Just got rid of Winamp yesterday. I had enough of it's slow start ups and just general "bloat". But I've been trying for 3 hours to figure out the last part of my (crap) foobar2k setup.


I like to listen to whole albums, not shuffle them up and stuff. Now, when I click an artist, select an album and double click a song, I have to leave it pointed at that album in the Browser or else it will change to whatever I am looking at when the track I double clicked ends. I would prefer if I could navigate my way around my Media Library (editing tags, finding album art and what-not) and foobar doesn't start playing random songs.

After reading wikis, FAQ, googling various things, looking through these forums and reading for a few hours, I had a few ideas as how to accomplish this, but none of them worked.
Could someone please tell me what I have to do, or point me in the right direction?

I thought it may be something like "tell foobar to send tracks to a 'Now Playing' playlist" or... I dunno...

Turn off Playback > Playback follows cursor.

First of all, make sure the "Playback Follows Cursor" mode is disabled (In the playback menu).

Now, there are two ways you can achieve your goal:
1. The simpler, but less powerful way: is to use playback queue. Right Click tracks you want to play and select "Add to Playback Queue". Now you can do whatever else you want, and the playback order won't be affected.
2. The more powerful way is to use a specialized now playing playlist. Drag and drop files you want to play to the end of this playlist and play it.

The reason queue is less powerful is that it is intentionally meant to be simple and limited; you can't reorder tracks, you can only remove them.

Search the forum for "playback queue" to see more cool stuff like queue viewers and other related discussions.

That's not really what I had in mind.
Scenario:
I click Breaking Benjamin, then Phobia.
I double click "02. Diary of Jane", and it starts playing the song "Diary of Jane".
And it still queues Intro before it, along with all the accompanying tracks after it. Thus keeping the order in-tact.

Basically, I want it to act exactly like Winamp/WMP, but at the moment it is acting like foobar (fancy that ) and iTunes.

I believe I understand what you want, but could you please rewrite your problem with a little more clarity.
You are using two views of foobar. The media library [album listing] and a playlilst view. When you write "I double click" it would help others to help you if you add where you are within foobar.

Telling me that you want it to work exactly like a program I have not seen in 10 years is not much help. ;-)

terry

I don't see why track 1 should be added if you're going to play from Track 2 onwards. BUT, what you describe can be done.

Select Album, add to your now playing playlist. Double click track 2 (in your now playing playlist). Your track 1 is still in the playlist, above Track 2, as you described.

Ok, this is really hard to put into words...

The problem is when I am playing music, if I select another artist, rather than keeping the Currently Playing one in view, whatever I have currently have selected will start playing once the song cpmes to an end.

What I would prefer is that it continues to play the same album, rather than switching to what I currently have selected.

I have disabled "Playback Follows Cursor".

What I think is happening is when I double click a song, it only enqueues that single song to the queue, and foobar starts playing what I have selected as the queue has come to an end. If double clicking enqueued all tracks from an album, my problem would pretty much be solved.


I don't really understand what you mean here. I double click on "02 Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane" in the bottom half on my foobar (the playlist part I am guessing)


I don't necessarily want it to work exactly like winamp, jsut this particular part.
In winamp, when I double clicked a track, it wiped the Now Playing playlist clean, and enqueued the album that the track belongs, then proceeded to play the track I originally double clicked. The track that I double clicked wouldnt be first in the playlist, unless it was track one on the CD.



That's what I am currently doing.
In the screenshot in the first post, you can see I made a Now Playing playlist. What you described is the closest thing I could get to what I wanted.

I rewrote this like 5 times, it's the clearest I can put it...

Are you using the album list panel? If so, I think I know, what the problem is. The album list always sends the selected node to the playlist "library view". If that's the problem you have, just turn off "auto send to playlist" in the album list panel settings. That way you can browse your library and add the albums/songs manually by rightclicking and selecting the option "send to playlist" or "add to playlist" in the context menu.

Edit: I wrote this before your last reply. Now I understand what you want - unfortunately I don't know, if that can be done with foobar...

Though newish to foobar, I believe what you want is possible and straight forward. However, one of the problems with offering help is that since foobar is so easy to change about, it is really hard to convey an apple to apple configuration. I never have experienced your issue...though fooling about with my foo just now, I can make it work as you have, but easily have it acting in the manner as you wish. BUT, I am using the Default UI and I am not sure what I am looking at in your picture. Default UI with facets or more likely, CUI.

What ui are you using and maybe I can contribute something that resembles assistance.

terry

Yes, I am using Columns UI.

I won't be able to offer any specific help with CUI.

terry

I could go for the Default UI, until I find a way to do it with Columns UI.

Hopefully, this does not send you a long way down a wrong path. Luckily, it does not take long.
I will leave to you to add splitters, and deal with various other items as you see fit.

I'd set up default with facets and a tabbed playlist view.
Left facet an artist view, links to second facet which is an album list view. Should be familiar to you.

Items selected in the Facets [or browsers as per your screenshot] will auto link to a facet playlist tab. Set facet preferences to have facet selection to send to facet playlist without auto play.

This should get you started - I hope.

Pick an album you want to play. Right click and send it to it's own labeled playlist. It will start and play track after track. You can now select whatever you want within the facet browse views [single click] and the facet playlist will auto update but will not interfere with what you are listening to. Of course, ymmv, and as with all aspects of foobar there will be many, many variations.

terry

you don't need to go for DUI just use filter panel in CUI instead of foo_browser (foo_browser is obsolete).
filter panel creates second playlist ["Filter Results (Playback)"] if current filter playlist ["Filter Results"] is being played and you select another artist/album...

Umm, Filter Panel in Columns UI? I can't seem to find that.

Guess not...

Your screen show differing tab functions...
Maybe time to update CUI

terry

you can get latest CUI version from http://yuo.be/columns.php

Awesome, I think that's got it down(I was using version 1.*.* of CUI)
But 1 last thing, the text on the filters is black, as is the background...

Preferences -> Columns UI -> Colours and fonts
in Element dropdown list choose Filter Panel and change colors below.

Actually another thing, see how the Colums Playlist is black and yellow, where are the options to change those colours?

same thing... just instead of Filter Panel in Element dropdown list choose Columns Playlist.

Thanks all for being such a great help