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Columns UI

Reply #6200 –
It really is important to state what user interface you are using if you are to receive valid help.

There is an entire forum for 3rd party components and an entire thread devoted to CUI.

You can work through the CUI preferences and should be able to figure out what parameter controls grouping.
If not, you may be best served asking within the cui thread.


terry

Columns UI

Reply #6201 –
Quote from: JHL on
Quote from: tpijag on
Right click on a column heading and check / confirm how your group[ing] is being done.
Then click on the more... to get to the preferences. Your chosen grouping line most likely is starting with %album%.
Change it to %album artist%. Should take care of the issue if your tagging is complete.

terry

I loaded the Columns UI and it does not seem to work that way.
I looked through a lot of the settings but did not see anything helpful.
Is there any easy way to switch back and forth between standard and Columns UI?

I found the groupings tab in the Column Interface settings.

$if2(%artist%,<no artist>)[/%album%]

So I made the change you suggested

$if2(%album artist%,<no artist>)[/%album%]

Now there is only one problem that I can see.

There are many compilations called "Greatest Hits".
They are now all mixed together based on track number.

I guess I need some way to have the sorting keep all the tracks from a single album with the same title together.

Columns UI

Reply #6202 –
You can change the if statement to simply %album artist%

If you get rid of the slash all may work out.

%album artist% %album%

Much of this and more detail with be in the wiki and also under Help>Titleformatting Help

terry

The [] brackets just tell foobar to return nothing if field is empty. Otherwise you get a question mark.

Columns UI

Reply #6203 –
I have a really simple question about sorting music.

I want to sort my compilations so that each album is shown once.
I changed the grouping sort like this:

  $if2(%album artist%,<no artist>)[ - %album%]


That seems to be fine for most situations.
Unfortunately it does not work if there are two artists with the same album title.
In that case I see each track (sorted by track number) with a new album cover for each artist.
How can I get the tracks from a single artist's album called "Greatest Hits" to be listed sequentially.

I currently see this:
Elton John / Greatest Hits  Track 1
Eurythmics / Greatest Hits  Track 1
Elton John / Greatest Hits Track 2
Eurthymics / Greatest Hits Track 2

Columns UI

Reply #6204 –
you may want to sort by this:
Code: [Select]
%ALBUM ARTIST% - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %DISCNUMBER% - %TRACKNUMBER% - %TITLE%
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Columns UI

Reply #6205 –
Quote from: callisto on
you may want to sort by this:
Code: [Select]
%ALBUM ARTIST% - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %DISCNUMBER% - %TRACKNUMBER% - %TITLE%

I added those parameters to playlist viewer and it did not help.
But I really don't want to display all that information, I just want to use it to keep my discs organized.

Columns UI

Reply #6206 –
Quote from: JHL on
Quote from: callisto on
you may want to sort by this:
Code: [Select]
%ALBUM ARTIST% - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %DISCNUMBER% - %TRACKNUMBER% - %TITLE%

I added those parameters to playlist viewer and it did not help.
But I really don't want to display all that information, I just want to use it to keep my discs organized.

OK. I found the "sort" option, and things look much better now.

Columns UI

Reply #6207 –
Please Disregard : Found out I had to enclose them between single quotes 


Hello,

I have a problem showing the Album Art.

In foobar's Preferences/Display, I have under "Search Parameters" the following :
Code: [Select]
%artist% - %album% (%date%).jpg

but it doesn't work, the Album Art file is called : ABBA - Gold Greatest Hits (1992).jpg

When I remove the brackets from the code and the filename :
Code: [Select]
%artist% - %album% %date%.jpg

... with the file ABBA - Gold Greatest Hits 1992.jpg ... It works fine !


Please, perhaps the "Search Parameters" do not allow brackets in the filenames, or did I do something wrong please ? 

Columns UI

Reply #6208 –
Quote from: callisto on
just use %album artist% it redirects to %artist% if there's none available
the thing is that i want to have the "artist name", and the "various artists" on the artists column at the same time, using the "%album artist%" if a track has a "album artist name" the artist name in the artists colums dissapear. is it possible to have both?

some combinations:

$if(%artist%,$swapprefix(%artist%,A,The,Los,El,La;Un),$swapprefix(%album artist%,A,The,Los,El,La;Un)) with this one, i have all the artists except various artists


$if(%album artist%,$swapprefix(%artist%,A,The,Los,El,La;Un),$swapprefix(%artist%,A,The,Los,El,La;Un)) with this one various artists appears and  artists are missing.

thanks anyway!

Columns UI

Reply #6209 –
Hello!
Altough I'm not a big fan of Winamp, I like the way its media library is working together with its playlist. I tried to make Foobar2000 behave the same way, but unfortunately I don't get along.

Here's my current Foobar2000-GUI:


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I would like the filter panes on the left to populate only the NG Playlist in the middle. I don't want them to interfere with the Colums Playlist at the right side!
Items shall only be added to the colums playlist if I want it explicitely (i.e. by dragging&dropping them into the playlist, or doubleclicking on them in the NG Playlist, etc.).

Does anyone know how to achieve this behaviour? I think this comes close to the way Winamp behaves. (But this is the only thing I like about Winamp...)

Thanks in advance! :-)

P.S.: I'm currently travelling. Internet is not everywhere availible here; I hope you don't mind if I can't respond to your answers immediately. I guess I will be able to reply tomorrow, but then I will be offline for some days.

Columns UI

Reply #6210 –
Don't know if this is practical or feasible - When displaying the filters on the common Columns UI screen, the default behavior when clicking on multiple Genre filters "OR"s them together in the resulting playlist view.  Is there a way to configure a click behavior so that when you click on multiple entries for a given filter that they be "AND"d together, meaning a file must have all the filter entries in it, not just one of them (without disabling the OR behavior when desired)?  Perhaps a different key combination instead of the existing CNTL+click (OR's)  somekey+click (AND). 
I know this is easily done with playlist scripts, but I will require a lot of playlists defined to cover the matrix of possibilities to bring up the various moods, energies, and rating combinations.  And after looking at my multiple genre setups, it appears that these playlists will be mostly simple variations of which genre's are "AND"d together.    A way to AND filters on the fly by  clicking on multiple Genre's and playing the resulting playlist would be nice - or perhaps there is a better method that I am unaware of?

Columns UI

Reply #6211 –
Bug report:  incompatibility between foo_ui_columns and foo_bookmarks.

Steps to reproduce:
  • You may wish to start a new foobar profile or backup your existing one.
  • Install foo_ui_columns and foo_bookmarks.
  • Use Columns UI; in the layout tab add a Bookmark panel and a Button toolbar.
  • Configure the button toolbar by adding or removing elements.  The changes are accepted.
  • Now, bookmark a position in a file.
  • Repeat step 4.  Now, foobar crashes!

Columns UI

Reply #6212 –
Is it possible to have 2 playlists with different font sizes for playlist items?

components
- foobar2000 core 1.1.1 beta 2
- Columns UI 0.3.8.7

Columns UI

Reply #6213 –
I need some help please. I don't get the other section working. I wanna see the mp3 stereo mode, but i get nothing.

Columns UI

Reply #6214 –
wupi:
Try [main menu]: Library -> Waveform Seekbar -> Rescan All Waveforms
IIRC I had this problem when upgrading from some old version of the seekbar component to the one that supported stereo display.
Also, make sure that "Downmix display to mono" is not set in the panel's configuration.

Columns UI

Reply #6215 –
Is it possible to have 2 playlists with different font sizes for playlist items?

I thought this one here was a good try, but unfortunately no effect
Preferences > Display > Columns UI > Playlist view > Tab:Columns > Tab:Scripts > Style
$set_font(Segoe UI,20,)

Has someone a good tip?

Columns UI

Reply #6216 –
Nixdagibts:

You should be able to do it using different panels for displaying playlists. For example, using EsPlaylist for one of them.

Columns UI

Reply #6217 –
I don't mean the seekbar.

Columns UI

Reply #6218 –
Hey,
how can I load custom buttons? I just downloaded a style for Columns UI, but it doesn't look 100% right. One problem is that the custom buttons are not displayed. I've downloaded the buttons and put the in the image folder but how do I load them?
Is there somewhere a good tutorial for Columns UI?

Thanks.

Regards

Columns UI

Reply #6219 –
I would like to display album art from external folders using ColumnsUI. I was able to do this fine with foobar 0.9.5.4 using the album art component, but I cannot get album art to display using foobar 1.1.

Columns UI

Reply #6220 –
Okay, so I feel like a dolt for not being able to figure this one out, and I am not very good at asking for help, but here goes:

I am using foobar2000 with columnsUI, and a pretty basic set-up, visually speaking.  I have my "Album List" organized by directory structure, an album art viewer, and tabbed playlists.

When I click on a selection in the album list, it automatically populates in the "Library Viewer" tab of my playlists, which I like.  However, once it does this, it automatically switches my view to the "Library View", which I do not like.  I would like to have the "Library Viewer" exist in its own panel, separate from the rest of my playlists, if at all possible.  It is helpful, to me, to be able to see a list of all the albums in a particular folder, along with all of their songs and art, before adding selections to a playlist, but I would rather this ability not obscure the view of my other playlists.

Thank you all in advance for your help.

Mark

Columns UI

Reply #6221 –
With filter search, pressing the Enter key leads to the creation of a new playlist. Is there a way to prevent this?
 

Columns UI

Reply #6222 –
Quote from: MaCs on
With filter search, pressing the Enter key leads to the creation of a new playlist. Is there a way to prevent this?


Do you mean the QuickSearch? I can't make the filter search make a new playlist no matter what I try. (I wish I could!)

If you mean QuickSearch, click the icon on the left, make sure that "new playlist" or "new auto-playlist" are not checked.

Columns UI

Reply #6223 –
Hey,

I'm trying to port some of my Facet formatting into Filters and I'm having a little trouble producing multiple values per track...

I'd like, for instance, a track to sort under both '1998' and '1990s'. In Facets I used this code, using the pipe:

Code: [Select]
$if(
    %date%,
    $rgb(0,0,160)$cut(%date%,3)0s$rgb(),
    $rgb(160,0,0)'?'$rgb()
)
|
$if(
    %date%,
    $year(%date%),
    $rgb(160,0,0)'?'$rgb()
)


So how to I get that effect with Filters? (I can't seem to make the semicolons work).

Thanks!

Columns UI

Reply #6224 –
Quote from: Mike Stop Continues on
Quote from: MaCs on
With filter search, pressing the Enter key leads to the creation of a new playlist. Is there a way to prevent this?


Do you mean the QuickSearch? I can't make the filter search make a new playlist no matter what I try. (I wish I could!)

If you mean QuickSearch, click the icon on the left, make sure that "new playlist" or "new auto-playlist" are not checked.

No, I mean Filter Search. When I press Enter, I get a new playlist called "filter results". I would like to avoid the creation of the new playlist, or at least that the results are appended to the active playlist.