Suggestion for "Title formatting" preferences.

2004-04-17 20:53:05

Hi!

I think that is's a good idia to make a simething like global module in the
"Display -> Title formatting" preferences.
There I can describe global variables and after that use it in any other
tabs to format them in diffrent ways.
Now I need to desribe same things in each tab separately.

Such as standart variables definition:

// check if all standard tags are present
$if($meta_test(title,artist,album),
// 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%)
)

It would be convenient to put this in one tab, common for all other tabs.
And on other tabs would be only format strings, such as:

$num(%_playlist_number%,$len(%_playlist_total%)).' '
[$get(artist) - ]
[$get(album) - ]
[$get(title)]
$char(9)
[$codec(), ]
[%__bitrate% kbps, ]
[%__samplerate% Hz, ]
[%__mp3_stereo_mode%]
[$char(9)$if(%_isplaying%,'>>>>>>>>>> ')%_length%]

It help's to aviod a code dublications.


PS: Sorry for bad english.

Suggestion for "Title formatting" preferences.

Reply #1 – 2004-04-18 15:14:10

I agree.
It has been suggested before but it didn't get any response.

Other sections can inherit the values set in the global section. If a specific value isn't set in the global section it can try to get the info from the file tags of file names again.

Suggestion for "Title formatting" preferences.

Reply #2 – 2004-04-18 15:31:05

i as well proposed such a feature. Could not only be used for tags, but also for color variables or just configuration in general.

It didn't got implemented yet into the default UI (and i dont know of any plans to change that). However, global strings got implemented into foo_ui_columns - but with one drawback: you cannot use color-strings in global strings.

- Lyx