The function to generate a playlist name is provided by foobar2000, and I therefore don't know which rules exactly this is based on, but in your case, I guess that the selected tracks have different artists, and lack an album artist tag. It thus assumes that you have selected multiple albums, and tries to find a common attribute, which happens to be the year.

Creating a playlist from the album list should result in the same name.

Frank, call me crazy but date doesn't actually display the number of elements but rather the number of albums?

Like if you had

2001 (3 albums)
2003 (1 album)

It shows

All (4 Years)
2001
2003

Instead of

All (2 Years)
2001
2003

Is that the intended behavior or...?

Thanks

Hmmm. Only one album is selected with different artists but all the songs have the same "album title" but the year is selected. Looks like a bug (maybe in foobar2000).

Do I need an album artist tag (which only could be various)?

Thnx.

Wiesl

From the manual:

If that's not what you mean, a screenshot would be helpful.

@Wiesl:

Two tracks with the same album name but different artists could as well originate from two different albums, which just coincidentally share the same name. Other functions which rely on grouping tracks as albums would treat them as different albums as well. Take playlist groups, replaygain-scanning by albums, or the "shuffle (albums)" playback order for example. The album artist tag is quite essential in foobar2000, so I'd recommend to set it to "Various" or "Various Artists" for such albums.

When I create a column with filter %lyrics% foobar will crash after creating the filter, and crash when starting foobar. I must delete the .dll from the components directory to use foobar again.

I realize viewing lyrics through a facets column is not in the roadmap or manuel. I don't expect it to become a feature of facets, as I don't think it's a practical use for the component. I thought I should report this because it seems strange to me that doing so would cause foobar to crash, recoverable only by deleting the component, vs. not showing lyrics.

I was trying to produce a lyric display alternate to those through columns ui and dockable panels.
I expected to have to select a track to to see it's lyrics.

Nope, that's what I meant. Boomer, but good to know it's the intended behavior, I guess I skipped that part of the manual.
Thanks!

bug
history drop down not work with latest version 04/01/2008
0.95 , vista;

Can I suggest that after having typed something in the search box and facets find it you can press enter and it creates a new playlist with the searched content?
Forgive me if I am out of line.

Hello Frank!

I hope somedays to see the "create facet view of selected items" feature implemented that is already in the list of undecided features. I am using the correspondending function of album list very often in different scenarios and would be very happy to use that inside of Facets and as Ui Element.
But that is not the real point of my post: If at all that function will be implemented it would be a good addition if a custom view could not only be created of selected items but also - if only one track is selected - of a defined query applied on this selected track. Example: Create custom view -> same artist. I hope you understand what i mean.

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong here... but is there an actual "history"?
Because I always have to remove the search query with the 'X', or if I type another one the current one is gone forever, so I am not like seeing a history there.

2008-01-25 should fix both search box issues.

You're totally right Frank. It does!
Now the history box is actually ermm... a history box.

Thanks!!!

@Frank Bicking

Thank you for the new version.
I have one question:
I am running (or emulating as others like to say ) foobar with WINE under Ubuntu nearly without errors and without playback problems. Only Facets is not working as I desire because the background behind the artist and the album column is white although I chose black.
Can you please tell me if a particular .dll is responsible for drawing this and if this be the case, which one?

Thanks.

Screenshot:

is anyone else not able to access the facets page? when i click the link in the first post, i get a 404 not found.

The site is temporarily offline due to some technical problem at the provider.

You can download the component here for the time being.

Download link

Edit: The Facets page is back. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hey Frank this may sound like a stupid question but how do I align the facets vertically rather than horizontally?

Edit: Nevermind. Found it in the manual.

Ok sorry for the double post but I thought I'd rather put this separate. Anyway can we have an option to apply a playlist to facets? Like I have a playlist that has music of 3 artists but in facets nothing is marked because I imported it or because i changed something in Facets and then used Ctrl-Y (Ctrl-Z on my German Keyboard) to go back to my last playlist. In these cases Facets will have nothing marked. Now if I want to add something to these kinds of playlists I would have to chose the 3 artists first and then add whatever i want as i do now.

So it would be really convenient if there was a right click option that would apply the playlist to facets and then you could use facets as if you had used it to create the playlist in the first place.

how do you remove an album from the facets section? When I was using a previous UI all I had to do was right click and right near the top was an option to remove, now I don't see any option to remove an album. I guess the author doesn't respond to PM's so I'll ask here. Thanks

http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0...08201652hb7.jpg

You cannot remove an album from the facet per se; you can retag it to no longer meet the criteria of the view or you can delete the files (which will, of course, remove it from the view).

both can be done from the right click menu.

wow, there should be an easier way than to go through all that. Just a simple right click on the album and remove would be nice. I don't want to delete the album, just not show it.

Facets only shows you what you ask it to show. If there is something you don't want it to show, then you need to ask it a different question.

Add more facets to better filter your library (date, genre etc)

By design, the user should not be able to "remove" anything from the view.

Just a quick note to say that Facets is fantastic. I wanted precisely this functionality and had no idea that someone had designed a plug in to do exactly what I wanted. Cheers.

Do you think it would be possible to sort things ignoring "A " like it can with "The "?
I'm also interested in sorting by last name in certain cases, but I think the only solution there is to include a "Sortby" tag of some kind
a custom sort string option would be wonderful here because then I could solve all my problems with a separate sorting field instead of writing prolonged statements for each leading (but unsorted) word.
I'd probably use tags like album artist sort, artistsort, albumsort and titlesort

A small bug in playlist interaction:

if i set middleclick to "add to current playlist" and use it with shift-key the currently playing track starts again instead the first track of selection.

Hi Frank,

I have a request for a statistics column: Average Plays (Total Plays / Total Files). This would be really interesting to have (and it would certainly present a different picture than "total plays".




+1 from me too. This would be really neat.

Hello Frank,

thank you for this excellent plugin! I really enjoy working with it.

Now I'm really looking forward to your next improvement, to show thumbnails of album covers in the facet plugin. I think that should look quite similar to the iPod-Display, when you select "by Album". That will add the extra 1% on top of this great plugin!

Thanks so far and keep up the good work.

Probably a buffer overrun found: When the string in a column (e.g. a song title) of a list item exceeds 255 characters and you scroll this item into view, facets crashes foobar2000.

Funny that you found this today, as I had the same thing happen to me last night and today and was going to post about it. I moved the song titles to "Comment" and renamed the title "Set One" and voila, no more crash. So, I can confirm your finding. Thanks!

Frank, Thank You for this great component!

I am a newbie to this great plugin. I chose a folder structure but nothing appears as each facet remains empty. I sure forgot to do something. Can someone help me please ? Thanks.

Do you have files in your media library?

EDIT: what's your folder structure like?

My main facets panel doesn't show any tracks, albums are the smallest objects there. But I have a "History" facet panel that shows individual tracks... that's how I found the bug. I was back-scrolling the History.

Unless the actual string doesn't show up in a facets list you are safe to listen and tag that track, btw. So if you don't have a facet that shows track names, no risk of a crash (because of this bug at least).

Hi kanak.
Yep I do have files in my media library. I am playing music files while facets are empty.
Folder structure is the one I chose in my music folder : Style / Artist / Album

Varluche: Add your music folder at Preferences, Media Library.

Make sure to add the root directory (e.g. "D:\Music"), not the individual album folders.

If that should not help, could you please check if the album list displays anything with the "by directory structure" view?


Fixed, thanks for reporting.

I forgot to create media library.
Working now. Thanks.

I've just updated to 2008-02-25 and something is wrong with displaying items that have parenthesis in the string.

It seems that everything that is in the parentheses is not displayed, and also anything that is after parentheses. I have certain composer tags like this

Composer : (?) Jean-Baptiste Boesset (c1613–1685)

and facets now display an empty row.
For other composers, only the name is displayed.

Can anyone confirm this?

EDIT: I found out also that the string is visible if you click on it, and then click on the other facet. That is, the string don't have a focus on it.

Here are the screenshots, maybe they are a bit more helpful than my explanations

I clicked on a line in Composer facet…



…then I clicked below The Garden of Zephirus

Not having an issue with parenthesis at the end of a string

i.e. Album (UK)

I don't have nay strings with parenthesis in the middle to check, though.

Works for me:

Confirmed for a limited number of color schemes, working on it.

Edit: Fixed, reuploaded.

I've also noticed a redraw issue of the Search box frame (only with classic Windows style) in your screenshots, still working on that.

Thanks Frank!

EDIT: It's ok now, and you're right, I'm using classic style.

This plugin is my favorite media library viewer, Thank you Frank!

Do you think you could consider adding a custom sort field in order to "properly" sort things?
I created this image to illustrate how it could be implemented:

thanks for the great plugin and your consideration

Hm.. I can't get " $tab() " to work properly.. nothing but a little square  is displayed instead. Am I doing it wrong? :-( Great component though.

Part of the change to 0.9.5 $tab() and $rgb() and a few others are no longer used

You could use the statistics that are built into the plugin to view some things.

And use multiple columns instead of using trying to use $tab to separate two different fields.

If you ever clicked on ie: "Title" it will sort the list by Title. However, as soon as Play Count Mod writes a tag. This sort is lost and reverts back to the default directory sorting. Is this intentional? Or is there a way around this?

@iOsiris:

Please make sure you have the latest version.

In the settings for events the chechbox for starting playback is deactivated if middle/doubleclick is assigned to "add to current" or "add to facet playlist". Although i don't like automatical playbackstart even in "send"-situations, however, i can imagine that it could be a senseful feature for some people. I more prefer the feature to use shift-key for starting playback when creating new playlist/sending to facet playlist. So i hoped that i couls also use the shiftkey on "add"-events. But, as i reported two weeks ago, using the shift-key in that scenario results in repeating the already playing track. That must be a bug, or?

I already asked this at "Default UI Discussion Topic"...

How can I create a custom facet column for the subgenre count, that shows me within the Genre Facet how many Subgenres the Genres have?

I tagged all my MP3 files with "Style" and made a separate Subgenre Facet with this, but the Statistic thing with subgenre count is the thing I can't get to work, because I don't know how...

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=549972

I have replied in the linked thread. -- Frank

I have read now several times about a FAQ. Is there a special FAQ for Facets? I have seen only the Manual. Where can i find it?

The FAQ has been replaced by the manual.