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Reply #4175 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Thank you all for feedback

Quote from: Keikonium on
I am using global settings for everything, so shouldn't NG look just like Columns PLV?
At first sight I would agree with you. But I need yur .fcl to investigate further. The only possibility I am aware of is if you use the old format style or global string which NG Playlist doesn't support (this is very old though).


Here you go:
http://s4.massmirror.com/638123a86889b8feb...9eb204404b.html
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #4176 –
The beginning of your global style script ("$rgb(110,110,110,214,214,214)") is essentially using the old syntax, you need to use $set_style for NG Playlist. If you disable the option for legacy globals support it will remove the inconsistency between the two playlist views.
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Reply #4177 –
I was wondering if there was anyway you could give an option to disable autosend to playlist when you click on All in a filter panel.

When there's 1100 artists in your library and you accidentally click on All it can take a while to load.

Even an option to hide the All option would be cool.

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Reply #4178 –
Quote from: thuan on
A bug in new NGPlaylist inline metadata editing

About artwork problem, yes it happens when I do a lot of scrolling. I'm trying to make my config simpler by using your component artwork in NGPlaylist instead of using graphical browser as I used to. And yes my artworks are put in the same folder as my music files which are about 90GB. So running around reading it does make noise from my HD. Anyway to improve it is welcomed.
Thanks, uploaded preview 2 which just fixes that bug and reads more recent artwork requests first like I mentioned, which should make the effects of a backlog of artwork to read less visible. But can you tell me if the problem was a delay in artwork appearing after lots of scrolling, or just not seeing artwork whilst scrolling?
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Reply #4179 –
running the latest preview 2, it seems the sort by column header in ng playlist has stopped working...

I have no custom sorting setup for the column header in question

cheers

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Reply #4180 –
Thank you, the inline metadata editing bug is fixed. About the artworks, yes I want to see them during scrolling. If you can do it without too much sacrifice in performance then it's great.

EDIT: @4nt1: it works fine over here. Have you checked that your playlist is not locked?

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Reply #4181 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
The beginning of your global style script ("$rgb(110,110,110,214,214,214)") is essentially using the old syntax, you need to use $set_style for NG Playlist. If you disable the option for legacy globals support it will remove the inconsistency between the two playlist views.


Disabling that option makes everything universal, so thats a good thing . But I don't have the first clue how to make my $rgb() line into the newer $set_style() syntax. The current $set_style() stuff I have came with CUI .

Is there any documentation on the syntax that CUI uses?

Found it : http://yuo.be/wiki/columns_ui:config:colour_string
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #4182 –
This may be a stupid question: What are the file naming / path conventions for album art?

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Reply #4183 –
not using any kind of playlist lock.. not sure why it wont work

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Reply #4184 –
musicmusic: great work with the album art support in NG playlist! Just one request: could you please add an option to move the album art column? I'd love it to be on the far right, right next to the length column.

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Reply #4185 –
Hi musicmusic,

Thanks for such a great component.

Just a couple of small requests:

1. I rearrange my tracks in playlists a lot and previously (if I recall correctly) there was an automatic playlist scroll feature when dragging and reaching top or bottom of the playlist without releasing mouse button. You just hold mouse (with tracks selected) until you reach a certain position in the playlist and then move mouse away from that "auto-scroll area" place those tracks whenever you want with just single "click-hold-release" movement. Now you need to perform series of subsequent movements to do the same thing. Is it possible to add that "auto-scroll" feature into NG playlist functionality?

2. Would be great to use "group caption" (the one which allows to select all the tracks under that group) to drag the tracks. Currently you select the group then release the mouse then move cursor to selected track and only after that move your tracks. (It is just a matter of convenience)

3. By any chance is there an option to remove or change color of gradient background from the panel captions. Also would be great to have size control for them.

Thanks in advance!

N

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Reply #4186 –
another side feature request... you know how you have your grouping and columns setup so you can hide or show them depending on your playlist... can this same functionality be also applied to Album art since there is no point me viewing album art on my singles folder which doesn't have any AA but my albums play list surely does.

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Reply #4187 –
Quote from: 4nt1 on
running the latest preview 2, it seems the sort by column header in ng playlist has stopped working...

I have no custom sorting setup for the column header in question
Not sure, does it work if you step back to beta 1? There's some problem with the column headers if you switch from a grouped playlist to a non-grouped playlist.

Quote from: thuan on
About the artworks, yes I want to see them during scrolling. If you can do it without too much sacrifice in performance then it's great.
I could preload like the next few pages of artwork. But if you are scrolling more than that it wouldn't help so much. For that it would need to preload all of the artwork which I don't like.

Quote from: Squeller on
This may be a stupid question: What are the file naming / path conventions for album art?
See here. If you store all album art in a single folder you can set that up in Columns UI prefs.

Quote from: anza on
musicmusic: great work with the album art support in NG playlist! Just one request: could you please add an option to move the album art column? I'd love it to be on the far right, right next to the length column.
I'll consider adding an option to put it on the right.

Quote from: 4nt1 on
another side feature request... you know how you have your grouping and columns setup so you can hide or show them depending on your playlist... can this same functionality be also applied to Album art since there is no point me viewing album art on my singles folder which doesn't have any AA but my albums play list surely does.
If I add grouping presets (with playlist filters) then it could be an option within the presets.

BTW, for whoever had the problem with XP x64, Microsoft finally published the KB article for the similar Visual Studio issue. Unfortunately, the specific bug with WOW64 about a Combo Box message mentioned in the article doesn't seem to be the same one that affected Columns UI. With some luck the hotfix may still correct the issue though, I'll try and find out.
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Reply #4188 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
I could preload like the next few pages of artwork. But if you are scrolling more than that it wouldn't help so much. For that it would need to preload all of the artwork which I don't like.

Ok, that's good enough. Currently even when I scroll with mouse wheel, some times it takes a while for artwork to appear. I understand that you don't want your component to use too much resource.

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Reply #4189 –
Hi musicmusic. Thanx, great work as always!
1. If the group only has a few tracks the artwork will be clipped. Any solution planned? I'd rather have empty space in the playlist at the bottom of groups than clipped artwork.
2.Maybe you could assign for the left click on the artwork the same action as for the group header (i.e. select all tracks in a group)? This way is it could be quite easier to select all tracks in a group. Then for the right click on the artwork it could be the standard context menu...
Thanx.

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Reply #4190 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: anza on

musicmusic: great work with the album art support in NG playlist! Just one request: could you please add an option to move the album art column? I'd love it to be on the far right, right next to the length column.
I'll consider adding an option to put it on the right.
Basically, can't you simply treat the album art column like all the other columns? (Of course with a different set of options)

Quote from: m1k3_tes1 on
1. If the group only has a few tracks the artwork will be clipped. Any solution planned? I'd rather have empty space in the playlist at the bottom of groups than clipped artwork.
I agree. But even if there was no artwork, I'd like to have an option to set a minimum group height (in lines).
 

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Reply #4191 –
Crash with a message box: "Unhandled exception - Bug check"
Happens, if you have a column with no name (empty name). Rightclick on the column and choose "Edit this column". Latest beta. EDIT: XP with all updates.

A question about the filter panel:I want to really filter out stuff, even for the "All" node. Why?

I have a root folder "Classical" with classical music and "Electronica". In one tabbed layout I want to have classical related filtering, in another layout electronic music related. As for classical, I need "Composer", "Work", "Conductor", "Ensemble" and "Encoding" (this has lossy vs. lossless). The non classical stuff needs artist, album, encoding filtering.

OK, my (classical) composer filter string is this:

Code: [Select]
$if($strstr(%path%,Classical),$if3(%composer%,%album_artist%,%artist%,<not set>))

You see, there's no "else" for the $strstr condition. But clicking on the All node, I get stuff which is not in the classical folder. This is sometimes not useful, e.g. if I apply a second filter "Encoding, lossless". Then I see ALL music files, which are lossless. But what I want to see is only classical music, which is lossless.

I hope you see my point.

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Reply #4192 –
It doesn't crash for me (OS difference? I'm on Vista SP1). But I found another bug though. Edit this column always edit one column to the right of the selected column in NG Playlist.

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Reply #4193 –
Quote from: thuan on
It doesn't crash for me (OS difference? I'm on Vista SP1). But I found another bug though. Edit this column always edit one column to the right of the selected column in NG Playlist.
So you've found out why it crashes here  --> If it's far right.

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Reply #4194 –
Ah yes.

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Reply #4195 –
I'm sorry for this very stupid question, I've searched everywhere but I can't find how to display the Album Art in NG Playlist. Could you help me please?

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Reply #4196 –
Right click a column header. "Album art" should appear as one of the choices.

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Reply #4197 –
Quote from: thuan on
Ok, that's good enough. Currently even when I scroll with mouse wheel, some times it takes a while for artwork to appear. I understand that you don't want your component to use too much resource.
OK, I'll do this then. BTW, do you have any slow to read tracks in your playlist (archives, network paths etc.)?

Quote from: m1k3_tes1 on
Hi musicmusic. Thanx, great work as always!
1. If the group only has a few tracks the artwork will be clipped. Any solution planned? I'd rather have empty space in the playlist at the bottom of groups than clipped artwork.
2.Maybe you could assign for the left click on the artwork the same action as for the group header (i.e. select all tracks in a group)? This way is it could be quite easier to select all tracks in a group. Then for the right click on the artwork it could be the standard context menu...
Thanx.
1. Yes it will be changed.
2. Yes also makes sense but low priority.

Quote from: Squeller on
Basically, can't you simply treat the album art column like all the other columns? (Of course with a different set of options)
But, it's not a normal column, and doesn't contain per track info. At the moment it's integrated with "indentation column". With the group headers it doesn't make so much sense to have it anywhere other than on left or right side.

Quote from: Squeller on
Crash with a message box: "Unhandled exception - Bug check"
Happens, if you have a column with no name (empty name). Rightclick on the column and choose "Edit this column". Latest beta. EDIT: XP with all updates.
Quote from: thuan on
It doesn't crash for me (OS difference? I'm on Vista SP1). But I found another bug though. Edit this column always edit one column to the right of the selected column in NG Playlist.

Thanks, fixed for next build.

Quote from: Squeller on
A question about the filter panel:I want to really filter out stuff, even for the "All" node. Why?

I have a root folder "Classical" with classical music and "Electronica". In one tabbed layout I want to have classical related filtering, in another layout electronic music related. As for classical, I need "Composer", "Work", "Conductor", "Ensemble" and "Encoding" (this has lossy vs. lossless). The non classical stuff needs artist, album, encoding filtering.

OK, my (classical) composer filter string is this:

Code: [Select]
$if($strstr(%path%,Classical),$if3(%composer%,%album_artist%,%artist%,<not set>))

You see, there's no "else" for the $strstr condition. But clicking on the All node, I get stuff which is not in the classical folder. This is sometimes not useful, e.g. if I apply a second filter "Encoding, lossless". Then I see ALL music files, which are lossless. But what I want to see is only classical music, which is lossless.

I hope you see my point.
Yes I understand. The best I can suggest at the moment is that you just do Ctrl-A and Ctrl click "All". I could also make Ctrl-A exclude the All entry.

Also, regarding hiding All node, it was more complicated than I hoped as I didn't design the panel with that in mind. So it is postponed for the moment.
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Reply #4198 –
Happy 2000th post musicmusic . Looking forward to a fix for the bugs, and album art being clipped. Keep up the good work .

One suggestion: Would it be possible to have the Column with the album art beable to have a header so it isn't blank? Something like "Artwork" or "Album Art"?
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html