there is a black border line from version 1.3+



can you fix this?

and.. can you use this plugin with foo_custom_info to rate music?

foo_custominfo can tag your music without actualy writing tag.(it's store in database instead.)

i use custom info to rating my music and my rating is stored in database instead of file tag. but this plugin writing %rating% tag to the file.

i want to.. if i click at the rating star. it write rating in custom info. not %rating% tag.

is it possible? if not. then it's ok.  it's would be nice if it can do though.

With the Columns UI extension disabled, I'm still getting some whole-system DirectDraw (I'm assuming) corruption when foobar2000 has been running for a while. It starts with the spectrum analyzer breaking out of the minimized foobar2000 window and animating itself in the upper-left corner of the screen for a brief period (before stopping and leaving artifacts behind), and the playlist frame (when restored from the taskbar) does not draw. A close and re-open of foobar fixes all the problems but still leaves artifacts behind from the analyzer when it went haywire, until the program that it overwrote redraws that portion of the screen (e.g. title bar, Statbar, etc).

Quote from: FalconFour on 2007-03-21 08:17:14

With the Columns UI extension disabled, I'm still getting some whole-system DirectDraw (I'm assuming) corruption when foobar2000 has been running for a while. It starts with the spectrum analyzer breaking out of the minimized foobar2000 window and animating itself in the upper-left corner of the screen for a brief period (before stopping and leaving artifacts behind), and the playlist frame (when restored from the taskbar) does not draw. A close and re-open of foobar fixes all the problems but still leaves artifacts behind from the analyzer when it went haywire, until the program that it overwrote redraws that portion of the screen (e.g. title bar, Statbar, etc).

I noticed the same thing. At first I thought it had something to do with Opera, since I had just started using that, but then the same thing happened when using Firefox. I didn't really know what was causing it, but now that I think about it, it did only happen when using the newest version of Foo Rating, and hasn't happened again since I got rid of it. The spectrum analyzer takes up about a third of my build, so it was quite annoying to have it - by itself - just pop up on top of everything.

That would be nice too. I'm still using foo_rating, but most of my music has already been tagged with it so far (at least, well... half of it. Shuffle ain't all that great at weighing unrated songs above rated ones... not like I can tell it to do that anyway).

I also thought about this. It'd be perfect if we can shuffle between tracks according to their ratings. For me, one possible setting is that tracks with higher ratings are given a higher probability of hit.

$if(%rating%,1,0)

Well... just as I thought, the first symptom appeared just now. I honestly don't know if this is actually caused by foo_rating but I can tell I've been using Windows for many years in this same configuration and I've never seen problems like these before foo_rating. I want to think it's not causing problems... but I don't know!

Anyway, equally as I thought, I couldn't take a screenshot. Something is causing so much "system resource" corruption that it's causing these title bar problems, clipboard problems, so on and so forth... I wish there was some kind of resource meter in Windows XP that showed individual resources like Win9x did. I think it's running out of some kind of graphic resource... anyway, the pictures.

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What happens when I restore fb2k.

Quote from: FalconFour on 2007-03-25 02:32:03

What happens when I restore fb2k.

..happened to me too yesterday, needed to restart foobar. It started with a scrapped foobar-systray-menu, maximizing the window brought sth. like above. Maybe it's due to the star-balloon-tip-drawing, but that's just a guess..

There was no Rating listed available. [...]

Screenshot

Quote from: GreenSmurf on 2006-12-17 03:02:46

There was no Rating listed available. [...]

Screenshot

I have the same problem, how did you solved it? I followed the instructions on website, but no rating column appeared, only the tray icon.

Thanks

You should add a rating column in COLUMN UI plugin first. See the picture for details.

Process Explorer gave me an interesting insight into foo_rating's behavior...

With foo_rating after a few hours of playing and track-ratings, GDI handles is ungodly high... explorer.exe itself uses only about 600:


Without (also a clean restart of fb2k):


Admittedly, GDI handles returned to about 150 with foo_rating reinstalled and restarted, but jumped up to about 350 after skipping several tracks and re-rating a few files. Doing the same (except rating of course) without foo_rating brought that count from 100 to about 150.

Perhaps, a clue?

edit: Gak! I just found that moving component DLLs to a folder I made called "components (Disabled)" (which you might notice in the RAR) doesn't disable them! God damn fb2k for not following standards and being predictable. Headaches, headaches, headaches. Anyway, after RAR'ing the ones I thought were disabled and deleting them (including foo_rating) I found some more out. The above "hypothesis" is right, but slightly differently. foo_rating *was* still active in that second screenshot but I took it earlier. It looks like foo_rating is constantly creating new GDI objects almost on a timer at a rate of about 12 per second - but only when the music is playing (paused, they stop... stopped, they stop, but they never release or reset). Rather unnerving. Foo_rating uninstalled (or disabled), and it stays solid at 81 objects.

The plugin writes a file "foo_rating_cui_dbg.txt" in every folder where I am rating something. Anybody else with this problem?