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Reply #4325 –
ok, that should work... if only I knew how to change this pic od default cover

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Reply #4326 –
CUI uses default cover path specified by foobar core in foobar Preferences -> Advances -> Display -> "Image to display when no...", type the path in there.

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Reply #4327 –
OK, now it looks quite good. But there is still one glitch - I've set default cover image as a rectangle with minimal height, but the space between groups headers is calculated from width (i suppose) which result in relatively huge gaps between this headers.

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Reply #4328 –
Erh, that's not a glitch but how this component works or technical limitation if you'd like.

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Reply #4329 –
Err... folks, what is this NG playlist thing? Can't seem to find it.

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Reply #4330 –
I might use wrong word to describe it (no so good with the language  ). Anyway - I've mentioned it so it could be changed (if there is a possibility).

NG playlist is a new type of playlist available in the newest alpha versions of plugin.

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Reply #4331 –
Oh, gosh! My version of ColumnsUI was horribly outdated! That's what evil PanelsUI did.

Hurrah! Abum art at last! Another stupid question: what are the main new features of NG Playlist (please, not the "read the changelog"!)

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Reply #4332 –
Quote from: elenhil on
Hurrah! Abum art at last! Another stupid question: what are the main new features of NG Playlist (please, not the "read the changelog"!)

Grouping by tagz and a group row.

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Reply #4333 –
Can in make subroups (with their respective rows) inside albums?

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Reply #4334 –
By any chance is it possible to support album art images with transparency (GIF/PNG)? In my case it is not actual album image but just default "No Album Art" text PNG image that shows as a black box with text.

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Reply #4335 –
Where to look for details on album art functionality? Can it be displayed somewhere else besides the leftmost column?

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Reply #4336 –
i got 2 questions/suggestions concerning the filter panel

1. shouldn't the all filter display all results that match the criteria not all the entries in the media library.
for example: i create a filter that displays lets says the field %comment%. i click on all and i get all tracks in my media library. should i just get all tracks that have a %comment% field present?
would be more natural and useful to me. maybe i'm getting something wrong here.

2. creating the filters takes up quite some time (if you got a big library or a slow computer that is). when i start foobar the (last) selected filter is automatically loaded - consuming cpu time. i created a dummy filter to minimize work. it takes less time to load. i don't always use the filter tabs, so loading them by default seems like a waste to me.
maybe it would be better to load the filter the first time the filter is selected, not at startup

the dummy workaround is pretty effective if anybody is interested. i just entered "Dummy" as name and field. select that before you close foobar. you can check the difference in the console. it will output time needed to initialize the filter. it is about 10 times faster on my computer than other filters.

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Reply #4337 –
Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
1. shouldn't the all filter display all results that match the criteria not all the entries in the media library.
The all node contains the content of the selection of the previous filter in the chain, or the entire media library if it is the first filter.

For example, your chain is Genre > Artist > Album: if it was how you want tracks that aren't tagged with a genre would be missing in the artists list.

Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
2. creating the filters takes up quite some time (if you got a big library or a slow computer that is).
If you are not using title formatting, I can't make it much faster. But anyway if you answer some questions I can try:
1. What CPU do you have?
2. How long are the initialisation times in the console?
3. If you upload your database.fpl and tell me how you have configured the Filter Panel (fields/scripts) I can try and optimise your case.
.

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Reply #4338 –
MM I have over 50,000 tracks over 2 hard drives, and old P4 2.8ghz and 2gb of ram... runs fine

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Reply #4339 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
1. The all node contains the content of the selection of the previous filter in the chain, or the entire media library if it is the first filter.

For example, your chain is Genre > Artist > Album: if it was how you want tracks that aren't tagged with a genre would be missing in the artists list.

well i use it for title formatting only and find it very useful. maybe i'm doing something wrong, but when i click on "all" it always displays my whole media library. no matter which filter i'm in. i make a selection and then switch to the next filter and get the whole media library as a base again. i can't figure it out. it just doesn't keep the selection. i must be doing something wrong.

Quote from: musicmusic on
2. If you are not using title formatting, I can't make it much faster. But anyway if you answer some questions I can try:
1. What CPU do you have?
2. How long are the initialisation times in the console?
3. If you upload your database.fpl and tell me how you have configured the Filter Panel (fields/scripts) I can try and optimise your case.


it's really not that slow. it's very well usable for me. i just thought it would be more efficient to only load what you actually use. because i don't always do tagging - most of the time i use foobar to listen to music. then i don't need foobar to load the filter. it was just an idea/suggestion to make columns more efficient.
1. i got a 1.86 pentium centrino
2. initialisation times are
Filter Panel (Genre) initialised in: 0.1428542 seconds
Filter Panel (Artist) initialised in: 0.1681451 seconds
Filter Panel (Album) initialised in: 0.1660965 seconds
3. my filter panels are the standard ones genre, artist, album. and i added replaygain (%__replaygain_track_gain%) to find tracks that aren't replaygained.
my database contains 35000 tracks.

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Reply #4340 –
still waiting for a reply to my last post.

i have another bug report / something else i don't understand





why doesn't the title column display the same way in NG playlist as in the normal playlist? using the same code of course. played around a little with the title formatting (btw, i am not an expert) but couldn't figure it out.

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Reply #4341 –
Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
i make a selection and then switch to the next filter and get the whole media library as a base again. i can't figure it out. it just doesn't keep the selection. i must be doing something wrong.
You either need to put them in a horizontal splitter or change the precedence option in prefs.

Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
it's really not that slow. it's very well usable for me. i just thought it would be more efficient to only load what you actually use.
You can put it in a different layout preset if you want.

Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
why doesn't the title column display the same way in NG playlist as in the normal playlist?
NG Playlist doesn't support the old format style string, which one would guess you are using.
.

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Reply #4342 –
Hey, musicmusic, is there some kind of documentation for NG playlist's features like albumart etc.?

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Reply #4343 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
i make a selection and then switch to the next filter and get the whole media library as a base again. i can't figure it out. it just doesn't keep the selection. i must be doing something wrong.
You either need to put them in a horizontal splitter or change the precedence option in prefs.

using more than one in a horizontal splitter works great! thank you! that's great!
(using just one filter doesn't even when changing the precedence)

Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
it's really not that slow. it's very well usable for me. i just thought it would be more efficient to only load what you actually use.
You can put it in a different layout preset if you want.

great idea! done!

Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
why doesn't the title column display the same way in NG playlist as in the normal playlist?
NG Playlist doesn't support the old format style string, which one would guess you are using.

i second elenhil's request. how can we find out about the new string?


now that i see what the filter was really intended to be, i see how similar it is to facets. why did you decide code your own implementation, wouldn't it have been easier to make a facets panel version?

great work musicmusic! i really love columns!

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Reply #4345 –
Yeah, great, "Columns UI Manual for version 0.1.3"
 

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Reply #4346 –
Well AFAIK it would work just fine.
As i recall there is an error in the old default string, so if you make a correct string it would work.

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Reply #4347 –
Quote from: zachastrife on
Well AFAIK it would work just fine.
As i recall there is an error in the old default string, so if you make a correct string it would work.


I think the difference is that NG playlist doesn't look into the global style string any more, if 'use custom style script' is selected for a colomn. my global style script (it just makes every second line grey) works in colomns where 'use custom style script' and in a normal playlist (not NG).
i only used some rules to in the custom style script, and the global was working at the same time. but now with NG it doesn't any more. you can see it on the screenschots in my last post.

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Reply #4348 –
I think zachastrife is right. Maybe if you posted your style string we could verify if there is an error in it.

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Reply #4349 –
Well. Only half right. Seems like there was a removed function.

Quote from: Fifoxtasy on
Quote from: zachastrife on

Well AFAIK it would work just fine.
As i recall there is an error in the old default string, so if you make a correct string it would work.


I think the difference is that NG playlist doesn't look into the global style string any more, if 'use custom style script' is selected for a colomn. my global style script (it just makes every second line grey) works in colomns where 'use custom style script' and in a normal playlist (not NG).
i only used some rules to in the custom style script, and the global was working at the same time. but now with NG it doesn't any more. you can see it on the screenschots in my last post.

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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.

So I guess that is the error. If not post your string here (in a codebox preferably) and somebody will probably help you.