Really, nobody?

Hi,

first of all : have you installed a component that set the playcount or playcounter TAG ? it could help

my config displays the TAGs %play_count or %play_counter%, if none, it displays 0

i use foo_playcount_mod.dll v1.0.2 that write playcount infos directly in the music file.

I'm not slow mate, I have it...

Hi I have some questions

First of all thanks for the great config. Clean and elegant design.

This is a minor problem. Despite I have the font installed in Vista, Kroeger_05 still shown as not installed. I don't know what it affects though.

There seems to be bugs with icons disappearing after Foobar has been running for a while. Some, if not all icons on tab buttons of the left panel would sometime disappear. The same can be seen of the playing icon when a track is playing, in place of the track numbers, that it'd gone missing.

For the scroll bar, if the playlist is too short, the show/hide scroll bar optionw would truncate the view. This is only minor though.

For system codepage settings for non-Unicode application not set to English, The stars made using Wingdings font may not work. I tried the Japanese codepage, whichs shows a garbage character despite font chosen to Wingdings using $font. I have instead modified it to use $char(9733), a unicode pointer to a star symbol. The same goes for the separator between artist and song name, which I used $char(9642) instead. This may be of help to someone not using English system codepage.

Edit: In fact, $font never works unless you specify unicode enabled fonts in case the system codepage is not English. Perhaps it's something to do with foobar? I am not good with foobar scripting. Is there another function that is similar to $font but allow you to force a codepage to be used in a font?

I have tried and failed to get the stars working, it really spoils the whole skin for me. I'm delighted if you've managed to get it working but can you be more clear what you have changed? The stars I have a problem with are the rating stars in the left info panel. The line of code that drives them is

$if(%rating%,$get(info)Rating : $get(star_on)$repeat(★,%rating%)$get(star_off)$repeat(★,$sub(5,%rating%))$char(10),)

And although when I paste it here I see the stars, on my XP PC I see them as square boxes despite the correct fonts being installed

I see this http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/272046...767241b73_o.jpg

What exactly have you done to that line of code to get it working?

Well it seems stars are working on your playlist. You shouldn't have problem with it. In my case even the main playlist stars aren't working.
You have 2 choices, either:
1) replace all "★"s in
$get(star_on)$repeat(★,%rating%)$get(star_off)$repeat(★,$sub(5,%rating%))$char(10),)
to $char(9733). You can't directly put them in the script. You may need to change the font using $font to an unicode font depend on your system unicode settings.

2) Look at the script in the main playlist where stars are. I forgot what char code Br3tt used. He put $font(Wingdings) before that to select that font, and then used $char(162) (can't remember exactly which number). Make sure you use $font to change it back to another normal font after that. Just see the main script on how it's done, and do the same at the file info panel on the left.

for your scrollbar truncated, i already explain that is Windows theme dependant and i discribe how to fix it in the first post of this Topic in the last section /// POSSIBLE TROUBLES ///, so, just take a look and just do it ...

Nopes this is something different. My scrollbar is neither too small nor truncated.

It's not a big problem. It is just that, when you have a scrollable playlist (long playlist), enable/disable scrollbar button works perfect.
However, if you have a really short playlist, and scrollbar is disabled. If you press the enable/disable scrollbar button, it won't work. It'd attempt to truncate your playlist instead of adding a scrollbar, and the enable settings does not save and carry forward when you switch to a longer playlist; so you have to re-click the button. Just a minor nuisance that's all.

Unfortunately you can't use $font in the left hand info panel, it isn't recognised as a command as far as I can see

Br3tt, is this still on your 'To Do' list for 1.5B It drives me mad

it works perfectly with short playlist if you have enforced the scrollbar status to 'show' value in the ElPlaylist Settings, be sure of that point please

This looks like a really awesome config, Falstaff. I've been trying to get it to work, but every time I load the FCL foobar instantly exits with no error message and no crash log, and no settings are saved. I tried with a clean install and just the components needed to run the config, and got the same issue. Oddly enough, all of the components actually work individually on my machine, including coverflow and the WSH panel. All of my drivers are up to date, and my PC is kept in good shape. Running Vista 32-bit, q6600 + P35, and Radeon HD 2900XT.

I'm wondering if you or someone else could post the layout tree of the panels in the Columns UI options "Layout" tab. Perhaps then I could figure out what exactly is causing this crash. Any help is appreciated.

IBIZA v1.6b just released, enjoy

The ratings stars still don't work, that was going to be the first request on the wish list

where ? in playlist or in track info (left) panel ?

if it's in left panel, it's normal if you are using XP, it doesn't handle unicode extended charset by default.

In the left panel, can't you switch it to using images instead? It isn't just me that is having this problem and it seems crazy if the config is only for Vista users

What other changes are there in 1.6? Is it just the font and change to blue theme? Did you introduce the transparent background pics yet?

yes, transparency is in, stars like pictures too in playlist (only) ...

changes details here : http://br3tt.deviantart.com/art/IBIZA-v1-6...eased-100150399

So it is impossible to use pictures as stars in the Track Info panel on the left too? The stars were working correctly for me in the EL Playlist anyway, it's just the Track info panel that has never worked

i know, i have already explain to you that to make it work for all (XP users that haven't installed Unicod support) i'll have to re-write the track info panel to a track info MOD panel that support pictures.

i haven't forgot that but not a priority for now and i notice to you that rating is already displayed at the top banner and in playlist so deleting it from left panel could be done too ..., but like i have said, if i found time, i'll do it, no problem, but i can't planned it, it depends of my free time.

maybe soon, i don't forget.

Thanks, I'm not complaining as it's a great upgrade as usual but it's just so annoying because the rest of it is so perfect now

I'm still looking for the code to change to get the transparency working, is it the 2 // lines?

EDIT

No, I've just noticed it is working already with Album Art but it is so dim I hardly noticed it, and I can't see anywhere to change the opacity?

transparency is ON by default, if nothing appear (so looks like it is OFF) it is because the PATH for covers and Artist Photo is mine and you have to modify them

the more easy way if you don't know how to find the code for the Panel Stack Splitter that contains the ELPlaylist panel is explained here :

=> rigth-click in the back space (2 pixeld high!) just between the top line just above the playlist and top of the playlist, see below and follow instructions to modify the PATH of your covers and Photos :



instructions added in 1st post too

If I modify the artist path to $puts(artist.path,$directory_path(%path%)/artist.jpg) which is the same as the Artist panel uses, the EL Playlist goes blank

I can definately see the album cover, but it is very faint, does it look correct in the attached pic or should it be brighter?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/292395...cb41bbf76_o.jpg

it just because the syntax enterred is bad



my monitor is very brigth, so for me it is good, all depends on your monitor brightness, set it lighter or modify in ELPlaylist the variable __TRANSPARENCY__ that i have added. It is set by default to 100, to make the background brighter, replace 100 with a lower value between 0 to 100 (over 100 will make it darker)

OK thanks, I'll experiment with the correct TRANSPARENCY setting

Can you tell me what the correct syntax is supposed to be for the artist/album paths please

They are both in the root music folder as Folder.jpg and Artist.jpg

So by default it shows the ARTIST pic as background unless that is missing, then it shows the ALBUM pic?

clap clap clap !!! you got it

so, you are very lazy today no ?? ok ok , here are the paths you have to used for your foobar :

$puts(cover.path,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg)
$puts(artist.path,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)artist.jpg)

The transparent background image is displayed over the EL Playlist. When the Chronflow lower pame is displayed it covers half of the background image. Would it be better to re-size the background image when the Chronflow is displayed so all of the background image is displayed in the visible area of the EL Playlist? By default I have the Chronflow panel showing which means I can only ever see the top of the background image

I noticed that too, in this config and your other kung-foo one as well.

over the playlist ??? what do you mean ?? screenshot please.



aspect ratio will be lost if i do a such thing ... and i don't want.

OK, it was just a suggestion but the aspect ratio depends on your type of monitor, on some monitors the EL Playlist with Chronflow panel is just apart square and perfect for an album cover, whereas the whole EL Playlist is rectangular

"the aspect ratio depends on your type of monitor" ???

false, it only depends on the panel Playlist size ! thats only true when you maximize your foobar window, logical.

i haven't indicate that photos of artists must be square like the covers to have a good ratio aspect.

Behind I mean, but see that the shape is rectangular? With the Chronflow showing the space becomes square

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/292412...8efbd21ac_o.jpg


Sorry, phrased badly

How to add image sources,for example,cover.bmp,cover.png,cover.gif?
thanks

here is a sample of the artist image, being in different views and you can see more of the image and then less of the image depending on what mode is selected. Animated

yes, i know that, it is the way i want to display the backgnd pics in order to keep aspect ratio

pics (cover and photos) have to be with a ratio of 1:1, so if width of the panel is greater than the height, i zoom the pic to keep the correct aspect ratio (no deformation) but i loose part of the pic, that is a choice.

No, that makes EL Playlist go blank too

And no, not lazy, just right at the edge of my coding ability

rigth-click on ELPlaylist, enter Settings, and at the beginning of the script, modify the Path used for covers (in blue) :

$if($findfile($replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg)),
$puts(cover.path,$directory_path(%path%)/folder.jpg)
,
$puts(cover.path,./images/ibiza/cover/nocover.png)
)

this default code display pics named folder.jpg located in the music folder.

wildcard are not admit (* or ? characters) so you can only add multiple named files by stacking them like this (replace the 5 lines above by these) :

$if($findfile($replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,cover.jpg)),
$puts(cover.path,$directory_path(%path%)/cover.jpg)
,
$if($findfile($replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,cover.bmp)),
$puts(cover.path,$directory_path(%path%)/cover.bmp)
,
$if($findfile($replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,cover.gif)),
$puts(cover.path,$directory_path(%path%)/cover.gif)
,
$puts(cover.path,./images/ibiza/cover/nocover.png)
)
)
)

=>it look for cover.jpg, if not found, it looks for cover.bmp, if not found too, it looks for cover.gif ... if not found then it will use the nocover.png picture

you got it ?



it works fine, just tested it !! you are doing something wrong or the artist.jpg image is not in the same folder that your music file, check this please.

good luck

Fixed, that was VERY strange, changing the code for the EL Playlist also renamed the Scrolling NOW PLAYING page to EL PLaylist too. I renamed it to Scrolling NOW PLAYING and it's working fine. Weird...

ARG!

Is there a 1.6b out now or is the text just wrong on the start screen which says 1.6a?

1.6a was not released, start panel text fixed now.

thanks a lot
You answer my question so quickly.

I love Ibiza 1.6b but I have some trouble. I followed the instructions of the how to and changed the paths for ELPlaylist. But instead of showing the background picture in ELPlaylist it's now completely blank. Meaning that even though I've added 2 albums to the playlist it is completely blank. No pics (back- or foreground) nor any tracks in the panel.

Export your config in a new .fcl file and send it to me, i'll take a look.

Done. Please check your PM inbox

Read this post and see if it is doing the same thing to your config, it's a very weird problem

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=592374

OK, I re-created the problem for you, see the blank EL Playlist and the incorrectly named form on the left?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/292454...82bdc6a2e_o.jpg

Just re-name the top form to Scrolling NOW PLAYING and it will work fine

Thanks a lot. That really solved the problem. It's really odd though.

Damn I totally forgot how to change the text beneath the albums in the left panel :[

I bet Br3tt can't work out what caused the problems

And if you mean the Genre and Year text under the pics that I use, I posted a 'how to' a few pages back complete with the code you need

Well I can change the code. I just need a pointer as to where it is located

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....mp;#entry583462

Thanks that put me on the right track. Made the changes I wanted to

It's so long ago I can't remember what I changed, easier to just copy the lot

it is a bug in PSS, i've reply just now to Andu, before reading the topic.