I think it's Segoe UI.

sune was closest in guessing right

it is AvantGarde Md BT

ok i like that font and ive tried googling it but cant find exact match does anyone have alink plz?

LOL, that album is awesome.

Alright am gonna wait a few minutes or so, that way everybody will think the record is over.......................... DANIT I SAID SHUT UP!

Nice foobar setup, did you use a custom grouping scheme?

Yeah, I use an Album Artist - Album (Year) grouping scheme, and a custom column that displays Track Artist - Title in the case of Various Artists albums. The Library tab uses two vertically arranged facets (Album Artist and Albums, or Genre and Artist), and the Playlists tab has album art and playlist switcher. Not too different from a default setup, my days of spending hours playing with titleformatting are behind me lol

I see, awesome set up. I thinking of using tabs for something else (playlist manager and facets) instead of playlist tabs, since the playlst tabs can get in the way when you have alot of playlists.

I created a new folder with shortcuts to foobar and commandline options. I then replaced those shortcuts icons with the icons i created for foobar's toolbar. Created a new toolbar on Windows, pointing to the shortcuts folder, and here's the result:



My custom made replacement to WMP11 mini player

^ That's a nice config man. how did u make that rating thing towards the bottom?

I just added a toolbar header and then placed it at the bottom. I like to keep all the stuff related to the playlist down there. Quicker to click on for me. After that I did the Customize Buttons option (right click on the toobar header) then added a button for each context for Playback Statistics / Rating 0 - 5 . The icon Rate is really for 0 but it kind of explains the 1 - 5. For each number I used one of my icons to use on the button.
Thanks for the kind words.

ooooh of course. thats brilliant. thanks

Nice one.

Could you tell me what visual style do you use ?

Looks like Watercolor Lite XP (or any Watercolor variation)

It's Water Color Emico

Thank you add, shakey

For those interested, I found it here too

How do you insert all those custom buttons ? e.g. I'd love to have 5 rating buttons in my DUI config, but I don't see any corresponding DUI element I could use... is there some tutorial or something ? Thanks for your help.

Is it possible to center the columns of a play list. See the photo below.
I can choose to center a column that I manually add but can not seem to find where to do this on the default columns. I know it is probably right under my nose but I still can not find it. Any help would be appreciated.



If you look at the photo, the ratings column is centered but it is the only one. I would like to center some of the other columns as well. I would like to center the bitrate, date abd track number. Thanks






Just insert a toolbar header and then choose customize buttons. Add a icon to the menu item and your set.
I just like to click on whatever rating that I want to give the song, and I try to keep it simple.
I am pretty sure that I replied to this post once already but it seems that it may have been moved or deleted.

Jamen Shook I like your set up very much! I installed it but I have some problems:

1) I don't see stars in ratings, I see lines , like iii fro 3 stars etc. Why is this?

2) the visualization on the upper right corner is different in me. I have the db numbers in my screen and slightly different bars.

How do I fix it?

change the number of bands to 160 (right click on the spectrum -> bands) and reduce the size horizontaly until the numbers disappear

I believe you have already determined the answer

Just build custom columns - center formatted - to replace the default.

terry

You need to change your font to Arial Unicode MS. If you do not have this font it might be because you do not have MS Office installed. I did not see this font until I installed Office, and I have not found it anywhere else on the web. There might be a substitute but I am not sure.
The spectrum is set to 160 bands. Also I never have this setup at full screen, that might cause some of these problems. I like to keep it at about 70% of might 15.4" laptop screen. When I go full screen it does change the look of it.




Yes, I thought of this, but I also thought that maybe there is a setting somewhere that I could not find. The only place that I found those other columns was in the advance settings and there are no parameters that I could find. Thanks for the reply.

[/quote]
Yes, I thought of this, but I also thought that maybe there is a setting somewhere that I could not find. The only place that I found those other columns was in the advance settings and there are no parameters that I could find. Thanks for the reply.
[/quote]



Not sure, but it may be that we are in two differing spots of foobar config.

I am simply using a standard preference dialog reached in one of two manners.

Preferences>default user interface>playlist view>custom columns>add new
or
Playlist element>right click on any column heading>columns>more

terry

Hey guys, pardon me if this is a stupid question... but the Default UI configurations can be saved as .fth files, right? The Default UI Gallery thread has a bunch of screenshots but no .fth files. As much as it's cool to customize on your own, I would like to just pick a sweet configuration that someone else made and import it. Is that not possible?

You can contact the user per PM and ask him if he wants to share his .fth file. What's the problem?

That is possible, but you'll need the font(s) (s)he uses in a config, they're not saved into the .fth file (of course).
Icons are saved, cover-not-found images aren't, so you'll need your own. I can share mine but no one asked for it

My fth file is above, so are the custom icons. The only thing that I can not give is the font that I use.
I found a lot of fth files at various places in these forums, some work well and others you have to play around with it to get it to look the same. My theme will not look the same on another computer if you run it at full screen. Good luck on finding a theme that you like.

Jamen Shook thank you for your answer! Spectrum is ok, but the stars no... I have installed the font you mention but I still see, for example "iii" istead of 3 stars. How do you put the stars? I mean you have created the icons or they are from the plugin?

Do they display incorrectly everywhere or only in the selection properties element? If it is that latter you will have to install East Asian Fonts by going to Control Panel - Regional and Language Options - Languages. Note that you will need your Windows Install Disc (this if for XP by the way though I imagine it's similar for Vista)

If you don't want to deal with that you could replace the selections properties element with foosion's text display element fairly easily.

To the Developers: I realize this behavior is not exactly a bug, but it is certainly not very intuitive, is there any way ratings written by the official playback statistics could be displayed by any Unicode font instead of having to install East Asian Font support?

I never installed East Asian Fonts. Where do you check for that? I have a basic Win XP laptop with Office loaded on it. I have looked everywhere for those fonts. Any help would be appreciated. I do not want to have someone install something that they do not need. Thanks




Could you take a screen shot and pm me with that photo? I did not do anything special to get it to display, only had to make sure that the font was installed. I found this code else where in these forums
$pad($repeat(✩,%rating%), 5,) to actually display the stars in the rating column under the pattern field.
I have tried to get the iii on my setup and can not. Even if I choose another font it may be boxes or circles but never iii.

to the above poster;
I had same problem but after changeing code in default/playlist view/pattern from what you had to;

it worked.


Not to be a pain but, does anyone have any other fonts that aren't so plain looking that has stars for ratings?

I was using avalon from someones dark blue theme but no stars and the current unicode thingy is just to professional for me.


Any fonts that are readable, gothic/metal'ish, horror looking would do.

Heck maybe another symbol instead...crosses, plus sign (blah!) ...any ideas?

This is a mistake on my part, I had remembered seeing this post, however I never read the person who was having the problems response. Perhaps it wasn't applicable or maybe it was an issue that has been fixed, I don't really no. Sorry for any confusion my post caused.

No Problem here, I just wanted to make sure that I did not install something that I did not even know about. Problems with fonts can be a real pain at times, I try to use the character map to see what can and can not be displayed. Thanks for the response.

ok, Ironwalker Iwrote your code but nothing... Again "iii". Then I noticed that Jamen Shook's code in my foobar playlist preference is
$pad($repeat(SQUARE HERE ✩,%rating%), 5,) . Ichanged the square to "*" and I saw "*" in the playlist but "iii" again in the info box. So it has to do with both fond and code. Any ideas? What is the character number for the star symbol?

If I have a Facet with only 'Artists' visible, can I select an artist, and have the albums of that particular artist show up underneath the selection, like I can with the default album list?

Problem solved! As Jamen Shook said in the first place, I had to install the arial unicode MS. Well, I had Arial, not arial unicode which comes with the office 2007( not 2003 which I have). So, now I see everything alright, both the playlist stars and the info box stars! Thanks for helping me!!

Yes you can.

Go to Preferences -> Media Library -> Facets and set Select change to either "Send to the Facets playlist" or "Send to the current playlist" (depending on which playlist you want to use).

Thanks Jamen Shook, it works. I had noticed foobar buttons were customizable but :
- I had never tried it before,
- I didn't know that one could associate custom buttons to custom scripts. That's great. So now I can have 6 custom rating buttons (0 to 5) in my DUI.

Thanks again.

Quarck, would you care to share the "star" icon you are using for your rating buttons ? Thanks.

iam not to used to posting links to photos on these forums so how do i post a small image of my foobar that once clicked will open in a new window with the full sized photo? thanks

Go to an image hosting site such as ImageShack, click on the "Choose..." button and find the image you wish to upload. When you've selected the image, click on the "Host It!" button.

After the image has been uploaded to ImageShack just copy the text from the "Thumbnail for Forums (1)" line into your "Add Reply" box and you're done.

aha thanks muchly

Awesome ! How have you done to display the lyrics ? What plugins ? What configuration ?

Thanks in advance !

Hi,

Its foo_textdisplay, read about it here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=64478

I added it to a new tab, and used this code:

%artist% - %title%$crlf()
$repeat($char(9733),%rating%)$repeat($char(9734),$sub(5,%rating%))$crlf()
$crlf()
$if(%lyrics%,%lyrics%,No lyrics)

This shows on top Artist - Track Title, followed by rating below and lyrics after, like this:

Is there a way to add a column to the Playlist View that shows the albums cover?

So far, only when using columns_ui, not the default UI. It offers a playlist view named NG Playlist which offers exactly what you request.

Thanks a ton. That worked perfectly, to bad the default UI doesn't have such a view.

starchaos, is that Album/ Artist tab on the upper left corner for an artist image as well in that box?

Thanks!