makes you think you can type something in after you double click an entry when in fact nothing changes

we would also need to asume or decide that this is only possible for meta data and not location or general...

Album List's folder view will be made faster in the next version, thanks for reporting the issue.

thanks Peter, any idea what changed in the most recent versions to "provoke" this slow down? perhaps something similar to the decoder/encoder performance issues we saw when the project was moved to the latest visual studio?

thanks again > foobar community is the best, where else can I report a bug/issue and have it acknowledged by the dev and have something done about it my hats off to your sir - happy new year make sure you have your share of drinks - we can all wait until the new year for the next beta

Ugh. Using right-click here is really conter-intuitive for me. I spent few days to find this message and realize that I could do all this nice things in properties dialog. Well, this may be pretty good way to go, but there should be hint in a dialog, that you could use right-click. Or a lot of users will miss, I guess.

Btw, one more feature request - could "Next track", "Previous track" buttons be added to properties dialog? It is usual for me to go through album's tracks and see is everything fine. And it is boring to do without ability to view properties for next/previous track.

Please see this topic. Such buttons are most likely not going to be added.

Aha, thanks for pointing to!

But, I was unable to imagine what I should do to perform such task. So, again, UI is very non-intuitive. There definitely should be a hint that this is possible. At first glance "Properties" dialog look very dumb and non interesting, useful only for setting single value to multiple files.

And, after all, seems name "Properties" does not show up the nature and functionality of this dialog. Something like "View/Edit tags" is better, but is not best too, imho. (could not think up good name from scratch).

PS Thank you for all you efforts to make foobar2000 coolest player over all!

Nice updates. Is there a chance to make the artist in the playlist appear above the album title? Developers what do you say about this? It was a very nice layout with panels ui because you can see quicker the info bout the artist and the album. Also it would be nice to select the colour for the artist and the album separately the one from the other.

Sorry if it's been posted before, but can someone give me a quick guide to coding custom grouping, or point me in the direction of one please? I'm not sure how to specify what tags to group by and how to arrange the display of the tags in the header.

Is there a way, or are there any plans, to make a playlist that contains whatever is selected in album list? I seem to remember this was possible in 0.8.3. Kind of like how Facets works with the playlist Facet selection. I know you can set the middle button to create a playlist of whatever you click in Album List, but that's not exactly what I'm going for. I want to be able to have one playlist that always has what is selected in album list, so I don't have to worry about deleting playlists after I create them.

This is my very reason to use the facets plugin.
So yes