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Columns UI

Reply #5000 –
Well I have Logitech Setpoint on my computer and that's it. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

Columns UI

Reply #5001 –
problem at http://yuo.be/columns.php

no link to download columns ui
Music is my first love.

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Reply #5002 –
Click on the version number, Melomane.

@musicmusic: I switched to autohotkey and lost some of my mouse functionalities but rendering is fine, now. So is it a bug in the OS or the way Setpoint enforce its global hook?

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Reply #5003 –
I've just started using the NG playlist instead of the old one, but I can't figure out exactly how the grouping works. I understand how you let it decide when to group items, but is there a way to decide what group title is displayed?
I've tried the following two strings:
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%directoryname%

This one groups correctly, but the title uses the directory name, which is not very useful for multi-disc releases, in which case the group title is "disc 1", "disc 2" etc. It also does not display the artist name anywhere.
I've also tried this one:
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$if($stricmp(%album artist%,%artist%),%Artist%[: %album%],Various Artists[: %album%])

It correctly groups most normal albums and various artist albums and displays the album artist in the group title when there's only one artist on the release. It also displays the artist in the track title when the release is various artists. It fails when the album artist is the same as the track artist for some but not all tracks on the release, it then creates extra groups (example).
Is there any way to combine those two to get what I'm looking for? I just want the items to be grouped by directory and show the album artist in group title and if it's a various artists release, the different track artists in the track titles.

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Reply #5004 –
You can't specify a separate title formatting for what to display in the group header. And yes, it's a feature that's requested often.

In your case, is there really a need to group by directory? Usually, grouping by %album artist% - %album% is sufficient, as long as you mark your various artists albums by "Various Artists" in the album artists field. (Also note that if the album artists field is missing, %album artist% is remapped to %artist% -- see here -- so that you don't really need the $stricmp() part in your grouping.)

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Reply #5005 –
Quote from: MC Escher on
Code: [Select]
$if($stricmp(%album artist%,%artist%),%Artist%[: %album%],Various Artists[: %album%])

It correctly groups most normal albums and various artist albums and displays the album artist in the group title when there's only one artist on the release. It also displays the artist in the track title when the release is various artists. It fails when the album artist is the same as the track artist for some but not all tracks on the release, it then creates extra groups (example).
Is there any way to combine those two to get what I'm looking for? I just want the items to be grouped by directory and show the album artist in group title and if it's a various artists release, the different track artists in the track titles.


I would suspect that track 7 in that screenshot was missing ALBUM ARTIST=Various Artists, hence why it is separate. You may have other inconsistencies in your meta-tags as only some of your dates are truncated.

You may also be interested to know that the value %track artist% only exists if %album artist%!=%artist% and takes on the value of %artist%, it could simplify your code a bit.

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Reply #5006 –
Thank you, that's exactly what I want. I hope that wasn't the default grouping string, because in that case I wasted a lot of your time because of my meandring through scripts. The reason I wanted to group by directory was simply to avoid the problems I had with the other string.

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Reply #5007 –
@musicmusic : can we customize the foo_uie_console colors (font and background) ? I don't see Console in the colours tab.

Thanks

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Reply #5008 –
musicmusic can you look at this item details issue

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Reply #5011 –
Great. It still has nothing to do with me.
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Reply #5012 –
musicmusic, could you add possibility to set different columns for Columns Playlist and for NG Playlist? It would be useful if you use both Columns and NG. For example, there is no need to show %artist% or %album% in NG.

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Reply #5013 –
Hello,

i have several soundtracks in a playlist with the album artist field containing "Various Artists", but the NG Playlist won't group the tracks correctly. What am i doing wrong? Am i missing something? Shouldn't soundtracks and samplers be grouped correctly by default?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Reply #5014 –
Quote from: al007 on
musicmusic, could you add possibility to set different columns for Columns Playlist and for NG Playlist? It would be useful if you use both Columns and NG. For example, there is no need to show %artist% or %album% in NG.

simple, hide the columns

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Reply #5015 –
Quote from: strogoff_ger on
Hello,

i have several soundtracks in a playlist with the album artist field containing "Various Artists", but the NG Playlist won't group the tracks correctly. What am i doing wrong? Am i missing something? Shouldn't soundtracks and samplers be grouped correctly by default?

Thanks in advance for any help.


Under "Preferences->Display->Columns UI->Playlist View" and then under the "Grouping" tab you can specify how everything is grouped in the NG playlist. Then you can set up multiple grouping schemes for individual playlists.

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Reply #5017 –
Quote from: Squeller on
BTW, Album Art in NGP needs a setting for having some vertical space, currently it's directly connected with the group row which is ugly sometimes.

I agree with this. I guess that at the moment there is no way to adjust this?

EDIT: Actually I found an ugly way to make this look a bit better. I changed the group title font into something that has a bit more vertical space under characters... Not pretty, but will do for now.

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Reply #5018 –
Artwork doesn't support bmp.

There was simple trick in Trackinfo Panel:
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Does Item Details support something like that?

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Reply #5019 –
Quote from: thuan on
So is it a bug in the OS or the way Setpoint enforce its global hook?
Not SetPoint's fault (well I don't know why it needs a global hook, but that's a different question). I don't see any compelling reason that the OS is not at fault. I will try and check Windows 7 beta 1 64-bit sometime.

Quote from: Xin-Hong on
@musicmusic : can we customize the foo_uie_console colors (font and background) ? I don't see Console in the colours tab.
Not at the moment (beyond changing system settings).

Quote from: al007 on
musicmusic, could you add possibility to set different columns for Columns Playlist and for NG Playlist?
There is something like a 'show when grouped' option planned for each column which should do what you need.

Quote from: panda.meloman on
Artwork doesn't support bmp.
The Columns UI reader one does. I can't control what the foobar2000 reader does / doesn't do.

Quote from: panda.meloman on
There was simple trick in Trackinfo Panel:
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Does Item Details support something like that?
Not currently.
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Reply #5020 –
if someone could help me with a NG Playlist grouping script, i'd appreciate it.

i would like it to group by Album Artist and Compilation tags when Album Artist tag is present. when it's not present, i want it to group by Artist and Album.

i've been trying for a while, and i just can't seem to figure it out. thanks.

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Reply #5021 –
Quick example:
$if($meta(album artist),%album artist% $char(8226) %compilation%,%artist% $char(8226) %album%)

or:
%album artist% $char(8226) $if($meta(album artist),%compilation%,%album%)

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Reply #5022 –
that works. thanks a lot.

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Reply #5023 –
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Under "Preferences->Display->Columns UI->Playlist View" and then under the "Grouping" tab you can specify how everything is grouped in the NG playlist. Then you can set up multiple grouping schemes for individual playlists.


Yeah, i know. But what do i have to enter there to group compilations correctly? I have no clue.

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Reply #5024 –
@musicmusic, thank you for the amazing Columns UI Filter option.

Have a suggestion to add features should you consider it viable.

Could we have option to discard duplicates in filter results?

Maybe, in Columns UI/filter, an area to enter %title%/%artist%/%album%/etc. to personalize the duplicates criteria.

After above query has been met, Columns UI Filter could allow the result to retain e.g. most rated, most played, higher bitrate, etc.

e.g., if five files have same %title% & %artist%, only one would be retained in filter results. This could be the one with highest bitrate, most played one, etc.