Which color scheme do you guys use for the spectrum visualization?
There are lots of options, like making gradients of different colors.
Playing with the color choices, I came with this one:



What I did was setting the first color to 150 hue, 150 sat, 0 lum. Then I added a color with 150 hue, 150 sat, but increasing the lum 10 by 10 (step 10), until I got to lum=210. That way the colors were really vivid in a shade of blue.
It would be great to see other combinations of colors, there's a lot of creativity in the color scheme of this element.

how can i move around elements when i'm in layout edit mode?

i'm trying to do:

you can't "move them" per say, but you have to copy and paste to move them around.

right klick on the elements and then cut out or change the UI Element.
For this construct you need a (left/right) splitter, and then on the left field of the splitter you also need a (top/bottom) splitter.
Just rightclick on the fields and insert the new ui element.

I hope this will help you a little bit!

I've seen a few defaul_uis now with custom buttons... How can this be done, or are these just dockable panels?

it is a new feature of 9.5.1 betas.
http://www.foobar2000.org/beta/index.html

thanks. figured it out finally..

Here's mine:



I still think it's rather ugly, but I'm using a darker colour to reduce strain on my eyes. I wish there was some way to remove the very obvious splitter bars, or at least, reduce them to being a few pixels thick.

What would be really cool is if you could specify which columns the playlist would show depending on the playlist tab that's selected. The reason I wonder is that my classical/opera music contains extra tags that my pop/rock collection does not, such as performer, conductor, etc...
If foobar could remember which columns to show per playlist that would rock....
Unless this exists?

Doubt it.

I agree, this feature would be quite cool.

I agree too. In fact the best would be if, for each playlist, one could specify which columns to show / hide.

Some examples :
- For classical music : more columns (conductor, performer, etc.)
- For singles : the album column might be not necessary
- For VA albums : the artist column might be necessary (it isn't in most albums, except when album artist is not null)
- For soundtracks : the genre column might be not necessary if the genre has been already set to "soundtrack"
- Etc.

So the best would be to be able to create SEVERAL PLAYLIST VIEW LAYOUTS (layout 1, layout 2, layout 3...), and then for each playlist, be able to assign one precise layout (classical -> layout 1, singles -> layout 2, etc.)

The advantage of layouts over columns is simple : in a layout, one could specify each column's width and order. Imagine the possibilities !

And now the big question : what do devs think ?...

You could already do something like this with one column and title formatting.


...or something to that effect.

Obviously maybe not exactly what you guys are looking for, but if you need something more complicated, there's always other UIs.

i need to get a widescreen lcd...would be sooo much nice with a wider screen

Thanks shakey snake. You know, that's what I like about this forum : whatever your request, there's always someone coming in and saying : "but you can ALREADY do that, don't you know ?"

As for the rest of your post :

That's the kind of answer I was hoping NOT to get. IMHO this function is not, or should not be, UI-dependent. In every UI there are playlists and a playlist view, so I'd rather see this as improving the way foobar handles playlists ("playlist preferences" if you like).

Exactly what I'm talking about. I'd love to see that function.



Thanks for that info, I guess I'll have to use it for now. Hopefully an idea like what we're talking about will be implemented?

Small Note:



can be written more elegantly as:



NOTE: stricmp is case insensitive.

It is a lovely forum in that regard!
Except I'm at a loss as to where I should ask why "Use Custom Sort String" isn't an option on any Library displayers

Could you please provide a version that would test, not if %genre% is equal to "classical", but if %genre% CONTAINS the string "classical" ? Thank you.

I have several genres where I could use your trick, and all of them share the substring "classical". So a new version would avoid having to play with $or, which would be less elegant...

For "contains", try this:

Thanks, it works. Not case-sentitive though, but that's not a problem for me.

using the $lower to force the tag to become lowercase would solve that problem:

Yes, I know, like I said it's not a problem for me. I just wanted to emphasize for everybody the fact that $strstr is case sentitive, that's all.

What is the code to show the album info in playlist view like in these screenshot?

Right-click on a column header, choose Groups, By Artist/Date/Album/Codec.

I absolutley love the new foobar. However, I noticed that with album list you can longer just click on a folder or album and it be sent to the playlist, you now have to press ENTER.

Is there any way of changing this?

No. You can doubleclick instead of select and ENTER though.

This is the singular, only reason I still use Columns UI + Album List Panel, vs the new (and otherwise excellent) default UI.

How can I create a custom facet column for the subgenre count like in the screenshot?



Thanks in advance

Right click your genre facets, under statistics there should be a "subgenre" click that.

NOTE: The subgenre statistic exists ONLY because its the child of the genre facet. In general, other than the predefined presets, you can add the number of children as a column for every facet.

Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't find a "subgenre" option under "Statistics"

And to your note: Unfortunately, I don't know how to add the number of the subgenres as a column...

As you have already been told by kanak, the "subgenres" statistics column is only available if you have a facet that displays subgenres next to the genre facet, as you can see in your own screenshot. The first statistics column is special and depends on what is displayed in the next facet. If you have two facets with artist and album, it would enable you to display the number of albums for each artist.

So the procedure is as follows: set the first facet to genre, set the second facet to subgenre, and finally add a statistics/subgenres column to the genre facet.

BTW we're talking subgenres here, but I believe the recommended tag is %style%, not %subgenre%. Am I right ?

There is no such thing as an officially recommended tag in this regard. Neither field is part of the ID3v2 specifications, for example.

I know you have been told otherwise in this thread. Those so-called "standards" were made up by random users who believed that they had some sort of authority on this topic, which they have not. Unless you see any of those fields actively used or mentioned in the default foobar2000 configuration (such as "album artist"), neither custom field is recommended over the other.

Thank You Frank... I didn't know that it's THAT easy

To save starting a new thread, I shall ask my question here.

Is it possible to delete an element from a layout? I wish to remove a splitter, but the only option that is close is to cut the element within the splitter/tab/whatever.

No splitter exists by itself, so you can simply replace the parent splitter of the splitter you want to remove with a non-splitter element (like albumlist or whatever) temporarily, and then replace the albumlist with the contents you want.

That works...thanks. Just wondered if there was a way I missed to do what I wanted, instead of a workaround. But a workaround still works so it's all good!

How did get rating in playlist view?

He's probably using a font with those characters, and then using Character Map to find & put them in the code for the ratings column.

yeah i wanna know this as well

I use this with default ui font:

In Preferences goto Playlist View and click the Add New button

$if(%rating%,$select(%rating%,★,★★,★★★,★★★★,★★★★★)))

This is what I use for my Rating column:

do you need to add a new meta value so you can add the rating to the tags?

could someone show me how to get the ratings working with the use of facets?

This thread contained all the info I needed.

awesome...works fine now thanks alot!!!

I was wondering how to move the buttons to the middle of the page like in the pic?

You need to add the UI element "Toolbar header" and then you can add buttons to the toolbar.

Thanks!

I have a follow-on question from the above. Is it possible to have the album list on the left and a full playlist on the right, such that selecting an item in the album list will change focus to that item in the playlist?

Currently album list and facets replace the playlist with the selected item. I would like the full "all items" playlist to remain, and merely the focus change.

Hope that's clear

I have two questions:

1. Can I change the play button from the columns to something else?(The way it was when it first came out was better imo)

2. Does anyone know the number to have ratings just be circles?