@3dyd
Please can you consider adding full support for foo_tags; i.e. youtube videos referenced from within m_TAGS files? Why? Well they provide a convenient way of adding albums loaded through my youtube track manager script to the media library, which then offers all the benefits of using the media library. I have much of this working well already. Music playback is fine. But there are a few more specific foo_youtube things that do not work.
1. Video playback doesn't seem to work
2. Youtube Source fields are absent, and consequently thumbnails do not display
3. Make Album is greyed out and so full albums cannot be processed
I am hoping this is just a simple detection issue, e.g. the path in properties points to the m-TAGs file rather than directly to the video path. The video path can be accessed using: $info(@). The m_TAGS files are in json format. Full foo_tags documentation is here (it's sometimes offline).
Below are two examples. One is an album with individual tracks and the other is a full album. Just save the text in a text editor with a .tags extension (it may be necessary to save it as utf-8). If foo_tags is installed, then the resulting file can be dropped in a foobar2000 playlist.
Album with individual tracks
[
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=1&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Life%20on%20Mars%3F&3dydfy_alt_length=242&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=v--IqqusnNQ|0",
"ALBUM" : "iSELECT",
"ARTIST" : "David Bowie",
"DATE" : "2008",
"DURATION" : "242.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Life on Mars?",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "1",
"TRACKSOURCE" : "YouTube Track Manager",
"TRACKTYPE" : "m-TAGS - YouTube Video"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=2&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Sweet%20Thing%20%2F%20Candidate%20%2F%20Sweet%20Thing%20(reprise)&3dydfy_alt_length=519&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=5cDJoiNa_F4|0",
"DURATION" : "519.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (reprise)",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "2"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=3&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=The%20Bewlay%20Brothers&3dydfy_alt_length=328&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=aDRi30GNFMc|0",
"DURATION" : "328.0000000",
"TITLE" : "The Bewlay Brothers",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "3"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=4&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Lady%20Grinning%20Soul&3dydfy_alt_length=235&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=6fHoMw8tCzo|0",
"DURATION" : "235.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Lady Grinning Soul",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "4"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=5&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Win&3dydfy_alt_length=285&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=fdlWUQedW9I|0",
"DURATION" : "285.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Win",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "5"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=6&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Some%20Are&3dydfy_alt_length=272&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=fuPcbPaME5w|0",
"DURATION" : "272.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Some Are",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "6"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=7&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Teenage%20Wildlife&3dydfy_alt_length=416&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=jVAJsu8Xnwc|0",
"DURATION" : "416.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Teenage Wildlife",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "7"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=8&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Repetition&3dydfy_alt_length=182&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=l2c73wQH73U|0",
"DURATION" : "182.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Repetition",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "8"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=9&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Fantastic%20Voyage&3dydfy_alt_length=182&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=3tD6FayGPyw|0",
"TITLE" : "Fantastic Voyage",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "9"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=10&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Loving%20the%20Alien&3dydfy_alt_length=283&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=65EJCzqOzdc|0",
"DURATION" : "283.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Loving the Alien",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "10"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=11&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Time%20Will%20Crawl%20(MM%20remix)&3dydfy_alt_length=296&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=ojBFJkbTzaA|0",
"DURATION" : "296.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Time Will Crawl (MM remix)",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "11"
},
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?fb2k_tracknumber=12&fb2k_album=iSELECT&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Hang%20Onto%20Yourself%20-%20Live%20%5BHang%20On%20to%20Yourself%20(live)%5D&3dydfy_alt_length=186&fb2k_artist=David%20Bowie&v=4AI48_309KQ|0",
"DURATION" : "186.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Hang On to Yourself (live)",
"TRACKNUMBER" : "12"
}
]
Full Album
[
{
"@" : "3dydfy://www.youtube.com/watch?&fb2k_album=Adrenalize&fb2k_date=2008&fb2k_title=Adrenalize%20(Full%20Album)&3dydfy_alt_length=2727&fb2k_artist=Def%20Leppard&v=BTs98_pjwL4|0",
"ALBUM" : "Adrenalize",
"ARTIST" : "Def Leppard",
"DATE" : "2008",
"DURATION" : "2727.0000000",
"TITLE" : "Adrenalize (Full Album)",
"TRACKSOURCE" : "YouTube Track Manager",
"TRACKTYPE" : "m-TAGS - YouTube Video"
}
]
I hope you can help - you have done a great job so far.