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Simple formatting string syntax question

All I'm trying to do is add a string to the playlist to display the genre right after the album name.  I've seen some great sample playlist formats but they double or triple my RAM usage which I don't like. 

I've tried pasting (%genre%) here and there in the following code with no luck.  Is this C++ syntax? 

Yes, I am a noob.

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// check if all standard tags are present
$if($and($and(%title%,$not($strcmp(%title%,))),$and($and(%artist%,$not($strcmp(%artist%,))),$and(%album%,$not($strcmp(%album%,))))),
$puts(alltags,1),)

$if($get(alltags),
// formatting for files with tags:

// check if track belongs to VA album
$if($or($stricmp(%album artist%,VA),$stricmp($left(%album artist%,7),various)),$puts(va,1),)

// 'album' formatting
$puts(album,'['%album%[ - CD$num(%disc%,1)]']'[ '['$num(%tracknumber%,2)']']
)

//if 'album artist' tag is present
$if(%album artist%,
// set 'artist' to VA for VA albums, and to 'album artist' otherwise:
$if($get(va),$puts(artist,VA),$puts(artist,%album artist%))
//if 'artist' is different from 'album artist', append the former to the title
$if($strcmp(%album artist%,%artist%),$puts(title,%title%),
$puts(title,%title% '//' %artist%)),
//no 'album artist' found
$puts(artist,%artist%)$puts(title,%title%)
)

// formatting for files without all the tags:
,
$if(%title%,
$puts(title,%title%)$if(%artist%,$puts(artist,%artist%)),
$puts(title,$if($stricmp($left(%_path_raw%,7),'http://'),%_path_raw%,
%_filename_ext%)))
)

$num(%_playlist_number%,$len(%_playlist_total%)).' '
[$get(artist) - ]
[$get(album) - ]
[$get(title)]
[$char(9)$if(%_isplaying%,'|> ')%_length%]

Simple formatting string syntax question

Reply #1 –
I'm using v0.7.7b default playlist formatting string (shown in the post above) and have had no luck trying to get the codec name to show right before the track time (like the previous versions of foobar did). I've tried copying and pasting various parts of the codec section that is in the status bar string, but keep getting syntax errors. It would look like this:

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01. Billy Squier - [16 Strokes: The Best Of Billy Squier] [01] - The Stroke      [Musepack] 3:38


Thanks.

Rob

Simple formatting string syntax question

Reply #2 –
You'll need to escape those parenthesis, like so:

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'('%genre%')'

Simple formatting string syntax question

Reply #3 –
Quote
I'm using v0.7.7b default playlist formatting string (shown in the post above) and have had no luck trying to get the codec name to show right before the track time (like the previous versions of foobar did). I've tried copying and pasting various parts of the codec section that is in the status bar string, but keep getting syntax errors. It would look like this:

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01. Billy Squier - [16 Strokes: The Best Of Billy Squier] [01] - The Stroke      [Musepack] 3:38


Thanks.

Rob

Just add [%__codec%] before string displaying time and it should work:

['['%__codec%']'] [%_length%]