Beta 2 is now available for download. Main changes from beta 1 are playback queue management enhancements, including queue index display in "playing" column of Default UI as well as %queue_index% available in playlist display contexts.

Thanks for the update.

Queue field request:
Ability to show indexes for song which is queued multiple times like %cwb_queueindexes% and queue length like %cwb_queuelength%.

AWESOME!

Noted.I don't like the idea. Where whould that need to be available? If it's just for queued items, it would be inconsistent; if for all playlist items, it would be inefficient (triggering a full refresh of all playlist views each time queue length changes regardless of that feature even being active...).

Dunno if this is an obvious thing or not... Is there a way to (automatically) open a tab with a playlist with all enqueued items in it? i enqueud some with add to playback queue, and now numbers appear for the songs, but after enqueing some from different playlists i kinda lost it what te list was that i made.

Is there an option i didnt see or isnt this implemented in foob? I used to work with just drag and drop songs on a new playlisttab to make a queue, but i am trying to see if this way of enqueuing is something i could get used to.

(DUI only)

Get foosion's playlist queue viewer.

I have a very small feature request. Some of the title formatting functions are not documented in the HTML file that comes with foobar2000. Although they are described in the wiki, it would be nice to include them in the official documentation. I learned very late about $ansi() and $ascii() because they were not in the official docs, but I find them extremely useful when renaming files (because some devices/file systems don't like (all) accented Latin letters).

I just have to comment on the mini-thread that is here about foobar2000 core vs. misbehaving components and the stance Peter has on this.

Nullsoft is a company which was negative about additions to or improvements to the Winamp API. Many suggestions were made, but Nullsoft didn't listen until very late. Many clever hacks were made by plugin developers to get what they wanted. Most notably how to get the selected items in the playlist editor . You can see ugly code that was invented to retrieve this info without a proper API function here: http://saivert.com/winamp/gen_getsel.zip (complete sample Winamp plugin source code)

This is as I believe just one of the reasons Peter dropped developing plugins for Winamp and made his own player.

Actually Nullsoft had something good with Winamp3. It was a new player written from scratch with a robust (mostly portable) C++ based codebase, great skinning engine and very extensible plugin interface. But they failed at completing it and it was abandoned due to it being overly complex. I still believe this was a bad choice and if they had kept improving it, they might have had a great multi-platform media player today.

Sorry for wandering off into ranting about Winamp. But it's just one of those great projects that are ruined with bad judgment and decisions.

I really don't want the same to happen to foobar2000 and I doubt it will given Peter's experience.

Thanks.
I used to format my display code like this in playlist %cwb_queueindexes%/%cwb_queuelength%. So this is only for queued items. What did you mean by being inconsistent, is it about only for queued items only and not for other playlist items? Well if you really don't like it, you can drop it. I also don't care much about queue length but it would be nice to have.

OK, I'll add a queue length field for queued items only, since to get what you want you'd need a more complex title formatting string if that field was shown for all items.

Thank you.

great! queue indexes

Is it possible to centre format the playlist queue numbers rather than left format? And rather than brackets to use bold (or possibly a shaded font to go with the play icon)?

Also, it would be really nice if you could sort the play queue column.

And I love what you've done with the library viewer selection playlist, but is it possible that a double click will play the selected song?

If you've done that, I'd consider Foobar perfect (at least for now )

I hope it is not totally inappropriate to mention something I miss since 0.9.5. It has not to do with 3rd party components.
I would like to be able to set colour per (custom) playlist column (either a setting or $rgb())
(something similar is already mentioned in the feature proposals, just as) the different colour for "now playing" would be good too.

It would be possible to save queue (or „queue playlist”) between sessions?