Hi there,

This is probably a long shot, but....

Has anyone used foobar2000 with Samurize (a free program that can show information on the desktop) and written a plugin or script that will make it work with foobar?

I'd love to be able to use Samurize in conjuction with foobar2000 but have no programming skills whatsoever so will have to wait (if ever) someone else uses it.

Thanks
Spadge

I use foo_textinfo.dll and make it read that textfile, used to work great, but atm samurize won´t read its config file @#?!WTF? Well, try for yourself...



Edit: OK, works again with a new config, don´t know what that was...

Where can I get foo_textinfo.dll from? Is it in the installer?

Do you use a VBscript to make it read the text file?

Thanks

Hm. Overlooked, haven´t you? First check here, then use this to find this thread.

I use it only to show the playing song in the top right of my desktop, right in that title bar. If I would need VB to do so, then why should I use samurize? Well, here´s my config, but trying the config editor might be just as fast as pasting and copying this text to a foobar.ini in the programs "config" dir and selecting it from the right click menu in the sys tray icon...any questions left? Perhaps you will check that horizontal value depending on your resolution.

Methinks it is overkill. Here's what I'm doing with Samurize and foo_textinfo.

1. Create foo_textinfo.cfg in the fb2k directory. In it will be the title formatting output string you want to show up on the screen. Like this. $if(%artist% - %title%,%artist% - %title%,%_filename%) Close the file.

2. Create a textfile called foo_textinfo.txt. Don't put anything in it. Close it. That's it for FB2K

3. Open up Samurize. Load your config. Under Edit Meters, click on Add a Meter and select Add a Text File.

4.Under text file properties enter c:\program files\foobar2000\foo_textinfo.txt

That should be it. Where you put it is up to you. I've got a task bar at the top of the screen. So I put a horizontal progress bar just below it so it shows up in the title bar of a fully opened window, and above that, on the taskbar is the song info. Works well.

What exactly? That´s all it does for me, displaying directly under the taskbar in the title of a fully opened window. You say you´re displaying your info on the taskbar? Doesn´t it clutter with enough open windows? Progress bar is a nice idea! Which one are you talking about?

I'm using true launch bar for the top task bar. Really nice program that lets you build menus out of folders. I have plenty of space on the right side to get the song title, artist, etc in. Just below that is a progress bar that goes from blue to red and a counter which displays cpu activity (Foobar always hovers around 1-2% on a 550. Yaaaaayyyyyy!)

Samurize is pretty cool because you can build all kinds of meters, guages, etc. and has complete access to everything that you can see in Windows task manager (processes/view/select columns) plus a lot more. It (samurize) is also very resource firendly ( about 1 meg ram and less than .5% cpu). It has a drag and drop interface to build and place stuff with (meters, guages and stuff) and best of all.......it's free!

Here's a link that also has a bunch of user comments: Samurize

It took me about 30 seconds to set Samurize up and have it talking to foo_textinfo. I think it's a real find.

??? My taskbar has a start button, a quick launch bar with 3 icons showing and systray to the right. The space inbetween is occupied with ahm, tasks? 6 are enough to fill it and I don´t see a true launch bar making any place for song displays? Ach, doesn´t matter, samurize is nice! This progress bar, has it anything to do with the song playing?

Sorry, I meant toolbar (I've got a couple of them on the taskbar).

I was thinking about what else Samurize could do last night. Right now my progress bar is just monitoring all CPU usage, but it can also monitor any individual process...such as Foobar. There's also a ton of other things you can monitor for a single process, like IO (various forms), virtual memory used, thread count, CPU usage, etc.

If Foobar made %_current_time% available you could also have a progress bar showing where in the track you currently were (1/(%_length% / %_current_time%))

Another good tool that is similar to Samurize and also has the ability to read the foo_textinfo.txt and display it somewhere is CoolMon. It's free, open source and available from:

CoolMon

I like both samurize and coolmon, but I have one problem with unicode thing. They doesn't read utf-8 text files (which is what uses foo_textinfo.txt for unicode). Anyone knows a solution?

I have the same problem. Looking for a solution also.

I use CoolMon and it reads foo_textinfo.txt just fine.

I tried coolmon too and had the same problem, I mailed the developers and said they would solution it the next version

hi,

i create the foo_textinfo.cfg and the foo_textinfo.txt in the fb2k dir but fb2k write nothing in the .txt . can anyone help me plz??

Sorry, now it works fine.i forget the .dll.

Is it possible to have Samurize scroll the text if it's too long to fit in the designated text box? The options available to text box aren't exactly numerous (at least in the Serious Samurize editor), is there something I can directly add to the config file?

It can be done, but u need to do some scripting yourself. Head over to samurize.com(which isnt quite up right now) or try samurize.dk or some other unofficial site.

For the CoolMon thingy. Im not sure bout the resources if its used for displaying multiple meters, but when i display the nowplaying.txt only:

Samurize : <1000kb ram
CoolMon : >5000kb ram

anyway.. dont think this is the right place to discuss these things

For anyone interested, I did find a script made by NeM (a samurize.com crew member as he calls himself) for scrolling text (from a file too). You can find his script (among others) here:http://samurize.breezeland.com/e107/download.php?9

Note that the instructions in the script suggest that you follow-up the "Interval=1" line with an "IntervalSeconds=x" line for more frequent updating. An example of my config section is here:

Hate to bump a dead thread but how do I go about setting this up? Do I create foo_textinfo.dll? Can I grab this somewhere? Thanks.

Here

Can anyone think of a way I could get Samurize to display the next song in foobar's playlist?

What if you had foobar playing randomly? Wouldn't be quite so random.

I wouldn't expect it to work on random. I would randomize the playlist if I wanted random playback.

And that would do what? Samurize would still need the info up front, wouldn't it?

I have this as my Samurize display at the moment

so that I can see the info from about 4 metres away. It'd be very useful to know the next track to be played as I use Girder to remotely control Foobar and could skip the track if I didn't want to hear it.

I believe this could be possible, as foo_wsgui already does it.

But actually you could use only foo_wsgui, just make a look which has a transparent background.

rectangle, check here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....25&#entry107039

Hope it's something you like

That's pretty snazzy... it's something I would like.

Thanks anza. It's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for!