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Favoriting a song through global hotkeys

What is the easiest way I can set up a global hotkey to mark the song I am currently listening to somehow?

I often have games or applications running fullscreen and use the numpad to change between songs, so that I don't have to tab into foobar2000 and change it manually. If I happen to hit a song I really enjoy and haven't heard yet, is there a way I can set up my global hotkeys to rate it, favorite it, mark it, or send it to a "favorites" playlist or anything like that, so that later I can access all of my "favorite" songs?

I tried setting it up to add it to a playlist but every time it does a dialogue box pops up asking what playlist to add it to and it goes against the point of using global hotkeys in fullscreen.

Favoriting a song through global hotkeys

Reply #1 –
It is easier if you just assign a global hotkey to something like Rate and bind it to key such as Alt 1 ~ 5 (where 1 ~ 5 is the rate). Then create an autoplaylist that query the rated songs.

E.g
Type: Context / now playing
Action: Playback Statistic / Rating / 5
Key: Alt + 5 [Global]

Then your autoplaylist would use the following query to list all your rated song
%rating% PRESENT

Favoriting a song through global hotkeys

Reply #2 –
Quote from: D.Sync on
It is easier if you just assign a global hotkey to something like Rate and bind it to key such as Alt 1 ~ 5 (where 1 ~ 5 is the rate). Then create an autoplaylist that query the rated songs.

E.g
Type: Context / now playing
Action: Playback Statistic / Rating / 5
Key: Alt + 5 [Global]

Then your autoplaylist would use the following query to list all your rated song
%rating% PRESENT


Thanks for the reply, but foobar2000 doesn't seem to have a rating system in it.

I have no rating column and searching for 'rating' or 'rate' returns nothing in the action list.

Favoriting a song through global hotkeys

Reply #4 –
Cool, thanks!

Is there any way I can sort by rating? I'm using the Columns UI plugin.

Favoriting a song through global hotkeys

Reply #5 –
edit>sort by> %rating%

or you could add a rating column to your playlist and you can sort asc/desc by clicking the column header.

file>preferences>display>columns UI>playlist view>columns

on the options tab, give it a title. on the scripts tab:

display tab: $repeat(★,%rating%)
sort tab: %rating%
 

Favoriting a song through global hotkeys

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Liquos on
Cool, thanks!

Is there any way I can sort by rating? I'm using the Columns UI plugin.


If you're generating a autoplaylist using the query '%rating% IS PRESENT' then you can sort it via the autoplaylist properties itself. Right click > Autoplaylist... > Sort Pattern. Enter '%rating%' and make sure to tick 'forced sorted'.