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Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #525 –
I probably should have clarified that #5 "Add custom padding option for columns" is essentially "cell" padding.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #526 –
I would very much appreciate if the option to specify the temporary directory when using the related setting for the converter portion of the program would be added. For an example of the benefits, I'd like to set it to be on a ramdisk on my system to reduce wear on my SSD.

The related setting I'm referring to (Found in Preferences: Advanced):


Thanks for developing the best audio player on desktops!

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #527 –
Improvement for the track Properties window:

How it is now: When editing tags, you get suggestions based on existing values. For example, you type "Roc...", you get "Rock" auto-suggested based on previous values and you can press TAB to auto-complete the string. Handy.

The problem: When editing multiple values for the same tag, no further suggestions are shown after the first one. You type "Rock; Meta..." but you get nothing suggested. Expected: "Metal".

Improvement: Make the suggestions reset/trigger after every "; ". This way you can do the following:
  • Type "Roc..."
  • Auto-complete to "Rock" by pressing TAB
  • Continue typing: "Rock; Meta..."
  • Press TAB to auto-complete to "Rock; Metal"  <--- this is currently not possible as nothing is suggested
  • Repeat as needed for additional values



Alternate request (more involved solution/feature request):
Did a quick mockup to illustrate my point. This style of UI tends to be popular with web applications but I think it could work well when editing multivalue fields (genre, style, even artists). It would save a lot of time for me personally.



Assumptions:
- You type "Rock" and press enter, it turns into a blue box: [Rock]
- The blue box can be removed by positioning the cursor in front and pressing backspace once, or by clicking the red X button
- The "Remove all" button removes all the blue boxes and anything typed so far
- When typing into empty space (which is not yet a blue box), a dropdown of suggestions is shown that match the current string (TAB autocompletes the string with the currently highlighted suggestion, UP and DOWN moves the highlight around)
- (Optional) When the cursor is in the empty space with nothing typed, a complete list of suggestions is shown (e.g. list of all genres currently present in the library). Alternatively, this function could have a dedicated button "+" which would show the same list when clicked.
- On save, the blue boxes are converted to multiple values as far as the tagging is concerned. For example, [Rock] [Metal] [New] becomes "Rock; Metal; New"
- This new UI would only be enabled for multivalue tags by default (such as genre) or the user could define their own list of tags where this feature is enabled

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #528 –
Quote from: Daeron on
Improvement for the track Properties window:

How it is now: When editing tags, you get suggestions based on existing values. For example, you type "Roc...", you get "Rock" auto-suggested based on previous values and you can press TAB to auto-complete the string. Handy.

The problem: When editing multiple values for the same tag, no further suggestions are shown after the first one. You type "Rock; Meta..." but you get nothing suggested. Expected: "Metal".

Improvement: Make the suggestions reset/trigger after every "; ". This way you can do the following:
  • Type "Roc..."
  • Auto-complete to "Rock" by pressing TAB
  • Continue typing: "Rock; Meta..."
  • Press TAB to auto-complete to "Rock; Metal"  <--- this is currently not possible as nothing is suggested
  • Repeat as needed for additional values



Alternate request (more involved solution/feature request):
Did a quick mockup to illustrate my point. This style of UI tends to be popular with web applications but I think it could work well when editing multivalue fields (genre, style, even artists). It would save a lot of time for me personally.



Assumptions:
- You type "Rock" and press enter, it turns into a blue box: [Rock]
- The blue box can be removed by positioning the cursor in front and pressing backspace once, or by clicking the red X button
- The "Remove all" button removes all the blue boxes and anything typed so far
- When typing into empty space (which is not yet a blue box), a dropdown of suggestions is shown that match the current string (TAB autocompletes the string with the currently highlighted suggestion, UP and DOWN moves the highlight around)
- (Optional) When the cursor is in the empty space with nothing typed, a complete list of suggestions is shown (e.g. list of all genres currently present in the library). Alternatively, this function could have a dedicated button "+" which would show the same list when clicked.
- On save, the blue boxes are converted to multiple values as far as the tagging is concerned. For example, [Rock] [Metal] [New] becomes "Rock; Metal; New"
- This new UI would only be enabled for multivalue tags by default (such as genre) or the user could define their own list of tags where this feature is enabled

Excellent idea.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #529 –
Quote from: Daeron on
This style of UI tends to be popular with web applications but I think it could work well when editing multivalue fields (genre, style, even artists). It would save a lot of time for me personally.
What you're describing are called chips. I doubt tag chips would be implemented here, but your idea is interesting nonetheless. I think the idea would have more synergy if it conformed to fb2k's Win32 UX design; so basically, everything remains the same as it is, except the dropdown suggestion list gets reinitiated after every semi-colon, or between semi-colons. Functionally the same as your idea without the added visuals.



Not sure if this is doable though, or if it breaks some Win32 UX guideline.

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Reply #530 –
I would like to provide an option to hide the menu bar and status bar of the default user interface

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Reply #531 –
Happy New Year Foobarbarians! I am using 2.0 and can't find the option to have player minimized when closed rather than quit.  Apologies if its right under my nose. Danke.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #532 –
Display > Default User Interface > Background and Notifications...

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #533 –
Tag Sanitizer:
* Button to keep all album art.
* "Delete other tag sets" [than the primary one]. I guess, not to be implemented until fb2k can reliably nuke EAC's ID3 from FLAC.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #534 –
New option:
Playback > Stop after current album
 

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #536 –
Language Selection

For files that support multiple Languages (like MKA,MKV) there is no way to select the playback language.  Please provide a dropdown selection of ISO 639-2 codes as a playback language preference, or 'first audio track'.  Then also provide indication of language in the status line.  thanks!

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Reply #537 –
Quote from: dmance on
Language Selection

For files that support multiple Languages (like MKA,MKV) there is no way to select the playback language.  Please provide a dropdown selection of ISO 639-2 codes as a playback language preference, or 'first audio track'.  Then also provide indication of language in the status line.  thanks!

This exists in fb2k 2.0. It's named Stream selector in the toolbar.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #538 –
Hi! I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and I had a problem with file associations. foobar2000 just opens the Windows menu for changing them... That was fine in Windows 7, but for some reason they had to make it really unusable in 10, not only you have to open it manually...

...but also there you have to select all file types one by one, which would be really painful when you have a lot of decoding plugins like me, I didn't have to mess with all of them since I've done it on Win 7, but it would be really nice if you could make foobar2000 handle the associations by itself and not the Windows menu. Thanks.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #539 –
It would be nice to be able to see input and output formats in the statusbar or elsewhere, during playback.
Example: (or side by side)
Input: 16-bit / 44100 Hz / Stereo
Output: 24-bit / 48000 Hz / Stereo
Thank You.

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Reply #540 –
A plugin that downsamples content with a higher number of channels down to 7.1 and another for 5.1 would be useful for ensuring compatibility when using exclusive mode on a system with 7.1 or 5.1 channels. Currently there doesn't seem to be a clean way to downsample 7.1 channels to 5.1, for instance.
Think millionaire, but with cannons.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #541 –
Would it be easy to implement cmd modifiers in %filename%, like
%~nfilename%
%~dpfilename%
etc?

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #542 –
This is a simple one. With bitcompare, the report will start by warning me about corrupted files (good!)
But even better: if no differences found (in any of the files, corrupted or not), state that in the very next sentence.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #543 –
For foobar V2 and a future update on 1_6 (since is a really small feature).
Menu entry to start playback from current playlist. Playback/Play from current playlist
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123659.0.html

Current menus don't allow to do it or depend on other settings which may not be available. A simple entry playing current playlist would solve it (and also simplify control via CMD or keyboard -currently impossible-).


Additionally, or as an alternative, a 'Set focus entry'. i.e. a way to force focus to be set on current selection, for playback purposes.
Edit/Selection/Set focus

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #544 –
Sometimes I want parts of the Media Library not to be included in fb2k temporarily. But I wish to keep its database existing, so it may not be necessary to rescan after adding it again.
So what about adding a context menu to just enable/disable a folder structure?X

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #545 –
Easiest is likely to have a portable fb2k. Copy over settings etc except the media library. I'm "naturally" doing that now that 2.0 is in beta stage...

Alternatives:

* Before firing up fb2k, rename the folder
* If you have an external drive, then change drive letter before firing up fb2k.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #546 –
Thx, I have multiple instances, some with dynamic NTFS linked targets etc., there's always workarounds. You see in my screenshot it's in fact a portable instance. I felt a "disable" option feels natural for fb2k.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #547 –
Quote from: regor on
For foobar V2 and a future update on 1_6 (since is a really small feature).
Menu entry to start playback from current playlist. Playback/Play from current playlist
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,123659.0.html

Current menus don't allow to do it or depend on other settings which may not be available. A simple entry playing current playlist would solve it (and also simplify control via CMD or keyboard -currently impossible-).


Additionally, or as an alternative, a 'Set focus entry'. i.e. a way to force focus to be set on current selection, for playback purposes.
Edit/Selection/Set focus
Adding to this, a "Play Random Track" option for currently visible playlist (as opposed to currently playing or active playlist) along with the requested "Play" option would be most welcome.

The use case would be selecting a new playlist and telling it to start at a random track, whereas right now you must start playback manually on the playlist before Random will work on it.
Thank you.
Think millionaire, but with cannons.

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Reply #548 –
Feature request: ability to disable DSP effects in the active chain list (instead of delete/add, having to restore the effect configuration manually).

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #549 –
Make foobar keep playing the random playlist WITHOUT REPETITIONS even when we delete a song that is playing or skip a track.

Right now, the algorithm restarts playing again without taking into account the songs already played, same behaviour if we skip a track.


Case use:  curating a downloaded playlist. (deleting songs I don't like)