Added Cover-arts to my UI and removed that Album-list when i figured it was totally useless...


I really love this customizable UI!

Trappski, I think you are in the wrong thread. The thread for posting screenshots of Default UI is here : http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=58574

Which font are you using in the columns view?

Custom buttons? How? And what is that spectrum thing?


I got that disc thing already solved. Or was that about that...? Now I just want to get rid of these numbers.

The custom buttons ara made with columns ui and dockable panels (i think). Look at the border around the button segment. It is not really included in the default ui layout.



With the first 4 lines i just wanted to show you that there are different ways to show the same result. You said you don't know how to make these things from scratch. Maybe that could help you to understand how it works.

The "$if2"-thing and the question about where to put the quotes was something i wanted to know. Nothing to do with you.
But if someone wants to know: it does the same thing as the other three lines.

How to get rid of the discnumbers in tracknumber columns:
Did you try creating a custom column "Track" = [%tracknumber%]?

Sorry for a question asked already somewhere, but anyway: How can you take playback controls and such from the toolbar to the layout itself?

Apostrophs are only required around characters with a special meaning in the titleformat syntax:

%, $, (, ), [, ], commas inside of functions, and the apostroph itself - use '' to display one.


You can add a toolbar above or below any UI element.

Enable the layout editing mode, right-click on an element, choose "Replace", and select "Toolbar Header".

Now right-click on the new toolbar to customize it.

Thanks! Now I got it (:


Moderation: Removed the fullquote.

is there any way to get some sort of scale for the spectrum tool? Or is there some other way to get a basic idea what the current lowpass is?

could you tell me your code to show the ratings with stars?

For people that have problems displaying the rating stars. You can use the free to use Deja Vu font. I like the font myself and it has the star symbol.
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/

It is explained in the following topic:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index...

For the correct font be sure to ready my post on the 3rd page.

how can I get the spectrum monitor look like this? What are the color codes?

thanks

Looks awesome. Would you please post your config for me ? I would love to use it on my foodbar, thank you!

Is it posible to customize the grouping headers font?
I can only change the lists and playlists from what I can see, and the grouping font is chosen by foobar automatically (increasing the point size).
Am I missing something or is it just like that?

Hi smok3, can you please give the font and special $char codes you've used for the top of your foobar window ? (between 3:14 and fb2k). In fact a copy/paste of the code would be best. Thanks.

Another question for everybody : here's my current config (work in progress, so don't pay much attention to it). Notice the 20 small filled / empty dots in the status bar (lower part of the window, between "1:37" and "-2:32". I don't understand why they aren't vertically aligned with the rest of the line (they are too low, I'd want them to be centered). Can you guys help me out ?



Thanks !

That's most likely how those characters are positioned within the font itself. The solution would be to pick new hollow/filled characters or pick a new font.

Yes, that's what I thought, but when I look at the Windows character table (Start > Programs > Accessories > System utilities), these circles (hex codes 25CC and 25CF from Arial Unicode) are perfectly centered vertically. Same thing if I copy/paste them into Wordpad. So there must be a problem somewhere within foobar.

I have seen screens from people @ HA Forums with the same circles correctly positioned. So I guess there must be a solution (either there are other working $char codes, or something else). Thanks in advance for your help.

EDIT : I've found it - it's just a matter of which font you select under foobar for the status bar. Some fonts display the circles centered, others display the circles down. That's all.

EDIT2 : I've even managed to create a small piece of code that displays a progress bar, but unlike other progress bars,
this one gives the impression to progress on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Try it out and let me know what you think (it's one of my first attempts, but I'm pretty happy with it ).

Simply copy/paste this into Prefs > Default UI > Status Bar (in only ONE LINE, without carriage returns) :



You can replace the "20" in "$puts(a,20)" with the total number of characters you want in the progress bar (34 is the limit for me).
Of course it requires an Unicode font like Arial Unicode for instance : Prefs > Default UI > Colors and Fonts > Status Bar.

The progress bar code is great. Thanks for sharing!

Hi, I really love this setup!! Is there any way you could post the theme file or whatever it is? I have no idea how to change things and would really like something along these lines. Thanks!!

I made a copy of my foobar config file and theme import file aswell to try out.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e98cfr

Also you will need a the Facet Plugin and foobar2000 0.9.5 beta.

Notes:

VBR display is set to 0.
Status bar and Windows Title bar is a complete re-written custom format code which displays usefull info.
Mouse wheel focus is switched on.
ID3 Tag compat mode is switched on.
Foobar my ask to remove some settings for missing plugins but can click keep or remove but that should not be a major problem but make sure the Facet plugin is installed.

@gordolindsay

You will be able to create any theme you like - just go to main menu -> view and look there for calling the scratchbox: then just play around and create what you like. It is not necessary anymore sharing themes when using the DefaultUI.

I'm not familiar yet with the scratchbox. Is there some topic about it or something ?

how did you add a ratings column?

There are topics about it ArtMustHurt : use the search !

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=59187

Preferences - Default User Interface - Playlist View
add new column.
name: Rating
pattern: $ifgreater(%rating%,0,$repeat(★,%rating%)$repeat( ,$sub(5,%rating%)),)

can i ask how have you edited that group header and added those double slashes in it?

Just add a Custom Grouping Scheme like :

'//' $if(%album artist%=VA,%album artist%,%artist%) - '[' %date% ']' %album% '\\'

greets, Raven.am0k

Is it Lyrics Show Panel ? I'm intrigued... how did you manage to integrate it so well within the Default UI ?



How did you manage to change the shape of the progression cursor ? I thought it was hardcoded... Thanks in advance.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=526270

It's theme based.

Thanks shakey snake, but regarding your first answer, unfortunately that's not what I was asking for. My question was not about how to DISPLAY a panel within the Default UI, because as you can see I've already managed to do so with several panels (Lyrics, Peakmeter...) :



My question was rather about how to INTEGRATE a panel so well within the Default UI. Because as you can see, all my panels have a title (Peakmeter, Lyrics Show), a Checkbox for closing them, a border, and a different window color (so they are not really "integrated" within the DUI, they seem to be over it). Gatecrasherc6's panels have no title, no checkbox, no border, no useless stuff, either for LSP or the peakmeter, and that's what amazes me... how does he do that ?

Menu >> View >> Dockable Panels >> Active Panel >>.................

>> ... "Hide titlebar" and "No frame". Of course. Many thanks eddy@, that's just brilliant !!

I also used Dockable Panels to extend DefaultUI, but had very bad experiences... Bugs, slowdowns, panels not sticking well enough, etc. And some panels (eg. the most important for me, Track Display, that has no alternative in Default ui) won't work at all/crash instantly. The developer, cwbowron is sadly not responsive, and I don't know if he develops the component anymore.

FYI I have posted in cwbowron's "foo_cwb_hooks" thread some days ago, and I haven't got a reply either...

Why have you ruined such a subtle and pleasing visual style by plonking giant black backgrounds on stuff?

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Is there any way to get rid of the column headers and/or the alternating background colors for list views?

I don´t think i´ve ruined it. I just hate nice and shiny backgrounds on things, which I´m looking at all the time. Like my player for example. If the background would be white, my eyes would not like this.

I guess I see what you mean. Each to his own I guess.

I prefer dark backgrounds as well...

on a side-note, is that running on ubuntu?

I think the problem is not the dark background. For my taste it's the collision of pitch black backgrounds and very bright borders/fonts. Some elements look somewhat out of place because of this. Maybe it could use a bit less contrast for more harmony. But it's only my opinion, of course

At first, no, this is Windows XP with the Ubuntu Human VS. Running Foobar also on Ubuntu, but don´t have it running all the time.

Second, you all are right, it´s YOUR opinion and when I prefer black backgrounds, then it is my taste =) But thanks for advising me to change it ^^ I will never do it, but thanks =)

greets, Raven.am0k

Foobar2000 on ubuntu would be pretty awesome.

Although I'm sure if you spent some time you could get a more efficient music playing and organising solution with MPD and some real-deal tagging scripts, not to mention the benefits of things being stored on a server. And then you could even have a network'd UI by exporting X to a client on your PC, negating all performance benefits anyway

FYI I have chosen a different approach, by having a very simple Debian-based file server (command-based, no GUI) for all the storage (audio and video), and then a XP-based client with foobar / MPC / etc.. The server acts simply as a network drive for the client.

With a direct Gigabit link between the two PCs, performance is not an issue, even for Full HD videos.

Hi,

Hmmm, I just added them in Layout Editing Mode... (but to tell the truth, I had to restart from scratch several times). Just download the Theme I exported and start from there if you want.

Greetings.

I've successfully switched to the new Interface, it's really nice and I think it's a huge improvement over the old one, but there are still some things I'm not able to replicate.



First of all, in the status bar I'd like to have the total playing time of the selected tracks plus the volume, aligned to the right side and separated by a separator.
Then I can't find a way to understand if I've already ReplayGain-ed a song or not, before playing it. Is it possible to have a column in the playlist viewer with a 'T' if the gain has not been calculated yet (as it is for Vasco Rossi's tracks)?
If yes, how?

Thanks in advance

This is what I use as a replaygain indicator. Just make a custom column with:

And modify to your hearts delight of course.

Right-click on the status bar and enable the respective options.

Thanks that's exactly what I meant! Do you know how to color the 'X' in red? I've tried with $rgb function without any success

OMG... it was too simple
Many thanks to you too

$rgb function doesn't work in DUI