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Currently playing song in the UI

Newbie question follows...

When creating new playlists I preview some songs before adding them to the list. However, I haven't found a way to display the song info with an UI element - it just appears in the window title.

How can I show e.g. %title% - %artist% - %genre% - %date% only for the previewed song in a separate container?
fb2k 2.1.5 [x64] Win 11

Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #1
make a box and add the UI element called Selection properties to it then in settings-Display tick off Prefer currently playing track
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Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #2
Thanks,

I tried that before, but it eats up too much space: the unneeded header that sticks out with a different font style/colour plus 5 lines of info where just one would do. It seems there is no way to remove the header and customize the info contents, other than selecting metadata, location, general etc.
fb2k 2.1.5 [x64] Win 11

Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #3
then use JScript 3 text display and make it show what you want only.
PC - Teac UD-505 - Adam Audio A4V - DCA ÆON Open X
Samsung S23 Ultra 512GB - Fiio UTWS5 - TinHifi P1 Max.

Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #4
Great, thanks, where do I get that? It's not on the components page.
fb2k 2.1.5 [x64] Win 11


Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #6
Thanks, but too bad, it's only for 32 bit  :(
fb2k 2.1.5 [x64] Win 11


Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #8
You're so damn right, genius.

I went File | Preferences | Components | Get more components, and there searched for "text display". The only find led me to Text Display 1.1 beta 1.

My brain must have played tricks on me, because there I saw something completely different to what you posted.

Thank you for the extremely targeted answer including the corresponding link. I am so proud to be stupid enough to respond to your warm and utterly polite guidance at a level that I am not used to at all.

fb2k 2.1.5 [x64] Win 11

Re: Currently playing song in the UI

Reply #9
you need the component called jscript panel 3 its linked right there in Marcs signature he is the developer
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