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Topic: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile? (Read 965 times) previous topic - next topic
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Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Hi everybody.

I have a big Android tablet (TCL NxtPaper 14), and I'd like to use foobar on it. The huge tablet screen has a lot of potential. Unfortunately foobar mobile has little to do with foobar Windows, especially when it comes to UI customization  :(

Here's one of my Window themes (a simple one). I'd like to be able to achieve something similar on my tablet:



You'll notice among other things:
- The waveform minibar component
- All my playlists on the left (with autoplaylist support)
- The active playlist on the right
- Custom columns with colors and TitleFormat support. For example here's the code for the MPM (measures per minute) column:
Quote
$puts(mpm,$if(%bpm%,$left($put(a,$div($mul(%bpm%,100),4)),2)$ifequal($right($get(a),2),25,.25,$ifequal($right($get(a),2),50,.50,$ifequal($right($get(a),2),75,.75,))),))$if($strcmp(%danse%,WCS),$ifgreater(18,$get(mpm),$rgb(149,192,255),$ifgreater(20,$get(mpm),$rgb(149,255,255),$ifgreater(22,$get(mpm),$rgb(99,255,177),$ifgreater(24,$get(mpm),$rgb(0,255,0),$ifgreater(26,$get(mpm),$rgb(128,255,0),$ifgreater(28,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,255,128),$ifgreater(30,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,255,0),$ifgreater(32,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,153,85),$ifgreater(34,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,128,128),$rgb(255,153,255)))))))))),$if($strcmp(%danse%,Rock),$ifgreater(30,$get(mpm),$rgb(149,255,255),$ifgreater(33,$get(mpm),$rgb(112,255,192),$ifgreater(36,$get(mpm),$rgb(0,255,0),$ifgreater(39,$get(mpm),$rgb(128,255,0),$ifgreater(42,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,255,128),$ifgreater(45,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,255,0),$ifgreater(48,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,153,85),$ifgreater(51,$get(mpm),$rgb(255,128,128),$rgb(255,153,255))))))))),$rgb(191,191,191)))$get(mpm)$rgb()
Any chance this can happen someday? It would be great if foobar mobile was someday worhty of the same name as its Windows sibling!  :D

Re: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Reply #1 –
Hi guys, could somebody please answer this?...

Re: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Reply #2 –
Hello ?... Is somebody listening?...
I guess I'll just keep posting until I get a proper reply. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I need to know.

Re: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Reply #3 –
Android is the minor sibling here.
You may want to try Poweramp, which has a waveform seekbar

Re: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Reply #4 –
I understand that it's the minor sibling. I've always known that.
I still hope to get an answer to my question though.
As a last resort, I could use a Windows emulator for Android (sigh).

Re: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Reply #5 –
Bumping topics is bad, m'kay. But I suppose it worked to trigger some replies, even though it's impossible to give you a definitive answer.

Peter hasn't shown any interest in adding any sort of waveform seekbar natively, even though he could code such a thing in a blink. Mobile versions don't support addons so third parties can't implement it. And I'm pretty sure you can't embed playlists and media library on the skinnable playback page, though this part is just my assumption. Mobile version is simpler and must be simpler, energy efficiency is even more important there than on the computer.

So my answer is: unlikely, but not completely impossible.

Re: Could this kind of theme be achieved someday on foobar mobile?

Reply #6 –
Thanks Case for the reply.

My guess is that mobile foobar was designed with smartphones in mind. From that point of view, I definitely understand the "energy efficiency", "simple UI" and such, no worries. And yes, I understand that mobile foobar is a completely different app, and it must remain that way.

On a tablet with a huge screen (and a huge battery), things are very different. But I understand it's only a minority of users.
For such users, a native port of foobar from Windows to Android would be ideal. But that could only be done by Peter, so...