The tags are stored individually on each of your mp3 files. There are many ways to edit these tags, the easiest of which would probably be to right click on the file in your playlist and select "Properties.." from the menu.  There is an extension called foo_infobox that makes things a little easier on the eyes, and there are many other 3rd party programs for editing tags on your files.  If you are unfamiliar with metatags I would suggest googling for "ID3". Put the name of the artist into the artist field, the name of the song in the title field, the name of the album into the album field, etc.  Foobar heavily relies on proper tagging for most of it's advanced features so I would suggest you familiarize yourself with the concept and clean up your library.

u need the newest versions of all plugins (link to 0.9 plugin ports)

and the sidebar config is now only per
Settings -> colums UI -> Layout available

sidebar was removed, use the layout to make a sidebar

one of the preset is similar to the sidebar

WhatsMe:

You may be interested in the mass tagging features of foobar which will attempt to update your tags based on the filenames. I do not personally use this feature, however, so unless someone else wants to walk you through it I'll just give you a link --> http://eolindel.free.fr/foobar0.9/masstagger.shtml

Also I would like to point out that this thread is intended for problems with the ColumnsUI interface to foobar and not really for general usage questions.  If you need further assistance updating your file tags I would sugges searching the forum and if you still have questions to ask them in a new or more appropriate thread.

Quote from: Yotsuya on 2006-06-07 05:13:49

WhatsMe:

You may be interested in the mass tagging features of foobar which will attempt to update your tags based on the filenames. I do not personally use this feature, however, so unless someone else wants to walk you through it I'll just give you a link --> http://eolindel.free.fr/foobar0.9/masstagger.shtml

Also I would like to point out that this thread is intended for problems with the ColumnsUI interface to foobar and not really for general usage questions.  If you need further assistance updating your file tags I would sugges searching the forum and if you still have questions to ask them in a new or more appropriate thread.

Ok i think i really messed up. I removed tags from all my music files. Thats why my artist doesn't go under artist and album doesn't go under album. Is there anyway i can get my tags back?

can ui_columns's config file for 8.x be used on ui_column for 9.x ?

@musicmusic
As foo_fullscreen is considered to be in violation of the SDK license (as picmixer stated), would it be possible to include option to toggle fullscreen mode into your UI?

Quote from: mixcherry on 2006-06-07 08:53:55

@musicmusic
As foo_fullscreen is considered to be in violation of the SDK license (as picmixer stated), would it be possible to include option to toggle fullscreen mode into your UI?

Um, would that not still violate the rules? The only way to 'legally' implement foo_fullscreen (or an equivalent feature) would, it seems to me, be to add this ability to the official foobar2000 SDK. Which... i'm pretty sure they won't...?

' date='Jun 9 2006, 01:44' post='400994']
@musicmusic : Could you add foo_dop to your components page (http://music.morbo.org/components.php)

' date='Jun 9 2006, 01:44' post='400994']
and put a link from the FAQ to the different wiki pages you have on your site?

No, the problem is that foo_fullscreen was modifying a window that it knew nothing about. The main window could have a custom look like with foo_ui_gfx for 0.8.3. The SDK only gives components a way to retrieve a handle to the main window so it can be used as parent window for popup windows. Of course, Columns UI has full control over its own window and can modify it any way it pleases.

• How do you make Tab Control to look like this (e.g. on Columns UI's Preferences Page):
  
  I mean, how do you get this pretty, gradiented background? I guess it's somehow connected with XP Styles...
  
  
• I'm making sort of my own $set_global(back,<color1>,<color2>) function (used in titleformatting), which I want to use with my Playlists Dropdown plugin.
  Let's say this looks like this (this is pseudo-code, but that's how it works in my component):
  
  
  Code: [Select]

  struct style_t
  {
      HBRUSH background;
      HBRUSH background_selected;
  };
  
  pfc::list_t< style_t > g_styles;
  
  for (int i=0; i<num_playlists; i++)
  {
      pfc::string8 null_string;
      style_t style;
      titleformat_hook_set_style thss = titleformat_hook_set_style(style);
      static_api_ptr_t< titleformat_compiler >()->run(&thss, null_string, cfg_style_string);
      g_styles.add_item(style);
  }

  
  
  titleformat_hook_set_style is my titleformat_hook class in which I process my $set_global(...) function (using cfg_style_string formatting string), nothing special. It just creates two new HBRUSHes (using CreateSolidBrush()), according to color that user typed in $set_global(back,...,...) function. Then these brushes are stored in style variable, which is then added to the global list of all background-styles.
  
  Then, during drawing of each line of my dropdown-list, I can use this list of pre-created BRUSHes to draw separate backgrounds. This works well, but is terribly slow (during creation of brushes). For example, when you have more than 50 playlists, it takes about 5 seconds to create all brushes...
  
  Is there other way to deal with $set_global(back,...,...) function, than pre-creating brushes?

• How do you make Tab Control to look like this (e.g. on Columns UI's Preferences Page):
  (...)
  I mean, how do you get this pretty, gradiented background? I guess it's somehow connected with XP Styles...

• I'm making sort of my own $set_global(back,<color1>,<color2>) function (used in titleformatting), which I want to use with my Playlists Dropdown plugin.
  Let's say this looks like this (this is pseudo-code, but that's how it works in my component):
  
  
  Code: [Select]

  struct style_t
  {
      HBRUSH background;
      HBRUSH background_selected;
  };
  
  pfc::list_t< style_t > g_styles;
  
  for (int i=0; i<num_playlists; i++)
  {
      pfc::string8 null_string;
      style_t style;
      titleformat_hook_set_style thss = titleformat_hook_set_style(style);
      static_api_ptr_t< titleformat_compiler >()->run(&thss, null_string, cfg_style_string);
      g_styles.add_item(style);
  }

  
  
  titleformat_hook_set_style is my titleformat_hook class in which I process my $set_global(...) function (using cfg_style_string formatting string), nothing special. It just creates two new HBRUSHes (using CreateSolidBrush()), according to color that user typed in $set_global(back,...,...) function. Then these brushes are stored in style variable, which is then added to the global list of all background-styles.
  
  Then, during drawing of each line of my dropdown-list, I can use this list of pre-created BRUSHes to draw separate backgrounds. This works well, but is terribly slow (during creation of brushes). For example, when you have more than 50 playlists, it takes about 5 seconds to create all brushes...
  
  Is there other way to deal with $set_global(back,...,...) function, than pre-creating brushes?
  

Quote from: mixcherry on 2006-06-11 00:27:08

• How do you make Tab Control to look like this (e.g. on Columns UI's Preferences Page):
  (...)
  I mean, how do you get this pretty, gradiented background? I guess it's somehow connected with XP Styles...

Your post made me take a look at foo_uie_albumart, which exhibits the same problem.  The answer is pretty simple: Make a call to EnableThemeDialogTexture() (check the Platform SDK for documentation) for each tab just after they are created.  The only issue might be compatibility with Windows 2000.  I don't have a copy to test with...