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Kerbtree: Sep 8, 2008; BAD FALCON!
LAZY!

Reive posted:

Has anyone ever made a theme for foo_title?
I have one mostly complete but it's running into a few problems, album art won't display and the progress bar freaks out when nothing is loaded yet.
If anyone can fix it I'd be very happy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?86meclea4co7666

What about using the shell integration plugin?

# ? Mar 16, 2013 11:18

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# ? May 22, 2013 22:54

Benjamin Black: Sep 8, 2008; Now wasn't that delicious?

If you have surround sound headphones, this is definitely the thing to get: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums...showtopic=52235

It's called FreeSurround and it makes my music sound amazing.

# ? Mar 16, 2013 12:26

whiskas: May 30, 2005

I missed how iTunes would allow you to make smart playlists. I always had a playlist that contained 50 of the most recently added songs in my library.

I have something similar setup in Foobar with the autoplaylist feature querying the following:

code:

%path% PRESENT SORT DESCENDING BY %last_modified%

However this returns ALL songs in my library, sort newest -> oldest. Is there any way of limiting the results to the top 50 songs?

# ? Mar 17, 2013 22:36

BANME.sh: Jan 23, 2008; What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??

There is no way to impose a limit on autoplaylists in foobar.

# ? Mar 17, 2013 23:11

about_face: Nov 4, 2012; FUCK MOVIES

I'm using the default UI setup for foobar2k with no add-ons.
Does anyone know how to view albums with multiple contributing artists under one collapsible section rather than one for every album/artist?
It seems pretty stupid that foobar does this when there is a "view by artist/album" AND a "view by album" option.

# ? Mar 18, 2013 03:04

MeKeV: Aug 10, 2010

whiskas posted:

I missed how iTunes would allow you to make smart playlists. I always had a playlist that contained 50 of the most recently added songs in my library.

I have something similar setup in Foobar with the autoplaylist feature querying the following:
code:
%path% PRESENT SORT DESCENDING BY %last_modified%
However this returns ALL songs in my library, sort newest -> oldest. Is there any way of limiting the results to the top 50 songs?

I notice the the Random Pools component has these options;

Although, while I have it installed, I've never used it so I'm only guessing that it might do what you want.

about_face posted:

Does anyone know how to view albums with multiple contributing artists under one collapsible section

I think you need to make use of the %album artist% tag, e.g. "Various Artists". And then sort/group using that.

Edit:VVVVV
Yeah, just come back to say ignore the Random Pools suggestion.
Another suggestion might be to look at the foo_playlist_tree(_mod) component. The documentation here http://www.bazquux.com/wiki/Foobar2...t_Tree:Tutorial mentions MAX values within schemes, though I don't know how it works in practice.

MeKeV fucked around with this message at Mar 18, 2013 around 13:52

# ? Mar 18, 2013 08:58

ledge: Jun 10, 2003; anal?

The playback_statistics component can limit to added within the last x days/weeks/etc but that fails of you don't add anything for a while.

It does however give you the %date added% tag which works better as last modified gets reset if you modify tags or move or rename a file.

Random pools doesn't auto update so you'd have to recreate the play list manually all the time.

Short answer is, no you can't do that

# ? Mar 18, 2013 09:44

Reive: May 21, 2009

Kerbtree posted:

What about using the shell integration plugin?

That's a good plugin for what it does, but the thing I want is a micro-player mode that can be set to always on top.
I've since found out foo_title doesn't support embedded album art, so screw that.
I've decided to compromise and use a combination of that shell integration for controls/album art and foo_osd to know what I'm listening to at all times:

Now all I need is some sort of UI button that'll turn the OSD on and off at will, I'm sure there's some syntax that I can input to do that...

# ? Mar 18, 2013 16:24

Ephphatha: Dec 18, 2009; Howdy howdy howdy.

I've downloaded the Mnlt2 theme and got it set up almost to my liking, but I'm stuck on one thing.

You can see in the top left there's a white box around the add/remove buttons. Where is that defined/how can I get rid of it? I can't see it in the panel tree or in any of the scripts. The buttons themselves are almost completely transparent and only have a tiny border so it's not a case of changing the image file.

Also, is there a way to skin/remove the scrollbar?

# ? Mar 27, 2013 11:36

Wrist Watch: Apr 19, 2011; cheesy anime pizza undresses you with pepperoni eyes

That's a neat coincidence, I've been screwing around with that theme lately too. Did you know how to to change the title area for whatever album is currently playing? I figured out how to change the background and font colors by myself, but I can't seem to find where to change this part and since it looks like the theme has that set to use the default text I don't think there's a way to change one without changing the other:

Also this theme really falls to pieces if you don't know what you're doing and mess around with adding panels. Like, irreparably unless you completely reset it and start over. That was "fun", trying to figure out where my nice little folder sorted album list disappeared off to and how to get it back.

# ? Mar 27, 2013 18:19

BANME.sh: Jan 23, 2008; What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??

There was a modified version called Mnlt2 Mod on deviant art that added a lot of extra conveniences and cleaner code, but it looks like its deleted.

# ? Mar 27, 2013 18:56

YggiDee: Sep 12, 2007

I've got Mnlt2 Mod saved somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can ever make Foobar skins work

https://www.dropbox.com/s/roafgye0j...e84-d3igwf2.zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kquks8gjg...e84-d3kffyd.zip

here you go.

# ? Mar 27, 2013 22:13

Ephphatha: Dec 18, 2009; Howdy howdy howdy.

Wrist Watch posted:

That's a neat coincidence, I've been screwing around with that theme lately too. Did you know how to to change the title area for whatever album is currently playing? I figured out how to change the background and font colors by myself, but I can't seem to find where to change this part and since it looks like the theme has that set to use the default text I don't think there's a way to change one without changing the other:

Right click on the background of the title area and go to settings (or open up EL Playlist settings from the preferences window).
Go to the Field Definition tab and create a new definition called "title_text_color" (and "selected_title_text_color" or more if you want)
Then switch to the Script > Group Header tab and you want to change the title color section to use your newly defined fields instead of text_color and selected_text_color

Original:

code:

//-----------title color-----------
$puts(title_color,$if(%el_selected%,%selected_text_color%,%text_color%))
$puts(title_color_alt,$if(%el_selected%,%selected_text_color%,%text_color_alt%))

Modified:

code:

//-----------title color-----------
$puts(title_color,$if(%el_selected%,%selected_title_text_color%,%title_text_color%))
$puts(title_color_alt,$if(%el_selected%,%selected_title_text_color%,%title_text_color%))

The background colours are defined in that script as well in the first section.

YggiDee posted:

I've got Mnlt2 Mod saved somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can ever make Foobar skins work

https://www.dropbox.com/s/roafgye0j...e84-d3igwf2.zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kquks8gjg...e84-d3kffyd.zip

here you go.

I almost wish you hadn't posted this

. I've modified the scripts to allow me to change the colours more easily, hopefully someone finds them useful.

Download and import this into the ELPlaylist settings window: ELPlaylist settings file

Or download these and copy/paste them manually into the relevant fields of the ELPlaylist settings window:
Field definitions (if you want to enter them manually)
Group Header script
Track List script

Edit: Turns out I made a typo in the track list script. About halfway down where there's a $if(%el_isplaying%, ---- ) statement split over four lines, the drawtextex call refers to the definition %now_playing_marker_colour% when it should be %current_track_marker_colour%. I can't be bothered reuploading the scripts

Edit: gently caress foobars documentation. $blend() doesn't work anymore. Replace the third or fourth last line in the tracklist script with this mess:

code:

$puts(play_count_color,
  $ifequal(%el_playcount%,0,
    %playcount_base_red_component%-%playcount_base_green_component%-%playcount_base_blue_component%,
	$ifgreater(%el_playcount%,%el_playcount_peak%,
	  %playcount_max_red_component%-%playcount_max_green_component%-%playcount_max_blue_component%,
	  $add(%playcount_base_red_component%,$mul($div($sub(%playcount_max_red_component%,%playcount_base_red_component%),%el_playcount_peak%),%el_playcount%))-
	  $add(%playcount_base_green_component%,$mul($div($sub(%playcount_max_green_component%,%playcount_base_green_component%),%el_playcount_peak%),%el_playcount%))-
	  $add(%playcount_base_blue_component%,$mul($div($sub(%playcount_max_blue_component%,%playcount_base_blue_component%),%el_playcount_peak%),%el_playcount%))
	)
  )
)

You'll need to change the playcount_base_colour and playcount_max_colour defines to playcount_x_red/green/blue_component defines with one number per item.

For example:
playcount_base_red_component : 140
playcount_base_green_component : 140
playcount_base_blue_component : 140
playcount_max_red_component : 36
playcount_max_green_component : 190
playcount_max_blue_component : 36

Ephphatha fucked around with this message at Mar 28, 2013 around 11:39

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:45

KoB: Apr 30, 2009

I just reformatted my computer and I just cant get foobar back the way I had it previously. Before I just had two columns, left side was the collapsing folders of music with search bar at the top, right side was the selected folder.

The difference from default foobar was that I didnt have to add things to a playlist. I just selected a folder/subfolder/track and just appeared on the right and played it. I'm pretty sure I downloaded some custom skin but I cant find it or replicate it.

e: oh, it looked almost exactly like this:

I always just used Library View.

Do I need to download some custom skin? The place I found this wasnt the origin.

KoB fucked around with this message at May 1, 2013 around 04:57

# ? May 1, 2013 04:53

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; ...and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

KoB posted:

The difference from default foobar was that I didnt have to add things to a playlist. I just selected a folder/subfolder/track and just appeared on the right and played it. I'm pretty sure I downloaded some custom skin but I cant find it or replicate it.

Preferences -> Media Library -> library viewer selection playlist enabled

Then just add a library viewer pane to your layout. No plugins or skins needed.

# ? May 1, 2013 05:14

KoB: Apr 30, 2009

Thanks. I cant get it quite the same but that functionality is enough.

# ? May 1, 2013 05:43

SurgicalOntologist: Jun 17, 2004

My library's on a network drive mapped to a drive letter. Is there a way to prevent foobar from updating the library when the network drive isn't connected? The network has gone down a couple times while foobar was open, I didn't realize it, and the next time I wanted to listen to music I had to wait for foobar to rescan the library (plus it's huge so it takes a while). Any ideas to prevent this?

E: Also it fucks with my "recently added" smart playlist.

E2: \/ Makes perfect sense, thanks. \/

SurgicalOntologist fucked around with this message at May 4, 2013 around 01:14

# ? May 3, 2013 21:30

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; ...and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

SurgicalOntologist posted:

My library's on a network drive mapped to a drive letter.

Don't use a mapped drive letter. Foobar can't tell the difference between that and a local drive. If you add a network path to the library (\\computername\musicfolder) it knows that it's on the network and won't remove stuff from the library when the other computer is not reachable.

# ? May 3, 2013 21:43

Avenging Dentist: Oct 1, 2005; oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

whiskas posted:

I missed how iTunes would allow you to make smart playlists. I always had a playlist that contained 50 of the most recently added songs in my library.

...

However this returns ALL songs in my library, sort newest -> oldest. Is there any way of limiting the results to the top 50 songs?

This is old, but what I do is use foo_playcount and then use an autoplaylist query like so:

code:

%added% DURING LAST 2 WEEKS

That gets me close enough.

# ? May 3, 2013 22:10

etcetc: Apr 22, 2013

Is there a way to get foobar to organize my artists by ignoring "the"?

i.e. the Beatles the put in the B section rather than the T, ignoring "the"

# ? May 14, 2013 03:04

BANME.sh: Jan 23, 2008; What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??

Instead of %artist% or %album artist% use $swapprefix(%album artist%,the)

You could also use $swapprefix(%album artist%,the,a) to ignore artists that start with the word "A" when sorting (A Perfect Circle, for example, would sort under "P")

# ? May 14, 2013 03:07

Ephphatha: Dec 18, 2009; Howdy howdy howdy.

Or you can just use $swapprefix(%album artist%) as by default it considers "The" and "A" as prefix strings.

# ? May 14, 2013 05:24

Oggumogoggum: Nov 29, 2005

Along the same lines, is there any way to define a 'sort by' name for certain artists so that they will show up by last name alphabetically? I'd like to have Paul Simon come after The Shins, for example. I've fiddled with this in the past but could never get it to work.

# ? May 15, 2013 12:38

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; ...and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

Oggumogoggum posted:

Along the same lines, is there any way to define a 'sort by' name for certain artists so that they will show up by last name alphabetically? I'd like to have Paul Simon come after The Shins, for example. I've fiddled with this in the past but could never get it to work.

Not without some additional info somewhere to indicate the difference between a personal name that you want sorted by last name and a two-word band name that you want sorted normally. After all you don't want Zeppelin, Led to be sorted into the z's next to Zappa, Frank.

It is possible to do with a custom tag, something like "namesort = 1" on all the music you want sorted differently, and then a two-part sorting script that does those differently. I have a custom tag on some of my music that hides them from my normal album list. But I think your idea is well into

territory.

# ? May 15, 2013 16:43

BANME.sh: Jan 23, 2008; What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??

I'm actually surprised Foobar doesn't have an alternate sort by metadata field :/

# ? May 15, 2013 18:23

Avenging Dentist: Oct 1, 2005; oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

BANME.sh posted:

I'm actually surprised Foobar doesn't have an alternate sort by metadata field :/

It has a few: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index...ID3_Tag_Mapping

# ? May 15, 2013 18:55

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# ? May 22, 2013 22:54

Lemur Crisis: May 6, 2009; What will you do?
Where can you run?

If you use MusicBrainz Picard to tag your music then you'll get <ALBUMARTISTSORTORDER> and <ARTISTSORTORDER> tags by default that you could use instead of Album Artist or whatever.

# ? May 15, 2013 22:58

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