Question (don't know if it has been asked before) : could the Facet Search Toolbar's width be adjustable in a future version ?

Best would be if it was (1) resizable (e.g. to the size of only one facet, not necessarily to the size of all created facets because that's often a waste of space), and (2) completely independant of the facets, so one could put it anywhere else on the screen where there's room left, especially for small displays (e.g. in good place among the main foobar Toolbar - that would be great IMHO).

OK. I am a new user of foobar2000 and am wondering how to get Facets to display tracks.

Also. How do you get the Facets tab beside the playlist? It looks like you have somehow renamed your tabs.

Any info on setting foobar2000 up properly is appreciated.

Many thanks for the great component, Frank!

Can you advise on the following problem:
If a facet has multiple columns, say Album and Date, it seems impossible to make its content auto stretch to the facet width with and without the vertical scrollbar. F.e. if you line-up both columns when there's no vertical scrollbar yet, it will overlap the right column (invoking a horizontal scrollbar) when appears, and if you line-up then, it'll leave empty space when disappears. This gap is quite visible because of the alt stripes.

Btw, there's no way to disable the stripes besides switching to black, right? And the "All (nn)" entry?

the solution to my problem is probably simple, however i haven't found any answers neither in the faq nor in this thread.

if i put the facet dll in the components folder and try to start foobar, nothing happens. the process is running though in the background, however there is no chance to display the window. this happens with my existing foobar installation as well as with a new clean installation. does the plugin require any foobar-independent windows configurations?

flo

You most probably don't have version 0.9.5 installed.

Hi,

I have a facet which shows %directoryname%, today i've noticed that i can use drag to copy files out of the facet. But when i do so foobar hangs while the files are copied and also the cursor doesn't change back to normal after droping until everything is done. Somebody can reproduce this behavior?
I'm using v0.9.5 b7 and the newest version of facets.

btw, Frank Bicking great work thx for this component.

I assume you don't just drag tracks to the playlist but to an external application, like an Explorer window?

This could probably be improved, although dragging tracks from the playlist behaves in the same way.

I'm not sure if the following is intended behavior, so figured I'd post. ...

I'm using the most current facets. I have two facets set up, one for Artist, one for Album. When I clear a previous search and double-click on "All" artists, the "Album" facet seems to occasionally get stuck on the album I had selected during the search (which stays highlighted after clearing search, etc)... To me it seems like the "Album" facet should reset itself after a search has been cleared and "All" artists has been double-clicked.

Forgive me if this has been asked before, or if it is intended behavior... If it is intended, please do explain.

Thanks! And brilliant component!

Any possibility of making the ratings editable in facets? Displays them OK but it's not very useful when you can't rate your tracks ;/ As of now there's nothing out there with the new UI (0.9.5.7) that lets you edit the damn things.

Another suggestion, force the font for the stars if possible. I like to use Calibri but it doesn't have the necessary character. I'm thinking of getting some kind of font editor and copying and pasting from Arial Unicode but that's kind of hokey.

or, at least, the option to change the character used to represent the rating. eg, instead of using a star, use a bullet ('•') character that the calibri font does use.

Yes, dragging into an Explorer window.

maybe a feature request meaby too much of a work:

i would find use for having different separators between facets... id like to have two facets next to each other horizontaly and one under them in vertical order. ive tried to achieve this but i was only able to have all facets in horizontal or all in vertical order... i cant rclick separator and choose... if its not a chalenge of pixel hunt ... is it possible and im only dumb or its really imposiblle and find use maybe in other users too?

I just had a problem with using facets, but I don't really have enough info to produce a proper bug report.

I just went to go listen to "Explosions in the Sky", and noticed that there was only one album that showed up when I selected them in the Artist facet. I have 4 albums by them, so I thought it was strange.
However, the other albums showed up in the Album facet when I searched for them.

So it seems like the other 3 weren't showing up in the Artist facet. The only reason I could think of was that the album that did show up was tagged "Explosions in the Sky", while the others were tagged "Explosions In The Sky" (note the capitalisation). I retagged the first with full capitalisation, and it too disappeared!
They all reappeared when I restarted foobar, but I thought this was worth noting, as it might happen with other artists too, I just haven't noticed with my large collection.

Thanks for your report. This was indeed a problem, caused by having two different string comparison methods (case-sensitive and case-insensitive) in place. I have changed the general behaviour to differentiate between "Explosions in the Sky" and "Explosions In The Sky", which means that Facets displays those as two entries as of now. Album List does the same, and it helps to keep your collection properly tagged.

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Thanks! I was hoping you wouldn't change it to be similar to foo_browser's method, in which both entries are shown as the capitalised version. This way, I can tell when there are differences

Edit: Has this update removed the ability to stop the playlist updating for particular facets? I can't find the option anymore.

(Possible Bug Report... someone else please see if they can replicate the error)

Converting a file to the media library directory results it in being added to the database (verified by using Database Search), but it does not show up in the facets view. However, double clicking "all artists" results in the file being added into the playlist.

Details:
* Foobar version: 0.9.5 beta 8, facets version: 2007-12-16, database search version: 1.4
* Converting files from Flac to Tak with maximum compression
EDIT: * Using "rescan media library" doesn't resolve the issue, but restarting foobar does.


Screenshot:

Frank,

Awesome plugin, many thanks.

My 5 cents:

Wouldn't it be logical to change the string "Facet" in the context menu item "Send to the Facet playlist and play" to the actual name of the facet playlist if it has been renamed?

Suppose "Facet Selection" playlist has been renamed to "Library Selection", then the menu item would read "Send to the Library Selection playlist and play".

The only problem would be with toooooooo looooong playlist names. Perhaps truncating after certain number of characters would work as a compromise.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Myron

I've also noticed this.

Same thing happens to me after adding new material to library and rescanning media library... The new tracks don't show up until "All Artists" is double-clicked.

I would like to ask for a new statistic column called "date range"(f.e.): it gives back the first and last date. One possible usage could be to show active years of an artist.

Example:

De la Soul (1989 - 2006)

I'm loving the component so far, but I just discovered that things don't seem to be entirely working the way they should on my end.

Here's the problem: not all of my music is showing up in Facets, despite rescanning the library and restarting foobar. A hundred or so albums out of 1000+ are just missing. The music does, however, show up just fine in the Album List. It seems to be only entire tagged albums that are missing - for one of my albums, the only track that showed up was the only one whose "album" info had been (incorrectly) tagged differently than the others in the same album, despite being in the same directory as the others. The directory I'm using for the library is my music archive - nothing at all has been added to it or changed in a long while. I did try double clicking on "All Artists," but it did nothing.


Removing and re-adding Facets seems to fix everything right up, but I figured that it was worth noting - I wouldn't have even noticed without looking for a particular artist.

Re: missing artists or albums.

Despite the number of reports, I have been completely unable to reproduce this issue so far. To avoid a lengthy question-and-answer game that could span over several days, I'd prefer if someone who experienced this could join the foobar2000 IRC channel and talk to me in person (nickname: Neptune).


The same could be achieved by introducing a "last release date" column in addition to the first one. Both columns could then be combined as desired.

Sure, "last release date" would also be a possible solution - even a better one because of better sorting. When/if you introduce such a column would you consider to shorten the names of the columns to "first date" and "last date" because of several reasons: 1. the names are too long so that that we either would waste space to read columns name or loose readibilaty of columns name to save space and mainly 2. these columns read the same tag wich is displayed as "Date" in facets so if somebody uses another tag RELEASE DATE that causes confusion. (I use that tag for albums wich was rereleased: if RELEASE DATE is empty DATE is release date - if not then RELEASE DATE is the release date of the rereleased album and DATE the release date of original album)

I think I'm making a stupid mistake somewhere, but my colors seem messed up:



Why is the text background white when it should be black, assuming Facets pulls its colors from the Default UI settings?

This also may just be some weird side effect from running foobar2000 in wine.

Having a strange problem, possible bug?. I use the latest beta and facets version.

When creating an autoplaylist using facets, I can't sort the songs in the playlist using the column titles. In fact, songs can't be moved at all, even with click & drag. I can sort just fine when I just double-click on a certain facets row and start playing.

(However I can still sort when I've created an autoplaylist using foo_albumlist.)

Not sure if this is a Facets problem, or a problem with the program itself? argh.

This might sound harsh, but unless this is reported for one of the required operating systems, I refuse to care.

@anonnamiss:

The sort order of created autoplaylists is fixed to the pattern specified at Preferences, General, Sort incoming files by.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I agree and would love to have an option like this

Question, is there a thread here on the forum, with people sharing their layouts using the facets component?

Maybe here?

HTH.

Alessandro

great work

A couple of suggestions which I dont think have been mentioned. First, the way itunes behaves is that if you clear your search, it doesnt reset your playlist. I think this is a logical behavior and it would be nice if it were an option. Perhaps there could even be an option so that the "All" item at the top doesn't activate the playlist (foo_browser had this option and it is very useful with a huge library that takes a while to load into a single playlist).

Also, I think the clear button (X) in the search box could have another function. Maybe, when the search box is empty, it will reset the facet boxes. This will save time because I find I often have to scroll up to "All" so that the Album facet will show all my albums when I want to find one quickly.

Lastly, I know this has probably been mentioned, but I recently tried the Filter panels with columnsUI and they have a nice feature where a playing playlist doesnt get replaced when browsing other filter items. I would love to see this implemented.

Btw, thank you so much for this plugin. It had really helped me get my library in order.

Totally agree
Or maybe have an option for it, in case some people like it the way it is now ^^

this is a fantastic component.

i have one suggestion, though: in the list of possible actions for the middle mouse button, i would like to be able to send to a designated playlist, like can be done in the albumlist panel.

"Send to the Facet playlist"?

no, i mean i want to pick my own playlist to send to by naming said playlist in the facet preferences, like i can do in the albumlist panel.

From: http://foobar2000.audiohq.de/foo_facets/roadmap

I have some ideas about filtering in both directions.

If I sort my Facets in the following order:

Album > Track > Artist

When I click on the Artist Facet (end Facet) it would be great if Album (first Facet) then displayed all Albums by the selected Artist. This would be really useful when browsing compilations containing more than one Artist.

Or perhaps, another option would be to mark the filter so that it triggers the next Facet.
E.g. Album > Track > Artist >> Album (based on Artist)
Clicking on Artist would then start a new list.

[My current Facet set up]
I have three facets set up under tabs. This makes it easy to find my music and know where it is.

Tab 1. Browse - Artist | Tab 2. Browse - Album | Tab 3. Browse - Folder
1. Artist > Album > Track
2. A-Z > Album > Track > Artist
3. Folder > Folder > Filename

Tip: I created an A-Z for my albums by creating a new column using the following code '$left($caps(%album%),1)'

Screenshot:


Possible bug: When you middle click on a Facet, the selection isn't updated like when left clicking.

You can name the target playlist any way you like. Just rename the playlist once it has been created.


Which "selection"? The middle click behaviour depends on your settings.

PS: I'll read your suggestions later. Same for alphaex32's post.

argh, i'm not asking to rename the facet selection playlist. i want more than one target playlist. i already use the facet selection playlist to preview songs when i'm perusing artists/genres/whatever in the facets. i would like to be able to send a given selection, via one click of the mouse, to one, specific playlist that isn't the facet selection playlist that i'm already using for another function.

[quote name='CharlieJ' post='540706' date='Jan 11 2008, 02:07']Possible bug: When you middle click on a Facet, the selection isn't updated like when left clicking.[/quote]
Which "selection"? The middle click behaviour depends on your settings.

PS: I'll read your suggestions later. Same for alphaex32's post.
[/quote]

Sorry, what I meant was the selection isn't highlighted in the gui when you middle click.

BTW, great plugin. I've actually used foobar for quite a while but I hadn't updated it for years!!! The new ui layout tools and your facets plugin are top notch. Good job. Thanks.

Well that's not possible and not going to happen.

The album list panel doesn't have that functionality either. Its autosend playlist is used for both actions as well.


You mean that a middle click doesn't change the current selection? That's intended.

well that's too bad. that would've been a nice feature.


it has the functionality of letting the user define the target playlist beforehand, which is what i was asking for for the second target playlist in facets. you're right about albumlist panel not autosending to two different playlists tho.

i don't know much about foobar...but it is possible to add the facets instead of the filter in colums ui interface in order to get this?

Nope, facets was only made for the Default UI. I don't see why you couldn't get the same effect with three filter panels, though (except for the date column).

No. UI Elements are not compatible with Column UI (and conversely, column UI panels are not compatible with Default UI.)

that's bad news..i guess the problem is for the lyrics panel..because i can't put it on a ui element..

You can use foo_dockable_panels to "host" the lyrics panel.

I am using it to replace my column UI!

Hello!

With Facet version 2008-01-04 (and I think it was even before) I recognized the following:
Pressing the middle button on an album on some albums I get Year: 2006 as playlist name but it should be the CD album name.

Any ideas? Is this a bug?

Thnx.

Wiesl

Frank, do you ever smile?

Nevermind. Just wanted to say this component rocks!!!!!!!! Yahoooooooooooo!!!!
Really much better than the default Media Viewer (whatever).

Thanks!!!