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poo poo, so many posts here today I thought there was a major release
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This is a super dumb question, but I've been poking around for a while and haven't found any option to get rid of this. I'm using the basic program with just Columns UI, and in the main play window there are blue titles above every song. I was running a really old version of foobar until recently that didn't have these titles, and was wondering how do I get rid of them.
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# ? Oct 20, 2011 23:41 |
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Add the whole cd to "Various Artists" or some poo poo and it'll group it that way. Like to the Album Artist tag.
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# ? Oct 20, 2011 23:54 |
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Ah, so there is no way to get rid of the titles? It kind of sucks when I'm just listening to a bunch of random songs and my playlist looks like a jumbled mess.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 11:28 |
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Ah, so there is no way to get rid of the titles? It kind of sucks when I'm just listening to a bunch of random songs and my playlist looks like a jumbled mess. My playlist doesn't have them, but I don't know offhand what, if anything, I did to get rid of them. I don't recall having to turn them off.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 11:30 |
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Ah, so there is no way to get rid of the titles? It kind of sucks when I'm just listening to a bunch of random songs and my playlist looks like a jumbled mess. If you're using Columns UI them titles are the result of what you have in - -Preferences ---Display ----Columns UI -----Playlist View --------Grouping
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 13:48 |
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Zyklon's using default ui, so the way to remove the group headers entirely is to right-click on the playlist header (the Artist | Title | Album | etc top bit) and choose Groups -> None. In the preferences, drill down to Playlist View and you make custom column and group entries. In that screenshot, "Albums + Singles" is a simple custom group I made, which puts files with blank tracknumber tags in a generic artist group, so they don't make as much clutter. It's not hard to make a layout that shows you what you want with just basic knowledge of tagz code. (As opposed to columnsUI, which is way more powerful but not very intuitive.)
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 17:10 |
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Not only did Zyklon specifically mention Columns, the presence of the double-height statusbar shows that he really is using Columns with NGPlaylist.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 20:18 |
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Ah thanks guys, the grouping thing did it. I feel retarded trying to mess around with foobar and am amazed I can get it working at all any time I have to re-install it. It's such an awesome player though I should try and dig down deeper into customizing it.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 20:37 |
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Stumbled on this old photo. I had FB2k on my iPod set up as a portable and had the library set to the ipodcontrol folder so it would automatically sort all the music on my iPod. I should do that again with my Android phone.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 22:36 |
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Illuminado posted:Stumbled on this old photo. Brilliant!
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 22:42 |
I recently did the "reverse switch" of going from Mac to Windows. While I love Mac OS, I can't really afford to buy a brand new Mac compared to the much cheaper Windows machines. Anyways, I feel like iTunes on Windows just kind of sucks compared to the Mac version. I want to make the switch to foobar but I have 55GB of PERFECTLY organized music on iTunes. I'm talking comments, genre, album art, year, country, title, album, etc. (I'm a "music lover" heh) I have all that for my music and I don't want to lose it. When I loaded all my music into foobar, it seemed to just use the id3 tags? I wasn't sure but it was an unorganized mess. I really want to make the switch to foobar but I want to take all my work on organizing my music with me. Is there a way to basically export the iTunes library .xml file so that it organizes my foobar music accordingly?
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 09:08 |
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Dance The Mutation posted:I recently did the "reverse switch" of going from Mac to Windows. While I love Mac OS, I can't really afford to buy a brand new Mac compared to the much cheaper Windows machines. Anyways, I feel like iTunes on Windows just kind of sucks compared to the Mac version. I want to make the switch to foobar but I have 55GB of PERFECTLY organized music on iTunes. I'm talking comments, genre, album art, year, country, title, album, etc. (I'm a "music lover" heh) I have all that for my music and I don't want to lose it. When I loaded all my music into foobar, it seemed to just use the id3 tags? I wasn't sure but it was an unorganized mess. I really want to make the switch to foobar but I want to take all my work on organizing my music with me. Is there a way to basically export the iTunes library .xml file so that it organizes my foobar music accordingly? I know this isn't very helpful, but I think you'd have more luck if you ask the reverse question: How can you make iTunes export that information to the id3 tags?
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 09:36 |
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Illuminado posted:Stumbled on this old photo. Okay, so I'm trying this out, and I've got two questions:
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 14:56 |
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Toast Museum posted:Okay, so I'm trying this out, and I've got two questions: Ok, so I'll assume you've enabled disk mode on your iPod. From here open up Windows Explorer, go to Tools > Folder Options > View. Find the option that says "Hidden Files and Folders" o Do not show hidden files and folders. o Show hidden files and folders. Check the Second one. Now when you go to add files to your library (MAKE SURE YOU'VE INSTALLED IT IN PORTABLE MODE!) You go to your iPod, .ipodcontrol and it should populate with all the files on your iPod. I had issues on several computers where that didn't work and I had to add EVERY SINGLE folder inside of iPod Control, that sucked, but was worth it because I had no problems after that and only had to do it once.
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 16:14 |
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I know how to show hidden files and remove the hidden attribute. The problem is that iTunes reapplies the attribute, and Foobar won't include hidden files in its library. The best solution I can think of at the moment is to make a batch file that removes the attribute after starting Foobar. The downside is that it'll take longer for the library to populate.
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 16:24 |
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Mine is nice and small since I sometimes use it on my netbook via remote desktop and I like it when it looks exactly the same between computers: The left column in the top part abbreviates all the words in an artist's name that start after the 6th character, which was the smartest way I could think of to get the text never to be too long to fit in the column. I haven't done the same with album names yet because I don't know how to get them ordered chronologically without keeping the year and date in there.
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 16:34 |
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Toast Museum posted:I know how to show hidden files and remove the hidden attribute. The problem is that iTunes reapplies the attribute, and Foobar won't include hidden files in its library. The best solution I can think of at the moment is to make a batch file that removes the attribute after starting Foobar. The downside is that it'll take longer for the library to populate. Ah, you have to kill all the Apple Services associated with iTunes. Iirc, that's bonjour, applemobiledevice, and iTunes. Also make sure you don't have iTunes set to launch automatically. Didn't mean to sound condescending, I didn't have iTunes installed on the main computer I was using this on (See: Work Computer). Edit: I'm not sure how to exclude Audio Books if they're coded properly other than a very painstaking use of playlists. And as for Podcasts, some of the ones I listened to were id3 tagged and some weren't. If they are, then they'll obviously show up, if they aren't they'll be under "Unknown Artist" as ETGX.mp3, etc. Illuminado fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 24, 2011 |
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Dance The Mutation posted:I recently did the "reverse switch" of going from Mac to Windows. While I love Mac OS, I can't really afford to buy a brand new Mac compared to the much cheaper Windows machines. Anyways, I feel like iTunes on Windows just kind of sucks compared to the Mac version. I want to make the switch to foobar but I have 55GB of PERFECTLY organized music on iTunes. I'm talking comments, genre, album art, year, country, title, album, etc. (I'm a "music lover" heh) I have all that for my music and I don't want to lose it. When I loaded all my music into foobar, it seemed to just use the id3 tags? I wasn't sure but it was an unorganized mess. I really want to make the switch to foobar but I want to take all my work on organizing my music with me. Is there a way to basically export the iTunes library .xml file so that it organizes my foobar music accordingly? Check the properties for one of those files inside foobar2000. I know iTunes likes to put its tags in an ITUNES_whatever custom tag instead of the actual id3v2 tag. Then it's just a matter of highlighting everything, going to the properties, and copy/paste the iTunes field into the right field.
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 20:58 |
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Illuminado posted:Ah, you have to kill all the Apple Services associated with iTunes. Iirc, that's bonjour, applemobiledevice, and iTunes. Also make sure you don't have iTunes set to launch automatically. For now, at least, I'm still using iTunes to add content to my iPod, and I'd like to maintain the option to use it alongside the portable Foobar. It seems like the batch I mentioned earlier might be the easiest way to get what I'm after. I can't think of many situations where I'd want to run Foobar portable but wouldn't have time to wait a moment for the list to populate. Thanks for the suggestions, though! As for the podcast/audiobook issue, it looks like I can filter them out with Facets if I can get the syntax right. Semi-related: Foobar portable with the file operations feature installed is a pretty good way to copy tracks from an iPod to somewhere else. The filenames are gibberish, but fortunately a portable version of MP3tag is in the works.
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 22:34 |
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Toast Museum posted:Semi-related: Foobar portable with the file operations feature installed is a pretty good way to copy tracks from an iPod to somewhere else. The filenames are gibberish, but fortunately a portable version of MP3tag is in the works. I was under the impression of it doing horrible things if you take it to say... a friends and either have to swap their drive letters around or it completely breaks your library.
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# ? Oct 24, 2011 23:40 |
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Illuminado posted:I was under the impression of it doing horrible things if you take it to say... a friends and either have to swap their drive letters around or it completely breaks your library. What, Foobar portable? I've only tested it on my desktop and laptop, but it was fine with being assigned a different drive letter. The library path is relative.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 00:24 |
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Klyith posted:Banned because of SDK license violations. Fixed that for you. Although maybe it could be unbanned and even placed on the official site if it stopped doing things that aren't possible through public programming interfaces exposed by either the affected components or by the player SDK. Grabbing the user interface window handle and manipulating it with Win32 API functions is strictly forbidden.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 02:26 |
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Toast Museum posted:What, Foobar portable? I've only tested it on my desktop and laptop, but it was fine with being assigned a different drive letter. The library path is relative. As in that's the difference between portable vs non-portable installation.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 04:30 |
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Illuminado posted:As in that's the difference between portable vs non-portable installation. I feel like I must have misunderstood your earlier post.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 21:53 |
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I totally misread that and I shouldn't post when I'm tired. I meant that NON-PORTABLE foobar would break if you tried to use it in a portable sense.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 22:06 |
scaevola posted:I know this isn't very helpful, but I think you'd have more luck if you ask the reverse question: How can you make iTunes export that information to the id3 tags? Well, I tried looking this on the internet and couldn't really find the answer. Is this even possible in an automated non-tedious way? I just added more music to iTunes and after doing my sorting on it, iTunes then "forgot" and placed all of the old data back. This is starting to get very frustrating! pokecapn posted:Check the properties for one of those files inside foobar2000. I know iTunes likes to put its tags in an ITUNES_whatever custom tag instead of the actual id3v2 tag. Then it's just a matter of highlighting everything, going to the properties, and copy/paste the iTunes field into the right field. I looked at this in foobar and did not see any additional information.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 22:31 |
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foobar2000 no longer displays iTunes internal comment fields in the file properties, because these fields should not be messed with. Especially not the iTunSMPB comment field, because that contains the gapless encoding information from the iTunes encoder, which foobar2000 v1.1.8 and newer support for proper gapless playback.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 01:12 |
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Toast Museum posted:For now, at least, I'm still using iTunes to add content to my iPod, and I'd like to maintain the option to use it alongside the portable Foobar. It seems like the batch I mentioned earlier might be the easiest way to get what I'm after. I can't think of many situations where I'd want to run Foobar portable but wouldn't have time to wait a moment for the list to populate. Thanks for the suggestions, though! Killing Itunes services wont mess with it. Just CTRL Alt Del and kill them or stop them in the services panel. You'd have to do this with every restart though.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 04:10 |
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Neu posted:Killing Itunes services wont mess with it. Just CTRL Alt Del and kill them or stop them in the services panel. You'd have to do this with every restart though. Right, but that method involves eschewing iTunes, which I'm not ready to do just yet.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 09:50 |
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The problem with foobar is that it's not iTunes, and it was never meant to be. Moving from iTunes to any other player, especially if you took advantage of iTunes proprietary features will be an exercise in frustration. The main problems boil down to: -iTunes is meant to be a media library for all types of media. Foobar is a audio file player. Foobar has no idea what the difference between a podcast, a song and an audio book are, nor does it care. -iTunes uses a proprietary tagging system that only works in iTunes. Any program that attempts to mess with that can potentially ruin that file. To move to another media player, you need to re-tag with a more open standard. If you are willing to sit down and re-tag all your files, and realize foobar is not the program to sort your podcasts and audio books, eventually foobar will be the player for you. Until then iTunes is the only program that can do what iTunes does.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 20:58 |
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pokecapn posted:Check the properties for one of those files inside foobar2000. I know iTunes likes to put its tags in an ITUNES_whatever custom tag instead of the actual id3v2 tag. Then it's just a matter of highlighting everything, going to the properties, and copy/paste the iTunes field into the right field. HKR posted:-iTunes uses a proprietary tagging system that only works in iTunes. Any program that attempts to mess with that can potentially ruin that file. To move to another media player, you need to re-tag with a more open standard.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 22:46 |
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quazi posted:It seems to be using ID3v2.3. But maybe it's because I'm going from Foobar to iTunes, not the other way around. Yeah, iTunes uses some proprietary tags, but as far as I know it handles the standard ones normally. I usually tag my stuff with MP3tag, but it doesn't seem to cause any problems when I do make the occasional change with Foobar or iTunes.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 22:55 |
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Another nod in agreement. I used to have major issues going back and forth between iTunes and Foobar, and my iPod database was always full of broken characters, but everything seems just fine nowadays. (The broken characters could be fixed by making Foobar use an older ID3V2 version, but everything just seems peachy now.)
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 23:09 |
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When I dumped all my iPod music on to my work computer (straight drag and drop, so all the file had meaningless names), I was able to use Tag&Rename to rename all the files and organize them into a meaningful directory structure. I'm guessing this means either Tag&Rename can read the iTunes tags, or iTunes uses standard tags for basic data such as artist, track name and album.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 23:59 |
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Is there someway to make foo_uie_lyrics3 (Lyrics Show 3) to not be useless? It can never seem to ever find lyrics(I guess all but one of the databases are down at this point?) so it never gives me lyrics. I guess, I need to manually download the lyrics at this point if I want them or what's the best option here as it seems like a neat feature, but completely impossible to use at the moment.
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# ? Oct 28, 2011 17:55 |
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I woke up this morning and everything in my library had double artist tags. "Band Name" became "Band Name, Band Name". I've been using foobar for years and never encountered a problem like this. I installed 1.1.9 beta 1 recently, so maybe that had a bug in it? I noticed there was a new release today, so I installed that. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Anyone else have this problem? Maybe I shouldn't install beta software
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# ? Oct 28, 2011 18:26 |
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iamthejeff posted:I woke up this morning and everything in my library had double artist tags. "Band Name" became "Band Name, Band Name". I've been using foobar for years and never encountered a problem like this. I installed 1.1.9 beta 1 recently, so maybe that had a bug in it? I noticed there was a new release today, so I installed that. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Anyone else have this problem? Maybe I shouldn't install beta software Artist or Album Artist? Check the file properties. If so, it was something that was changed with 1.1.8. It may be fixed by opening a mass file Properties dialog on all affected tracks and formatting the Album Artist field from the string "$meta(album artist,0)". If that's not it, I don't know what to tell you, although a $meta(field,0) in the same Format from other fields dialog will also remove duplicates from any other meta field.
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# ? Oct 29, 2011 01:09 |
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Master_Odin posted:Is there someway to make foo_uie_lyrics3 (Lyrics Show 3) to not be useless? It can never seem to ever find lyrics(I guess all but one of the databases are down at this point?) so it never gives me lyrics. I guess, I need to manually download the lyrics at this point if I want them or what's the best option here as it seems like a neat feature, but completely impossible to use at the moment. Apparently the fuckwit music companies are coming down on lyrics sites hard these days becuase what a disaster it would be if people could see the lyrics of the song they are listening to in text format. Sites are either disappearing or the lyrics can't be grabbed via an API. So it isn't that lyrics3 is useless, it's that music companies still don't have any clue in how to not piss off their customers.
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# ? Oct 29, 2011 04:53 |
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ledge posted:Apparently the fuckwit music companies are coming down on lyrics sites hard these days becuase what a disaster it would be if people could see the lyrics of the song they are listening to in text format.
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