I don't like the column view at all. That's why I never used the UI Columns component.
The clean, spartan playlist view of 0.9.4.x is one of the main reasons I use foobar2000. I think it's great that there's more UI to choose from, but I don't see why the old view has to be thrown out like yesterday's trash. In fact, it would be really cool to have the old view as a UI element. I don't really know if that's a possibility, though, since I went right back to 0.9.4.5 after failing to find a way to get my old view back (i.e. I didn't explore 0.9.5 much).

Sorry if someone has already asked. I did search first, though.

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remove all UI panels, leave buttons and playlist view, turn off grouping and leave only one column with desired formatting e.g. %artist% - [%album% - %date%] - %title%

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Thanks for the quick response.
I get a blank column unless I remove the $rgb() items. The songs are there, but invisible. Unfortunately, I use them so that the colors won't invert when the song is being played. This is the formatting string I used:

$rgb() (and particularly $rgb(R,G,B,RS,GS,BS)) seem to have no effect at all.

erm... Text color for currently playing song doesn't invert for me, but i couldn't get $rgb to work either. Try to find a workaround by customizing your color scheme.

Color codes - produced by $rgb() or another function - do not work in the Default UI playlist view. Neither does $tab().

Replacing 0.9.5's foo_ui_std with 0.9.4.5's seems to do the trick actually. And 0.9.5 didn't even complain.
I can even change the settings from Advanced -> Display -> Legacy title formatting strings.

0.9.5 won't have a problem with the old UI plugin, will it?

Release notes for foobar2000 0.9.5, Component Compatibility section:

Any plans to make a version of the old UI that is officially compatible with 0.9.5?

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Same here !
All my ReplayGain information has gone !!
How can I bring it back ?

Right click on the column header, choose 'Columns > More...' and add a new column using %__replaygain_album_gain% (and so on) as pattern.

Afterwards you can activate this new column at the columns menu.

Sorry to interrumpt


Is there any workaround to this, or the answer is "No, you can't no matter how hard you try" ?

Thanks.

No, you can't no matter how hard you try.

Thanks for the answer Florian, and sorry to the OP for interrupting, once again